The Social Science program is once again offering a week of talks on a variety of topics that will be of interest to the entire college community. Social Science Week will take place between February 9th to 13th. Please review the line-up for the week in the program, which is found here. Social Science Week is an opportunity for students to see what contemporary Social Scientists are up to and to learn more about the many pathways Social Science study can lead to. It is also a moment to reflect deeply on the most meaningful questions we face at this point in history, questions about climate catastrophe, our rapidly changing media landscapes, art-making and race-relations, and how to think about conflict, both locally and abroad. These talks invite students and faculty to step out of the constraints of the traditional classroom, and into conversations about the world that is and the world that is to come.
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2026 Schedule
Monday, February 09
8:30 a.m.
Class, the State, and the City
Fred Burrill
10:00 a.m.
Carrying Patterns: Dawson Site
Ange Loft
11:30 a.m.
TBD
Ada Sinacore
1:00 p.m.
Resilience Amidst War: Scholasticide and the Food Crisis in Gaza
Dr. Ahmad Abu Shaban
2:30 p.m.
Krishna Confidence: Becoming and Remaining Hindu in Post-Mao China
Marc Lagace
4:00 p.m.
The Realities of Migrant Women Workers – The Perspective of PINAY, Filipino Women’s Organization in Quebec
Jasmin de la Calzada (PINAY)
6:30 p.m.
Screening:
Israelism
followed by conversation with Noah Brender and Nadia Moss
Tuesday, February 10
8:30 a.m.
Sixty-two Years of Anti-Chinese Legislation Wasn’t Enough: The Witch Hunt for Chinese Spies
May Chiu
10:00 a.m.
Feed-Work, Dream-Work: A TikTok Phenomenology
Samuele Collu
11:30 a.m.
Solidarity not Exclusion: Confronting Carney’s Agenda of Austerity, War and Attacks on Migrants
Mostafa Henaway
1:00p.m.
Art and activism across movements
Stefan Christoff
2:30 p.m.
Breaking Social Isolation, Building Futures: Supporting Racialized Women Through Education and Community/Navigating Barriers, Creating Opportunities
Victoria Jahesh (Afghan Women’s Centre)
4:00 p.m.
How the Internet is Teaching Boys What It Means to Be a Man
Jillian Sunderland
6:30 p.m.
Screening:
Sudan, Remember Us
followed by discussion with Duha Elmardi
Wednesday, February 11
8:30 a.m.
Exhibition as Fieldwork: Art History in the World, Not Just the Classroom
Alice Ming Wai Jim
10:00 a.m.
TBD
Andrew Ryder
11:30 a.m.
The Stone that the Builders Rejected: Race Prejudice and the Global Order
Wendell Adjetey
1:00 p.m.
Panel: Producing the Podcast “Small Little Foot Soldiers: A People’s History of the Canadian Anti-Apartheid Movement”
Gwedolyn Schulman, Doug Miller & Pierre Loiselle
2:30 p.m.
Panel: Youth Activism and Political Organizing
Danna Noor Ballantyne, Victoria Ormiston & Gwendolyn Schulman
4:00 p.m.
Laïcité and the Racial Contract: Islamophobia in Quebec’s National Project
Zeinab Diab & Leila Bdeir
6:30 p.m.
Screening:
No Other Land
followed by discussion with TBD
Thursday, February 12
8:30 a.m.
Eco-cities built from scratch: Illusions of progress?
Sarah Moser
10:00 a.m.
The Health Implications of Genocide: The Case of Palestine
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, Nada Dabbagh
11:30 a.m.
Sense of Belonging & Code-Switching
Khan Bouba-Dalambaye
1:00 p.m.
1, 2 Step Masterclass
Kayin Queeley (Montreal Steppers)
2:30 p.m.
Harvesting Freedom: The Struggles of Migrant Workers in Canada
Gabriel Allahdua &Edward Dunsworth
4:00 p.m.
An Image, A Voice, A Story: Working Through the Creative Practices of Oral History
Kelann Currie-Williams
6:30 p.m.
Screening:
Your Turn
followed by discussion with Nadia Hausfather
Friday, February 13
1:00 p.m.
Peace & Self Panel
Panelists TBD
