How can changing how and what we eat save the planet? In recent years we have adapted how we package our foods to make recycling part of our daily lives, now we need to learn to change how we produce and consume those foods. Our range of speakers investigate The Plant Based Treaty, a campaign […]
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In this panel discussion, the future of cookbooks will certainly be influenced by AI, as it continues to streamline recipe generation. Platforms like the popular New York Times cooking app integrate AI-driven features for recipe recommendations and meal planning. Perhaps TikTok with its short form cooking content will change the face of cookbooks as people […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. The creation of AI models like ChatGPT open up new worlds of creativity with powerful tools for research and […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. This year marked a turning point in the development of Artificial Intelligence: reminiscent of Dr. Frankenstein, the creators of […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. The belief that limitations on free expression happen elsewhere is beginning to feel uncertain. The rise of book bans […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. In the new global order defined by the information age, a nation state’s borders are perilously porous from attack […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Led by Dr. Richard Bazinet, this conversation will explore our flawed and often problematic relationships with food, from the […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. What if talking about racism was as easy as baking cakes, frying plantains or cooking rice? The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Are we seeing the death of the newsstand? If so, what are its implications for how and why we […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Our relationship to the oceans has come into stark focus in recent months with the Titan submersible disaster. It […]
In this panel, diaspora is examined as a global and digital concept, both in the past and present. One researcher undertakes a critical examination of the diaspora concept as it relates to ancient Mexican migrations, dissecting the complex movements of ancient Mexican societies and juxtaposing them with traditional diaspora attributes helping to foster a more […]
Fictionalized film and television representations of displacement and diaspora can be powerful tools in contextualizing the stories of its subjects. 1923, the recent Paramount+ television series prequel to the immensely popular Yellowstone, attempts to reterritorialize the “deterritorialized” confederated tribes of Broken Rock in Montana that epitomize the plight of Indigenous communities across North America. Iranian […]
Fostering identity in the diaspora can be challenging and even confusing as assimilative forces often contradict the sense of belonging that displaced peoples feel for their communities. This panel tackles this issue through looking at the experiences of three different immigrant groups: professional Nigerian women in the United Kingdom, Assyrian youth across Canada, and Filipino […]
Geographic borders are a product of the colonial imaginary. Yet the act of crossing them can cause long-lasting ruptures in our identities, families, and communities. How do diasporic Canadian writers address the links between migration, displacement, trauma, and mental health? How does their work engage with language and its stumbling blocks? What experiences have they […]
Similarities and differences across various diaspora communities in Canada in general and Toronto in particular will be uncovered through the examination of three distinct groups. Assimilation, connectedness and belonging are themes revealed through an exploration of Toronto’s Ukranian/Russian Jewish community and Canada’s expansive Lebanese diaspora. Also, an analysis of sustainability initiatives in Toronto’s largely racialized […]
Through the study of the Sakhi Project, a community-building initiative in India, an examination of M.G. Vassanji’s and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels about East-Africa and the Indian Ocean diaspora, and an analysis of Farida Khalaf’s memoir about a displaced girl’s escape from ISIS, this panel will look at the reclamation and making of identity in various […]
This panel will take three distinct approaches to examine the intersection of nationalist mythmaking, imperialism and violence. Moving between the United States, India, and Pakistan, one presentation will look at the polarization of American culture, exploring the role of American mythmaking in creating a shared culture, values and imagination, and how that myth of unity […]
Exploring displacement in three distinct parts of the world, this panel makes the specific and personal universal. One panelist will present a study dedicated to uncovering the driving forces that push Sub-Saharan African migrants to choose dangerous, off-the-beaten-path routes, particularly in Morocco. Another examines the predicament of crime displacement in Nigeria, and its harmful consequences, […]
This plenary will focus on two art projects, both of which operate within a transnational framework. Through engagement with material culture, archival documents, and family photographs, Angela Aujla’s artistic practice creates a visual discourse that disrupts colonial narratives and reanimates the lives of those excluded from dominant histories. Dr. Prasad Bidaye is a member of […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, exploring thrilling new themes for MOTIVE audiences. Each day of the Festival, authors and experts examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. As the true crime phenomena becomes continually more prevalent, it offers the opportunity of reinterpreting historical narratives and […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, exploring thrilling new themes for MOTIVE audiences. Each day of the Festival, authors and experts examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. With 24-hour news, the need to uncover truth fast and first can lead to dangerous outcomes, invasion of […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, exploring thrilling new themes for MOTIVE audiences. Each day of the Festival, authors and experts examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Cryptocurrency fraud. Hacking. Data breaches. Why is crime moving from the shady streets to the internet superhighway and […]
Stage in the Park, September 30 at 6:30pm ET. Stories have shaped Turtle Island for thousands of years. First Story Toronto’s tours, in person and virtual, bring to the fore the importance of sharing, listening and witnessing Indigenous oral histories and truthtelling. Join the First Story tour hosts Jill Carter, Jon Johnson and Audrey Rochette in conversation with TIFA Director Roland […]
Join leading children’s book illustrators Rosena Fung, David Namisato and Julie Flett, finalists for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Book Awards, for a discussion of their illustrative styles and techniques, moderated by Audrey Hudson, Richard & Elizabeth Currie Chief, Education & Programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Picture books and graphic novels enable readers […]
