WIDEN: On Networks 3:00–5:00 p.m., Thursday, March 21, 2013 The Architecture Lounge: Cafe 059 230 College Street (Enter at Huron Street west side entrance; Cafe 059 is located on the ground floor of the Architecture Building.) All welcome. No advance registration required. RSVP on Facebook Presentations: Toronto’s Hidden Infrastructure Mariko Uda (Civil Engineering @ U of […]

WIDEN: On Generation (A chilly November special) 1:00–3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 11, 2012 The Architecture Lounge: Cafe 059 230 College Street, enter at Huron Street west side entrance (Cafe 059 is located on the ground floor of the Architecture Building) All welcome. No advance registration required. RSVP on Facebook Presentations: The Peculiar Afterlives of Letters […]

WIDEN: On Education (A Back-to-School Special) 4:00–6:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Grad Room, 66 Harbord St., Toronto RSVP on Facebook All welcome. No advance registration required. Presentations: Heidegger Goes to School: Drawing Education on Philosophy Doron Yosef-Hassidim (Educational Administration, OISE) The relevance of philosophy within an endeavour that deals with the human being, as education, […]

Dear friends of WIDEN, WIDEN at the U of T St. George campus is gearing up for a new season of cross-disciplinary workshops! We’re currently looking for grad students from the U of T community and beyond who are interested in showcasing their research in an interdisciplinary setting. All topics and disciplines are welcome. If […]

WIDEN: On Events 4:00–6:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Grad Room, 66 Harbord St., Toronto RSVP on Facebook All are welcome. No advance registration is required. Presentations: “We Have the Ability to Create the Headlines”: Made-for-TV Planning and the Politics of Urban Knowledge Creation David Roberts (Geography) In this paper, I argue that the World Cup […]

WIDEN: On Blood 4:00–6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Grad Room at Graduate House, 66 Harbord St. RSVP on Facebook All welcome. No advance registration required. Presentations: Modelling the Flow of Individual Neutrophils in Microchannels Lindsey Fiddes (Chemistry) This presentation describes the results of experimental study of the flow of soft objects through microchannels. This […]

WIDEN: On Time 4:00–6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Grad Room at Graduate House, 66 Harbord St. RSVP on Facebook All welcome. No advance registration required.   Presentations:   Novelty and Nostalgia in American Modernist Literature Alexander Eastwood (English) Over the past decade, queer theorists have been preoccupied with articulating theories of time, and the […]

WIDEN: On Birth 4:00–6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Grad Room at Graduate House, 66 Harbord St. RSVP on Facebook All welcome. No advance registration required. Presentations: The Birth of Stars, Planets and the Origins of Life Dennis Duffin (Astrophysics) How are stars born? When and how do they make the planets we see in […]

WIDEN: On Animals 4:00-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Gradroom at Grad House, 66 Harbord St. RSVP on Facebook All are welcome. No advance registration is required. Presentations: Do Animals Have Moral Status? Does It Matter? Jana Crawford (Philosophy) Many attempts to either justify differential regard for humans and non-human animals or to argue in […]

WIDEN: On Green Energy Wednesday, January 26, 4:00-6:00 pm Gradroom at Grad House, 66 Harbord St. RSVP on Facebook All are welcome. No advance registration is required. Presentations: A Pragmatic Look at Some Sources of Green Energy Deepak Chandan and Andre Erler, Atmospheric Physics Green sources of energy will be essential and vital to our […]