Hart House Global Commons

A unique, globally-networked opportunity to share perspectives and discuss the most pressing topics of our time.

Overview

The Hart House Global Commons is your opportunity to connect in real-time with students participating in-person and virtually from international partner universities, to engage in dialogue and action around important and timely issues. Students participating directly from Colombia, Canada, France, South Africa, and the U.S.A. will connect for a unique, globally-networked opportunity to share perspectives and learn from and with each other as we discuss pressing global issues without borders, and seek to develop actions to address them.

Seasons

Global Commons 2023/2024 A Global Skill, Community and Impact Incubator

Connection and communication are more important than ever before, and honing our ability to navigate dialogue becomes imperative for collective progress.

Global Commons 2022/2023 Migration: Global Perspectives on the Search for Home

Join the conversation and explore what's driving refugees, asylum seekers, displaced peoples, migrants and the risks they take in search for a new home.

Global Commons 2021/2022 Innovations in Democracy and Citizenship

Join students and guests from around the world for an interactive discussion on how civil society engages Innovations in Democracy and Citizenship.

Global Commons 2020/2021

Join students from around the world in interactive dialogue addressing climate justice and the impacts of climate change.

Hart House Global Commons 2019/2020

Climate change requires a serious transformation of society and of our relationships to each other and to the world around us—we have work to do.

Global Commons 2018/2019

Building Better Societies: Gender Equality Matters

Global Commons 2017/2018

Achieving Peaceful Pluralism in a Globalized World: Engaging Institutions through Active Citizenship

Blogs and Interviews

Millennials Making a Difference

Laura Siracusa on Helping to Organize the First-Ever Hart House Global Commons