Conference documentation for past events may include text, PDF, or slideshows and audio (playable through an embedded player).
Coming Events
Forthcoming events (organized, co-organized, or sponsored by Science for Peace) are listed here.
June 1st, 2012 (7-9pm)
South Dining Room, Hart House
University of Toronto
Room 044 (basement) University College
University of Toronto
15 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON
Past Events
Science for Peace members organize and host many Meetings, Forums, Workshops and Teach-Ins where important peace and justice issues are discussed. From time to time, we join with other groups — in particular, with the Canadian Pugwash Group — as co-sponsors and co-organizers. These events are typically open to the public who are also encouraged to participate in the planning and in the event itself.
The Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum, held every two years, honours Science for Peace’s co-founder, and deals with subjects important to civil society and with the Government of Canada. This forum includes presentation of papers by scholars, discussions, and an interface with government officials and policy makers.
Events with streaming audio or video (delivered through an embedded Flash player) are marked with (audio) or (video) on the list below. Some events also have summaries, transcripts, or papers available through internal or external text or PDF links.
Lecture Series Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace (12 Jan—12 Apr 2012)
A Lecture Series co-sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace. (29 Sept—15 Dec 2011)
Audio or video links are added to these pages when available.
Talk by Noam Chomsky on Thursday, April 7, 1:00 p.m. at Hart House, Toronto (video)
Saturday November 13 and Sunday November 14 2010 at Armour Heights Officers’ Mess, Toronto
Public talk with James Hansen, Naomi Klein and Clayton Thomas-Muller, Wednesday September 15 2010, 5:30pm at McMillan Theatre, Toronto (links to video)
November 13 and 14, 2009 at Toronto City Hall.
Co-sponsored by Science for Peace. (audio / video)
Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum. November 7, 2008
Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum: October 27, 2006. (audio)
1 October 2005
Joint Forum of the Canadian Pugwash Group and Science for Peace
Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum: April 17, 2004
Thursday, 11 March 2004
New College, University of Toronto
22 March 2003
Joint Forum of Canadian Pugwash Group and Science for Peace
“The Responsibility to Protect: A Seminar on the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.” Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum: March 23, 2002
Science for Peace Round Table. January 15, 2002, 14:30 to 17:30, Croft Chapter House, University College, University of Toronto.
Sunday, 10 November 2001
Sponsored by: Science for Peace, Bloor Street United Church, Jewish Youth Against the Occupation & Near East Cultural and Education Foundation (audio)
Co-sponsored with Canadian Pugwash Group, in memory of Eric Fawcett (see Toronto Resolution)
14 October 2000. The Militarization of Outer Space and Why Canada Should Say No to the USA’s National Missile Defence (audio)
18 March 2000. Co-sponsored with Canadian Pugwash Group.
Canada’s Role in the Non Proliferation Review and the NATO Review of Nuclear Weapons
Innis College, University of Toronto, March 20-23, 1997. Sponsored and organized by Science for Peace: with financial support of the Franz Blumenfeld Fund; the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada; and the John Holmes Fund, administered by the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development
Introduced by Nobel Laureate Professor John Polanyi
Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
Organized by Science for Peace and co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CLIPS). Over 80 participants engaged in three days of discussions at the Novotel Hotel in Toronto, between October 26 and October 29, 1988. The report is from a special issue of the Bulletin.
Other recent events and meetings
The list below includes events which Science for Peace members participated in; in some cases SfP was also a formal endorser or sponsor.
- Climate Justice Working Group Meeting (May 8th, 6:15pm) (May 08, 2012)
- Climate Justice Working Group Meeting (April 24, 2012) (Apr 24, 2012)
- April 24: "Chernobyl, Fukushima, Darlington and Beyond" (Apr 24, 2012)
- Film screening: HIDDEN BATTLES (Apr 19, 2012)
- Russia and the West After the Cold War (Apr 12, 2012)
- Should We Be Afraid? Real and Imagined Security Threats 10 years after 9/11 (Apr 05, 2012)
- Nonviolence in a Global World (Mar 29, 2012)
- The Geopolitics of War in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Kosovo (Mar 22, 2012)
- The Culture War in Iran (Mar 15, 2012)
- The Traffic in Nannies: The Exploitation of Female Labor? (Mar 08, 2012)
- Corporate Law: What Has Sustainable Development Got to Do with It? (Mar 01, 2012)
- Teach-In: The Geopolitics of War and Sanctions Against Iran (Feb 25, 2012)
- Stop Canada’s Environmental Injustice (Feb 16, 2012)
- Entrenched Male-domination, Altered Sex-ratios and Women’s Well(ill)-being: The case of India (Feb 16, 2012)
- Putin and the Stalinist Legacy (Feb 09, 2012)
- J’Accuse (Feb 03, 2012)
- If Canada and Mexico are so Necessary for US Security, Why are they so Impotent when Facing Washington’s Border Security Demands? (Feb 02, 2012)
- Democracy and the Decline of Great Powers (Jan 26, 2012)
- Modernizing Islam (Jan 19, 2012)
- The Effects of Militarism on a Fragile Planet: Health, Peace and the Environment (Jan 12, 2012)
- Norman Finkelstein - How to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict? (Jan 11, 2012)
- Changin' Times - SPECIAL EVENT (Nov 19, 2011)
- Science for Peace Board Meeting (Nov 16, 2011)
- Canadian Eyewitness in Gaza: Public Health Still Under Siege (Nov 15, 2011)
- Some Skirmishes on the Road to Free Speech with Reference to Some Old and Some Recent Experiences (Nov 04, 2011)
- Returns to a Native Land? Indigeneity and Colonising Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean (Oct 28, 2011)
- Exploring the Unthinkable (Oct 06, 2011)
- Science for Peace 30th Birthday Celebration (Sep 25, 2011)
- Science for Peace Board Meeting (Sep 21, 2011)
- Hiroshima Day Commemoration (Aug 06, 2011)
- How Much Time? (Jun 15, 2011)
- Science for Peace Annual General Meeting 2011 (Jun 04, 2011)
- What is Happening in the Middle East? Is Canada a Bystander or a Player? (May 25, 2011)
- Mining Injustice: Confronting Corporate Impunity conference (May 08, 2011)
- Climate Refugees (Apr 29, 2011)
- A Forum on Global Military Spending (Apr 12, 2011)
- No Health in Occupation, No Health in Apartheid (Mar 30, 2011)
- Is Parliament Broken? (Mar 25, 2011)
- Security Without Nuclear Deterrence: A World Without Nuclear Weapons (Mar 04, 2011)
- Gorbachev’s 80th Birthday Party (Mar 02, 2011)
- Confronting the Hostile Takeover: Stop Corporate Control of Education (Feb 26, 2011)
- Cancún Climate Talks: Deceiving people but not the environment (Feb 16, 2011)
- Viewing of Cast Lead - Victims of a Siege (Feb 10, 2011)
- Great Minds for Whose Future? (Jan 22, 2011)
- Screening of the Documentary "Home" (Dec 02, 2010)
- Gaza, Haiti, Cuba: Responsible Responses to Medical Emergency (Nov 24, 2010)
- Building Peace: Resisting War (Nov 14, 2010)
- Teach-In - From Bolivia to Toronto: Building a World Movement for Climate Justice (Nov 13, 2010)
- Solidarity Action! People of BC say NO to Tar Sands Oil in their Waters (Oct 17, 2010)
- Biochar Roundtable (Sep 09, 2010)
- Hiroshima Day: 65 Years... It's Time to Retire the Bomb! (Aug 06, 2010)
- People's Assembly on Climate Justice: Moving Forward from Cochabamba (Jun 23, 2010)
- Global Hypocrisy: International Financial Institutions and their Path of Destruction in Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, and the Alberta Tar Sands (Jun 20, 2010)
- Community Action for Social Justice: Toronto vs. the G20 (Jun 05, 2010)
- Science for Peace Annual General Meeting 2010 (May 29, 2010)
- Trade Justice Now! (Apr 21, 2010)
- Second Annual Health Studies Research Symposium (Mar 31, 2010)
- Resistance Across Borders (Mar 02, 2010)
- Report Back from Copenhagen and Environmental Refugees (Feb 03, 2010)
- Public Health as a Social Justice Issue and the Legitimacy of the Human Rights Framework (Dec 18, 2009)
- Will Copenhagen make a difference? (Dec 11, 2009)
- Countdown to Copenhagen: Who in Canada is Killing the International Climate Treaty? (Nov 28, 2009)
- Psychology and Our Current Crises – An Exploration (Nov 26, 2009)
- Food and Population: How Many Can We Feed? (Nov 20, 2009)
- Human Insecurity and Social Suffering: The Consequences of Structural Violence (Nov 17, 2009)
- Canadian Science Policy Conference (Oct 30, 2009)
- Dr. Helen Caldicott: The Nuclear Question (Oct 16, 2009)
- Saying It Like It Is: Eliminating Obfuscating Language Concerning Climate Change (Oct 14, 2009)
- Protest Rally to Stop Uranium and Thorium Exploration Mining (Sep 27, 2009)
- Choosing a Better Path (Sep 26, 2009)
- Climate Change and Psychological Barriers to Change (Sep 24, 2009)
- Carbon Capture & Storage: False Hope or Climate Change Salvation (Sep 23, 2009)
- What Prospect for a Decent Future? (Sep 21, 2009)