Thinking Out Loud 2017: urban futures, TV stories and Indigenous expressions
TOL 2017 will feature new podcast productions, including 2067, a futurecast audio series.
Industry icons, thought leaders, prominent researchers — they’re all on deck to participate in Concordia’s signature public engagement series.
The 2017 edition of Thinking Out Loud (TOL) starts on February 2, bringing together the university’s researchers and faculty members with key public figures to discuss ideas both big and small.
A new podcast
The live conversation series returns once again to the D.B. Clarke Theatre in the Henry F. Hall Building on Sir George Williams Campus.
In addition to live events, TOL 2017 will also feature podcast productions. These include 2067, a futurecast audio series hosted by Francine Pelletier; Expo 67, a video and audio series revisiting elements of the exhibition on the 50th anniversary of its opening; and a collection of new audio tracks showcasing TOL speakers from 2013-16.
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Building upon the success of recent TOL conversations — which featured speakers such as author Joseph Boyden, forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs and Irish gender activist Miss Panti Bliss — this year’s lineup boasts an equally intriguing lineup of thought leaders.
Register to join these nine luminaries as they spark lively conversations:
February 2: Future Urban (the City Designed)
What is important about city design?
- Ken Greenberg – urban designer and author of Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder (Random House Canada), former director of urban design and architecture for the City of Toronto
- Carmela Cucuzzella – associate professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology, And Sustainability (IDEAS) for the Built Environment
February 9: Future Small Screen — Talking Television
What makes TV important now?
- Emily Nussbaum – Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic for The New Yorker
- Joshua Neves – assistant professor in Concordia's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Canada Research Chair in Global Emergent Media
March 1: Business Ownership Now
Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well — again.
- Ethan Song – owner and co-founder of Frank + Oak
- Andrew Molson – board member of the Molson Coors Brewing Company
- Alexandra Dawson – associate professor of management in the John Molson School of Business, director of the National Bank Initiative in Entrepreneurship and Family Business
April 18: Indigenous Culture — Expression, Resistance, Resilience
Indigenous cultural expression in focus.
- Tanya Tagaq – Polaris Music Prize–winner and Canadian throat singer from Nunavut
- Heather Igloliorte – assistant professor of art history in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement
April 20: Talking Comics and Graphic Novels
- Matthew Forsythe – award-winning author and illustrator and Concordia’s next Mordecai Richler writer-in-residence
Thinking Out Loud (TOL) starts on February 2, 2017.
