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Dr. Patricia Louie, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, presented her research on the coping resources that Black Americans use to cope with life in a racially unequal society, as part of the Canadian Sociological...

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...

The Canadian Philosophical Association hosted a series of presentations about disability philosophy in the Canadian context at Congress 2022.

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...

Social Sciences and Humanities at the Forefront: Leading High-Risk/High-Reward Interdisciplinary Research brought together four scholars leading projects funded through the New Frontiers in Research Fund’s (NFRF) Exploration stream.

Sponsored by University Affairs, the May 16 Career Corner session entitled “Collecting and Communicating the Evidence of Impact” featured Connie Tang and David Phipps of Research Impact Canada. Connie began the session by asking the audience a...

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...

Congress 2022 “We are facing the cultural equivalent of the climate crisis; it is a slow collapse of the system of words and images we use to talk to each other and understand our world, and it has made vulnerable populations even more vulnerable.”...