Calendar

B21 hosts a range of activities & events during the semester that brings together scholars from all disciplines.

Community Guidelines

🟩 Open Activities

Who
Open to the entire McGill Community: students, faculty, and staff.
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No appointment necessary. Just drop by and experience the B21 community!

Open Day

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Matterless Matters Mercredi: Mmm... Share warm food and hot takes over a 'Matterless Matter' themed potluck every Open Day!

The Edge Effect 🪸🌦️🏝️

Bring your 'edges'—ideas, reflections, insights at the edges of your intellectual life—and grow them to be more robust, more resilient, more beautiful through The Edge Effect.

Encode Canada | Resident Group

Workshops, guest speaker events, and hangouts on AI Ethics and Policy. Fighting for human rights accountability and justice in the age of AI.

🔵 Fellowship Programming

Who
For active fellows pursuing a project under one of our BLUE Program.

Lightning Talks

“Lightning" is an eclectic roundtable discussion format for Building 21 fellows to accelerate idea sharing, problem solving, and crowdsourced feedback using the collective intelligence of the community.

I'm Not Sure.?! Talks

"I’m Not Sure.?!" explores the fluid and permeable membrane of possibilities, creating room for unexpected answers to emerge by bringing together insights from different fields on topics no one perspective can be sure about.

Past Events

Some of the past community-led events that have taken place in B21.