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The Canada Association for the Study of International Development welcomed keynote speaker Dr. Jayati Ghosh at Congress 2022, presenting “Critique and Transformative Alternatives: Re-imagining Futures Within and Beyond the Global Pandemic.”

On the final day of Congress 2022, the Environmental Studies Association welcomed Noel Keough to talk about how Canadian cities can become more just and sustainable. And it involves, Keough said, a revolutionary change in thinking. It “will require a...

In a keynote address to the Canadian Communication Association, Dr. Jack Halberstam (Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University) gave a detailed examination of the concept of ‘unworlding.’ Halberstam considered the Congress 2022...

In this Big Thinking session, Dr. Imre Szeman and Dr. Sheena Wilson, co-founders of the Petrocultures Research Group, discussed the concept of the “petroculture,” and how our understanding of it could help us transition to a decarbonized and more...

Ten years ago on May 18, 2012, Bill 78 was passed in Quebec in response to the Maple Spring ( le Printemps érable) student strikes. This was an attempt to force students back to classes and limit their ability to protest, after months of strikes. To...

The Canadian Association of Slavists convened a roundtable to discuss ways to develop environmental humanities in and about Ukraine at Congress 2022.

In 1908, a lake near Mexico City was desiccated to allow a wealthy Spanish immigrant to claim possession of the land below. The destruction of Lake Chalco had disastrous consequences for the livelihoods of 24 Indigenous villages in the area. Today...

Can we ensure social and economic rights as we rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s what Dr. Christine Vézina, Law Professor at Laval University, thinks. In the second Big Thinking seminar of Congress 2022, presented in French, Dr. Marcel...