Playlists (on YouTube)
(Click on the speaker's name to listen to the audio recording)
GLRC Speaker Series (most recent)
- Ford More Years: What Comes Next? Post-Election Panel and Book Discussion, March 20, 2025 (online event)
- Full Panel Discussion with:
- Bryan Evans, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, and GLRC Faculty Associate
- Carlo Fanelli, Associate Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science and Interim Director of the Global Labour Research Centre at York University
- Maria Rio, Director of Development and Communications, The Stop, Executive Director Further Together
- Tom McDowell, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
- Venai Raniga, CUPE National Researcher
- John Clarke, Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University
- Katherine Nastovski, Assistant Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science at York University
- Ryan Keplin, PhD in Political Science, York University
- Doug Allan, Senior Researcher with CUPE National
- William Paul, Editor of School Magazine
- Chris Chandler, Vice-President, Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation
- Full Panel Discussion with:
- Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries A Critical Introduction, March 6, 2025 (online event)
- Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech, and GLRC Faculty Associate
- Work, Platforms and Industrial Change in Italy, January 21, 2025 (online event).
- Lidia Greco, Professor of Economics and Labour Sociology at the University of Bari Aldo Moro - Ecological transition and industrial change: some preliminary evidence from Italy
- Claudio Cozza, Associate Professor in Economic Policy at the University of Naples 'Parthenope', and Paolo Angelone, PhD student in Economics at the University of Naples 'Parthenope' - Industrial structure, productivity and wages in Italy over the last decades
- Marco Marrone, Assistant Professor at the University of Salento - Rights against the Machines! Platform capitalism, digital labor and the struggle of food delivery workers in Italy
- Valeria Cirillo, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro - The labour impact of digital platforms
- The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada, December 5, 2024 (online keynote lecture).
- Lars Osberg, McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, and author of the The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada (2024) and The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% (2018), among other publications.
- Labour Unions, Climate Action, and Just Transition, November 21, 2024 (online event).
- Seth Klein – Director of Climate Emergency Strategy. Author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.
- Rebecca Keetch – Autoworker and Activist with Green Jobs Oshawa.
- John Clarke, – Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University. Author, with Sarah Glynn, of Climate Change is a Class Issue.
John Eleen Lectures
- What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism, February 20, 2025 (In-person event)
- Keynote Speaker: Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007).
- Discussant: Abigail Bakan, Professor, Social Justice Department OISE, University of Toronto.
- Labour and the Climate Crisis: Developing a Worker- and Equity-Centered Clean Energy Economy, March 2, 2023 (online event)
- Keynote Speaker: Lara Skinner - Executive Director, Climate Jobs Institute, Cornell University
- Respondent: Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Feminist Economist & Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
Visit GLRC's YouTube channel to watch videos from other events.
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