Global Friday Speaker Series Fall 2024/Winter 2025

Fall 2024
September 20, 2024 - Dr. Christine Campana - “we know how to travel”: Indigenous Perspectives on More-Than-Human Movement in the Poetry of Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Video Recording
October 4, 2024 - Brandi Morin - Lessons in Resilience
October 18, 2024 - Miriam Anderson - Feminism in the Face of Failure: Building Peace in Violent & Illiberal Post-War Settings
October 25, 2024 - Dr. David J. Hornsby - The Future of Universities: towards the Citizen Scholar - Video Recording
November 1, 2024 - Dr. Andy Hira - The 2024 US Presidential Election as an Historical Conjuncture - Video Recording
November 15, 2024 - Dr. Nathan Andrews - Unpacking the Visible and the Hidden: Racism, Whiteness and Epistemic Oppression in the Canadian Academy - Video Recording
November 22, 2024 - Dr. Jay Dolmage - Academic Ableism and its Alternatives - Video Recording

Winter 2025
January 24, 2025 - Dr. Gail Fondahl - A Fractured North: Musings on Coping with the Closure of the Russian North to Scholars
January 31, 2025 - Dr. Rheanna Robinson - An affront to reconciliation: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s Track 2 MAiD
February 7, 2025 - Dr. Edward Akuffo - Africa’s Geopolitical Space and Canda-Africa Relations in a Shifting Global Order - Video Recording
February 28, 2025 - Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown - Drugs, Security, and Tariffs in Mexico - Video Recording
March 14, 2025 - Dr. Erin Baines - Inter-generational memory and children born of war
March 28, 2025 - Dr. Robert Baines - Canada and NATO in an Uncertain World - Video Recording
April 4, 2025 - Dr. Allan Downey - Resurgent Histories: Indigenous Storytelling in a Digital Age - Video Recording