Nov 25, 2025 11:00 AM (EST)

Generative AI is permeating higher education in many different ways—it is all around us and increasingly embedded in university work and life, even if we don’t want to use it. But people are also sounding the alarm: Gen AI is disrupting learning and undermining trust in the integrity of academic work, while its energy consumption, use of water, and rapid expansion of data centers are exacerbating ecological crises. What can we do? How do we resist? Come learn about the environmental, social, economic, and political threats that AI poses and how we can individually and collectively resist and refuse. Come learn about how some are challenging the narrative of inevitability. Join an interactive discussion with international scholars and activists on resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Inputs from multiple scholar-activists including Christoph Becker (U of Toronto, CA), Mary Finley-Brook (U of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths U of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University of Galway, Ireland) Jennie Stephens (National University of Ireland Maynooth, IE), and Paul Lachapelle (U of Montana, USA).

Co-sponsored by: Climate Justice Universities Union Climate Campus Network

What you can expect:Ìý

• Creative exploration
  
• Mapping/drawing spaces of care
  
• Co-created gallery of participant art
  
• Facilitated Q+A with Decision Makers
  
• Updates on our Caring Cities project
  

Why you should attend:Ìý

• Have your voice heard
  
• Share your lived experience
  
• Help us identify community driven solutions
  
• Imagine & Create

CAWI envisions a city where everyone can thrive. Where diverse voices are heard, valued and honoured. Where social equity, inclusion and justice are priorities.Our grassroots non-profit is led and run by diverse women. To pursue CAWI’s vision, they work with women, non-binary and gender-non-conforming residents with lived experience of marginalization, as well as partners and City decision makers.

Land Bank: Indigenous Resistance from Coast to Coast hosted by

Panel discussion featuring Judy Da Silva (Grassy Narrows First Nation), Tsakë ze’ Sleydo’ (Wet’suwet’en Gidimt’en clan ), Kuku’wis Wowkis (Mikmaq grandmother).

Facilitated by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist)

*ASL interpretation will be available*

*FREE!* *Everyone Welcome!!*

°Õ³ó±ð³¾±ð:ÌýIndigenization: How to use Design ThinkingÌýwithÌýIndigenous Community to find our Truth for Systems Disruption, Innovation, Imagination and Course Correction in an effort to Reconcile

Date/Time:ÌýTuesday, April 1st, 2025 from 10 AM to 1 PM

Location: Richcraft Hall

Presenter:ÌýMarilyn Poitras

*Lunch will be provided*

Mar 11, 2025 —Ìý5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The history of Indigenous resistance is one of memory, justice, and the ongoing struggle for the recognition of rights. How do Indigenous peoples continue to fight for the preservation of their lands, cultures, and identities in a world still shaped by the lasting impacts of colonialism?

These crucial questions will take center stage at theÌýShirley Greenberg Annual Lecture 2025, featuringÌýKatsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, a prominent Indigenous rights advocate, in conversation withÌýProfessor Audra Simpson, a distinguished Mohawk anthropologist.

Held annually, theÌýShirley Greenberg Annual LectureÌýamplifies the voices of committed activists and influential thinkers tackling issues of social justice and human rights.

In 2025, this event will be an essential reflection on Indigenous resistance, featuring two major figures in the fight for Indigenous self-determination. Through an insightful and inspiring dialogue,ÌýEllen GabrielÌýandÌýAudra SimpsonÌýwill offer a critical perspective on past and present struggles, as well as the challenges ahead.

ÌýandÌýÌýandÌý .co are thrilled to offer a new Climate Art Contest. Contestants will submit to mochi4theplanet@gmail.com any form of artistic expression (drawings, paintings, digital art, photography, poetry, and video submissions) creatively responding to any or all of the 5 prompts by Feb. 1st 2024!

Who Can Enter? Anyone under 25!
The winner will receive $500, second place $300 and third place $150

All submissions may be used in the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ micro-credential course on climate change and youth mental health. Submitting your art you grant permission for it to be used regardless of winning a prize.

Submit your art to: mochi4theplanet@gmail.com

Guest experts will include:

Akil, theÌýBox of LifeÌý– who will talk about vermicomposting, soil health, connection to nature, circular economies, and sustainability.

Jeff,ÌýRewild LandscapesÌý– who will talk about ecological landscapes, native plants, conservation, urban foraging and food security.

Sarah, Mental Health Professional – who will talk about hope and momentum, burnout and despair, and rediscovering our “ecological selves”.

“Hearts Will Save The Everything” by Isaac Murdoch

Join Adrian HarewoodÌýfor a conversation with the award-winning, bestselling author ofÌýNo Logo,ÌýThe Shock Doctrine,ÌýandÌýThis Changes Everything,Ìýabout her latest publication,ÌýDoppelganger,Ìýa revelatory analysis of the collapsed meanings, blurred identities, and uncertain realities of the mirror world. Click for more info.