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VANIERVANIER COLLEGE COLLEGE | |SOCIAL SOCIAL SCIENCE SCIENCE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 2020 2019 COMMUNITY OCTOBEROCTOBER 19-22,21-25, 2020 2019 VANIER COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2020 MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 COMMUNITY 9:55-10:00 OPENING REMARKS OCTOBER 19 TO 22, 2020 Ara Karaboghossian, Event Organizer 10:00-11:00 ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME & COMMUNITY: SHARED IMPACTS & The Covid19 pandemic; environmental crises; the rise of populism; crises and concerns of SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES social justice and equity faced by women, the destitute, visible minority and Indigenous groups; Peter Stoett these phenomena have noticeably created local, national and global level fractures. Consequently, cooperation and solidarity seem to be under assault while discord, division and Peter Stoett is Dean of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech self-centredness are visibly on the rise. It therefore seems timely to take pause and reect about University, located near Toronto. Previously, he was the Director of the Loyola notions of community and explore how community can potentially harness the collaborative Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University. He works with the and unifying potential inherently present within the aforementioned phenomena and events – United Nations on several fronts and is presently co-chairing a global as opposed to falling prey, as they have, to bringing forth the more nefarious impacts that they assessment conducted by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on have. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. The fully virtual 2020 Covid19 edition of the Vanier College Social Science Festival (a rst of its kind for the Vanier community) will explore notions of community from various angles to We think of environmental crime as an illegal act by a poacher, and the victims press students and the community to reect about how community can potentially serve as an as endangered species. However, environmental crime should be thought of an anchor to reverse course on current trends emerging as a result of the pandemic, environmental organized assault on nature that impacts entire communities, and in the case of crises, populism and the various crises faced by women, the destitute, visible minority and climate crime, the entire biosphere. Likewise, the blame for environmental Indigenous groups. crimes needs to extend beyond individuals: it involves organized criminal Community is by nature dichotomous; it can be inclusionary or exclusionary. Let us foster and groups, governments, and corporations. This presentation will cover the "wider inculcate in our students and societies the empowerment, emancipation and gratication that lens" view of eco-violence, and remind us that not only is community security its inclusionary potential can confer. Join us at this year’s Social Science Festival. at stake, but also that community participation is necessary to ght eco-violence. All events are free of charge and open to the Vanier community and to the public. No registration is required. Any questions regarding the Social Science Festival can be directed to 11:30-12:30 THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY IN MENTAL HEALTH Ara Karaboghossian, event organizer/coordinator, at [email protected]. Stephanie Gilbert The Social Science Festival was started in 2000 by anthropology teacher, Mark Prentice. Every Stephanie Gilbert is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Los year, we showcase the work of researchers, activists, community workers and others from Angeles, California, USA. In private practice, she provides individual, family, Vanier, from the local Montreal community and from elsewhere. and group therapy. Her areas of specialization are eating disorders/disordered eating, body image issues, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and We acknowledge that this event will take place on land situated within the traditional unceded depressive disorders, and spiritual issues. lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) peoples, part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. There is also a strong historic presence of Anishinaabe peoples in what is now known as the Now more than ever we are nding how community (or lack of it) impacts our Greater Montreal area. Tio’tia:ke, or Montreal, has also long been, and continues to be, a mental health. Join Stephanie as she shares what community is, why it matters, gathering place for many First Peoples from all directions. We honour and thank the traditional and where we can nd it. custodians of this land and strive to work for the success of future generations. 13:00-14:00 MIGRANTS IRRÉGULIERS, “ANGES GARDIENS”, CITOYENS? WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Agnès Gruda (talk in French) Agnès Gruda travaille depuis plus de 30 ans à La Presse où elle a longtemps 9:30-10:30 THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY DURING CRISES suivi l’actualité internationale ainsi que les questions d'immigration et de Jasmine Sharma diversité. Elle occupe actuellement les fonctions d'éditorialiste. Jasmine Sharma obtained her MA at Carleton University in Political Science, Quand ils ont traversé la frontière canadienne depuis les États-Unis, en passant specializing in public policy and public administration. She completed her par le chemin Roxham, on les voyait comme des migrants irréguliers. Quand ils undergraduate studies at Concordia University in the same eld and obtained a se sont retrouvés au front de la COVID-19, ce printemps, ils sont devenus des Certicate in Public Relations Management at McGill University. Before her "anges gardiens." Eux, tout ce qu'ils souhaitent, c'est devenir des citoyens election as municipal councillor in Vaudreuil-Dorion in 2017, she worked as a comme les autres. public relations professional in parapublic and government organizations for 15 years. What drives her life choices is a strong sense of community which is why TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 she volunteers for several organizations. As the COVID-19 pandemic led to a global lockdown, Mrs. Sharma observed how the strong sense of community in Vaudreuil-Dorion inspired initiatives and 16:00-17:00 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES & RESILIENCE activities to help citizens cope with the loneliness of isolation. In this talk, Maïtée Saganash (sponsored by the Vanier College Indigenous Studies discover how the “Je Suis” project, a municipal cultural meditation initiative Certicate Program) launched ten years ago, gave the community wings to adapt to the 2020 public health crisis. Maïtée Saganash is a Cree woman from the community of Waswanipi. She is a columnist for Métro Montréal, the Nation magazine and works for the Cree . Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay. She has been advocating for Indigenous rights in Canada for several years. Settlers have long portrayed Indigenous communities as dangerous places where people with primitive beliefs live in poverty. This stereotype was reinforced in Quebec by the Oka Crisis in 1990 by governments and media and has remained intact since. Beyond the stigmas, Indigenous communities have survived and thrived despite colonial tactics to tear them apart. This talk presents a story of resilience and community. 11:00-12:00 COMMUNITY: VIBRANCE, COLLABORATION, BENEFITS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 Charbel Mourad Charbel Mourad is currently the Director of Corporate Training for the nine 10:00-11:00 COVID19: FAULT LINES, FRACTURES & POLICY English Schools Boards working closely with the Provincial Directors of Daniel Weinstock Continuing Education (PROCEDE) and the Ministry of Education. He also teaches in the Department of Education at the University of Sherbrooke. His Daniel Weinstock holds the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and experience working for the Lester B. Pearson School Board has allowed him to Public Policy in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at McGill develop various business and community partnerships over the years. He holds University. Until this year, he was also the Director of the Institute for Health a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Public Administration and a Bachelor’s and Social Policy at McGill. His published work focuses on the ethical and Degree in Political Science from Concordia University and is a graduate of normative underpinnings of public policy in such areas as health care and Vanier College education. Mr. Mourad will focus on the English community within Quebec’s educational At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was often said of the novel system. He proposes that by focusing on key indicators as presented in the 2013 coronavirus that it did not discriminate. Seven months in, we now know that that Canadian Heritage, Portrait of the English-speaking Communities in Québec is not true. The pandemic has revealed and exacerbated fault lines of advantage report, English-speaking communities are vibrant communities. During his talk, and disadvantage across Canadian society. In this talk I will show how some of he will weave in some of his current professional and personal experiences the measures that we have taken to contain the virus have at times exacerbated highlighting how the English community collaborates to the benet of the these fault lines, and will suggest ways in which policy with respect to the group. pandemic can be formulated so as to address these issues, so that we emerge from the pandemic as a less fractured society. 16:00-17:00 ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS & COMMUNITY Frantz Saintellemy Engineer, innovator and internationally recognized expert in advanced technologies, Mr. Saintellemy has over 20 years of experience in the high tech and automotive tech