Dr. Kisha Supernant (Métis) is an internationally recognized Indigenous archaeologist. She is Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research focuses on Indigenous archaeology, archaeological remote sensing, and heart-centered archaeological practice. She is at the forefront of supporting Indigenous communities locate unmarked graves around residential schools in Canada.

Dr. Kisha Supernant (métisse) est une archéologue autochtone de renommée internationale. Elle est professeure agrégée d’anthropologie et dirige l’Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology à l’Université de l’Alberta, en plus d’être une enseignante, chercheuse et écrivaine primée. Ses recherches portent sur l’archéologie autochtone, la télédétection et les pratiques archéologiques centrées sur le cœur. Elle aide également les communautés autochtones à retrouver leurs proches disparus dans les pensionnats indiens au Canada.

Rob Sutherland played a remarkable role in scientific leadership over the past thirty years. His work transformed the field of cognition and memory in animal models and humans by developing new ways of measuring cognition, new theories on the organization of long-term memory, and new understandings of loss and recovery of function after brain injury. His transdisciplinary approach led to many contributions that are transformative, most with very high impact.

Rob Sutherland est un leader scientifique remarquable depuis 30 ans. Il a transformé le domaine de la mémoire et cognition en innovant dans les mesures de la cognition, dans les théories sur l’organisation de la mémoire à long terme et dans la compréhension de la perte et de la récupération des fonctions après une lésion cérébrale. Son approche interdisciplinaire a ouvert la voie à des contributions transformatives très importantes.

Sutton, Mark - Physics - McGill University Mark Sutton uses x-ray diffraction to study the time-dependent behaviour of materials. Using the new synchrotron x-ray sources, he has developed new methods to perform in-situ time-resolved measurements which probe matter on nanometer length scales and with millisecond time resolution. These measurements give unique insight into how such dynamics effects the every-day properties of materials. ------------------ Sutton, Mark - Physics - McGill University Mark Sutton is an internationally renowned experimentalist who uses x-ray diffraction to study the behavior of non-equilibrium condensed matter. Using high intensity x-ray synchrotron radiation, he has developed techniques to perform time-resolved diffraction with millisecond time resolution to study the kinetics of phase transitions. He was also instrumental in developing and applying the important new technique of x-ray fluctuation spectroscopy. This technique exploits the unique properties of the coherent radiation from undulator sources, as well as recent developments in x-ray optics and detector technology to probe the structure of matter down to nanometer length scales and millisecond time resolutions.

Darko R. Suvin, Ph.D. Zagreb University, has taught and published in the fields of theatre arts, English, and comparative literature in Yugoslavia, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the United States, U.K., and Japan; he taught 1968-2000 at McGill University. His writings include 34 books (translated into eight languages), 14 edited volumes, and over 200 major articles. He has a major interest in modern dramaturgy (Brecht, Japanese theatre), utopian and science fiction, political epistemology, and ex-Yugoslavia; many items and full vita with publications in Croatoserbian are available on http://darkosuvin.com/ and https://independent.academia.edu/DarkoSuvin/Papers He has received the Pilgrim Award for "Metamorphoses of Science Fiction", Yale UP 1979, and the L.T. Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Utopian Studies. Recent titles: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, augmented edn., P. Lang, 2016; Splendour, Misery, and Potentialities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia, Brill, 2016, and Harvester P, 2017; Lessons from the Russian Revolution and Its Fallout, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southeast Europe, 2017; Communism, Poetry, Political Animal, 2020; Brecht’s Communist Manifesto Today. Aakar, 2020; Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols., P. Lang, 2021; Disputing the Deluge, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022; A Long Hope: The Prometheus Counter-Project.Ilha do desterro 76.2 (2023).

SYCH, Paul - Department of Design, York University With a renowned career of graphic expression spanning three decades, Paul Sych continues to create groundbreaking works in both digital and print that range across typography, branding, and motion design. His work has appeared in over 130 books and publications worldwide, and since being appointed to the Department of Design at York University, he has been celebrated with over 100 international art direction, design, and typography awards.

Marie-Eve Sylvestre is one of Canada’s leading thinkers on the criminalization of poverty and the regulation of conflicts related to urban public spaces and those who use them, including the homeless, street-based drug users and sex workers, and political demonstrators. An elected member of the Global Young Academy, her work is interdisciplinary, building on an alliance between law, criminology and geography. She is a pioneer in exposing invisible practices of discrimination against Indigenous people and marginalized populations in the criminal justice system and in promoting alternatives to criminalization.

Marie-Eve Sylvestre est reconnue pour ses travaux de recherche sur la criminalisation de la pauvreté et la régulation des conflits liés aux espaces urbains et à ceux qui les utilisent, dont les personnes en situation d’itinérance, les usagers de drogue et les travailleurs du sexe de rue, et les manifestants. Membre élue de la Global Young Academy, sa recherche est interdisciplinaire, misant sur une alliance entre le droit, la criminologie et la géographie. Ses travaux ont contribué à exposer certaines pratiques discriminatoires à l’encontre des Autochtones et des personnes marginalisées dans le système de justice pénale ainsi qu’à promouvoir des mesures de rechange à la judiciarisation.

George Szanto, born 1940, Ph.D. Harvard University, 1967, has taught English, French, German, Comparative Literature, Communications in United States and, since 1974, at McGill University. His present work in its several forms is centered around narrative and cultural change. He is the author of three major critical books, "Narrative Consciousness", 1972 (an MLA Scholar's Library Selection), "Theater and Propaganda", 1978, and "Narrative Taste and Social Perspective: The Matter of Quality", 1986; of two collection of short stories, "Sixteen Ways to Skin a Cat", 1978, and "Duets" (with Per Brask), 1991, and three novels, "Not Working", 1983, "The underside of Stones, 1990, "Friends and Marriages", 1995, and "The Condesa of M.", 2001; and of nine produced plays of which four are published.

Peter Szatmari is a clinician-scientist in child and youth mental health. His work has made significant contributions to understanding the clinical epidemiology of mental disorders in the pediatric population and the natural history and genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder. His innovative and internationally recognized research program of clinical trials in youth depression seeks to transform the lives of children and youth struggling with common mental disorders.

Peter Szatmari est clinicien-chercheur en santé mentale des enfants et des jeunes. Ses travaux contribuent grandement à élucider l’épidémiologie clinique de troubles mentaux au sein de la population infantile ainsi que l’histoire naturelle et le fondement génétique du trouble du spectre de l’autisme. Son programme de recherche novateur et reconnu à l’échelle internationale, mené au moyen d’essais cliniques sur la dépression chez les jeunes, vise à transformer la vie des enfants et des jeunes aux prises avec des troubles de santé mentale courants.

Moshe Szyf has been a pioneer in the field of DNA methylation for the last three decades and was the first to propose a role for DNA methylation in human disease leading to new therapeutics and diagnostics. He pioneered the idea that the chemical coating of DNA (DNA methylation) links experience “nurture” and our genes “nature”, building a bridge over the fissure between the social and biological sciences.

Chercheur dans le domaine de la méthylation de l’ADN depuis trente ans, Moshe Szyf a été le premier à postuler que la méthylation de l’ADN joue un rôle dans les maladies humaines, ce qui a mené au développement de nouvelles thérapies et de nouvelles méthodes de diagnostic. Il a été le premier à proposer l’idée que la formation d’une pellicule chimique enveloppant l’ADN, ce qu’on appelle la méthylation de l’ADN, agit comme un patron qui conditionne l’expression des gènes dans chaque cellule, phénomène de nature à rapprocher les sciences sociales et les sciences biologiques.

ROBERT SEVIGNY, professeur titulaire de sociologie à I'Université de Montréal, est maître en psychologie de I'Université de Montréal et docteur en sociologie de I'Université Laval. Par ses recherches, son enseignement, ses écrits et ses interventions cliniques en dynamique de groupe et dans I'analyse du social, Robert Sévigny occupe une place d'autorité en psychologie sociale et en sociologie. La publication de « Devenir sociologue, Le Québec en héritage », « L'internation en santé mentale », « Santé mentale et processus sociaux » montre que ses préoccupations se situent à la rencontre de I'individuel et du collectif et I'amène à traiter de I'actualisation de soi et de I'aliénation puis à utiliser la santé mentale et son traitement comme révélateurs des institutions de notre société.