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A Systems Approach to Social Change: New Funding Call

Deadline: July 31, 2020
Funding of up to $20,000 is available for new interdisciplinary groups working to produce publications that take a systems approach towards understanding and addressing the root causes of our society's many interlocking crises and challenges.

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Racial Injustices and Systemic Oppression in the Academy

We acknowledge the leadership of Indigenous, Black and other racialized scholars in the academy, who for so long have worked to challenge the racial injustices and systemic oppression that many universities were founded on.

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COVID-19 PWIAS Working Groups

The PWIAS has funded four new Working Groups, focusing on how COVID-19 affects our society in areas such as personal privacy, higher education, epidemiology, and religion.

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Ways of Knowing Podcast

Join PWIAS Interim Director Kalina Christoff as she interviews academic experts on the big questions of relevance to our society today.

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2020 Wall Scholars

Virtual Roundtables

External Reviews

Ep 13: Diane Srivastava on Ecological Networks in Nature and Science

Podcast

News

Denise Ferreira da Silva | Transformative Theory of Justice

2019 Wall Scholar Denise Ferreira da Silva's work challenges assumptions about race, class, and gender.

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News

Curtis Suttle | Without viruses we would not be alive

The novel coronavirus is just the latest in the never-ending war against the spread of viral diseases. But, did you know that we wouldn’t exist without viruses?

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Denise Ferreira da Silva | Transformative Theory of Justice

Curtis Suttle | Without viruses we would not be alive

What if all viruses disappeared?