2024 - 2025

The European Alliance

Professor Marie-Agnes Detourbe is deeply involved in the creation of the ECIU University. In this talk, she provided an overview of the European Universities Initiative, considered as the most innovative step in the European Education Area since the Bologna process.

By developing long-term structural and strategic and sustainable cooperation between the higher education institutions in the European Universities alliances, the initiative aims to: improve the international competitiveness of higher education institutions in Europe and promote European values and identity

Through these alliances students can get a degree by combining studies in several European countries. The initiative has the potential to bring greater benefits to higher education institutions than any previous cooperation projects.

Counter Pedagogies: Resisting Cultural Hegemony of Extraction

Every year, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) hosts the world’s largest mining convention in the capital of mining finance: Toronto. Since the early 2000s, international community delegations have attended PDAC to protest the environmental and social degradation caused by unregulated Canadian mining operations. Activists and scholars have also begun to highlight the ways PDAC instrumentalizes culture and education to shape narratives about Canada’s mining industry. As a member of the scholar-activist collective Beyond Extraction, Camille-Mary Sharp will discuss the group’s recent interventions, suggesting that alternative forms of public pedagogy are needed to counter the cultural hegemony of resource extraction in museum exhibitions and school curricula.

Composing Ourselves: Psychology as Politics in the 21st Century

Based on their recent paper, The Politics of Unconscious Desire under Virtual Global Capitalism, from the open-access critical psychology collection, Professors Kathleen and Hans Skott-Myhre discuss a reconfigured psychology with potential to build upon shifts in 21st century modes of production and shifts in consciousness that have a capacity to challenge global capitalism and initiate new forms of subjectivity with capacity to create new worlds and new peoples.