Today's Arts & Science events
The Seminar Series offers a supportive space for SdBI Faculty, Fellows, Research Affiliates, postdocs, and graduate students to share their research, works in progress, and workshop their projects with the SdBI community. The aim is to learn from one another, foster conversations, and build connections across different areas of research.
Join our monthly seminar to hear Simone de Beauvoir Institute professors and affiliates discuss their research. A short Q&A will follow the discussion.
Upcoming Arts & Science events
Von Borzyskowski and Vabulas argue that there is a common logic to IO exit which helps explain both its causes and consequences. By examining IO exit across 198 states, 534 IOs, and over a hundred years of history, they show that exit is driven by states' dissatisfaction, preference divergence, and is a strategy to negotiate institutional change.
Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference, The Future of Canada/US Trade Agreements.
Join the Working Group on Feminist Governance in Times of Crisis for an exciting day of methods workshops!
This paper traces the user experience of disabled audience members as they attend a Kinetic Light performance. Focusing on touch and sight as types of sensory encounter, Lawson and Sheppard draw in sensory studies to analyze how audiences experience dance.
Cream of the Crop is a 2024 CBC documentary miniseries by Kat Hutton that follows fruit pickers in British Columbia’s Okanagan region, exploring their work, daily lives, and reflections on sustainability, followed by a Q&A with the director.
Join us at the SdBI for an information session and Q&A with Ninon Bouchard, a 3rd year sexology student and former SDBI student and WSSSA exec, who will briefly present the program and answer your questions.
Join the Department of Economics in welcoming Senators Leo Housakos and Tony Loffreda for an armchair conversation hosted by Anthony A. Noce, senior lecturer and course coordinator for ECON 318 Canadian Economic Policy and ECON 319 International Economic Policy.
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.
How can theatre exist beyond sight? Audrey‑Anne Bouchard presents a multisensory, accessible theatre practice grounded in lived experience of vision loss.
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.
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Michael Goodhart.
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.
This lecture presents insights from the international research project Beyond Seeing (2017–2018), initiated by the Goethe-Institut Paris in collaboration with ESMOD Berlin, Institut Français de la Mode (Paris), La Cambre (Brussels), and the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås, together with organizations for the blind and visually impaired.
A conversation about President Donald Trump’s policies and their implications for democratic politics in the U.S. and globally
Join our monthly seminar to hear Simone de Beauvoir Institute professors and affiliates discuss their research. A short Q&A will follow the discussion.
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Devin Curry Sanchez.
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.
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Sean Kelsey.
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.
Cai Glover presents a Deaf‑conscious choreographic practice that transforms sign language into movement, redefining rhythm, poetics, and embodied expression.
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.
Two-day event where QUESCREN research network and the wider community come together to explore, discuss, and advance research on English-speaking Quebec.
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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