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Diversity and Knowledge Production - Musa al-Gharbi at 2025 HxCanada Fall Conference

HxCanada Fall Conference - Expanding Minds: The Power of Diverse Perspectives in Canadian Post-Secondary Education In this keynote, sociologist and author Musa al-Gharbi takes a hard look at how diversity and knowledge production intersect. He shows why real pluralism is a scientific superpower, how monocultures warp what gets studied and what counts as evidence, and why many DEI tactics backfire. Expect concrete cases from gender, race, class, and politics, plus a direct blueprint for building institutions that are both open and excellent. What you’ll learn: 👉 Why smart people are often more biased, not less, and how to counter it with structured pluralism 👉 How data are made, interpreted, and weaponized through motivated reasoning 👉 What changed in research once women and nonwhite scholars entered the room 👉 Why viewpoint diversity, academic freedom, and demographic diversity rise or fall together 👉 How to avoid “non-representative representatives” and metrics that filter out dissent Chapters 00:00 Welcome and setup 06:05 Why diversity matters for knowledge production 10:44 Data are social products and why methods still diverge 14:22 What makes social science uniquely hard 16:22 Collaboration, standards, and the upside of friction 17:00 When institutions lack real pluralism, errors compound 18:00 Case study, gender and the questions we forgot to ask 23:34 Case study, race, Du Bois, and rethinking the “race problem” 31:22 Case study, class and Bourdieu’s outsider lens 34:15 Politics in the academy and polarized narratives 42:07 Diversity for legitimacy and public trust 43:12 Implementation pitfalls, tokenism, and deference traps 47:05 Symmetries and misreadings of Collins and Said 49:26 Why most diversity trainings underperform 50:43 Tradeoffs, tenure, and fetishizing ratios 52:02 Reasons for optimism, transparency and reproducibility 54:20 Closing and vision 54:45 Q&A