August 12, 2022 by
A&S News
From reflections on the ripple effects of colonization to new research on whale evolution, scholars 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.
August 7, 2022
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) graduate Sarah Dungan shares her new research with The Atlantic (paywall), where reconstructing the visual proteins from whales’ early ancestors suggests they were deep-sea divers.
- Ori Freiman, post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Ethics writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that people, corporations and governments, rather than artificial intelligence products, should exercise moral agency.
August 8, 2022
- The late chancellor of Trinity College Bill Graham is remembered in the Toronto Star (paywall) and CTV News online.
- Karina Vold, assistant professor at the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology and the Department of Philosophy, discusses with WNYC Radio’s The Takeaway her research on humans, robots and sentience.
- Timothy Andrews Sayle, assistant professor in the Department of History and director of the International Relations Program at Trinity College, discusses with the Hill Times (paywall) themes from his book Enduring Alliances that are relevant to the history of Canada and Russia.
- John Scott-Railton, Citizen Lab senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, provides analysis to the Associated Press, The Washington Post (paywall) and Bloomberg News (paywall) about the so-called Greek Watergate wiretap scandal.
August 9, 2022
- Ron Deibert, director of the Munk School’s Citizen Lab and Department of Political Science professor, gives testimony to a parliamentary committee about spyware as a huge threat to human rights and democracy, as reported in The Globe and Mail (paywall), The Guardian, Global News online, CTV News online and CityNews online.
- History professor Ruth Sandwell comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the use of energy sources by humans throughout history, and how that can inform present-day fossil fuel reliance.
August 10, 2022
- Department of Geography & Planning associate professor Jun Zhang talks to the Financial Post (paywall) about his recent paper on the Communist Party of China’s plan to amalgamate Hong Kong and create a Greater Bay Area zone.
- Gabriel Eidelman, director of the Urban Policy Lab at the School of Cities and assistant professor at the Munk School, tells The Globe and Mail that he believes Ontario’s new “strong mayor” legislation is unprecedented in Canada.
- Cinema Studies Institute PhD candidate Erin Nunoda comments for CBC News online on the popularity of young adult genres in entertainment.
August 11, 2022
- Angelica Pesarini, assistant professor Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies cross-appointed to the Department of Italian Studies, discusses on Al Jazeera's The Stream how the racially motivated attack against a resident of Italy marks a turning point for the country.
- EEB assistant professor Chelsea Rochman shares with blogTO the discovery of a “fatberg” – a congealed mass of oil, fat and other un-flushable items – along Toronto’s waterfront.