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President's Dream Colloquium
Past President's Dream Colloquiums
Fall 2022
Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience
Explore how some Indigenous peoples and local communities understand sustainability and resilience and how their traditional worldviews might provide models for more sustainable futures for their communities and others.
Spring 2021
From Conversations to Action: Creating from Social Justice Research
Connect your passion for social justice through creative academic conversation. Take innovative interdisciplinary research from distinguished scholars and experiment with your peers to communicate it in engaging ways to a public audience.
Fall 2019
Creative Ecologies
We must challenge ourselves to face the environmental bad news and imagine human and nonhuman life in strikingly new and different ways.
Spring 2019
HIV/AIDS
Inspire and mobilize as the next generation of researchers, policy-makers, activists, artists, and advocates with an interdisciplinary understanding of the past, current, and future response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Fall 2018
Making Knowledge Public
Explore how public policy is shaped by research, How actively the public is already involved in science, and how research and scholarship are taken up by the public.
Fall 2017
Women in Technology
The value of diverse teams is understood but solutions are still needed to ensure the participation of women and other under-represented groups.
Spring 2017
Understanding Medical Marijuana
Review the current state of research on the general topic of marijuana for medical purposes, and provide perspectives from various aspects of marijuana.
Fall 2016
Returning to the Teachings
Explore justice, identity, and belonging in the context of Education for Reconciliation. Create a rich experience of knowledge mobilization, diverse community engagement and capacity building for a new vision.
Spring 2016
Engaging Big Data
Look at issues related to the design and technology of big data, epistemological problems around datum evidence, analysis and meaning, ethics, and regulation of its practices.
Fall 2015
Traveling for Health
Challenge your understanding of what forms travel for health is taking and what impacts traveling for health is having both within Canada and internationally.
Spring 2015
Protecting Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Explore new approaches to collaborative research and policy development, with a particular focus on those that foreground the interests and concerns of Indigenous communities.
Spring 2015
Obedience and Disobedience
Examine the rights and obligations to civil disobedience regarding climate change for the public and beyond.
Spring 2014
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship turns ideas and vision into ventures that survive and thrive given the right conditions, motivation and knowledge.
Spring 2013
Justice Beyond National Boundaries
Bring into sharper focus the issues that a credible theory of global justice must address.
Fall 2012
Emergence and Complexity of Life
From a scientific and philosophical perspective, explore the origin of life and the evolutionary progression leading to the emergence of human intelligence.