Critical Conversation: Tomorrow’s USA

Stephen Marche, Daniel Drache, Nic Sammond and Wendy Cukier

Critical Conversation: Tomorrow’s USA

Stephen Marche, Daniel Drache, Nic Sammond and Wendy Cukier

7:30pm

Friday, September 30

Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

With continuing gun violence, the repeal of Roe v. Wade and the enquiry into the January 6 riot, the United States is in the grip of challenges to long-held concepts of democracy, rights and freedoms that make many onlookers deeply concerned. These issues have ripple effects north to neighbouring Canada, and across the world, as nations look to the U.S. to set the precedent for defining future democracy. What is that going to look like? Our panel to explore these issues includes Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War, Wendy Cukier and Nic Sammond.

Moderated by Daniel Drache.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 30 at 7:30pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

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Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

With continuing gun violence, the repeal of Roe v. Wade and the enquiry into the January 6 riot, the United States is in the grip of challenges to long-held concepts of democracy, rights and freedoms that make many onlookers deeply concerned. These issues have ripple effects north to neighbouring Canada, and across the world, as nations look to the U.S. to set the precedent for defining future democracy. What is that going to look like? Our panel to explore these issues includes Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War, Wendy Cukier and Nic Sammond.

Moderated by Daniel Drache.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 30 at 7:30pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

Baillie Gifford banner - "Curious about the world, bailliegifford.com"

Featured Authors

Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist and culture writer who has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Esquire, and pretty much everywhere else. His books include three novels, The Hunger of the Wolf, Raymond and Hannah, and Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, as well as The Unmade Bed and How Shakespeare Changed Everything. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.

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Daniel Drache
Daniel Drache is professor emeritus of political science and senior research fellow at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University in Toronto. He is the author of over twenty books on social policy and international affairs. He lives in Toronto.

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Nic Sammond
Nic Sammond is the author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (Duke University Press, 2015) and Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005). Nic’s current project, on abjection and resistance, includes the volume Abjection Incorporated (Duke University Press, 2019), edited with Maggie Hennefeld, and the forthcoming monograph Fluid Resistance, which explores the practices and performances and of abjection in Cold War vernacular media, including animation and comics/comix. He has published widely, including in Feminist Media Histories, Film History, Camera Obscura and WSQ.

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Wendy Cukier
Dr. Wendy Cukier is a Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management and she also teaches in the graduate program on Public Policy. As the Academic Director of the Diversity Institute, her work has focused on exploring discrimination, hate and violence against under-represented groups as well as strategies to promote inclusion. She is also co-founder of the Coalition for Gun Control, a network of more than 200 organizations ranging from police to women's groups and one of the founders of the International Action Network on Small Arms which has been active in global efforts to combat trafficking and misuse of firearms. She has received many awards including the Meritorious Service Cross, one of Canada’s highest civilian honours. She holds a PhD, an MBA, an MA and honorary doctorates from Laval and Concordia. In 2000 she was named one of 100 alumni who shaped the century by the University of Toronto.

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7:30pm

Friday, September 30

What to read

The Next Civil War by , Has Populism Won? by ,
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