New date! Winter speaker series - Ellen Berrey (University of Toronto) and Alex Hanna (Distributed AI Research Institute)
(University of Toronto), with聽 (Distributed AI Research Institute, joining via zoom), and (University of Toronto).
鈥淯.S. and Canadian Higher Education Protests and University and Police Responses, 2012 to 2018鈥�.
Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship 91社区.
Abstract: Protest activism in universities and colleges is an essential engine of social change. The 2010s was a time of renewed higher education activism in Canada and the United States. Mass protests swept campuses both countries, from the massive 2012 strike campaign opposing tuition increases in Qu茅bec to campus mobilizing against the immigration policies of the first Trump administration. Prof. Ellen Berrey, Dr. Alex Hanna (joining online), and Kristen Bass will present their findings on major trends in campus protest and protest management by university administrations and police in this period. Their talk is based on their new dataset, the Higher Ed Protest Event Dataset, which contains more than 5,550 protests across almost 600 Canadian and U.S. universities and colleges.
(Rescheduled from February 20, 2025)