In Conversation With

Public talks with Canada’s leading social sciences and humanities scholars

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in partnership with The Conversation Canada, is pleased to present In Conversation With, a series of public talks featuring the most recent winners of SSHRC’s Impact Awards.

The series brings engaging and enlightening dialogue with SSHRC-funded researchers to Canadians from coast to coast to coast, highlighting the value and importance of social sciences and humanities research.

Each virtual event is open to the public. Listen to some of Canada’s most accomplished scholars, whose perspectives are shaping our understanding of people and society at large. Each session is in English or French, with simultaneous interpretation and closed captioning available in both languages. Recordings are made available afterwards.

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Upcoming sessions

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Past sessions

Session title and date	Featured guest	Recording
2025-03-05 Democracy’s challenge across time Published: March 5, 2025	Jean-Marc Narbonne Professor, Faculty of Philosophy Université Laval	View recording
2024-01-30 The Politics of the Rule of Law Published: January 30, 2024	David Dyzenhaus Professor, Faculty of Law University of Toronto	View recording
2023-01-20 Finding oxygen for the misfit academic: why academia and activism should co-exist Published: January 20, 2023	Cindy Blackstock Professor, School of Social Work McGill University	View recording
2023-02-15 Blindly repeating history: how the tenets of democracy are easily corroded Published: February 15, 2023	Jan Grabowski Professor, Department of History University of Ottawa	View recording
2023-03-15 Women in politics: to run or not to run? Published: March 15, 2023	Semra Sevi Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Columbia University / Western University	View recording
2023-04-18 Why keep telling a history of racism? New perspectives on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians Published: April 18, 2023	Jordan Stanger-Ross Professor, Department of History University of Victoria Audrey Kobayashi Distinguished University Professor Emerita, FRSC Department of Geography and Planning Queen’s University	View recording
2022-03-24 In the Public Domain: Restoring and Preserving Silenced Histories in Russia Published: March 24, 2022	Lynne Viola Professor, Department of History University of Toronto	View recording
2022-04-12 To vote or not to vote Published: April 12, 2022	André Blais Professor, Department of Political Science Université de Montréal	View recording
2022-05-03 How to integrate gender and race studies in the classroom Published: May 3, 2022	Maïka Sondarjee Assistant professor, School of International Development and Global Studies University of Ottawa	View recording
2022-05-25 How much is that fish in the ocean? Oceans economics and the quest to attain infinity fish Published: May 25, 2022	Rashid Sumaila Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs The University of British Columbia	View recording
2022-06-14 Building bridges between scientific and Indigenous knowledges Published: June 14, 2022	Carole Lévesque Professor, Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre Institut national de la recherche scientifique	View recording