Upcoming Events

Join McMaster’s Department of Health, Aging & Society for the next #HASTalks seminar, Trash Talk: What Plogging Teaches Us About Age and Activism featuring Dr. Kelsey Harvey, Assistant Professor of Experiential Studies in Community and Sport at Cape Breton University.  Dr. Harvey’s recent work explores plogging, the increasingly popular activity of picking up litter while walking or jogging. In her talk, she’ll share insights from Canadians in their 20s through 80s who tried plogging, combining care for the planet with care for themselves....

The McMaster Alumni Webinar series presents: Helping or Hurting? The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health and Well-Being Over five billion people use social media worldwide, yet social scientists have reached little consensus on how it influences mental health and well-being. In this talk, Dr. Tara Marshall will draw on the Active-Passive Model of Social Media Use to illustrate that the impact of social media depends less on the amount of time spent using it and more on the ways that it is used. ...

The McMaster Alumni Webinar series presents: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential Are you curious about how artificial intelligence (AI) will shape your life? In this illuminating webinar, globally recognized AI advisor Zack Kass, author of The Next RenAIssance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential, presents a compelling vision of how artificial intelligence will solve previously unimaginable challenges, present entirely new possibilities, and expand what is possible in a single human life. Drawing on historical context, cutting-edge...