Attend Moral Courage: Achieving Unity Without Uniformity with Irshad Manji
We invite you to join us for an opportunity to learn, reflect, and engage in honest dialogue, as we explore the topic of making a difference in messy times with internationally renowned educator, Irshad Manji.
Moral Courage: Achieving Unity Without Uniformity
Mohawk College, Fennell Campus
Tuesday, October 13
For Mohawk College Employees, Students & Community members.
Register today!
Panel Discussion:
Profiles in Change Making
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Moderated by: Irshad Manji featuring a panel of local advocates
(Live stream available)
Keynote Address:
Moral Courage for Messy Times
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Irshad Manji
Amid all the noise of our culture, can we discuss urgent yet sensitive issues without becoming offended at every turn? Irshad Manji believes so. Better still, she teaches us how. You will leave with practical skills for turning different, even clashing, opinions into opportunities for personal and social health. Here's to hearing each other — and healing ourselves.
Additional sessions available October 13 & 14 exclusively for Mohawk College employees
Topics include:
- Examining the manosphere
- Building connections in polarized conversations
- Restorative justice practices for the college classroom
- Moral courage in the digital age
- Changing conceptions of free speech
See the 2-day symposium at a glance.
Learn practical tools for engaging in thoughtful communication across differences, where the diversity of views can be honoured — without the fear and anxiety that generate division.
Questions? Please contact mohawk.events@mohawkcollege.ca.
Irshad Manji Bio:
Irshad is the founder of Moral Courage College, helping people around the world turn conflict into collaboration. A longtime leadership professor at New York University, she now teaches with the University of Oxford’s Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights. Named a recipient of Oprah’s “Chutzpah Award”, Irshad is also a Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author.
Her book ‘Don’t Label Me’ offers practical wisdom for navigating disagreement with integrity and curiosity, earning praise from Chris Rock as “genius”. Her forthcoming book, 'Moral Courage,' deepens this work for an even messier world.
From her early life as a refugee from Uganda to her upbringing in Vancouver and her current home in New York City, Irshad brings a profoundly human, global perspective to leadership.