Today's events
Come learn about COVID-19 disinformation and the future of internet governance and content moderation.
Yves Boisvert, renowned journalist at La Presse will discuss how the media and the courts interact; their respective roles, their different purposes and their interactions; and freedom of the press, judicial independence and the bar.
Upcoming events
The annual conference showcases the research of the centre and engages both undergraduate and graduate students in health research. Prizes to be awarded.
Rajiv Kaushik is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University. He works in the areas of phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory. He is the author of three books on Merleau-Ponty. This paper presentation concerns the theme of "positive negation" developed in the book "Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology," published by SUNY Press in 2019.
Join us online as research fellow Amir Locker-Biletzky shares the history of communism in Palestine/Israel as it is intertwined with his own political and intellectual journey.
The first of four webinars, THE TRAFFIC IN OBJECTS articulates "con-tact" not only as a sensorial phenomenon between bodies and subjects, but as a juncture between human and non-human worlds; a dynamic interface of cultures and structures; a messy entanglement of past, present, and future.
Over the past four years, the United States has encountered great political turmoil. Former governor of Vermont, Howard Dean, will draw on his experience and discuss U.S. politics.
Eric S. Nelson is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has published over seventy articles and book chapters on Chinese, German, and Jewish philosophy, and is the author of "Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought," published by Bloomsbury in 2017.