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Reimagining Shakespeare, Remaking World Systems Panels

In the face of social, environmental, and political upheaval, we bring Shakespeare鈥檚 Macbeth forward as a lens through which to explore the convergence of art, science, technology, and human experience. We will invite participants to journey with Lady Macbeth across languages, cultures, and lifecourses, illuminating the dimensions of trauma, healing, and transformation, be it in individuals or in social systems. By engaging artists, scholars, scientists, and entrepreneurs in dialogue, the workshop aims to catalyze new ways of both reimagining Shakespeare and remaking world systems in working toward the enhanced well being of people,听communities, nations and the planet.

On Being Lady Macbeth: Lucy Peacock, Violette Chauveau, Gail Kern Paster
On Entrepreneurship, Competition and Cooperation: Lindsay Holmgren, Robert Nason, Saku Mantere
Art, Trauma, and Healing Systems: Maiya Geddes, Alain Dagher, Laurence Kirmayer
Health and Healthcare Systems: Jessica Riddell, Liette Lapointe, Alan Forster
Other Human-Made Systems: Randall Martin, Valerie Orsat, Anisha Ghosh

Panelists and guests

Opening Words

Yolande Chan, Dean and James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professor at 黑料网爆吃瓜鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management.

Dr. Yolande E. Chan is Dean and James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professor at 黑料网爆吃瓜鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. Prior to joining Desautels, Dr. Chan served as Associate Dean of Research, PhD and MSc Programs, and the E. Marie Shantz Chair of Digital Technology at Smith School of Business at Queen鈥檚 University. Prior to that, she served as Queen鈥檚 Associate Vice-Principal (Research). Dr. Chan is a graduate of MIT, where she became both the university鈥檚 first Black Rhodes Scholar and its first female Rhodes Scholar. Most recently, she was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest honours for academics in this country.

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Guest of Honor

Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage, Director. The multidisciplinary artist Robert Lepage is all at once an actor, a director, a playwright and a stage director. Hailed by international critics, his original, contemporary and unusual works, inspired by recent history, transcend borders and challenge the standards of scenic writing, particularly through the use of new technologies.

His most significant theatre works include the plays The Seven Streams of the River Ota and The Dragons鈥� Trilogy; his solos, The Far Side of the Moon and 887; the operas, The Damnation of Faust and Wagner鈥檚 Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle.

Lepage鈥檚 most recent projects include: a wordless, danced version of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 鈥� Faith, Money, War and Love a work created with the Berlin Schaub眉hne Ensemble 鈥� Macbeth, created for the Stratford Festival in collaboration with Ex Machina 鈥� and artistic direction and content theme design for the Canada Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo 2025.

His most important awards are, the L茅gion d鈥檋onneur, Stanislavski Award, Prix Europa, Governor General鈥檚 Performing Arts Award, Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Glenn Gould Prize and he was made Compagnon des Arts et des lettres du Qu茅bec. (photo credit: V. Tony Hauser).

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Co-Chairs

Laurette Dub茅 and Paul Yachnin in conversation with Robert Lepage

Laurette Dub茅 is an Emerita Professor and Distinguished James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Chair of Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology and Marketing. She is also founding Chair, 黑料网爆吃瓜 Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE). Originally trained as a nutritionist, with graduate degrees in finances (MBA), marketing (MPS), and behavioural decision making/consumer psychology (PhD), Dr. Dub茅鈥檚 lifetime research interest bears on the study of affects, behavioural economics, neurobehavioural, and socio-economic processes underlying consumption, lifestyle, and health behaviour. Her translational research examines how such knowledge can inspire more effective behavioural change and ecosystem transformation as scale to address complex challenges and possibilities facing modern society. Through MCCHE, Dr. Dub茅 has pioneered convergence and systems approaches to research and innovation in agri-food, health and economic domains to address complex societal challenges, placing the whole person as the center of the whole society. Dr. Dub茅 is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2006. She received the 2011 YMCA women of distinction award for the social and environmental science in 2011 and the 2013 The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She has recently been elected an international associate member of the Africa Academy of Sciences has recently been elected an international associate member of the Africa Academy of Sciences.

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Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at 黑料网爆吃瓜. He has served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2009-2010). From 2005-2010, he directed the Making Publics (MaPs) project. From 2013-2018, he directed the Early Modern Conversions project. Among his publications are the books, Stage-Wrights and The Culture of Playgoing in Early Modern England (with Anthony Dawson), editions of Richard II and The Tempest; and seven edited books, including Making Publics in Early Modern Europe, Forms of Association, and Conversion Machines in Early Modern Europe: Apparatus, Artifice, Body. His book-in-progress, 鈥淢aking Publics in Shakespeare鈥檚 Playhouse,鈥� is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. His ideas and the ideas of his MaPs colleagues about the social life of art were featured on the CBC Radio IDEAS series, 鈥淭he Origins of the Modern Public.鈥� He publishes non-academic essays about Shakespeare and modern life, including titles such as 鈥淎lzheimer鈥檚 Disease: What would Shakespeare Do?鈥� and 鈥淭ragedy as a Way of Life.鈥� An area of strong interest is higher education practice and policy, with publications in Policy Options, University Affairs, and Humanities, and projects, including the TRaCE Transborder Project, involving 12 universities across five continents.

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On Being Lady Macbeth

What it is to be Lady Macbeth and how it relates to personal life: shared sensory/emotional experience/human fragility, different language, difference cultural embedding, different points along the life course.

Lucy Peacock, Violette Chauveau, Gail Kern Paster

Lucy Peacock just completed her 38th season at the Stratford Festival where she has played in over 85 productions and approximately 45 Shakespeare plays including Lady Macbeth in last season's Macbeth directed by Robert Lepage. Throughout her 40 year career she has also journeyed through the stories of Ophelia, Rosalind, Viola, Portia, Helena, Desdemona, Titania, Beatrice, Volumnia, Queen Elizabeth, Cymbeline, Gwendolyn, Duchess of Malfi, Masha, Mary Stuart, and Satan. She has explored the leading roles in The Goat, Three Tall Women, All My Sons, Private Lives, Hello Dolly!, The King and I, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, les Belles Soeurs, her critically acclaimed one woman show the Blonde the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, and very much enjoyed her 2 year sold out run of her cabaret Late Night with Lucy at the Studio Theater in Stratford.

Lucy was the recipient of the Stratford Festival Legacy Award in 2023.

Growing up in Montreal and the Eastern Townships and a graduate of the National Theater School Lucy has always considered Montreal her home away from home where audiences may have seen her at the Centaur and the Segal Centre over the years. Thank you, 黑料网爆吃瓜, for the invitation! (photo credit: Ann Baggley).

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Violette Chauveau: Trained at the Conservatoire d鈥檃rt dramatique de Montr茅al, Violette Chauveau has appeared in more than eighty stage productions in Quebec and abroad, along with numerous television and film roles. On stage, she was directed by Andr茅 Brassard in Les mains d鈥橢dwige au moment de la naissance by Wajdi Mouawad and Le Pass茅 ant茅rieur by Michel Tremblay. She was then in The Treatment by Martin Crimp, and L鈥橧mposture by Evelyne de la Cheneli猫re. In 2011, she received the Denise Pelletier Award for her performance as Medea (Euripides, dir. Caroline Binet), and in 2015, the Critics鈥� Award for Une vie pour deux (dir. Alice Ronfard). She then portrayed Clytemnestra in both En dessous de vos corps... by Steve Gagnon and Electra by Sophocles (dir. Serge Denoncourt). In 2023, she joined Robert Lepage鈥檚 Le Projet Riopelle and created Olivier Choini猫re鈥檚 solo La derni猫re cassette, earning a second Critics鈥� Award. She was also in Virginie Despentes鈥� Vernon Subutex (dir. Angela Konrad) and in Wajdi Mouawad鈥檚 Le serment d鈥橢urope. In 2026, she will play Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the TNM. On screen, her credits include Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan) and Miraculum (Podz). On television, she has appeared in Madame Lebrun, Sans rendez-vous, Le Monde de Gabrielle Roy and Corbeaux. (photo credit: Eva Maude).

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Gail Kern Paster is the Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., the world's largest Shakespeare collection. She was also Professor of English at the George Washington University. The author of numerous scholarly books and articles on Shakespeare and his period, she has a special interest in the history of the emotions. She was named to the Queen's Honours List in 2011 as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). She is on the board of the Newberry Library in Chicago (where she served as interim president in 2023) and Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples.

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On Entrepreneurship, Competition and Cooperation

"A little water clears us of this deed." (Lady Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2)

Lindsay Holmgren, Robert Nason, Saku Mantere

Lindsay Holmgren is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management, Associate Faculty in the Department of English, and Director of the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics and Equity at 黑料网爆吃瓜. Dr. Holmgren teaches ethics and rhetoric in the Faculty of Management, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in the Department of English. Her publications include articles on medical pedagogy and practice, economic modelling, narrative theory, and literary criticism. Her theoretical background underlies Dr. Holmgren鈥檚 study of narrative in the economic, philosophical, and sociological arenas, for which she holds an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research is concerned with the relationship between finitude and existential phenomena such as COVID-19 and climate change among university students and recent graduates in Canada. Holmgren and her team have interviewed over 400 participants, whom they are following over a ten-year period. Dr. Holmgren also sits on the University IT Advisory on GenAI, emphasizing its ethical implications.

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Robert Nason is a William Dawson Scholar and associate professor of Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 黑料网爆吃瓜. He serves as the Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Desautels. Robert鈥檚 research focuses on the role of entrepreneurship in society with a particular interest on entrepreneurial activity in contexts of poverty and informality. Robert has received awards for research, including the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division鈥檚 Emerging Scholar Award in 2020, and teaching, including Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors (2022) and the Desautels Core Strategy MBA Teaching Award (2022).

Robert鈥檚 research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Soci茅t茅 et Culture (FRQSC). His work has been published in leading academic outlets such as Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. In his commitment to research with practical relevance, Robert is actively collaborating in his research and its dissemination with non-profits including on a documentary about township economy entrepreneurs.

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Saku Mantere is Professor of Strategy and Organization, and Desautels Chair in Philosophy in Management at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 黑料网爆吃瓜. His research focuses lies on the intersection between strategic management, organization theory and organizational research methods. Before moving to Montr茅al, Saku taught at the Warwick Business School, UK; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Rouen Business School (now NEOMA Business School), France and Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Finland. Saku played a key role in the foundation of the Helsinki University of Arts as its first chairman of the board and served on the founding board of the Aalto University for nine years following the merger that created it. Saku鈥檚 research has been published in the leading academic outlets for management and organization studies, and he has been awarded multiple times for his teaching and research.

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Art, Trauma, and Healing Systems

"Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break." (Malcolm, Act 4, Scene 3)

Maiya Geddes, Alain Dagher, Laurence Kirmayer

Maiya Geddes is an Associate Professor, Neurologist Scientist at 黑料网爆吃瓜 and the Director of the Cognitive Neurology Clinical Fellowship Program. Dr. Geddes leads a research program and lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute that is focused on understanding motivational processes in aging and early Alzheimer鈥檚 disease using cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging techniques. She applies this new knowledge to design novel interventions and behavioural randomized controlled trials with the ultimate goal of dementia prevention. Dr. Geddes completed a residency in Neurology at 黑料网爆吃瓜 followed by a six-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral fellowship at MIT and a second fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry at Harvard. Dr. Geddes is a Killam Scholar; she is also the recipient of the 2024 Brain Canada Future Leaders award, the 2023 Alzheimer Society Research Program New Investigator Award, the Canadian Conference on Dementia Future Leader Award, and the American Neuropsychiatric Association Career Development Award.

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Alain Dagher is a neurologist and physician at the 黑料网爆吃瓜 Health Centre and Montreal Neurological Institute, with a specialty in Parkinson鈥檚 Disease and movement disorders. He was trained at the University of Toronto, 黑料网爆吃瓜, Cornell University, and the Hammersmith Hospital and Institute of Neurology, London. His research has three main components: (1) understanding pathophysiological mechanisms in Parkinson's disease; (2) study the mechanisms whereby obesity increases the risk of neurogenerative disease, using human brain imaging and big data; (3) identify the neural mechanisms that support motivated decision-making, with application addiction and obesity. He combines computational models with brain imaging in human subjects. He has also studied brain reward mechanisms, focussing on food and music. His group has recently investigated the topography of neurodegeneration in Parkinson鈥檚 Disease to test propagation models, develop biomarkers, and stratify patients to predict disease outcomes. He has published extensively on brain imaging (H index = 92; 244 publications, ~100 since 2019-2024; 16,104 citations since 2019 (Google scholar) and is senior editor of Imaging Neuroscience, a recently-launched open-access journal of neuroimaging. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

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Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is Distinguished James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professor and Director Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 黑料网爆吃瓜. He is a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute and directs the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, in Montreal, where he conducts research on culturally responsive mental health services, psychological anthropology, and the philosophy of psychiatry. His publications include Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience (Cambridge University, 2025); Unraveling the World Knot: Mind-Body Problems in Clinical Practice (forthcoming) and the co-edited volumes: Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge, 2007); Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (UBC Press, 2009); Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2014); Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (Cambridge, 2015); Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications (Cambridge, 2020);. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

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Health and Healthcare Systems

"More needs she the divine than the physician. / God, God forgive us all! Look after her." (Doctor, Act 5, Scene 1)

Jessica Riddell, Liette Lapointe, Alan Forster

Dr. Jessica Riddell is a Full Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bishop鈥檚 University and holds the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. As founder of the Hope Circuits Institute (HCI), she drives systems-change in higher education, focusing on governance, leadership, and student success. In a landscape rife with indictments of broken systems, her work invites people across the post-secondary ecosystem to co-create blueprints for meaningful rewiring that centers justice, equity, and access. Her 2024 book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing (黑料网爆吃瓜-Queen's Press), offers a roadmap for this transformation. A recognized leader, scholar, and educator, she serves on multiple boards and has received numerous awards and grants for teaching and leadership, including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (Canada's highest recognition of educational leadership), the D2L Innovation Award (the highest recognition of innovation in partnerships), and the Forces Avenir award (Quebec's highest recognition of teaching excellence in higher education). She was recently welcomed into the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars (2025).

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Professor Liette Lapointe has been Associate Dean and then Vice-Dean Programs at the Desautels Faculty of Management, 黑料网爆吃瓜. She holds the Bronfman Chair in IS and was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Universit茅 Aix-Marseille in 2024. Her research integrates healthcare, information systems management and behavioral issues. Her work has led to more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed publications, about 100 presentations in national and refereed conferences and 50 invited guest presentations locally and internationally. She has developed collaborations with highly recognized researchers at the local, national and international levels. Her interdisciplinary research has included graduated student training and is supported by grants from diverse councils. She extends her research to impact practice and brings her expertise through public policy research and board membership.

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Dr. Alan Forster is a Professor in Innovation and the Director of Innovation, Transformation and Clinical Performance at the 黑料网爆吃瓜 Health Centre (MUHC) and the Research Institute of the MUHC (RI-MUHC). In his roles, Dr. Forster will develop a strategic and operational plan to innovate and improve clinical performance, with a focus on transforming and improving quality and safety of care. Dr. Forster previously held the position of Executive Vice-President and Chief of the Innovation and Quality Office at The Ottawa Hospital. He brings an extensive background as a professor in Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine, director of The Ottawa Hospital Center for Patient Safety, an active physician and a senior scientist at the University of Ottawa. He completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has chaired, reviewed, and participated as an invited panelist in various committees and conferences related to healthcare quality and safety, artificial intelligence, electronic health information and privacy, and performance metrics, among other areas.

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Other Human-Made Systems

"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; / It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash / Is added to her wounds." (Malcolm, Act 4, Scene 3)

Randall Martin, Valerie Orsat, Anisha Ghosh

Randall Martin is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick and Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Shakespeare and Ecology (Oxford University Press, 2015). In 2019-22 he led the international research-in-performance project and public website, Cymbeline in the Anthropocene, now archived at . This work led to seminal collaborations with: The Royal Shakespeare Company's first eco-production of The Tempest (2023); an interdisciplinary performance event, BiOphelia, at Cornell University (2024), where he was the keynote speaker; and The Stratford Festival, where he was dramaturge and textual advisor for this year's eco-critically framed production, As You Like It. His latest SSHRC-supported book is Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: disability, gender, race, ecology (Oxford University Press, 2025). Currently he is researching "Shakespeare and Critical Theories of the Anthropocene" for Arden Shakespeare UK (also SSHRC funded).

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Dr. Val茅rie Orsat is a James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering on the Macdonald Campus of 黑料网爆吃瓜. She obtained her PhD from 黑料网爆吃瓜 in 1999. From 1999 to 2007, she coordinated the training activities of international developmental projects in postharvest engineering. Since 2007, Val茅rie Orsat is an academic member contributing to the food engineering sector, recognized in 2015 by the John Clark Award from the Canadian Society of Bioengineering in recognition of her outstanding contributions in this field. In 2017, she was recognized as a Woman of Innovation in engineering while she also became Fellow of the Canadian Society for Bio-Engineering. In 2021, she was recipient of the Engineering and Physical Sciences鈥� Suffrage Science award in recognition of her mentoring contribution for women in STEM fields.

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Dr. Anisha Ghosh is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 黑料网爆吃瓜, having previously been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. Ghosh's research in asset pricing and portfolio management has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies, and has been the subject of invited lectures at leading venues ranging from the National Bureau of Economic Research to the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. She is also the co-founder of CCM Biosciences, a diversified biotechnology company, where she oversees the choice of drug programs comprising the company's portfolio, as well as allocation of capital among them based on modern quantitative methods for asset management, given the diversity of the company's portfolio.

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