October 14, 2022 by
A&S News
From newly discovered documents rocking the world of Chaucer studies to the mystery of thermohaline staircases that has confounded oceanographers for decades, 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 7, 2022
- Department of History PhD candidate Elio Colavito shares their work with Xtra! on preserving the legacy of Toronto’s Pussy Palace, the site of the last police raid on a queer bathhouse in Canada, as part of the university’s LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CTV News Toronto online on issues with Ontario’s license plate sticker, and for the Toronto Star (paywall) on alternatives to the current Union Station barriers.
October 8, 2022
- Department of Psychology professor and acting chair Geoff Macdonald shares with the National Post how a trending interest in psychology research, such as attachment theory, informs how people navigate dating.
October 9, 2022
- Department of English professor Ian Lancashire uses AI to study vocabulary in Agatha Christie novels, as highlighted in the Daily Express.
- For CBC News online, Cinema Studies Institute PhD candidate Erin Mick reflects on growing up in a mobile home, and how the negative stereotypes she’s encountered are at odds with her positive childhood.
- Department of Anthropology professor Edward Banning explains to Jordan Times how many of humanity’s milestones were achieved during the Neolithic period in the historical eastern Mediterranean area of Levant.
October 10, 2022
- The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy is highlighted in Al Jazeera online for linking Pegasus spyware to Mexico’s ongoing investigation into the 2014 kidnapping of students.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman tells Inside Halton online that voters tend to be less interested in municipal elections than provincial and federal elections.
October 11, 2022
- Department of History professor emerita Margaret MacMillan writes in the National Post about the implications of the tension between Russia and the West.
- Lamiya Mowla and Kartheik Iyer, Dunlap Fellows at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, share research with Science News about the universe’s oldest globular clusters discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Assistant professor at the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology and the Department of Philosophy Karina Vold comments in the Toronto Star (paywall) on how AI should be defined.
October 12, 2022
- Department of Philosophy University Professor and Jackman Distinguished Chair in Philosophical Studies Thomas Hurka delivers the Jackman Humanities Institute lecture on CBC Radio: Ideas, and explains how understanding the meaning of games can help us find meaning in life.
- Enid Slack, director of the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance at the Munk School, explains for TVO online and Newstalk 1010 how municipal elections affect cost of living.
October 13, 2022
- Department of English professor Sebastian Sobecki shares new research with The New York Times (paywall) that sheds new light on the reputation of Canterbury Tales author Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Department of Physics PhD student Yuchen Ma shares new research with The Guardian that solves the mystery behind staircase-like structures of salt and temperature in the ocean.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman tells The New York Times (paywall) that the public hearing about the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act earlier this year will lead to more negatives than positives for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.