These talks introduce audiences to current research that treats childhood as a political category shaped by power, exclusion, and material dependence. Drawing on work on childism and generational segregation, the presentations explain how modern institutions separate children from political authority while organizing social life around their regulation, discipline, and future productivity. Public audiences and professionals gain analytical tools for understanding how age based hierarchies structure democracy, social policy, and intergenerational inequality.

These talks provide historical and conceptual clarity on settler colonialism in Canada by examining how colonial power has operated through infantilization. Audiences learn how Indigenous peoples were positioned as dependents within law, policy, and administration, and how this framing justified land dispossession, child removal, and paternalistic governance. The presentations connect these historical practices to contemporary political and legal debates, helping audiences recognize how colonial logics continue to shape governance and reconciliation.

These talks examine education as a political institution that defines normality, ability, and belonging. Audiences learn how schooling systems manage neurodiversity through classification and authority, and how these practices intersect with Indigenous reconciliation efforts in education. Designed for educators, administrators, and community professionals, the presentations offer frameworks for understanding inclusion, cognitive difference, and reconciliation as shared political challenges within contemporary education systems.