September 18, 2020 by
A&S News
From newfound evidence of winemaking in ancient Lebanon, to the use of digital tools by police forces for surveillance and crime prevention, 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.
September 11, 2020
- Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate in the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments on digital eavesdropping and online censorship in a BNN Bloomberg story examining allegations that authorities in Belarus blocked access to much of the Internet during a disputed presidential election last month.
September 12, 2020
- Jack Cunningham of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College comments on the upcoming provincial election in New Brunswick in the Toronto Star (paywall).
September 13, 2020
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor emeritus Anthony Doob speaks about his work leading a panel tasked with analyzing alternatives to solitary confinement in prisons for Correctional Service of Canada in the Toronto Star (paywall).
- Dimitry Anastakis, a professor in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management, speaks about fur as a commodity on CBC Radio’s Cost of Living program.
September 14, 2020
- Stephen Batiuk, a senior research associate in the Departments of Anthropology and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations and the Archaeology Centre, comments on the discovery of evidence of winemaking in Lebanon more than 2,500 years ago in National Geographic.
- Both Steve Easterbrook, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and director of the School of the Environment, and Miriam Diamond, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, speak about the environmental impact of smoke from wildfires spreading across North America in the Toronto Star (paywall).
September 15, 2020
- Cynthia Khoo, a research fellow in the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, speaks about algorithmic policing involving digital tools that help police automate surveillance, analyze crime data and even predict where crimes might occur in an episode of the Toronto Star’s This Matters podcast.
September 17, 2020
- Kate Robertson, a research fellow in the Citizen Lab the Munk School, also speaks about the use of digital surveillance technology by Canadian police forces to monitor people’s online conversations in a CBC News story.