November 6, 2020 by
A&S News
From thoughts about this week’s U.S. election to the future of Canada’s economy post-COVID-19, 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.
October 30
- University Professor Anita McGahan of the Rotman School of Management and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy talks about the future of the economy post-COVID-19 with CBC’s The Current.
- Professors Mark Kingwell of the Department of Philosophy and Rinaldo Walcott of the Women & Gender Studies Institute and OISE write about contemporary issues like the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-racism movements in Maclean’s.
- Professor Peter Loewen of the Department of Political Science and the Munk School discusses some of the issues driving the U.S. election with CTV’s W5.
- Professor Chelsea Rochman of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology comments in the Washington Post (paywall) on the results of a new study that says between 1.2 and 2.5 million tons of plastic generated in the U.S. was not properly disposed of.
- Professors Nelson Wiseman of political science and Robert Bothwell of the Department of History and the Munk School weigh in on potential outcomes of the U.S. election in the Washington Post (paywall).
October 31
- Kate Robertson, a research fellow at the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, comments on the “systematic monitoring and surveillance” citizens are being required to expect surrounding AI, with concerns from Geoffrey Hinton of the Department of Computer Science repeated in the National Post (paywall).
November 1
- Professor Timothy Andrews Sayle of history debates the potential for easier access to historical documents with CTV Online, as the Trudeau government eyes a national declassification centre.
November 2
- Michael Valpy, a senior fellow at the Munk School, writes about the reasons for the paradox of President Donald Trump’s continued support in the U.S. in a Toronto Star (paywall) op-ed.
- Professor Melanie Newton of history weighs in on Queen’s University’s decision to rename John A. MacDonald Hall on TVO’s The Agenda.
November 4
- Professors Sean Speer and Drew Fagan and graduate student Michael Cuenco of the Munk School write an op-ed about contingency planning in light of U.S. election in the National Post (paywall).
- Professors Janice Stein and Seva Gunitsky of political science and the Munk School and Distinguished Fellow Timothy Garton Ash of the Munk School discuss the potential implications of the U.S. election on the world on TVO’s The Agenda.
- Shira Lurie, the University College Fellow in Early American History, writes about the U.S. election’s potential impact on democracy worldwide in the Toronto Star (paywall).
November 5, 2020
- Professor Christopher Cochrane of political science and the Munk School talks about his research on polarization and whether Canada can avoid the economic damage that comes with a U.S.-style political split in CBC Online.
- Alex Luscombe a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies shares his research questioning whether COVID-19 penalties deter behaviour in the National Post (paywall).
- Professor Margaret MacMillan of history and the Munk School talks about U.S.-Canada relations surrounding the U.S. election in the Toronto Star (paywall).