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Embracing Econferences: a step toward limiting the negative effects of conference culture

One of the largest gatherings of scholars in the country will be moving online this year. Thousands of Congress 2021 attendees will not be flying or driving across Canada to the University of Alberta. Instead, they’ll be gathering virtually. Our...

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Perceptions of humanity and of membership: Two challenges of inclusion and exclusion in Canada

Various groups in Canada are stigmatized in ways that make them vulnerable to discrimination. In some cases, this takes the form of dehumanization: a perception that members of the group are somehow deficient in humanity, and hence not owed the...

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Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives

Will bodies become computer platforms? Disruptive embodied computing technology is being proposed, and it will change how people live in vastly different ways in our evolving post-Internet society. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seeping into all...

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Simon Brault: The role of arts in protecting democracy

At Congress 2019, the Big Thinking lecture series considers how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get...

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What is the price of reconciling freedom and responsibility in a changing democracy?

Join Simon Brault in a discussion on cultural citizenship, inclusiveness, equality and the price of change.

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Public policy and knowledge dissemination in the digital age - Vincent Larivière

This presentation outlines the way knowledge dissemination has evolved, with particular emphasis on the impact of digital technologies.

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A call to action: Rethinking leadership in the global response to forced migration - Allan Rock

What place should refugees and internally displaced persons have in the upcoming federal election? How can universities help inform public policy and the general public on the issue?

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The social implications of artificial intelligence

This panel explored the potential social impacts of artificial intelligence and the role humanities and social sciences will play in identifying the legal, ethical and policy issues we should start considering today.

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The social implications of emerging technologies: Are the most important questions the least studied?

Rapid development of transformative new technologies – such as social media, artificial intelligence, and new health technologies – is creating important opportunities and challenges for governments, businesses, the research community and society at...

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