With Lil Borger and Robbie Madsen Society makes a lot of assumptions about what homelessness “looks” like. This 1.5 hour discussion-based workshop centers around community member Robbie Madsen’s life stories, and how wrong these assumptions can be about how homelessness happens, what it looks like, and how it feels. QPIRG-McGill (3516 Av du Parc) Accessibility: […]
Free workshop by Liz Singh This is an introduction to crisis intervention and de-escalation. In it, we will cover: defining crisis, planning for crisis and crisis de-escalation, de-escalating yourself & basic suicide intervention. This workshop will be given in two parts, totalling 3 hours: a 90 minute online module a second 90-minute in-person workshop where […]
Keynote lecture by Dr. Alia Al-Saji, professor of Philosophy at McGill Gaza as a Compass for Thinking: A decolonial philosophy of debilitation and resistance in colonial duration Seventeen months into the genocide in Gaza, our philosophies remain for the most part either silent or complaisant, seemingly unable to think with a contemporaneous reality that would […]