September 6, 2024 by
A&S News
From recommendations for books by Indigenous authors to the rights to privacy and freedom of expression, experts 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 29, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Citizen Lab senior researcher Ksenia Ermoshina comments for Reuters on Telegram’s security concerns.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and associate chair Paul Hess discusses with CBC News online the need for better design and signage to make privately owned publicly accessible spaces more inviting.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, talks to CP24 about the recent CNN interview with U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz.
August 30, 2024
- Department of Economics assistant professor Eva Vivalt shares with The New York Times (paywall) her research on the impact of cash transfers on employment in Texas and Illinois.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Randall Hansen comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the upcoming state elections in Germany.
- Citizen Lab senior researchers John Scott-Railton and Ksenia Ermoshina comment for The New York Times (paywall) on the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.
September 1, 2024
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein talks to the Wall Street Journal (paywall) about the difficulty of understanding and predicting Russia’s nuclear red lines.
- Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology and Department of Philosophy assistant professor Karina Vold discusses with the Guardian AI’s impact on the job market.
September 2, 2024
- Department of History assistant professor Cindy Ewing discusses the International Bill of Human Rights and the right to security; Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert and Citizen Lab fellow Lex Gill talk about the right to privacy; and Citizen Lab senior researcher Noura Aljizawi discusses the rights to free thought and free expression, all for CBC Radio: Ideas.
- Department of Art History associate professor SeungJung Kim writes in Korea JoongAng Daily about the differences between Greek and Roman art.
September 3, 2024
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor emeritus Anthony Doob writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canada’s solitary confinement legislation.
- Women & Gender Studies Institute assistant professor Kai Recollet shares with TVO online recommendations for books by Indigenous authors.
September 4, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki comments for Global News on transit projects in Calgary and Toronto.
September 5, 2024
- Victoria College professor Albert F. Moritz is highlighted in CBC Books for his new poetry collection, Great Silent Ballad.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple talks to The Globe and Mail (paywall) about rethinking density and land use in Toronto.
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman and student Oliver Cao write in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about their survey findings on the value of money versus job satisfaction.