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building21.ca | Building 21 is an interdisciplinary idea laboratory supporting students, staff and faculty pursuing beautiful, rigorous, and unconventional research.
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On Doubt in Dance: A Conversation with Marisa Pauloni, Professeure de danse classique Les Studios Grands Ballet
Read in English here: www.building21.ca/podcast-articles/on-doubt-in-dance-a-conversation-with-marisa-pauloni
Marisa spent fifteen years developing her career as a professional classica…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What Happens When a University Shuts Down Its Most Creative Space?
The biggest thank you to everyone at CKUT Radio for making this possible.
On April 27th 2026, fellows Firuza Huseynova (MA Digital Humanities), Nina Zepcan (MISt), Annette Hong Kim (MEd Inclusive Education), and Tamara Pressman (Ph…
Article here: www.building21.ca/podcast-articles/the-distance-between-panels-mtl-cartoonist-michel-hellman
Michel Hellman, McConnell Professor of practice, is a comic book artist, illustrator and art teacher. He is the author of several graphic novels and has participated in numerous residencies a…
Canadian VC veteran Jim de Wilde talks to Ollivier and special co-host, Anita Parmar, about how history may guide future innovation.
Throughout his career as an educator and venture capitalist, Dr. Jim de Wilde has focused on the issues of global competitiveness and the commercialization of knowle…
Last month, Dr. Norman B. Sandridge gave an exquisite talk at Building 21 on the topic 'Can we truly lead without the humanities?'.
The talk was so good that we decided to share it as a podcast! The handout he prepared for the 2026 Mila-B21 Fellowship cohort can also be found below.
"Dr. Norman …
Read the article on building21.ca here.
In this episode of "I’m Not Sure?", produced at Building 21 at McGill University, science fiction writer Alexander Weinstein reimagines fiction structured by hope, joy, pure celebration.
Speculative fiction writer Alexander Weinstein has built a career expl…
Read the article in English here.
In this episode of "I’m Not Sure?", produced at Building 21 at McGill University, literary historian Frédéric Charbonneau reflects on a life shaped by curiosity and doubt.
From science to Chinese studies to French literature, Charbonneau explores how uncertainty g…
Every story need a listener. Going from personal trauma healing to building a more peaceful and just society.
In March, we had the pleasure of a talk from Michael Lapsley, founder of the Institute for Healing of Memories in South Africa. Here we present the introduction of his talk; for the whole …
On March 27, 2024, Michael Lapsley visited us at B21. Here is the partial recording of his talk with our students -- if you'd like to hear students' questions, check out the full video recording on our YouTube channel.
Every story needs a listener. Going from personal trauma healing to building a …
In part 1 of this series, we discussed what it means for a human to grow up. But we're not the only organisms who develop and grow older. And some of the others have much more extreme changes in their lives than even the most awkward of adolescences.
Dr. Morgan Jackson and Viola H. Ruzzier discuss…
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