Colloquium: September 15, 2-4pm - Fellows & External Fellows Only Location: Senior College Centre, 256 McCaul Street, Suite 412 Title: "Why are people so angry?" Chair: Mary Finlay Reading Colloquium on September 15, 2022 All colloquia will be held at the Senior College Centre. Masks are advised. The event will have a restriction of 15 […]
Colloquium: October 20, 2-4pm - Fellows & External Fellows Only - Zoom Only Title: "Should we censor hate speech and if so, where should we draw the line" Chair: Phil Sullivan Location: Senior College Centre, 256 McCaul Street, Suite 412. Not on zoom All colloquia will be held at the Senior College Centre. Masks are advised. […]
Colloquium: November 17, 2-4pm - Fellows & External Fellows Only - Zoom Only Title: " Is democracy the best for governance? If so, how can we strengthen its positive features and minimize its weaknesses?" Chair: TBA
Colloquium: December 8, 2-4pm - Fellows & External Fellows Only - Zoom Only Title: "How can we better protect our environment?" Chair: Giuliana Katz
Colloquium: January 19, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only – in-person only Registration deadline extended to Wednesday, January 18 at 8am Title: “"Educating Voters” Co-chairs and Organizers: Phil SullivanColloquium topic: "Educating voters? How can people be educated about the need to vote? How can they be educated about how to decide for whom to vote? Should they […]
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only June 29: Deanne Bogdan Link to register: https://forms.office.com/r/gduNzVa4mt The deadline to register is the morning of the event before 8:00am. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only July 6: Cynthia Smith Link to register: https://forms.office.com/r/0V3kxt5Vvm The deadline to register is the morning of the event before 8:00am. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only July 13: Ed Barbeau Link to register: https://forms.office.com/r/vLA1kTqY79 The deadline to register is the morning of the event before 8:00am. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only July 20: Hugh Gunz Link to register: https://forms.office.com/r/s2rY2Yskk2 The deadline to register is the morning of the event before 8:00am. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.
Colloquium, January 18, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only – in-person only Topic: "The rise of authoritarian governments." Organizers: Phil Sullivan All colloquia will be held at the Senior College Centre. Masks are advised. Fellows & External Fellows only. Readings: 1) Review of Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum. Following Julian Benda's book la Trahison des Clercs (i.e Intellectuals) […]
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only May 30, 2024: Susan Pfeiffer Anthropology is the study of humans at the broadest of levels, both culturally and biologically; this includes their origins. I am a biological anthropologist, which means that my focus is human evolution. Most people look puzzled […]
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only June 13, 2024: Jonathan Dostrovsky Jonathan Dostrovsky Jonathan Dostrovsky will present a biographical illustrated account of his many activities which highlight several serendipitous events that significantly shaped his life and career and led to his setting up his research laboratory in […]
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only June 20, 2024: John Kennedy John Kennedy is a psychologist with interests in perception and representation. His research on pictures, metaphor, symbols and illusions has led him to ask blind people to make drawings, which they do quite well, often to […]
"Meet Your Colleagues" Summer Sessions Thursdays 2-4pm on Zoom only - Fellows and External Fellows only June 27, 2024: George Steiner Topic: “I will not make this a high science talk. Rather, it will focus more on how I got to be where I am. It will include how, with my parents, I escaped Europe in 1939, why […]
Colloquium, September 19, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only – in-person only Topic: “How to deal with tensions that have erupted on campuses as a result of the war in Gaza? In particular, that means the surge in antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiments.” Organizer: Marty Klein All colloquia will be held at the Senior […]
Colloquium, October 17, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only – in-person only Topic: “The issues about introducing a universal basic income in Canada. How to pay for it and how to administer it.” Organized by: Trevor Lloyd. Readings and a video: https://www.ubiworks.ca/guaranteed-livable-basic-income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/the-expensive-truth-about-a-universal-basic-income https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/RP-2122-001-S--distributional-fiscal-analysis-national-guaranteed-basic-income--analyse-financiere-distributive-un-revenu-base-garanti-echelle-nationale https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=universal+basic+income&mid=4187FCEBDAC64D8805794187FCEBDAC64D880579&FORM=VIRE Additional material: “Sub-sections from Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century (Harvard […]
Colloquium, November 14, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only – in-person only Topic: “The problems of social media” Organized by: Phil Sullivan Lunch before the colloquium The lunch is 12:30pm at Cafe La Gaffe, 24 Baldwin St, Toronto, ON M5T 1L1. The colloquium is at 2pm at the Senior College Centre, 256 McCaul Street in suite 412. […]
