August 19, 2022 by
A&S News
From the attack on Salman Rushdie, to the art of gunwale bobbing in a canoe, 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 12, 2022
- PhD student William O’Connell, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, writes in Yahoo! News Canada that crypto platforms say they’re exchanges, but they’re more like banks.
August 13, 2022
- Aurel Braun, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments for Global News on the terrible state of Afghanistan on the one-year anniversary of Taliban rule.
August 14, 2022
- Karen Chapple, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the School of Cities, comments in the Toronto Star (paywall) on the new powers granted Ontario’s mayors.
- Randy Boyagoda, a professor in the Department of English, reminisces in the Atlantic about his interviews with Salman Rushdie in the context of the attack on the famed author.
August 15, 2022
- Yoonkyung Lee, a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Munk School’s Asian Institute, comments for BBC News on white-collar crimes in South Korea in the wake of the recent Samsung heir pardon.
- Sagi Ramaj, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology, writes in the Calgary Monitor about multigenerational living as a strategy to cope with unaffordable housing.
August 16, 2022
- Stephen Morris, a professor in the Department of Physics, explains the science of gunwale bobbing in Cottage Life.
August 17, 2022
- John Scott-Railton of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School comments in the New York Times (paywall) on a circulating piece of disinformation.
- Sali Tagliamonte, a professor in the Department of Linguistics, talks to TVO.org about her research into Northern Ontario dialects and explains what a “soaker” is.