Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. From 2011 until 2014, he was Professor of Law at Duke Law School. Earlier, he was Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
Sherene Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at UCLA. She was previously Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE. Her research and teaching focus on racial violence. She is also the founder of the virtual teaching and research network Racial Violence Hub.
David Kuhl is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice and the Centre for Practitioner Renewal at the University of British Columbia. He began his career in palliative care almost two decades ago, providing medical care for people with cancer in his practice. He was invited to develop a palliative care program for St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. His team at St. Paul’s has attended thousands of people at the end of life. He is the author of What Dying People Want (2002).
Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is a literary scholar, critic and novelist whose scholarly work focuses on the literature of the Spanish Golden Age. His interests include the politics of astrology, magic and the Hermetic tradition, and the interconnections between myth and empire during the Habsburg Empire.
Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London. He is a developmental biologist and a well-known advocate for public scientific literacy. Lewis formulated the theory of positional information, a central concept that describes how cells morph correctly within the embryo. As an author and broadcaster, Lewis champions the value of science. He has also helped to raise the profile of mental illness through a part-autobiographical book about depression.
David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a scholar, he is best-known for his work on critical race theory and digital humanities. Goldberg was born and raised in South Africa, and earned degrees in economics, politics, and philosophy from the University of Cape Town. He then earned a PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York in 1985.
Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He designed the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City, the Toronto Ballet Opera House, and Expo ’67’s Habitat. He was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938 and moved to Canada with his family as a teenager.
Douglas Cardinal is an Indigenous Canadian architect best known for his designs for the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He also designed the Edmonton Space Science Centre and the Gordon Oakes Redbear Student Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.
