A Studies in National and International Development presentation by Dr. Barbara Perry and Dr. Shana MacDonald The stabbing of a faculty member and two students in a gender issues class at the University of Waterloo in the summer of 2023 has brought renewed urgency to anti-violence work on campus. This panel brings together experts in white supremacy and feminist media studies to situate the attack within the broader rise of the far right in Canada, emphasizing how central attacks on feminist, queer, and trans people are to this movement. This episode features an interactive session focused on ..read more

“Revolutions” is a short documentary that asks sports enthusiasts, brands, and manufacturers to think differently about environmental sustainability by putting sporting goods at the center of the conversation. The film uses the bike as a storytelling device to ask some important questions about sustainability such as: What happens to our “toys” when we’re done with them? What happens to a bike at its end-of-life stage? What would it take to design everything with the end in mind? Dr Courtney Szto is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies. Her research focuses&nb ..read more

Join us for the second panel discussion of the mini-series “Legacies of War. Imperialisms, Racisms and Transnational Feminist Solidarities”, co-organized Vanessa Thompson and Katherine Mazurok. This series aims to interrogate, from a transnational feminist perspective, articulations and politics of war, in their many forms and on a global scale. We ask how we can challenge global hierarchies in the perceptions and politics of war, imperialisms, racisms as well as move towards building transnational feminist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist solidarities from below. Our second roundtable entitl ..read more

In this talk, Dr Debora Lima delivered on October 21st 2021, discusses the ultra-neoliberal narrative that the Brazilian government has used to justify measures that result in green grabbing, and the impact of this on the socio-environmental resistance in Brazil.   ..read more

Date: October 31, 2019 Venue: Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D214 Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Speaker:  Georgina Riel, Hugh Segal, Kyla Tienhaara, and Colin Grey, chaired by Jonathan Rose This episode is a recording of the October 31st 2019 SNID post-election panel analyzing the 2019 Canadian federal election. The panel featured Georgina Riel, (Kingston political commentator), Hugh Segal (Queen’s School of Policy Studies), Kyla Tienhaara (Global Development Studies, environmental specialist), and Colin Grey (Queen’s Law School, immigration law specialist), and was chaired by Jonat ..read more

David P Thomas, Veldon Coburn, Rebecca Hall  This talk features a discussion of the new book Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad. Both co-editors and one contributing author will talk about the book and their unique contributions.  The book brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at home and abroad. You can find the book at Novel Idea ..read more

José Marcelo Zacchi / September 22, 2022 In this talk, José Marcelo Zacchi reflects on his years as a lawyer and public manager dedicated to the strengthening of civic space and democratic construction in Brazil. He is currently committed to the creation of Núcleo Sumaúma, a new space for the elaboration and dissemination of civil society agendas for public and political action in favour of equity and towards fair and sustainable development in Brazil. These agendas are supporting various political parties in the lead-up to the 2022 federal election.  ..read more

March 31st 2022 Equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives are often characterized as a “hallmark of the neoliberal university,” and a “non-critical, anti-theoretical and ahistorical answer to managing difference” (“Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: A Dialogue with Human Rights and Decolonization,” a roundtable hosted by Wilfred Laurier University on November 13, 2020). In this contribution to the SNID seminar series, Professors Vanessa E. Thompson and Daniel McNeil reflect on the diasporic and multi-directional articulations of Black struggles and abolitionist world-making that have informed the ..read more

Panelists will draw from their studies both in Canada and internationally to highlight the lives and livelihoods reproduced, sustained and compromised by the circulations and politics of waste. Dr Kesha Fevrier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University. Her research unfolds broadly at the intersection of race and space, through the systematic study of waste making and unmaking strategies. She is particularly interested in how this relationship informs the everyday lived experiences of marginalized groups in the global South. Dr Mohammed Rafi Ar ..read more

Canada’s waste crisis is the product of two inter-related issues: the problems of amplification and ongoing settler colonialism. In this presentation, Dr Myra Hird draws on decades of empirical waste studies research to argue that resolving our waste crisis requires an orientation away from techno-fixes and individual responsibility and towards upstream social justice issues ..read more