Reactions 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)

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 […]

(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)

Relationships 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)

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 […]

Systems 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.

Greed 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.

Remembrance 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 […]