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 3rd to 7th. Please review the line-up for the week in the programme, 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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2025 Schedule
Monday, February 03
8:30 a.m.
We Can Be Like Squirrels, We Can All Do Research!
Sarah Mangle
10:00 a.m.
New Cities built from Scratch
Sarah Moser
11:30 a.m.
Understanding Mental Health in Cultural Context
Andrew Ryder
1:00 p.m.
Decentralizing Consumption to Recenter the Land
Diana Rice
2:30 p.m.
Panel: Should Journalists Have Opinions?
Martin Lukacs with Sanad Hamdouna, Winie Coulanges, and Maya Jabbari
4:00 p.m.
Conversation: Do Magazines Still Matter?
Carmine Starnino & Mark Mann
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening:
Chronicle of a Crisis
followed by panel conversation with Simon Larochelle, Sarah Smith and Amy Darwish
Tuesday, February 04
8:30 a.m.
Panel: Black Art Histories Montreal: Recuperating the past
Kelann Currie-Williams; Dorothy Williams; Leon Llewellyn; Harlan Johnson
10:00 a.m.
Sense of Belonging & Code Switching
Khan Bouba-Dalambaye
11:30 a.m.
Trans Healthcare Advocacy and the Montreal Trans Patient Union
Trans Patient Union
1:00p.m.
Addressing Tough Topics Through Illustration
Rachel Deutsch
2:30 p.m.
It’s Not Just About the Drugs
Andreas Arvanitogiannis
4:00 p.m.
Between AI Promise and Peril: Where Can Students Find a Middle Ground?
Andrew Katz and Joel Trudeau
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
UNION
followed by discussion with Mostafa Henaway
Wednesday, February 05
8:30 a.m.
Care is Education – Early childhood educators as cocreators of more livable worlds
Saza Rose
10:00 a.m.
Thinking about Morphine and Absinthe with Picasso
Julia Skelly
11:30 a.m.
Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition: A Manifesto
Marcel Boyer
1:00 p.m.
Panel: Living Campuses, Climate Action and Sustainability
Diana Rice; Jenn de Vera; Sophie La Font; Chris Adam; Eva Helms
2:30 p.m.
Tackling Period Poverty: Activism and Solutions for Menstrual Equity
Clara Bolster-Foucault
4:00 p.m.
Terra Nullius As Rape Culture
Amanda Lickers
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
Where Olive Trees Weep
with Ashira Darwish
Thursday, February 06
8:30 a.m.
Supporting historically strategically undervalued students: Dawson’s Black and Third World Student Affairs program
Brenda Paris
10:00 a.m.
Coming to Our Senses: Welcome to the Sensorial Revolution in the Social Sciences
David Howes
11:30 a.m.
Home in an Uncertain World
Ketty Nivyabandi
1:00 p.m.
Broadening the Fight for Divestment: the Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec
Benoît Allard
2:30 p.m.
IN-HABIT CAPITALISM: fossil fuel propelled colonialism and the question of Québec
Dalie Giroux
4:00 p.m.
A “menace of increasing magnitude”: Bodies at Risk in the Streets of Montreal, 1900-1940
Magda Fahrni
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
with Karen Cho
Friday, February 07
1:00 p.m.
Peace & Self Panel
Panelists TBD
