Welcome to Organizer School 2026! Organizer school is aimed at people who are interested in organizing or are already organizing and want to have a critical understanding of the theory, historical practice, strategies and tactics that have been used in organizing. Organizer school also gives you an opportunity to discuss and debate your ideas with other organizers in the city!
We will be meeting every week for discussion sessions at SFU Downtown.
Every week, we will release session pages with all the materials you will need to prepare for sessions, including slides and readings. Access all session pages in the Organizer School Landing Page or through the syllabus page, which will be updated weekly.
Discussion Group Details
📆 8 October 2026
⏰ 6pm - 8pm (Add to calendar)
📍 SFU Harbour Centre
In this session, we’ll explore the meaning of science and discuss whether the scientific method can be meaningfully applied to the study of society. To do this, we’ll try to answer two questions: first, “What makes knowledge scientific?” and second, “With what must science begin?” For a jumping off point, we’ll review the philosophical face-off between matter and ideas—in other words, the struggle between materialism and idealism. We'll also explore how to actually conduct a scientific study. In particular, we’ll be focusing on the relationship between investigation and analysis, on the one hand, and theory and practice, on the other.