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HRG Events 2024/2025

Randy Boyagoda

Civil discourse or civil war?  Ideas and Realities of the Contemporary University

Thursday September 26, 2024    6:00 P.M.

SoCA Armouries Performance Hall    37 University Ave East

Please join us for a special evening featuring Randy Boyagoda with the CBC's Nahlah Ayed in attendance.  This event will be recorded for an international audience for CBC IDEAS.

Man wearing glasses standing next to a treeIn this lecture, novelist and professor Randy Boyagoda argues that universities have always been expected to promote civil discourse and never satisfy anyone’s expectations that they are doing so successfully. This gap between idea and reality is consistent with a larger gap between ideas and realities of the university, which are always subject to criticism and complaint from their constituents and from the public at large, that they are failing to fulfil their missions and instead sustaining endless conflicts and controversies. Do we assign seemingly unmeetable expectations to the university itself, and can there be another way to close the gap between our ideas about it, and its realities? And could a more durable conception of civil discourse itself be a way of doing so?

Randy Boyagoda is the University of Toronto’s advisor on Civil Discourse. The author of seven books, including four novels, a novella, a critical biography, and a scholarly monograph, he is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Vice-Dean, Undergraduate in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Globe and Mail, while appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017. He lives in Toronto with his wife and four daughters.

 

Jesse Wente

Searching for History and Truth on Screen

Friday October 25, 2024    5:30 P.M.

SoCA Armouries Performance Hall    37 University Ave East

 
Headshot of a man with dark hair, also wearing glasssesJesse Wente is a respected writer, broadcaster, and arts administrator.  He is part Genaabaajing Anishinaabek and a member of the Serpent River First Nation.  Wente served on the board of directors for Native Earth Performing Arts, ImagineNative, The Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.  He has been a programmer for many film festivals, including ImagineNative Film and Media Festival, the Reel World Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival.  In 2012, Jesse presented First Peoples Cinema, the largest retrospective of global Indigenous cinema ever mounted to that point.  It was accompanied by a gallery exhibition, home on Native Land, co-curated with Steven Loft.  He is the founding director of the Indigenous Screen Office and current Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts.
 
Searching for History and Truth on Screen
In this exclusive talk Jesse Wente, the bestselling author, award winning speaker and longtime film critic and curator, will explore truth, history and Indigenous representation on screen in the films, The Searchers and Maliglutit (Searchers).  The Searchers is among the most famous films by legendary director John Ford, starring his muse John Wayne, while Maliglutit (Searchers) is a modern remake by equally legendary director Zacharius Kunuk set in the Arctic.  Using both films, Jesse will explore Indigenous representation in cinema, narrative sovereignty, and how our understanding of history is shaped by screen storytelling. 
 
Talk to be followed by special WIFF screeing of Zacharius Manuk's Maliglutit (Searchers)
 
 
 
 

First Annual HRG Tribute to Dr. Catherine Hundleby

Justice and Argument:  the Legacy of Catherine E. Hundleby

Thursday November 28, 2024    6:00 P.M.

Green Bean Cafe     2330 Wyandotte St. West

         First Annual
      HRG TRIBUTE to
CATHERINE HUNDLEBY
The Humanities Research Group logo -- graphic of ancient helmeted warriorThis special HRG SALON event, dedicated to Dr. Catherine Hundleby, features a panel presentation by Alisha Jacobs, Oxana Pimenov, and Christopher W. Tindale.  Jacobs is a 2nd--year PhD candidate in Argumentation Studies whose work focuses on social justice issues; Pimenova is a SSHRC post-doctoral student at CRRAR who holds PhDs in Law and Policy Studies.  Her post-doctoral project is entitled "Developing a predictive machine learning model to detect and forecast Argument Continuities in government-led reasoning:  the case of superficial Indigenous consultations."  Tindale is a member of the Philosophy department, the Director CRRAR, and co-editor of the journal, Informal Logic.  A prolific and influential thinker in the areas of Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, his work has been translated into several languages.
 
Justice and Argument:  The Legacy of Catherine E. Hundleby
In many minds, Philosophy Professor Catherine Hundleby is to be remembered for her pioneering work in feminist argumentation.  Equally important are her responses to issues of injustice (argumentative and epistemic injustice) and her work on equity.  "Oppression," she wrote in a 2013 paper, "pervades social politeness, marriage, and even the discipline of philosophy.  Oppression shapes the people in those institutions and influences their argumentation practices, and the reception of their arguments."  This stand is the focus of the panel, which takes its impetus from Hundleby's work but quickly moves to explore wider questions that impact on Canadian issues of injustice, especially involving Indigenous communities. 
 

Donald Robertson

The Psychology of Stoicism

Thursday January 30, 2025    6:00 P.M.

SoCA Armouries Performance Hall    37 University Ave East

Headshot of a man with greying hair, mustache and trimmed beard.
 
Donald Robertson is an author and former cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, who was born in Scotland but now lives in Canada and Greece.  He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre nonprofit in Athens.  He is the author of seven books on philosophy and psychotherapy, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, How to Think Like Socrates.
 
The Psychology of Stoicism
What can we learn about self-improvement, or even psychotherapy, from the writings of ancient Stoics, such as Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius?  Robertson will explore parallels between ancient philosophy and modern psychotherapy, in terms of both theory and practive.  He will also discuss ways in which Stoic philosophy can help us today through the use of specific psychological exercises derived from ancient texts.  He will also discuss ways in which Stoicism has been appropriated and misinterpreted by some modern influencers. 
 

 

 

 

Dr. Catherine Febria

Women, Water and Restoration Science

Thursday February 27, 2025    6:00 P.M.

SoCA Armouries Performance Hall    37 University Ave East

Photo of a woman with long dark hair, standing in front of trees. She wears a sraw hatDr. Catherine Febria is a Pinay/Filipina immigrant, guest and settler on Turtle Island who conceptualized and launched the Healthy Headwaters Lab at the University of Windsor in 2019.  Driven by the mission to restore freshwater ecosystems and to full health to benefit generations, she has brought together individuals with diverse gifts to work together in pursuit of research excellence through a de/anti-colonized, holistic, and partnership-focused approach.  Her work focuses on relationships with freshwater, and the responsibility of all people to care for water.  Drawing upon her lived experiences as a woman in science, the lab practices relationship-building, kinship and responsibility-based language when advancing research to inform freshwater restoration on local to global scales. 

 

Women, Water and Restoration Science

Many cultures share the value that Water is Life.  Locally to globally, women have held a responsibility to care for the Water.  In so-called Canada we are in a phase of reconciliation, reconciling our relationship with the Water, Nibii.  This talk will share a journey taken together - women, scientists, communities - all working to heal our relationships with Water.  Highlighting examples from various grants including a recent SSHRC Partnership Development grant, I will share perspectives and examples of reimagined, interdisciplinary and co-created research that embrace relational and narrative approaches.  Notably, I will share insights into the diversity of outcomes that emerge when we seek to use science as a tool to connect Land, Water and People. 

 

The Venue

HRG attendees may enter the Armouries at 37 University Ave East, through the front doors on University Avenue, or the side doors on the southeast side of the building on Freedom Way.  The Freedom Way entrance is the entry closest to the Performance Hall where the events are held. 
 
Parking
This parking map shows the Armouries and the surrounding parking options.
 
Some other details:
1.  Street meters are free after 6 pm so HRG attendees only need to pay a meter for the first hour.
2.  There is a Scotiabank lot on the southern end of the building.  (it is only available when the attendant is present, but may be an option when attended.)
3.  The St. Alphonsus Lot, located a block southeast of the southern end of the Armouries, across from Tim Horton's, offers three-hour parking during the day and a special $3 rate after 6 pm. 

 

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