December 1, 2023 by
A&S News
From the Israel-Hamas hostage deal to how road salt affects the environment, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.
Here’s some of what they had to say this week.
November 24, 2023
- Department of English Professor George Elliott Clarke is featured in a clip about the art of Black writing from the CBC Doc series Black Life: Untold Stories. He is also mentioned in CBC Sports for his appearance in the documentary More than a Game, about the intersection between sports and race.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein discusses the Israel-Hamas hostage deal on CBC: The National.
- Rotman Commerce alumna Nuha Siddiqui shares with CBC: What on Earth online how the company she launched while a student is developing plastic alternatives.
- Marva Wisdom, senior fellow at the Munk School, is appointed to the Order of Ontario, as reported by Hamilton Spectator (paywall).
November 25, 2023
- Citizen Lab Director and Department of Political Science Professor Ronald Deibert tells Le Monde (paywall) that the cyber surveillance industry is estimated at 12 billion dollars.
- Department of Political Science Associate Professor Diana Fu, also Director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Munk School, talks to Voices of America News about Gen Z’s resistance to political inertia.
November 26, 2023
- Director of the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Edward Schatz of UTM and Co-Director of the Munk School’s Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine Lucan Way write in the Toronto Star (paywall) about not losing sight of our common humanity amid the Israel-Hamas war.
- Munk School affiliated faculty Aurel Braun discusses the Israel-Hamas hostage deal on CTV News.
- Radio-Canada highlights Women & Gender Studies Institute Assistant Professor (teaching stream) Wafaa Hasan as a keynote speaker at an event about anti-Palestinian racism in schools.
- Political Science and Munk School Asian Institute Associate Professor Lynette Ong comments for the Financial Times (paywall) on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau facing pressure from the opposition Conservative Party.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the housing crisis in Canada.
- Diana Fu talks to the Economic Times (paywall) about the protests against zero-covid restrictions in China.
November 27, 2023
- Citizen Lab senior research fellow Bill Marczak discusses his research on surveillance via smartphone apps with The New York Times (paywall).
- Political Science Professor Emeritus Clifford Orwin, who is cross-appointed to the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, comments for the National Post (paywall) on the philosopher Leo Strauss.
November 28, 2023
- Political Science and School of the Environment Associate Professor Jessica Green comments for TVO online on adapting key city infrastructure to climate change.
- Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton and Bill Marczak discuss with The Guardian and the Washington Post (paywall) new findings of spyware use in Serbia.
- Aurel Braun discusses with CTV News the continued release of Israeli hostages.
- Department of Anthropology PhD candidate Majeed Malhas explains to CNN online how the keffiyeh became a Palestinian national symbol.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki discusses with CHCH TV and the Toronto Star (paywall) Ontario taking responsibility for the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway.
- Anthropology Associate Professor Bence Viola talks to Knowable Magazine about Neanderthal family dynamics.
November 29, 2023
- School of Cities data visualization lead Jeff Allen and research assistant Qi-Sheng Chen discover most traffic violations on King Street go unchecked, as reported by CBC News online, Radio-Canada online and CP24 online.
- Department of Philosophy Professor Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Merriam-Webster’s word of the year, “authentic.”
- Department of Psychology Professor Paul Bloom examines for The New Yorker (paywall) the ethics surrounding ChatGPT.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Donald Jackson and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD candidate Lauren Lawson talk to the Toronto Star (paywall) and Newstalk 1010 about how road salt during the winter affects the environment.
- Department of Philosophy University Professor and Jackman Distinguished Chair in Philosophical Studies Thomas Hurka shares insights with The Walrus on defining the act of defence in the context of the Israel-Hamas war.
November 30, 2023
- The Globe and Mail (paywall) highlights a School of Cities report that calls attention to the housing crisis in Canada.
- Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Director Gillian Hadfield discusses with Radio-Canada online the evolution of OpenAI on ChatGPT’s first anniversary.
- School of the Environment Director and Department of Computer Science Professor Steve Easterbrook discusses the COP28 climate action summit on CTV: Your Morning.
- University College Sessional Lecturer Shawn Micallef and Department of French Professor Emeritus David Smith talk to Spacing about the architectural features of the John P. Robarts Research Library.