Past Programs

Selected topics: UitC courses 2012-2023:

• Toronto Governance and Canadian Culture: Seeking Common Ground (2012);
• How Cultural Industries Produce Meaning (2014);
• The Political Economy of Equality and Issues in Canadian Social Policy (2015);
• Cultural Geography and Social History of Toronto (2016);
• Professors, Ideas, and their Impact on Everyday Life (2017);
• Human Rights and the City (2018);
• The Public Good: Who is the Public and What is the Good? (2019);
• Lessons Learned in Lockdown (2020);
• Meeting Our Historical Moment (2021);
• Emotions in the World (Spring 2021);
• Well-being (Spring 2022);
• Finding the Fault Lines (2022-3);
• Philosophy of New Media (Spring 2023)

For the past three years, Dr. Daniel Munro and Zachary Weinstein have facilitated a special four-week program in philosophy during the Spring term.

Our courses are taught by academics, citizen advocates, artists, and community activists who are exceptional teachers and communicators.

UitC EVENTS

In conjunction with students at U of T’s Faculty of Law, UitC held ‘literary moot’ benefit performances that placed characters in The Great Gatsby (2014), Oliver Twist (2015), and Othello (2016) on trial. The verdict? A hilarious evening of law, literature, and improve!

In December 2022, UitC hosted a mind-opening evening at Innis Town Hall with the co-authors of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, A White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (Harper Collins 2022). A panel discussion with co-authors Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), moderated by Akosua Matthews, was followed by a lively Q+A with the audience.