KDocs TalksCREATING DIALOGUE for SOCIAL CHANGE.
Welcome to KDocs Talks.
ABOUT KDOCS TALKS
Adapted from the KDocs Film Festival and led by experts in the field, these keynote addresses and panel discussions create dialogue around some of our most pressing social justice issues.
We encourage faculty to use KDocs Talks as part of their curriculum and for students and the general public to consult the video series as part of their social justice research and community-building.
2024
Journeys in Solidarity.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
- Lekeyten
- Karen Cho
- Djaka Blais
- Kevin Huang
- Jag Nagra
- Stephanie Leo
- Henry Yu
- Andrea Crosta
- Karl Malakunas
- Tata
- Luthfi Mawarid
- Clair Swanson
- Philip Aghoghovwia
- Ella Glendining
- Afton Quast Saler
- Karla Verschoor
- Fiona Whittington-Walsh
- Usha Gunatilake
- Simon Driver
- Julia Scotti
- Victoria E. Thomas
- Rabbit Richards
- Kit Rothschild
- Tara Lyons
- Alexandre Popovic
- Amy Miller
- Wade Deisman
- Robert Diab
- Micheal Vonn
- Aaron Goodman
- Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso
- Andrea Crosta
- Angel Brant
- Miranda Dick
- Cease Wyss
- Melinda Kachina Bige
- Henna Mann
- Mo Dhaliwal
- Jagdeesh Mann
- Kiran Singh
- Alexandra Flynn
- Khaleel Seivwright
- Fiona York
- Andrew (Drew) Hirschpold
- Kari Michaels
- Miranda Dick
- Cameron Douglas
- Janelle Lapointe
- Cease Wyss
- Christina Shorthouse
- Katrina vanden Heuvel
- Patrick Forbes
- Jeff Cohen
- Christiaan Triebert
- Martin Lee
- Emilie Gambade
- Aaron Goodman
- Balbir Gurm
- Nisha Pahuja
- Nimi Chauhan
- Dalya Israel
- Cherylynn Bassani
- Aaju Peter
- Sophie Barksdale
- Isabel Scheuneman Scott
- Dan Lett
- Layla Cameron
- Helen Camisa
- Lydia Okello
- Cheyenne Rouleau
- Connally McDougall
- Melanie Yeats
2023
People. Places. Power.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lekeyten
- Annina (Nina) van Neel
- Spencer Wilkinson
- Carol Todd
- Phyllis Ellis
- Swaysən (Will George)
- Luke Gleeson
- Jennifer Baichwal
- Colin Askey
- Lisa Sundstrom
- Farhana Yamin
- Phyllis Jack-Webstad
- Jules Giraudat
- James Cullingham
- Brisind
- Liudmila (Lucy) Jdanova
- David Dufresne
- Jamie Kneen
- Alessandra Santos
- Alex Winter
- Avriel Epps-Darling
- Grace Wong
- Heather Hatch
- Rintu Thomas
2022
Seeking Truth. Waging Change.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lekeyten
- Harold Gatensby
- Saroeum Phoung
- Spencer Wilkinson
- Jean Swanson
- Aaron Doyle
- Jessica Kingdon
- Tracey Cochrane
- Caroline Cox
- Stuart Hammond
- Brishkay Ahmed
- Len Pierre
- Seyran Ates
- Sean Horlor
- Steve J. Adams
- Bill McKibben
- Shannon Walsh
- Jennifer Abbott
- Saru Jayaraman
- Vicki Haynes
2021
Resistance. Freedom. Justice.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lekeyten
- Diana Morita Cole
- George Takei
- Abby Ginzberg
- Satsuki Ina
- Camila Freitas
- Gilvan Rodrigues
- Adriana Paz Ramirez
- Fernando Cilento
- Clement Tong
- Anita Ho
- Diana Neille
- Richard Poplak
- Wendy Royal
- Geraldine Pratt
- Andrea Crosta
- Jared P. Scott
- Carlos Spector
- Marcela Arteaga
- Joel Bakan
- David France
- Alexander von Bismarck
- Jen Hardwick
2020
Truth in a Post-Truth World.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
- Lekeyten
- David Suzuki
- Ian Mauro
- Jeeti Pooni
- Selwyn Jacob
- Balbir Gurm
- Sharon Cahill Kearney
- Salakshana Pooni
- Kira Pooni
- Kim Pate
- Ariella Pahlke
- Shawn Bayes
- Jessica Magonet
- Debra Parkes
- Bruce Lanphear
- Deane Berg
- Isabelle Czerveniak
- Richard McKay
- Patricia Barkaskas
- Dorothy Christian
- Doreen Manuel
- Carly Teillet
- Don Wright
- Leona Huggins
- Rod MacLeod
- Leilani Farha
- Thomas Davidoff
- Kari Michaels
- Jean Swanson
- Ellen Woodsworth
- Elizabeth Simpson
- Christiaan Triebert
- John Ralston Saul
- Fred Peabody
- Jeff Cohen
- Christiaan Triebert
2019
Spring Mini-Fest
SPEAKERS
- Ellen Woodsworth
- Mebrat Beyene
- Cicely Blain
- Chastity Davis
- Anita Huberman
- Debra Parkes
- Jinny Sims
2019
KDocs Talks to Virago Nation
In the fall of 2019, KDocs Outreach produced a documentary short on the All Indigenous Burlesque dance troupe known as Virago Nation. “KDocs Talks to Virago Nation” catches up with Shane Sable, convening member of Virago Nation, and Dr. Jennifer Hardwick, KPU English faculty and KDocsFF board member, as they coordinate a performance at the Wilson School of Design. The Viragos are joined by special guest performers Bo Dyp and Evan Ducharme for “An Evening of Dinner, Dancing, and Dialogue with Virago Nation.” Shane and Jennifer’s ongoing collaboration is part of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded initiative, “’Medicine in our Very Bones’: Gender, Sexuality and Embodied Resistance in Indigenous Burlesque.”
2018
KDocs Talks 2018
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
- Gordon Laxer
- Aube Giroux
- Jay Aubrey
- Ashley Lexvold
- Debra Parkes
- Jeff Shantz
- Stephanie Farrior
- Alex Neve
- Stepan Wood
- Nathan Edelson
- Lenée Son
- Jean Swanson
- Charles Wilkinson
- Arjun Chowdhury
- Jules Arita Koostachin
- Raven Sinclair
- Tamara Starblanket
- Cicely Blain
- Abubakar Khan
- Naveen Zafar
- Andrew Feinstein
- Johan Grimonprez
- Ronald J. Deibert
- Chaumtoli Huq
- Raj Chouhan
- Pablo Godoy
- Kari Michaels
- Hessed Tores
2017
KDocs Talks 2017
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lekeyten
- William Rees
- Faith Bodnar
- Min Sook Lee
- Tamara Herman
- Saleem Spindari
- Wade Deisman
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