Volume M25, Issue No. 11, November 2, 2020 Intercom is published regularly and serves to inform Vanier staff and teachers of notices and special events. It is posted on the Vanier College Website and distributed electronically. Submissions should be sent to
[email protected]. Submissions should be in WORD, and sent as an attachment. No formatting or bullets. Photos are welcome. Deadline: 4:00 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding the week of publication. Social Science Festival Thanks Our annual Social Science Festival wrapped up last week. It was a week of varied and highly interesting and stimulating presentations (all delivered fully online/virtually, a first of its kind for the Vanier community)! The primary takeaway from the talks was that community (the festival’s theme) could potentially serve as a solidarity building tool; an instrument that can better equip us to face crises effectively and mitigate and/or reverse course on the discord, division and self- centredness that recent social phenomena seems to have contributed to (phenomena such as the Covid19 pandemic; environmental crises; the rise of populism; crises and concerns of social justice and equity faced by women, the destitute, visible minority and Indigenous groups). All talks were recorded and can now be viewed on VTV’s YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3yY45tybOx6i7PktEiqPdlOnXvsTd_U. A special thanks to the all the people who helped make the event possible: Kelly MacDonald; Melissa Paradis; Angelo Philippas; Alena Perout; Patti Kingsmill; Bruce Norton; Meiji Estrada; David Scharing-Riendeau; David Abraham; Sydney Ong; Azhar Saïdoo; Rebecca Acone; Jennifer Joseph; Carlos Joseph Avila; David Scott; Jacky Vallee; Marlene Grossman; Alyson Jones and the Vanier College Indigenous Studies Certificate Program; Giovanna Arcuri; Marguerite Corriveau; Janelle Villanueva, Nora Soukiassian, Ivanka Hillel and Zsofia Orszagh.