The Social Science programme 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 12-16. Please review the line-up for the week in the programme. 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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2024 Schedule
Monday, February 12
8:30 a.m.
Coronā Devī has Entered the Chat: Online Media Discourse and South Asian Goddesses Associated with Covid-19
Thomas Seibel
*Sponsored by Social Science
10:00 a.m.
“We made the Church our relative”: Métis Religion and Relationality
Ellen Dobrowolski
*Sponsored by Social Science
11:30 a.m.
GAY 4 DATA: The Questions we ask reveal what we value
Sarah Mangle
*Sponsored by Social Science
1:00 p.m.
Teaching in Community-Pedagogies for Social Change and Solidarity
Tesfa Peterson
2:30 p.m.
Social Media and Polarization: War at Our Fingertips
Brian Redekopp and Joseph Rosen
4:00 p.m.
The Fungal Imaginary: Monster Mushrooms in Contemporary Media
Elliot Mason
*Sponsored by Social Science
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
Invasion and The Klabona Keepers
followed by conversion with Tamo Campos, director of The Kablona Keepers
Tuesday, February 13
8:30 a.m.
No Reconciliation before Truth: Learning the Colonial History of Dawson College
Ben Lander
10:00 a.m.
Afro-Bubble Gum: Rest is Radical
Ash Marshall
*Sponsored by Living Campus
12:00p.m.
Overview of the World Bank institutions and how they work
Juliette d’Hollander
2:30 p.m.
Canada as a Refuge: Immigration and Multiculturalism in twentieth century Canada
James Volemsky
4:00 p.m.
A Measure of UNCERTAINTY
Andrew Katz and Joel Trudeau from S.P.A.C.E.
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
Our Bodies are your Battlefields
followed by Q&A with Anaïs Zeledon Montenegro
Wednesday, February 14
8:30 a.m.
Cities as Systems of Diversity: Why Jane Jacobs Matters for the Future Economy
Charles-Albert Ramsay
10:00 a.m.
Designing Streets: Safety, Universal Accessibility & Sustainability
Bartek Komorowski
11:30 a.m.
A Reading from Edward Said’s Culture and Resistance
Abeer Esber
*Sponsored by Social Science
1:00 p.m.
The Pathways and Protocols of Indigenous Storytelling
Roxann Whitebean
*Sponsored by Living Campus
2:30 p.m.
Stella 101
Stella, l’amie de Maimie
*Sponsored by Social Science
4:00 p.m.
Eco-Anxiety
Cristina Cugliandro, Imago Theatre
*Sponsored by Social Science
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
5 Broken Cameras
with Oula Hajjar as guest speaker
Thursday, February 15
8:30 a.m.
Religion and Genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990s
Spyridon (Spiros) Loumakis
10:00 a.m.
ENVIRONMENTAL SEMINAR
Making Change in the Food System: The George Brown College Honours Bachelor of Food Studies
Lori Stahlbrand
11:30 a.m.
The Global Challenge of Electronics: a perspective
Pierre-Jean Alarco
1:00 p.m.
Land and Relations Through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
Carmen Robertson
*Sponsored by Living Campus
2:30 p.m.
Psychedelics for the treatment of psychological disorders
Rajesh Malik
4:00 p.m.
Jazz, Art, and the Second World War in Montreal
Sean Mills
*Sponsored by the Montreal History Group
6:30 p.m.
Cinema Politica Screening
We are Guardians
followed by a Q&A with Carlee Loft
*Sponsored by Living Campus
Friday, February 16
1:00 p.m.
Peace & Self Panel
Panelists Susan Finch, Lisa Steffen and Amanda Beattie
