Today's Arts & Science events
Category: Workshops & seminars
In this overview talk, I will discuss some questions that have been asked about the groups $A(K)$, partial and full answers to them and open conjectures. Recent results will also be presented, with a focus where $K$ is a function field of positive characteristic.
In this presentation, I intend to show how the oil and gas industry frames corporate profits as being in the national interest to justify expanding fossil fuel infrastructure. This approach is a specific strategy that firms use to gain access to contested territories and spaces. Such a narrative tends to create conflict among workers and encourages a form of right-wing patriotism that stands in opposition to the communities and environmentalists challenging extractivism. Throughout this talk, I will demonstrate how the rhetoric of the Canadian national interest is leveraged to diminish public resistance, thereby lowering risks for fossil fuel companies and undermining Indigenous sovereignty as an extension of settler colonialism. Finally, I will address how many analysts are questioning the actual profitability of the Coastal GasLink project, which stands in stark contrast to the claims made by the government and LNG Canada.<br><br>Part of the GPE Brown Bag Seminar Series. All are welcome.
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Upcoming Arts & Science events
Category: Workshops & seminars
Organized by Britney Vu, Interrogating Our Own Work: The Art of Debating Your Research Project is designed to foster open, supportive, and critical engagement with ongoing research. Too often, students work in isolation, and while conferences and symposiums offer spaces to present ideas, meaningful feedback is frequently limited by time constraints. This event aims to fill that gap by creating a safe and constructive environment for students to share their work-in-progress, receive thoughtful critique, and practice articulating and defending their research decisions. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their methodologies, assumptions, and findings as they learn from the perspectives of others. Whether presenting an outline or a literature review, refining a dissertation chapter, preparing for a defense, or testing a new idea, this session offers a unique opportunity to interrogate one’s work in dialogue with a supportive scholarly community.
La présentation de Mme Christine Routhier portera sur les principaux résultats tirés de l’enquête de 2024 sur la situation des langues parlées au Québec.
What does human flourishing truly mean beyond productivity, success, or well-being metrics? In this live, experiential workshop, Bhaskar Goswami invites participants into a guided inquiry that moves beyond ideas and into lived understanding. The session offers a rare chance to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with what genuinely allows humans to thrive. The workshop unfolds in three intentional phases. First, participants clarify human flourishing through a guided dyadic exchange that explores embodied, personal definitions of flourishing, both individually and collectively. Second, the group identifies what obstructs flourishing through an inquiry that surfaces internal and systemic patterns, assumptions, and pressures that quietly undermine vitality in our lives, work, and institutions. Third, the session concludes with a short, grounded practice that helps participants sense a clear and practical next step toward greater alignment, meaning, and aliveness. This is not a lecture. It is a participatory, reflective experience designed to cultivate clarity, presence, and insight in a short yet powerful format. Because the experience builds progressively, punctuality is essential. Ideal for educators, researchers, students, professionals, and leaders curious about flourishing as a lived reality, not just an abstract ideal.
Join our monthly seminar to hear Simone de Beauvoir Institute professors and affiliates discuss their research. A short Q&A will follow the discussion.
Is AI the end of meaningful work or the catalyst for its rebirth? Mike James Ross examines how our understanding of labor has evolved and why AI threatens modern "meaning." Discover how to reclaim a deeper, human-centric sense of purpose and turn technological disruption into a path for professional flourishing.
Real transformation begins in the body. Steve Rio, co-founder of Enfold, explores the profound potential of psychedelics for lasting healing. His "Awakening to Life" framework integrates somatic modalities and Internal Family Systems-informed coaching to regulate the nervous system, providing a safety-focused roadmap to dissolving the ego and reclaiming deep inner freedom.
In an era of institutional strain, how we gather matters. Dr. Jessica Riddell introduces the "Hope Circuits" framework, reimagining organizations as ecosystems of possibility. Move beyond scarcity and crisis to design spaces that restore trust, widen agency, and center human and ecological flourishing—transforming simple gatherings into seeds of collective renewal.
When the world feels "on fire," presence is our most vital anchor. Aruni shares the practice of pacing your energy and leaning toward solace. Discover how to meet life’s turbulence with nonjudgmental awareness, moving from survival to a state of grace, kindness, and profound contentment.
Turn on the news and you are flooded with news of ever-growing disagreements and conflict often erupting in violence. I argue that as society, we need to learn to deal constructively with differences in viewpoints. But how? As a scientist, I wondered if science could help. I will survey some of the pitfalls science can help us become aware of. I will also draw an outline of concrete steps we can take to have better disagreements. The ultimate hope is that this will help our societies thrive not in spite of, but because of our differences.
As our world speeds up, AI becomes more capable and our attention span shrinks, the art of focused reflection is becoming a lost skill. Dr. Nicolò F. Bernardi examines why deep thinking is our most vital human capacity, and why it’s currently under threat. Discover how to reclaim the focus required for insight and rediscover the inherent joy of a deep life.
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