January 21, 2022 by
A&S News
From armed conflict on the horizon between Russia and Ukraine to new clues discovered in Anne Frank’s story, 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.
January 15, 2022
- Aurel Braun, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses the role Canada should play in deescalating tensions at the Ukraine border with CTV News Channel, beginning a week of commentary where he appeared on CBC The Current, Global News, CP24, CTV News online and different CTV News Channel newscasts.
January 16, 2022
- Department of Anthropology associate professor Justin Jennings shares new research with Business Insider about the role that hallucinogenic beer played in cementing political control in ancient Peru.
January 17, 2022
- Department of English professor emerita Rosemary Sullivan’s new book The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation reveals new clues about a likely Nazi informant, as covered by CBC The National, CBC The Current, CBC News online and the Boston Globe.
- Anthropology associate professor Bence Viola talks to Discover Magazine about his landmark research on humans’ most-recently discovered ancestors, the Denisovans.
- Citizen Lab researchers John Scott-Railton and Bill Marczak confirm the data hack of a Polish senator at an investigative committee meeting in the Associated Press, Reuters, The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post and The Independent.
- Earth Sciences professor Miriam Diamond talks to CTV News Toronto about the impact of tossing COVID-19 rapid tests into the household garbage.
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments in the Toronto Star on how Toronto’s land transfer tax plays into the hot housing market.
- Department of Psychology professor Paul Bloom appears on TVO The Agenda to discuss his new book The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning and why humans seek out hardship.
January 18, 2022
- Citizen Lab researcher Jeffrey Knockel discusses the security flaws his team uncovered in the smartphone app required for use by athletes and team officials attending the Olympics in Beijing next month, as seen throughout the week in The New York Times, CBC News online, CBC News Network, Global News, CP24, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, The Washington Post, FOX News and The Wall Street Journal.
- In an op-ed for The Atlantic, Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes about the anti-Asian controversy surrounding Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film Licorice Pizza, and how much trust to put in the audience.
- On CTV News Channel, Jack Cunningham of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College describes how the presence of Canadian Special Forces in Ukraine is meant to deter Putin from resorting to force.
January 19, 2022
- Department of Political Science and Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong talks about China’s “zero-COVID-19” policy ahead of the Olympics with The New York Times and Al Jazeera.
January 20, 2022
- In the Toronto Star, Department of History professor and SSHRC Gold Medal recipient Lynne Viola connects her groundbreaking Soviet-era archival research with Putin’s current efforts to rewrite historical narratives.
- Adam Hincks, an assistant professor in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Christianity & Culture program at St. Michael's College, comments in the Catholic Register on how images captured by the James Webb Telescope will offer Christians answers about the origins of the Universe not provided by their faith.