OOPS! October 20 2011 “Wissen soellen alle saeligen: An unexpected finding of a medieval Hoheliedauslegung” by Johanna Rodda (Medieval Studies) “Famous mistakes of mathematics” by Louis-Philippe Thibault (Mathematics) “Oops, we did it again: pollsters explain why they weren’t as good as promised” by Sam Norris (Economics) Moderated by Massey College Junior Fellow and founder of […]
Tags: economics, manuscripts, mathematics, medieval studies, mistakes, pollingCHANGE October 4 2011 “Take Your Right To The City: An Examination of Tempelhof Airport” by Elizabeth Krasner (Architecture) “Computer-aided Drug Development, or ‘How is a laptop like a test tube?’” by Abe Heifets (Computer Science) “A Narrative of the Egyptian Revolution as a Reclamation of Public Space” by Sherif Kinawy (Civil Engineering)
Tags: architecture, change, cities, civil engineering, computer science, drugs, Egypt, revolutionWASTE November 24 2011 “Laneway Housing: Inhabiting Wasted Spaces Within the City” by Utako Tanebe (Architecture) “Waste not, want not: Using CSIA to monitor the remediation of contaminated groundwater” by Calvin Chan (Geology) “The economic consequences and constitutionality of penalties for anti-competitive conduct in Canada’s Competition Act” by Grant Bishop (Law) Moderated by Massey College […]
Tags: architecture, cities, competition, economics, geology, housing, law, waste, waterReactions March 8 2011 SARA ANGEL: little picasso meets the newspaper (art) PHILLIPA CHONG: how critics decide if they like books (literature) DYLAN JERVIS: atomic order near absolute zero (physics)
Tags: art history, atoms, books, critics, newspapers, physics, picasso, reactions, sociology(anti) Valentine’s February 14 2011 PETER BUCHANAN: pigs, sex, and unclean reading practices (medieval studies) ASHISH DESHWAR: breeding heartless fish (medicine & molecular genetics) BETH ELDER: immigration, marriage and federal investigation (public policy)
Tags: fish, genetics, immigration, marriage, medieval studies, policy, reading, Valentine'sRelationships February 8 2011 J.C. BOURQUE: lobbyists in da house (business) ERIK LEUNG: stravinsky gets neo-classical (music) JONATHAN TAM: roberton davies and ploughright college (law)
Tags: business, English, law, lobbyists, music, relationships, Robertson Davies, StravinskySystems December 1 2010 AKWASI OWUSU-BEMPAH: black canadians in the criminal justice system (criminology) MICHAELA BEDER: no status, no healthcare? (psychiatry) JORDAN GUTHRIE: peasant resistance in tanzania (political science) The evening featured special guest moderator ELIZABETH CHURCH, Kierans Janigan Journalism Fellow at Massey College and post-secondary education reporter for The Globe and Mail.
Tags: citizenship, criminology, healthcare, justice, political science, psychiatry, resistance, systems, TanzaniaGreed November 25 2010 ARVID AGREN: the salamander’s selfish genes (evolutionary biology) LEONEL ABAROA: what do we mean by “greed”? (theology) GRANT BISHOP: financial regulation in a greed-is-good world (law) The evening featured special guest moderator RACHEL PULFER, International Programs Director for Journalists for Human Rights and 2009-2010 Massey Journalism Fellow.
Tags: finance, genes, greed, law, selfishness, theologyRemembrance November 11 2010 CLIFF VAN DER LINDEN: renegotiation the terms of belonging in europe (political science) LIOR SHEFFER: a model of social blame (political psychology) WILLIAM TO: post-operative and post-anaesthetic memory loss (physiology) As a special treat, the panel discussion was led by Massey Journalism Fellow Jeff Warren, author of Head Trip: Adventures on […]
Tags: blame, Europe, memory loss, physiology, political science, psychology, remembrance“_____” AND THE CITY (in honour of the then upcoming municipal elections) October 21 2010 RAILI LAKANEN: how community engagement can lead to sustainability (urban planning) SHELLEY LIEBEMBUK: exploring the intercultural themes, performers and audiences of Toronto (drama) UTAKO TANEBE: making the invisible city visible (architecture) The panel discussion was led by Eye Weekly columnist […]
Tags: architecture, cities, community, drama, performance, planning, sustainability, Toronto