49th ABS Annual Conference: Full Schedule

9:00am MDT

Academic Discipline-specific session (Sociology & Anthropology)

Saturday August 2, 2025 9:00am - 11:45am MDT

This session is for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals working in the fields of sociology and anthropology.

Saturday August 2, 2025 9:00am - 11:45am MDT
Macleod A2 South building - lower level

Discipline-specific session, Sociology

2:00pm MDT

Reflections on the Practice of Discourse: Widening Circles of Unity and Participation in a Fragmented World

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT

Macleod A2

This panel explores the central questions of ‘what is discourse and what is it for?’ and continues this exploration by asking what intellectual norms serve as obstacles to realizing oneness and unity through public discourse and how can discourse contribute to societal transformation built on principles of oneness. Panelists will draw from experiences participating in discourses in four diverse fields (natural science, global health, art, and education), each with unique and shared historical patterns of thought, expectations pertaining to social change, and norms of communication. Participants will reflect on their own journeys in public discourse through interdisciplinary breakout groups.

Speakers

Raphael Lencucha

Raphael Lencucha is an Associate Professor of global health at McGill University who participates in policy discourses at national and international levels. He will reflect on the discourses of global health equity, which, while uncovering injustices associated with coloniality, continue... Read More →

Sujaya Neupane

Sujaya Neupane is a neuroscientist at York University, Canada. He studies how the brain enables our perceptual and mnemonic functions. Sujay will share his reflection on engaging in discourse in natural science, where the concept of two-fold empowerment is met with fragmented views... Read More →

Ezgi Ozyonum

Ezgi Ozyonum is a PhD candidate in Education and a Lecturer at Concordia University. She employs a decolonial lens to examine international students' discourses in Canadian universities. She will reflect on the intersections between Bahá’í principles and decolonial perspectives... Read More →

Lorraine Pritchard

Lorraine Pritchard is a Montreal-based visual artist whose work concerns patterns of inner thought being reflected outwardly through considerations of rhythm, time/space or order/spontaneity. From the viewpoint infused by art, she will offer an alternative perspective on discourse... Read More →

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT
Macleod A2 South building - lower level

Community, Breakout