May 20, 2022 by
A&S News
From the mechanics behind state power in China to the significance of a newly discovered ancient tooth in a cave in Laos, 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.
May 13, 2022
- Lynette Ong, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affair & Public Policy, discusses her book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China with The Economist (paywall) and The Washington Post (paywall).
- Political science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments on highlights and trends in the Ontario provincial election campaign for the Welland Tribune. He continues commentary later in the week for The Globe and Mail (paywall), Global News Online and TVO Online.
May 16, 2022
- In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, Department of Chemistry University Professor Mark Lautens writes that graduate students and researchers are not compensated fairly for their role in knowledge creation.
- Ron Deibert, director of the Munk School’s Citizen Lab and political science professor, discusses his team’s discovery of the use of spyware against Catalan opposition leaders with The Guardian, The Times (paywall) and La Presse.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD candidate Lisa Erdle tells Orillia Matters that microfibre filters significantly decrease environmental pollutants in lake systems.
- On CBC Radio: Ideas, Irina Dumitrescu, Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, delivers the second annual Humanities at Large lecture and cites Department of History professor Nicholas Terpstra. The lecture is about how the modern malady of perfectionism has its roots in the Middle Ages.
May 17, 2022
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the School of Cities Infrastructure Institute, discusses creative affordable housing solutions and the school’s new mixed-use development plan with The Globe and Mail (paywall).
- Scot Wortley, professor at the Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, shares his research with CBC Online, which finds Black and Indigenous people arrested in B.C. are more likely to face charges.
- Department of Anthropology associate professor Bence Viola comments on what the discovery of a tooth in a cave in Laos tells us about our Denisovan ancestors with The New York Times (paywall) and National Geographic (paywall).
May 18, 2022
- Felix Cheung, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, shares his research on Canadian happiness with Yes TV.
- On CityNews, Patrick Brown, professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences, is among researchers who have found that Canada’s COVID-19 infections among adults tripled in early 2022.
- Börje Vähämäki, professor of Finnish studies in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, comments on public opinion of Finland’s NATO bid for CTV News Online.
- Political science assistant professor Eric Merkley comments on the increasing prevalence of conservative PC voters for the National Post (paywall).
- On BNN Bloomberg, Munk School senior fellow Sean Speer explains Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s support among young voters in the context of folk libertarianism.
May 19, 2022
- Citizen Lab research associate Jeffrey Knockel talks to Vice about new research that finds Microsoft’s search engine Bing censors content that is politically sensitive to China’s government.