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"Even the small fact of using a word, saying it out loud, you can feel the connection with the people who are there by your side using the language as well"

Youth Perspectives on Indigenous Languages with The Indigenous component of the Chaire-réseau de la recherche sur la jeunesse du Québec.

In recent years, the vitality of Indigenous languages has become an important priority for the nations of Quebec. Various revitalization and transmission projects are taking shape and are being implemented in communities and in urban areas with the aim, among other things, of making accessible and supervising the learning of indigenous languages. This event is organized by the Indigenous component of the Chaire-réseau de recherche sur la jeunesse du Québec in collaboration with 4th Space.

The Indigenous component of the Chaire-réseau de la recherche sur la jeunesse du Québec is a work platform bringing together co-researchers, Indigenous organizations and young people in order to collaboratively carry out work aimed at improving the well-being of Indigenous youth in Quebec. Highlighting youth perspectives through creative and versatile dissemination mediums is therefore central.

This podcast highlights several themes put forward by several young people in the context of past field research. As such, we focus on the analysis and specific perspective of four youth facing the vitality and transmission of Indigenous languages in the context of today's world.

This event takes place in both English and French without translation

"Looking at the social and cultural inscription that bodies carry, we became interested in The idea of how blackness comes into friction with dance dramaturgy"

In this episode we are thrilled to host a conversation with Matthew-Robin Nye, Dana Dugan, Cadu Mello, and Vanessa Montesi - all members of the Dramaturgical Ecologies project.

Dramaturgical Ecologies is a research-creation project led by Angélique Willkie that is working at the intersection of dance dramaturgy and Black performance studies..

"Its important to us that the game remains a game, that while my students were trying to recreate Habitat '67 there were zombies and skeletons and other kinds of horrible things coming out of the wilderness trying to kill them"

In this episode of our new Checking In Series series, we meet up with Patrick Lejtenyi, Concordia’s Public Affairs Advisor, to listen in on his conversations with Concordia researchers.

This week he sits down with Concordia researcher, and professor of English, Darren Werschler to discuss a new paper, co-authored with Bart Simon and just published in the journal *gamevironments* on how Wershler used Minecraft to teach a class on the history and culture of modernity. This new pedagogical framework presented the researchers with the opportunity to see how the students used the game to achieve their academic goals.

"We need to figure out solutions to problems like climate change,

so i’m pretty sure we will need scientific knowledge to live in the society of tomorrow"

For this episode, we join up with Concordia Public Scholar Alexa Ruel and her colleague Alex Bailey who are co-hosts of the podcast Brainstorm: Exploring Minds and Behaviours for a special episode in which they sit down with a group of teenagers to ask the next generation what they think about science, research and how they aim to make a difference.

"Athletes are role models, If they can show that they are serious about fighting climate change, fans will see it, and it might inspire other business communities to step up the plate, so to speak, and get things done.”

In this episode of our new Checking In Series series, we meet up with

Patrick Lejtenyi, Concordia’s Public Affairs Advisor to listen in on his conversations with Concordia researchers.

This week he sits down with researcher Seth Wynes to discuss a new paper just published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Wynes, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, writes that the drop in travel among the four major sports leagues in North America — Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Basketball Association and National Hockey League — had a noticeable effect on their carbon footprints.

In this conversation they look into how Sports leagues can optimize team travel and have a major impact on greenhouse-gas emissions.

"If someone lends you their time or money, you might feel a need to reciprocate, but if your resources are constrained this could have an impact on your well-being.."

This conversation stems from an ongoing research project by doctoral candidate in Marketing, Tanya Singh and her work investigating the role that gratitude plays in our lives and whether or not it always has a positive impact.

She joins philosopher Dr. Jing Iris Hu, and doctoral candidate in experimental psychology Alexa Ruel, to examine how the ideas, expectations and rituals of gratitude can both influence us and have some unexpected effects.

"These blurry lines, how can we disentangle them? How can we do quality research but also make a difference?"

Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque in conversation with Vivek Venkatesh, Jennifer Danquah & Kathleen Manion.

For this episode, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Concordia public scholar and PhD candidate in the Indi program brings three scholars -- Vivek Venkatesh, Jennifer Danquah and Kathleen Manion together at 4thSpace.

The idea was to ask scholars from different horizons how they attempt to balance the roles, privileges, boundaries, benefits, dilemmas and challenges of being an "engaged" scholar in the hope of doing more quality research while also having a better research-life.

"If we recognize ourselves as indebted to previous generationswe begin to act in a way that makes room for future generations.."

This episode began as part of the three-day conference hosted at 4th

Space entitled 'Justice between Generations'. Conceived as more of workshop than a conversation - Rebecca van der Post, Miyu Bao, Joëlle Dubé, and Leah Edmonds came together to consider the question of what justice for future generations really means in a time of catastrophic environmental crisis. Reflecting critically upon agency, appropriation, and emotion they interrogate the assumed relations between “self and the world” across generations where we all could ask “how else might we be?”

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This September, the 'Nature, Time & Responsibility' research group will be in residence at 4th Space. They are focussing on questions of intergenerational ethics through cross-cultural philosophical dialogue. We invited organizers of the conference entitled 'Justice Between Generations' to speak to some of the key ideas they are looking to explore via international exchanges.