Listen in to the thinkers at the University of Alberta, with 400 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across 18 faculties… there are plenty of BRAINS ON CAMPUS to learn from.
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Is climate anxiety normal? + decolonizing “wilderness”
Picking the brains of five researchers, Stephanie Olsen, Breanne Aylward, Haemin Park, Marsha Hinds Myrie and Andria Jones on how climate change is shaping mental health. Plus, political theorist David Temin on how the dispossession of Indigenous People through national parks led to land mismanagement, and how to now address this with anti-colonial climate justice.
Alberta Separatists’ threat to Indigenous communities + Japanese Canadian health & care amid internment
Picking the brains of Ermineskin Cree Nation member and the Director of Indigenous Governance in the U of A Faculty of Native Studies, Matthew Wildcat on the real threat of Alberta separatists’ ambitions on Indigenous Peoples. Plus, Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta’s Department of History, Classics, and Religion, Letitia Johnson on how Japanese Canadians were racially restricted in the 1940s and yet continued to contribute to health care across the nation.
Policing Women: Witch hunts to online misogyny + Venezuelan town designed by Americans
Picking the brains of the feminist researcher Tracey Nicholls on policing of women from witch hunts to online misogyny. Plus, University of Southern California Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Peter Ekman on lasting lessons from a highly contentious American-designed Venezuelan town.
Guiding Canada away from Islamophobia + online gambling explosion
Picking the brains of Canada’s first and last Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, on the prejudice, discrimination and hatred Muslims continue to face in Canada and how to address it, plus Alberta Gambling Research Institute senior research fellow, Fiona Nicoll, on the shifting ways Canadians play, regulate and talk about gambling.
Cold colonialism + what’s next for protesting
Picking the brains of Simon Fraser University Associate Professor of History, Tina Adcock on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University, Dr. Muhannad Ayyash imagines what comes next for protestors after encampments were quashed.
Parental rights, public schools + predicting the flu
Picking the brains of SOS Alberta’s Heather Ganshorn on parental rights, Education prof Carla Peck on battle over Alberta schools plus Mathematics & Statistical Sciences researchers, Marie Betsy Varughese and Michael Li, on how to predict the flu like the weather.
