Toronto Metropolitan University-Wide Research Events

Talk with Reihaneh Rabbany

Hosted by: Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Toronto Metropolitan University

One of our program’s principle investigators will deliver a talk about her recent concerns regarding responsible artificial intelligence.

Speaker:
Reihaneh Rabbany, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University

• Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

SSHRC Insight Grant Webinar

Hosted by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is hosting a webinar for the Insight Grant Funding opportunity.  A question and answer period will follow the presentation, allowing participants to submit written questions through the web interface.

Pre-registration is not required to join the webinar.

• Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Invited Speakers Series – Christelle Tessono

Hosted by: Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Toronto Metropolitan University

Join us for a talk with Princeton University's Christelle Tessono.

Speaker:
Christelle Tessono, Emerging Scholar, Princeton University

• Date: Friday, August 25, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

2023 Brampton Venture Expo

Hosted by: Brampton Venture Zone, Toronto Metropolitan University

With overwhelming success over the past two years, the annual Brampton Venture Expo is back. This tech event is the first of its kind in Brampton, bringing together startup founders, executives, investors, and creatives across the city's biggest industries to reimagine the future of innovation and startups in our city. 

Speakers:
Armen Bakirtzian, Co-Founder and CEO, Intellijoint Surgical Inc.
Mayor Patrick Brown, Mayor, City of Brampton
Chris Bryson, CEO and Founder, New School Foods
Vito Ciciretto, President and CEO, Dynacare
Michael Do, Founder, MedEssist
Emily Farrar, Co-Founder, Genuine Taste
Sean Karamchandani, Director, LMC Healthcare
Sharanjeet Kaur, Executive Director, School of Medicine, TMU
Mohamed Lachemi, President and Vice Chancellor, TMU
Daniel Lewis, Entrepreneur, Customer Experience Expert & Motivational Storyteller, Daniel's Chai Bar
Mohan Markandaier, Managing Partner, Good News Ventures
Dr. Frank Martino, President and CEO, William Osler Health System
Manjit Minhas, Dragon on CBC's Dragons Den, Dragon's Den
Hon. Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria, Member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton South, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Usha Srinivasan, Director, Brampton Venture Zone, TMU

• Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (The Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton, ON)

Talk with Sebastien Gambs

Hosted by: Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Toronto Metropolitan University

One of our program’s principal investigators will deliver a talk about his recent concerns regarding responsible artificial intelligence.

Speaker:
Sebastien Gambs, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Université du Québec à Montréal

• Date: Thursday, July 20, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

deCaffeinated Innovators

Hosted by: Social Ventures Zone, Toronto Metropolitan University

deCaffeinated Innovators is our special summer edition of Caffeinated Innovators, Canada's longest-running social innovation-focused discussion series. Our subject will be Intense Work or In-Tents Work: Balancing Summer and Startup. We'll be discussing what summer means as an entrepreneur, recharging, balancing vacation and hustle, and more. Join us for a vibrant discussion and seasonally-themed refreshments.

• Date: Friday, July 21, 2023
• Time: 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Kerr Hall South, KHS 45, 40 Gould Street)

The Influence of Later-Life Financial Security on Ageing Well: Supporting Healthy Outcomes in Retirement

Hosted by: National Institute on Ageing (NIA), Toronto Metropolitan University

Join us for an expert discussion that will delve into a report from the NIA, completed with support from OMERS, and will share key considerations and strategies on a topic that requires our attention as record numbers of Canadians are living longer.

Speakers:
Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research, National Institute on Ageing, TMU
Celine Chiovitti, Executive Vice President & Head of Pensions, OMERS

• Date: Friday, July 21, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Invited Speaker Series - Alexandra Olteanu

Hosted by: Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Toronto Metropolitan University

Join us for a talk with Microsoft's Alexandra Olteanu.

Speaker:
Alexandra Olteanu, Principal Researcher, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics Group, Microsoft

• Date: Friday, July 28, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Blockchain Technology Symposium 2023

Hosted by: Cybersecurity Research Lab (CRL), Toronto Metropolitan University and Concordia University

The Blockchain Technology Symposium (BTS), held annually in Canada, is a forum where academic researchers, industry professionals and decision-makers come together to present recent advancements, discuss adoption barriers, tackle common challenges and explore future roadmaps surrounding blockchain and its related technologies. These roadmaps and technologies include consensus algorithms, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies. The aim is to bring these communities closer to address the challenges and seize the opportunities this promising technology brings.

• Date: Thursday, June 1, 2023 – Friday, June 2, 2023
• Time: All day
• Location: Online
  

Update on Canada's Responsible Business Conduct Due Diligence and Reporting Standard for Canadian Firms Active Abroad

Hosted by: Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, Toronto Metropolitan University

This online in-conversation session will provide background on the Responsible Business Conduct Due Diligence and Reporting standard for Canadian firms active abroad. This standard is a central component of Global Affairs Canada's Responsible Business Conduct Abroad strategy. Global Affairs Canada describes responsible business conduct as being "about de-risking – integrating the management of risks to the environment, people and society within the core of business activities."

Speakers:
Terry Cowl, Director of Trade Strategy and Responsible Business Conduct, Global Affairs Canada
Geoff Smith, Vice President, Government Relations, Mining Association of Canada

Moderator:
Kernaghan Webb, Director, Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, Professor, Law and Business, TMU

• Date: Friday, June 2, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Public Sector Network Roadshow

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

This in-person event will discuss why gaining employee buy-in is crucial to creating a culture of continued learning and transformation. Training, upskilling and talent development are not only essential to retaining top talent but also building capacity for change within your organization. Delivering dynamic employee experiences that help build your future workforce is paramount to a future-ready organization.

Join this event, where government leaders and experts will share their experiences in the trenches of transformation and innovation. They will lead keynotes and case studies and engage in thought-provoking panels focused on top challenges, strategies and best practices as they prepare for the future of the public sector. 

Speakers:
Nosa Era-Brown, Chief Talent Officer and Associate Deputy Minister, Office of the Chief Talent Officer Treasury Board Secretariat 
Barb Keenan, Chief People Officer, SVP, Human Resources, LCBO
Jane Albright, Chief Human Resources Officer, Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario
Jennifer Heikamp, Manager, People Strategy and Performance People and Culture, Toronto Police Service
Matt Hopkins, Executive Director, People Toronto Transit Commission
Wendy Cukier, Founder and Academic Director; Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, TMU
Philip Semple, Diversity Consultant, TNT Justice Consultants

• Date: Monday, June 5, 2023
• Time: 8:30 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
• Location: In-person (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, Sears Atrium, third floor, 245 Church Street)

Migration Working Group: Year-end Symposium

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

The Migration Working Group is a series of monthly sessions to discuss innovative research being done on migration and integration by emerging and established scholars. The series gives researchers an opportunity to present their ongoing projects, learn about each other’s work and share feedback.

The June Migration Working Group will address the themes of settler colonialism, race and migrations; immigrant and refugee policies, politics and spaces of integration; states, programs, pathways and measurements; and intersectionalities of immigrant and refugee entrepreneurship and digital nomads.

Panellists:
Chika Agbo, Economics, PhD Program, TMU
Layal Ajaj, Immigration and Settlement Studies, Master of Arts Program, TMU
Souhail Al-Alaoui, Policy Studies, PhD Program, TMU
Rasha Arous, Policy Studies, PhD Program, TMU
Shevan Bastianpillai, Documentary Media, Master of Arts Program, TMU
Rica Agnes Castaneda, Policy Studies, PhD Program, TMU
Nick Dreher, Policy Studies, PhD Program, TMU
Sebastien Gibson, Policy Studies, PhD Program, TMU
Irmak Kurtulmuş, Policy Studies, PhD Program, TMU
Georgiana Mathurin, Immigration and Settlement Studies, Master of Arts Program, TMU
Mei-Ling Patterson, Environmental Applied Science and Management, Master of Science Program, TMU
Sharif Ahmad Waheedi, Immigration and Settlement Studies, Master of Arts Program, TMU
Yu Wei Ye, Management, PhD Program, TMU
Erika Young, Public Policy and Administration, Master of Arts Program, TMU

Chairs:
John Carlaw, Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, TMU
Daniela Ghio, Research Fellow, CERC Migration, TMU
Melissa Kelly, Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, TMU
Stein Monteiro, Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, TMU

• Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
• Time: 8:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person at the CERC Migration office, 220 Yonge Street, and online via Zoom)

Silencing Across Borders – Governments Threaten Canadian Writers and Journalists

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression (CFE)

Canadian-based writers and journalists face increasing threats from authoritarian governments trying to intimidate and silence them through the use of digital platforms. Weaponizing devices and networks that writers and journalists use to reach their audiences, nation-states can surveil, harass, threaten and attack critical voices, silencing people who live in otherwise democratic countries. Join a panel of experts discussing the consequences of digital transnational repression and what Canada can do to fight it.

Co-sponsored by PEN Canada.

Panellists:
Siena Anstis, Senior Legal Advisor, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Kiran Nazish, Founding Director, Coalition for Women in Journalism
Chris Tenove, Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia
Sheng Xue, Journalist and Member of the Writers in Exile Network

Moderator:
Julian Sher, Investigative Journalist and Author, former Senior Producer of CBC’s The Fifth Estate

• Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
• Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Generous Futures: Unpacking Food Insecurity and Access

Hosted by: Alumni Relations

Recent conversations about food security examine the broader issues of injustice, poverty and systemic inequality. What role does philanthropy play in shifting these narratives from food to equity? This panel will shed light on how charitable giving is trying to go deeper on the topic of food security in Canada.

Panellists:
Janine Manning, Manager, Annual Giving and Donor Relations, Anishnawbe Health Foundation; Chair, Laidlaw Foundation
Ava-Dayna Sefa, Vice-President, Social Impact, Generation Capital
Laura Arrell, Managing Director, Arrell Family Foundation

Moderator:
Juniper Locilento, Chief Development and Communications Officer, Community Food Centres Canada, Instructor and Course Developer, Fundraising Management Program, The Chang School, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

The Global Reporting Initiative and Due Diligence – Making the Connection: In Conversation with Global Reporting Initiatives' Tabitha Bailey

Hosted by: Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, Toronto Metropolitan University

This online in-conversation session will discuss the evolving role of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its connections to due diligence. Founded in 1997, GRI is an independent, non-state, global entity that uses a multi-stakeholder process to develop a comprehensive reporting framework addressing the full range of environmental and social issues. The GRI Standards are the only comprehensive global reporting standards with an exclusive focus on impact reporting for a multi-stakeholder audience, and thus GRI standards are seen by many as being an essential factor in the shaping of corporate reporting structures.

Speaker:
Tabitha Bailey, Senior Policy Coordinator, policy team of GRI’s Secretariat

Moderator:
Kernaghan Webb, Director, Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, Professor, Law and Business, TMU

• Date: Friday, June 9, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

FOS Research Symposium and Networking Event

Hosted by: Faculty of Science (FOS)

All Faculty of Science (FOS) faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to register and attend the first-ever FOS Research Showcase and Networking Event. This event is an opportunity to meet and interact with colleagues in other departments, learn more about their SRC activities, and identify possible interdisciplinary and collaborative work opportunities. External partners will also be invited. Undergraduates and other members of the TMU community are welcome to attend the poster session.

• Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person at Podium, POD 250, 350 Victoria Street, and online via Zoom)

Special Betinho Project Seminar Day

Hosted by: Centre for Studies in Food Security

Join the Centre for Studies in Food Security for an in-person day of speakers and discussions around international food policies and systems. 

Schedule:

Food Policy and Programs in Brazil
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m: Cecilia Rocha, Professor, School of Nutrition, Researcher, Centre for Studies in Food Security, TMU

Food Systems in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m: Sonay Bayramoglu, Professor, Ankara University, Turkiye, and Visiting Professor, City Institute, York University

Assessment of Food Systems Knowledge in Nutrition Higher Education
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m: Priscilla Rolim, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, and Visiting Researcher, CSFS, TMU

The Nitrogen Footprint for Brazil: A Look at the Agri-food Chain’s Nitrogen Losses in Brazil
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m: Camille Nolasco, Researcher, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil, and Visiting Researcher, CSFS, TMU

Potentialities and Challenges: Using an Index as a Public Policy Tool for Moving Food Systems Toward Sustainability
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m: Giselle Garcia, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Program in Human Nutrition, University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, and Visiting Student, CSFS, TMU

• Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, DCC 636, 288 Church Street)

No registration is required. Please note this seminar will not be available online or recorded.

Catalyst 2023 Speaker Series: Kama La Mackerel

Hosted by: The Creative School

The Creative School Catalyst Speaker Series presents the artist Kama La Mackerel, who will discuss their multidisciplinary work, which creates hybrid spaces to enunciate decolonial and queer vocabularies.

Speaker:
Kama La Mackerel, Writer, visual artist, performer, translator and educator

• Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Artist and Curator in Conversation: Jin-me Yoon with Euijung McGillis

Hosted by: The Image Centre

Join artist Jin-me Yoon and Euijung McGillis, Assistant Curator of Photographs Collection at the National Gallery of Canada, for a virtual conversation presented in conjunction with the exhibition Scotiabank Photography Award: Jin-me Yoon, on view at The Image Centre April 29 to August 5, 2023.

Panellist:
Jin-me Yoon, Artist

Moderator:
Euijung McGillis, Assistant Curator of Photographs Collection, National Gallery of Canada

• Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
• Time: 7:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Creating Rewarding Placement Opportunities for Disabled Students

Hosted by: Faculty of Community Services (FCS)

Are you interested in creating placements for disabled students but are unsure how to start? Do you already offer placements and want to improve the student experience? Join us for a virtual panel discussion on how organizations and preceptors can ensure successful placement participation for disabled students.

In this engaging conversation, we will be talking to a panel of current students, alumni and preceptors about their placement experiences. Listen to their stories of what challenges they faced, how they overcame the obstacles and what made their placement experiences particularly rewarding.

• Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Panacea or Placebo? Two-Step Migration Trajectories and Immigrant Integration Outcomes

Hosted by: Canada Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join us for a lecture by Professor and Canada Research Chair Rupa Banerjee, Toronto Metropolitan University, presented by Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques. Banerjee will share her recent research, which draws from the Longitudinal Immigration Database to shed light on how temporary resident streams and two-step migration have been shifting over the past decades. Her work promises to help close the significant knowledge gap in our understanding of the migration trajectories of temporary residents and to identify areas for further investigation and policy direction.

Speaker:
Rupa Banerjee, Canada Research Chair in Economic Inclusion, Employment and Entrepreneurship of Canada’s Immigrants, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour, TMU

• Date: Monday, June 19, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Connections Conference – Online Hate, Media (Mis)Representation and Systemic Racism Conference

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

The Online Hate, Media (Mis)Representation and Racism Conference will provide further dialogue and understanding of the role of online social, news and digital media in systemic racism. This two-day virtual conference is intended for 200 leaders and practitioners from Canadian academia, policy-making and the social and news media industries. It will build on the Diversity Institute's project funded by Canadian Heritage titled Media Bias and Under-represented Groups, which analyzes the impact of media-propagated discrimination and racism on Black, Muslim, Indigenous and Jewish communities across Canada by conducting focus groups with members of each of these communities.

Speakers:
Barbara Perry, Professor, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ontario Tech University
Michelle Ferrier, Founder and Creator, TrollBusters
Kaitlynn Mendes, Canada Research Chair, Inequality and Gender, University of Ottawa
Pamela Palmater, Professor and Chair, Indigenous Governance, TMU
Jack Jedwab, President and CEO, Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute
Jaigris Hodson, Canada Research Chair, Digital Communication for the Public Interest, Royal Roads University
Andi Shi, Executive Director, CPAC
Nuzhat Jafri, Executive Director, the Canadian Council of Muslim Women
Bernie Farber, Chair, Anti-Hate Network
Ahmad Al-Rawi, Associate Professor, News, Social Media and Public Communication, Simon Fraser University
Karim Bardeesy, Co-founder and Executive Director, The Leadership Lab, TMU
Nadine Spencer, CEO, Black Business and Professional Association, CEO, BrandEQ Group Inc.
Amanda Arella, Director, Public Policy, Advocacy and Strategic Communications, YWCA Canada
Anatoliy Gruzd, Professor, Information Technology Management and Canada Research Chair, Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, Ted Rogers School of Management, TMU
Nadia Hasan, COO, National Council of Canadian Muslims
Wendy Cukier, Founder and Academic Director, Diversity Institute, TMU
Mohamed Elmi, Executive Director, Diversity Institute, TMU

• Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023 – Friday, June 23, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT) on both days
• Location: Online

Designing AI Using a Human-Centered Approach: Explainability and Accuracy Toward Trustworthiness

Hosted by: Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Toronto Metropolitan University

One of the major criticisms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is its lack of explainability. Many critics claim that without knowing how AI may derive a result or come to a given conclusion, it is impossible to trust its outcomes. This problem is especially concerning when AI-based systems and applications fail to perform their tasks successfully.

In this presentation, we focus on two main areas, explainable AI (XAI) and accuracy, and how both dimensions are critical to building trustworthy systems. We review prominent XAI design themes, leading to a reframing of the design and development effort that highlights the significance of the human, thereby demonstrating the importance of human-centred AI (HCAI). We discuss ways forward, underscoring the value of a balanced approach to assessing the opportunities, risks and responsibilities associated with AI design.

Speaker:
Katina Michael, Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Laboratory, jointly appointed Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

• Date: Friday, June 23, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Ukrainian Refugee Women’s Experiences of Settlement and Negotiating Social and Healthcare Services in Canada

Hosted by: Faculty of Community Services (FCS)

Toronto Metropolitan University's Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing Wellesley Forum will present their FCS-funded collaborative research project entitled Ukrainian Refugee Women’s Experiences of Settlement and Negotiating Social and Healthcare Services in Canada. The project addresses how Ukrainian women perceive, shape and promote their health and well-being in Canada. 

Research Team & Presenters:
Areej Al-Hamad, Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Kateryna Metersky, Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Rosanra Yoon, Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Denise McLane-Davison, Professor, Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University
Molly Jay Hingorani, Year 3 BScN Student, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Caitlin Gare, Year 3 BScN student, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Monday, May 1, 2023
• Time: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person at Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, DCC-713, 288 Church Street / online via Zoom)

Ethnic/Religious Nationalism & Academic Freedom: The Study of China

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression (CFE)

Scholars of a nation’s history, politics and culture are increasingly challenged as anti-national or hostile to the dominant religion, ethnicity and culture. This panel will look at the growing challenges faced by scholars of China. When does critical disagreement become an attack on academic freedom? What can universities do to protect the integrity of scholarly work in such a deeply fraught environment?

Panellists:
Andrew Nathan, Professor, Political Science and Chair, Steering Committee, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
Meg Rithmire, Associate Professor, Business Administration, Harvard University
Rory Truex, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Moderator:
Henry Reichman, Professor Emeritus, History, California State University

• Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2023
• Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Book Launch for Sorpong Peou

Hosted by: Department of Politics and Public Administration

The Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University hosts a joint book launch for colleague Sorpong Peou with invited discussant Robert Marshall.

Panellist:
Sorpong Peou, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Robert Marshall, Contract Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, May 4, 2023
• Time: 12:10 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Jorgenson Hall, JOR1200, 380 Victoria Street)

iBEST Visiting Lecturer Series - Dr. Christopher Moraes

Hosted by: Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST)

The iBEST Visiting Lecturer Series presents a talk by Christopher Moraes, Canada Research Chair in Advanced Cellular Microenvironments and associate professor in McGill University's Department of Chemical Engineering entitled, Microengineered Biomaterials to Explore Mechanical Feedback Loops in Breast Cancer Progression. Professor Moraes' research and technical expertise lie at the interface of microfabricated cell culture systems, biomaterials design, advanced imaging technologies and computational modelling. He is particularly curious about the role microenvironmental biomechanical forces play in driving disease and development.

Panellist:
Christopher Moraes, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Advanced Cellular Microenvironments, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University

Moderator:
Scott Tsai, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University and Biomedical Delivery Systems (BDS) theme lead, iBEST

• Date: Friday, May 5, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street / online via Zoom)

How I Raised: Bobbie Racette

Hosted by: The Diversity Institute (DI)

The How I Raised series of webinars celebrates women founders who have beaten the odds and found success in fundraising. Join the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH) and the Canadian Women's Network (CWN) on this next edition of the series, featuring a fireside chat with Bobbie Racette, founder & CEO of Virtual Gurus and askBetty, moderated by Joanne Fedeyko, founder & CEO of Connection Silicon Valley. In addition, Wendy Cukier, founder and academic director of the Diversity Institute and academic director of WEKH, will share research insights from the preview of their recently launched annual report, The State of Women's Entrepreneurship in Canada 2023.

Speakers:
Bobbie Racette, Founder & CEO of Virtual Gurus and askBetty
Wendy Cukier, Founder and Academic Director of the Diversity Institute, Academic Director of WEKH and Professor, Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Joanne Fedeyko, Founder & CEO of Connection Silicon Valley

• Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Reflections on Canada's Immigration Narrative: A Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Nam Kiwanuka

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join Toronto Metropolitan University's Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration program's roundtable discussion to critically reflect on the dominant Canadian immigration narrative today. Moderated by the co-host of The Agenda with Steve Paikin Nam Kiwanuka, the discussion will also consider what additional views need to be heard and explore suggestions on building an inclusive narrative to shape the future.

Speakers:
Andrew Parkin, Executive Director, Environics Institute
Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Panellists:
Debbie Douglas, Executive Director, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
Naheed Nenshi, former Mayor of Calgary, Community Builder, The Ascend Group

Moderator:
Nam Kiwanuka, co-host of The Agenda with Steve Paikin

• Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2023
• Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, Sears Atrium, third floor, 245 Church Street)

Keeping the Yonge Love Alive

Hosted by: City Building TMU

The Downtown Yonge BIA's (DYBIA) campaign, #YongeLove, built support for the YongeTOmorrow project of the City of Toronto, which will reimagine a section of Yonge for better public access and safety. But this revitalization, plus the construction of the new Ontario Line by Metrolinx, will plunge the Downtown Yonge area into significant disruption in the next decade. This disruption follows on the heels of a pandemic that hit local independent businesses hard. In this scenario, how can we keep the Yonge Love flowing?

In this webinar, Victor Perez-Amado, professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Urban and Regional Planning, and Cheryll Diego, Public Realm Experience Manager, DYBIA, sheds light on how DYBIA is confronting challenges in the area using innovative strategies and education-based partnership.

Panellists:
Cheryll Diego, Public Realm Experience Manager, Downtown Yonge BIA (DYBIA)
Victor Perez-Amado, Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Pamela Robinson, Academic Director, City Building TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

CERC Migration Annual Conference 2023 – The Narratives of Migration: Between Politics and Policies

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, for its fourth annual international conference focused on narratives of migration.

• Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Thursday, May 11, 2023
• Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person and online via Zoom)

A New Space for Community in Brampton

Hosted by: City Building TMU

With a medical school and other new university programming coming to Brampton, Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Community Services is preparing to open the Community Transformation Café, a storefront space in downtown Brampton launching in the summer of 2023.

In this webinar, Kiraras Gharabaghi, Dean, Faculty of Community Services and Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, introduces the concept of the Community Transformation Café, a flexible, multi-purpose space whose programming will adapt to accommodate all users from the community and local organizations. Learn more and ask questions about this new space and how TMU is set to engage with Brampton residents.

Panellist:
Kiraras Gharabaghi, Dean, Faculty of Community Services and Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Pamela Robinson, Academic Director, City Building TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Can the Idea of Social Democracy be Rescued?

Hosted by: Toronto Public Library (TPL) and the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

For many decades, Scandinavia was the celebrated heartland of classic social democracy. The strength of left-wing parties and progressive compromises between workers, employers and government enabled a commitment to full employment policies and generous welfare entitlements that produced social trust and democratic stability.

Yet the advent of liberalization and globalization has put these historic achievements under pressure since the 1980s. Moreover, the last decade has witnessed the rise of far-right parties, channeling rising nativism and anti-immigrant sentiments, in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark.

What explains these dramatic changes? Are they also related to increasing problems of inequality and democracy in the global South? If so, are there innovations and alliances that social democrats across these regions can learn and build?

Panellist:
Olle Törnquist, Professor, Politics and Development, University of Oslo

Moderator:
Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
• Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, 789 Yonge Street)

Ethical Design: In Practice, In Conflict, In Power

Hosted by: Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence (RAI)

All the big tech companies implement machine learning systems in everything from ad auctions to photo tagging. They also supplement or replace human decision-making in many more mundane but possibly more consequential areas like loans, bail, policing and hiring. We've already seen plenty of dangerous failures, from risk assessment tools systematically rating black arrestees as riskier than white ones to hiring algorithms that learned to reject women.

Taking a sociological approach to the current boom in ethical AI and machine learning initiatives that promise to save us from machines, this talk explores how this becomes a problem, for whom, and with what solutions. Comparing today's high-profile ethics manifestos with earlier moments in the history of technology allows us to see a nascent consensus around an approach we term 'ethical design.'

Speaker:
Daniel Greene, Assistant Professor, Information Studies, University of Maryland

• Date: Friday, May 12, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

AI, ChatGPT & Legal Services: Today, Tomorrow and the Days After

Hosted by: Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ)

The increasing power of AI and ChatGPT are unleashing new thinking about legal service delivery. For those who are willing, how can you use them today, tomorrow, and in the days after to deliver the legal services that people, businesses, governments and organizations need, when they need them, in the way that they need them, and at the price they are willing to pay?

Speakers:
Shelby Austin, CEO & Co-Founder, Arteria AI
Junaid Mirza, Legal Transformation Leader, PwC Canada
Jack Newton, CEO & Co-Founder, Clio
Amy Salyzyn, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada

• Date: Monday, May 15, 2023
• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS-1, seventh floor, 55 Dundas Street West)

Generous Futures: Revitalizing Spaces & City Building

Hosted by: Alumni Relations

What role do charities play in strengthening and growing cities? Gentrification is displacing long-term residents and adding to the housing affordability crisis. How can we revitalize urban spaces and build cities while mitigating the negative impacts on vulnerable communities? How are city builders addressing this problem and responsibly revitalizing our neighbourhoods? Join us for a panel that will explore these questions and more.

Panellists:
Andrea DelZotto, Co-Founder, Concrete Cardinal
Krystal Koo, Chair, Dream Community Foundation
Heela Omarkhail, Vice-President, Social Impact, The Daniels Corporation
Ray Williams, Board Member, Black Opportunity Fund

Moderator:
David Amborski, Academic Director, Centre for Urban Research and Land Development, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Monday, May 15, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Five-Day Workshop on Modelling and Mining Complex Networks as Hypergraphs

Hosted by: Department of Mathematics

Hypergraphs have recently emerged as a useful representation for complex networks since they allow capturing more general relations than graphs. Research on the generalization of various graph-based tools and techniques is booming, and, in parallel, new software packages are being developed. However, the theory and tools are still not sufficiently developed to tackle most problems directly within this context.

This five-day workshop will gather a small group of experts specializing in modelling and mining complex networks represented as higher-order structures, such as hypergraphs, to introduce specific problems in this context and explain solutions and tools used to solve them.

• Date: Monday, May 15, 2023 - Friday, May 19, 2023
• Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Student Learning Centre, DMZ Sandbox, third floor, 341 Yonge Street)

Policy, Biodiversity and the City

Hosted by: City Building TMU

Fostering biodiversity is a strategy to increase urban resilience. Investigations of how municipal policy can further support biodiversity is central to the work of the Ecological Design Lab.

This talk will discuss the policy reforms that have occurred across Ontario over the last three years to encourage the naturalization of private yards. Led by Nina-Marie Lister, Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning; Director, Ecological Design Lab, and a team of interdisciplinary environmentalists, the Ecological Design Lab has supported the reform of 14 Ontario bylaws, which further enable biodiversity. There is still much to be done to recognize biodiversity in municipal policy so that it may be further represented in the public, private and in-between spaces of the city.

Panellists:
Nina-Marie Lister, Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University
Aylise Cooke, Ecological Design Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Cherise Burda, Executive Director, City Building TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m.– 11:45 a.m. (EDT) 
• Location: Online

Confronting the New Wave of Antisemitism

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression (CFE)

Antisemitism is resurgent in our age of social media, identity politics and populism. In his new book, Antisemitism: An ancient hatred in the age of identity politics, Philip Slayton looks at the history of antisemitism and how it is being turbocharged today. An award-winning writer, lawyer and former law dean, Slayton suggests a way forward that challenges conventional wisdom.

Co-sponsored by Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and PEN Canada.

Panellist:
Philip Slayton, Writer, lawyer and former law dean

Moderator:
Samir Gandesha, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University

• Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
• Time: 4:00 p.m.– 5:30 p.m. (EDT) 
• Location: Online

Presentation by Professor Joanna Redden

Hosted by: Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence (RAI)

Professor Joanna Redden's research examines datafication, politics, governance and social justice. She is co-director of the Data Justice Lab. Dr. Redden is currently working on projects that involve: a) mapping and analyzing the social and political implications of increasing government uses of predictive and automated data systems, b) learning from data harms and those trying to redress these harms and c) working toward greater civic participation in our datafied societies.

Speaker:
Joanna Redden, Co-Director, Data Justice Lab

• Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT) 
• Location: Online

Getting Started with Systematic Reviews

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

This session is intended for students, research assistants and faculty who are planning to undertake a systematic review or who are interested in applying systematic research methods to a current project. We will discuss the core components of a systematic review, what makes a review ‘systematic’, and how to apply advanced research skills when searching the literature. There will be a particular focus on how best to utilize the library’s resources when undertaking a systematic review.

• Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EDT) 
• Location: Online

Datafication of Borders and Migration

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars to discuss research on the use of digital technologies and datafication in migration management, the implications for refugees, and the unsettling consequences in border management and policymaking applications.

Speakers:
Younes Ahouga, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University 
Philippe M. Frowd, University of Ottawa

Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics and Political Science
Rob Heynen, York University
Sergio F. Juárez, Loyola Marymount University
Michael Lechuga, University of New Mexico
Nicholas Lee-Scott, Independent scholar
Daniel Leix Palumbo, University of Groningen
Koen Leurs, Utrecht University
Alphoncina Lyamuya, University of Southern California
Benjamin J. Muller, University of Western Ontario
Lucia Nalbandian, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Toronto
Kaarina Nikunen, Tampere University
Philipp Seuferling, London School of Economics and Political Science
Anna Triandafyllidou, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Rine Vieth, Independent scholar
Saskia Witteborn, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Moderators:
Anna Triandafyllidou, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Koen Leurs, Utrecht University
Kaarina Nikunen, Tampere University
Younes Ahouga, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Lucia Nalbandian, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Toronto

• Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
• Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person at the CERC Migration office, 220 Yonge Street and online via Zoom)

Introduction to Zotero

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool that helps users collect, organize, cite and share research sources. With a single click, Zotero lets users add citations to journal articles, websites and books. It can be used to create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations or bibliographies in the style of choice. A citation manager is highly recommended for graduate students, faculty and research assistants.

• Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Migration Working Group – Scholars of Excellence Edition: Multiculturalism at a Crossroads

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Multiculturalism today stands at the crossroads with its future, and more appropriately, the future of progressive and inclusive democratic politics, dependant upon its ability to overcome the divide created between the majority and the minorities by populist regimes.

Speakers:
Lori Beaman, University of Ottawa
Tamar de Waal, University of Amsterdam
Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria
Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam
Riva Kastoryano, Research Director, CNRS
Geoffrey Brahm Levey, University of New South Wales
Gurpreet Mahajan, former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Tariq Modood, University of Bristol
Jeff Spinner-Halev, University of North Carolina
Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderators:
Gurpreet Mahajan, former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (In-person at the CERC Migration office, 220 Yonge Street and online via Zoom)

Generous Futures: Protecting Democracy

Hosted by: Alumni Relations

What role does philanthropy play in preserving and growing democracy? What are the challenges and obstacles in using charitable support for initiatives that strengthen democracy? How is the corporate sector advancing non-partisan engagement of communities and civic life? Who are the players, and who is missing? Join us for a panel discussion that will explore these questions and more.

Panellists:
Sabreena Delhon, Executive Director, The Samara Centre for Democracy
Yonis Hassan, CEO, Justice Fund Toronto
Lana Payne, National President, Unifor National

Moderator:
Sanjay Ruparelia, Professor and Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Constructing the Family: Marriage and Work in 19th-Century English Law

Hosted by: Lincoln Alexander School of Law

Uncover the historical development of family and work law with Lincoln Alexander School of Law's Professor Luke Taylor as he explores the governance of work and family relations in his new book, Constructing the Family: Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law.

Panellists:
Brenda Cossman, Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law, University of Toronto
Kerry Rittich, Professor of Law, University of Toronto
Luke Taylor, Assistant Professor, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Donna E. Young, Founding Dean, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
• Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Law Library, POD484, 350 Victoria Street)

Self-Identification and Equity Statements: Grant Writing and Research Practice

Hosted by: Dimensions Pilot Program

The Dimensions program, led by Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries and the Faculty of Community Services (FCS), invites you to join this discussion, where faculty and research staff consider questions that arise in ethical and equity-informed research.

This session is part of a webinar series entitled Project Management: Problematics and Potential Solutions.

• Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

NSERC Alliance Grant Workshop

Hosted by: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Join NSERC to learn about the Alliance Grant, launched in 2019 to provide a unified funding platform to support researchers wanting to collaborate with partners from outside the university. The program supports collaborations with partners from industry, government and not-for-profit sectors.

This interactive online workshop is being offered exclusively to TMU researchers who look to NSERC for funding to help drive their collaborative research program.

Host:
John Jackson, Senior Program Manager, Research Partnerships Directorate, NSERC

• Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Book Launch: The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo and Words On Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions

Hosted by: Department of Politics and Public Administration

The Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University is pleased to host a joint book launch for two colleagues, Caitlin Andrews-Lee and Rob Goodman, with invited discussants Peter Loewen (University of Toronto) and James Ingram (McMaster University).

Panellists:
Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Rob Goodman, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University
James Ingram, Associate Professor, McMaster University
Peter Loewen, Director of the Munk School of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

• Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
• Time: 12:10 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Jorgenson Hall, JOR1402, 380 Victoria Street)

Intellectual Property and Community Partners

Hosted by: Dimensions Pilot Program

The Dimensions program, led by Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries and the Faculty of Community Services (FCS), invites you to join this discussion, where faculty and research staff consider questions that arise in ethical and equity-informed research. 

This session is part of a webinar series entitled Project Management: Problematics and Potential Solutions.

• Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

2023 iBEST Symposium Keynote Speaker Dr. Khaled El Emam: Experiences Developing and Commercializing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

Hosted by: Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST)

Dr. Khaled El Emam holds a Canada Research Chair in Medical AI and is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory. Dr. El Emam conducts research on privacy-enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including synthetic data generation and de-identification methods. He is also co-editor-in-chief of the JMIR AI journal.

This keynote is part of the 2023 iBEST Symposium, an annual research conference organized by the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST). iBEST is a partnership between Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, that combines TMU's engineering and science strengths with Unity Health's biomedical research and clinical expertise.

Keynote Speaker:
Khaled El Emam, Canada Research Chair, Medical AI, Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Senior Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute

• Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
• Time: 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, KRC Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street)

2023 iBEST Symposium Panel: AI & Algorithms: Clinicians Beware?

Hosted by: Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST)

A panel discussion on challenges and opportunities for development/deployment of AI algorithms in health care research.

This panel is part of the 2023 iBEST Symposium, an annual research conference organized by the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST). iBEST is a partnership between Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, that combines TMU's engineering and science strengths with Unity Health's biomedical research and clinical expertise.

Panellists:
Gary Bader, Professor, The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
Timothy Chan, Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Strategic Initiatives and Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health, University of Toronto
April Khademi, Principal Investigator, Image Analysis in Medicine Lab (IAMLAB), Professor, Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Sri Krishnan, Associate Dean, Research, Development and External Partnerships, Co-Director, iBEST, Professor, Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Muhammad Mamdani, Vice President, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Unity Health Toronto, Director, University of Toronto Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM)

Moderator:
Venkat Bhat, iBEST Health AI and Analytics Theme Lead

• Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
• Time: 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, KRC Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street)

2023 iBEST Symposium Panel: AI & Society: Time for a Social Contract?

Hosted by: Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST)

A panel discussion on challenges and opportunities to understand the implications of AI in healthcare and society.

This panel is part of the 2023 iBEST Symposium, an annual research conference organized by the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST). iBEST is a partnership between Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, that combines TMU's engineering and science strengths with Unity Health's biomedical research and clinical expertise.

Panellists:
Ebrahim Bagheri, Canada Research Chair in Social Information Retrieval, NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Social Media Analytics, Professor, Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Yvonne Bombard, Canada Research Chair in Genomics Health Services and Policy
Ali Mazalek, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Innovation, Director, Synaesthetic Media Lab, Professor, RTA Scholl of Media, Toronto Metropolitan University
Tony Orsi, Partner, Bereskin & Parr LLP
Reza Samavi, Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Andrea C. Tricco, Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis, Scientist & Director, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto

Moderator:
Venkat Bhat, iBEST Health AI and Analytics Theme Lead

• Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
• Time: 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, KRC Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street)

NVivo Fundamentals

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join us for a workshop for beginner researchers interested in learning about NVivo for Windows software. Participants will learn how to prepare their text data for analysis with NVivo 12, import and organize the data in NVivo, add research notes while analyzing it, code qualitative data in various ways and more.

Workshop Leader:
Olesya Falenchuk, Research Systems Analyst, Office of Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

• Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
• Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (CERC Migration Office, 220 Yonge Street)

Migration Working Group – Scholars of Excellence Edition: De-Centring the Governance and Knowledge Production on Migration

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Led by CERC Migration’s visiting Scholars of Excellence, this workshop aims to challenge the consensus view of the core group of states that shaped the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The workshop draws on views from Africa, Asia and Latin America to examine the political economy of knowledge production on migration, its governance, and the side effects of regulated migration.

Panellists:
Danièle Bélanger, Université Laval
Amanda Bisong, European Centre for Development Policy Management
Jonathan Crush, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Faisal Garba, University of Cape Town
Joao Carlos Jarochinski Silva, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Brazil
Yvonne Khor, Monash University Malaysia
Anna Triandafyllidou, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderators:
Oliver Bakewell, Reader in Migration Studies, University of Manchester
Nicola Piper, Professor of International Migration and British Academy Global Professor Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

• Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (in-person at the CERC Migration office, 220 Yonge Street / online via Zoom)

Google Scholar and ORCID Profiles

Hosted by: Dimensions Pilot Program

The Dimensions program, led by Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries and the Faculty of Community Services (FCS), invites you to join a discussion where faculty and research staff consider questions that arise in ethical and equity-informed research. 

This session is part of a webinar series entitled Project Management: Problematics and Potential Solutions.

• Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Generous Futures: Demanding Climate Justice

Hosted by: Alumni Relations

We have reached a breaking point: natural disasters, receding glaciers, famines, drought, rising ocean levels, species extinction and loss of life. These are only a few examples of the devastating impacts of climate change. Join a panel that will explore the ethics of philanthropy in light of the movement for climate justice.

Panellists:
Devika Shah, Executive Director, Environment Funders Canada
Eric St. Pierre, Executive Director, Trottier Foundation 
Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Executive Director, David Suzuki Foundation, Culture and Environment Activist
Bruce Lourie, President, Ivey Foundation

Moderator:
Valerie Pringle, Broadcaster

• Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Putin's War Against Journalists: One Year Later

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression (CFE)

One year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion and muzzled Russian media, what have we learned from the war against Ukraine and against journalists? Join three Russian journalists to see how they have refused to be silenced. 

Panellists:
Ekaterina Kotrikadze, News Director and Anchor, Dozhd (Rain TV)
Alexey Kovalev, Investigative Reporter, Editor, Meduza
Maxim Trudolyubov, former Editorial Page Editor, Vedomosti; Opinion Writer, International New York Times; Writer, Russia File blog, Kennan Institute
Chris Brown, CBC News Correspondent

Moderator:
Julian Sher, Investigative Journalist, Author, and former Senior Producer, CBC's the fifth estate

• Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
• Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Irresponsible AI: Digital Authoritarian is Coming to Town

Hosted by: Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence (RAI)

This presentation will first provide an overview of the Chinese Communist Party’s digital authoritarian tactics in China. Next, it will cover some real-life incidents of foreign interference in Canada’s academic and democratic processes and threats faced by different groups of dissentients and diaspora living in Canada.

Panellist:
Benjamin Fung, Canada Research Chair, Data Mining for Cybersecurity, McGill University

• Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Migration Working Group: (Trans)nationalism

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join CERC Migration for their upcoming Migration Working Group meeting to discuss emerging migration research. The April Migration Working Group addresses the theme of (trans)nationalism.

Panellists:
Harshita Yalamarty, York University
Anne-Cécile Delaisse, University of British Columbia
Antoine Bilodeau, Concordia University
Maria Esther Cervantes, University of British Columbia and Yale University
Sutama Ghosh, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Amin Moghadam, Senior Research Associate, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Clash of the Titans: US-China Conflict in Global Trade

Hosted by: Toronto Public Library (TPL) and the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

The spectacular growth of China since the 1990s, now the leading trading state in the world, has transformed the global political economy. Many hoped its rise could be integrated into the US-dominated international order. China saw these rules as favouring the west, however, a view shared by many emerging powers in the global South. Today, both countries increasingly contest the norms, rules and practices that govern international trade in pursuit of their perceived national interests.

How will the US-China rivalry affect patterns of trade, investment and capital flows in the world? And what are its repercussions for promoting global development and confronting climate change?

The leading political economist Kristen Hopewell examines these developments in conversation with Sanjay Ruparelia.

Speaker:
Kristen Hopewell, Canada Research Chair in Global Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

Moderator:
Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023
• Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, 789 Yonge Street)

Focus Groups: Purposes & Processes

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

In this workshop, participants will learn about organizing and conducting focus groups and examine their possibilities and limitations. Participants will engage in simulations and role-play and are encouraged to share their current research ideas and discuss how focus groups may support them.

Workshop Leader:
Mehrunnisa Ali, Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Friday, April 28, 2023
• Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: In-person (CERC Migration Office, 220 Yonge Street)

Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence (RAI) Invited Speaker Series –Ekaterina Hertog

Hosted by: Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence (RAI)

Ekaterina Hertog's research interests lie at the intersection of digital and family sociology. She leads the ESRC-funded DomesticAI project that scopes new technologies' potential to free up time now locked into unpaid domestic labour and measures how willing people are to introduce these technologies into their private lives.

Panellist:
Ekaterina Hertog, Associate Professor, AI and Society, University of Oxford

• Date: Friday, April 28, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

An Introduction to Meta-Analysis for Health Sciences

Hosted by: Urban Analytics Institute and the School of Health Services Management

The Urban Analytics Institute and the School of Health Services Management are delighted to invite you to a webinar by Chuck Huber on meta-analysis with Stata, focusing on applications in health sciences.

Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for combining the results from multiple similar studies. The talk will provide a brief introduction to meta-analysis and demonstrate how to perform meta-analysis in Stata.

Speaker:
Chuck Huber, Director of Statistical Outreach, StataCorp

• Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping

Hosted by: International Issues Discussion (IID) Series

Join us for a talk with guest Bates Gill, executive director of the Asia Society Policy Institute's Centre for China Analysis. Bates is the author and editor of nine books on China and Asia-related topics. His new book Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping examines the fundamental motivations driving China's more dynamic, assertive and risk-taking approach to the world under Xi Jinping's leadership.

Speaker:
Bates Gill, Executive Director, Asia Society Policy Institute's Centre for China Analysis

• Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
• Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Hybrid (in-person at George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, ENG 103, 245 Church Street / online via Zoom)

Gender, Deliberation and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Hosted by: Behavioural Political Economy Group

Interventions to combat climate change often strive to promote gender balance so that men and women have equal rights to participate in, and benefit from, these programs. Yet, whether and how women's participation affects climate governance is still poorly understood.

We examine the causal effect of women's presence in climate-related deliberations using the case of communally managed forests in rural Malawi. Our early results indicate that women participate more and have more relative influence in group decisions when they make up a larger share of the group.

The findings suggest that including women in climate deliberations can shift outcomes in support of historically marginalized resource users.

Speaker:
Amanda Clayton, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

• Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
• Time: 12:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Jorgenson Hall, JOR1410 (380 Victoria Street)

Muslims and the Media: Western Media’s Role in Fanning Fear of Islam and Muslims

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression

Join a panel of distinguished journalists for a critical discussion on the role of Western media in relation to Islamophobia since 9/11.

Panellists:
Tony Burman, former Managing Director, Al Jazeera English, Editor-in-Chief, CBC News
Omar Sachedina, Chief News Anchor, Senior Editor, CTV National News
Michelle Shephard, award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker
Haroon Siddiqui, Editorial Page Editor Emeritus, Toronto Star

Moderator:
Julian Sher, former Senior Producer, CBC TV’s fifth estate

• Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
• Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Book Launch: Why Wellness Sells

Hosted by: Faculty of Arts

Join professor Colleen Derkatch for the launch of her latest book Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture.

The launch will include a short reading, snacks and a cash bar. A small number of books will be available at a special discount.

Speaker:
Colleen Derkatch, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
• Time: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Arts and Letters Club (14 Elm Street)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (Diversity Assessment Tool)

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

The Diversity Institute and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce are presenting a series of webinars that will share strategies to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce.

In this webinar, we will explore the importance of embedding EDI into your business strategy and ways you can improve and track your organization’s progress in implementing EDI best practices. This session will address the current state of EDI in small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) in Canada, the six dimensions to consider in your EDI strategy and resources such as the Diversity Assessment Tool.

• Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
• Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Book Launch: Ward 81: Voices

Hosted by: The Image Centre (IMC)

Join us to celebrate the launch of Ward 81: Voices, an expanded edition of the original 1979 book, Ward 81, by photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her collaborator, licensed therapist and writer Karen Folger Jacobs. This latest edition features unpublished photographs, excerpts from patient interviews and recorded conversations between Mark and Jacobs. It also includes new essays examining the influence of their project, including texts by IMC Director Paul Roth and IMC Curator Gaëlle Morel.

• Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
• Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: The Image Centre (33 Gould Street)

Reception for Durga Rajah: I am not the Artist, I am the Photographer

Hosted by: The Image Centre (IMC)

I am not the Artist, I am the Photographer: a series of conceptual photo retakes approaches the photographic aspect of conceptual art as a subject for repetition, remediation and re-presentation. Durga Rajah’s exhibition, which features video, audio and photography, presents ten “retakes” of iconic artworks. Inserting herself in the process of re-making the originals, the photographer pays homage to them and creates new embodied meaning. 

• Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
• Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: The Image Centre (33 Gould Street)

Tapping into New Talent Pools: Recruiting and Hiring Immigrants

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

The Diversity Institute and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce are presenting a series of webinars that will share strategies to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce.

In this webinar, we will review inclusive human resource practices and considerations and how to tap into new talent pools by recruiting and hiring immigrants. This session will address the challenges and barriers immigrants face in the recruitment process, recruitment practices that recognize a wide range of skills and talent and ways immigrants drive economic success.

• Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Exploring the Recipe for Survival: Hospitality Businesses During the COVID Pandemic

Hosted by: Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

Join TRSM professor Julie Kellershohn to examine and compare how government actions in South Carolina, USA and Ontario, Canada affected restaurants’ ability to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaker:
Julie Kellershohn, Assistant Professor, Hospitality and Tourism Management, TRSM, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS 3-129 (55 Dundas Street West)

Reimagining Equity in Global Health Research: Power, Principles and Possibilities!

Hosted by: Faculty of Community Services

Join the Faculty of Community Services (FCS) for the launch of the FCS International Speaker Series: Reimagining Equity in Global Health Research: Power, Principles and Possibilities! This event will feature three inspirational panellists who have worked across cultures and geopolitical climates to advance global health equity research with diverse communities. They will speak to their experiences, realizations and vision for equity in international research collaborations. The conversation will be thought-provoking, dynamic and simply brilliant.

Space is limited – please register in advance.

Speakers:
Funke Oba, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Director, School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University
Henry Parada, Professor, School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University
Josephine Wong, Professor and Research Chair in Urban Health, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderator:
Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
• Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Hybrid (in-person at the Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health, SHE686, 99 Gerrard Street East / online via Zoom)

Bedouin Testimonies and Framing Indigeneity: An Algorithmic Analysis

Hosted by: Lincoln Alexander School of Law

In this talk, Ronit Levine-Schnur discusses a study that considers whether Bedouin communities presenting their land claims to two Israeli state commissions that operated in parallel in 2008 acted in accordance with the purpose of the process as defined by the state or insisted on bringing forth their collective historical narrative.

The study's findings shed light on how Indigenous communities are designing consultations, with consequent normative implications for developing consultation procedures in future cases. Levine-Schnur's current research project focuses on building national narratives and peace-making with respect to territorial disputes.

Speaker:
Ronit Levine-Schnur, Senior Lecturer, Harry Radzyner Law School

• Date: Monday, March 13, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Podium Building, POD455 (350 Victoria Street)

Introduction to Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

Hosted by: Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) collaborates with partners in Canada’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) community to connect our researchers with cutting-edge research services and resources that allow them to perform computationally and data-intensive research and data management. These services include high-performance computing and collecting, documenting, sharing and storing research data using high-speed networks, software and data management services through the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC).

Join TMU professor and Multimedia Research Laboratory director Naimul Khan for an introductory workshop targeted toward Principal Investigators (PIs) and graduate students looking for computational power for their data analysis and processing tasks. The workshop will provide a high-level overview of the resources available at DRAC, some example research projects taking advantage of the compute facilities at DRAC, and a brief overview of how to transfer your data to DRAC servers and get your python code running.

No prior experience with coding in python is required.

Speaker:
Naimul Khan, Professor and Multimedia Research Laboratory Director, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Monday, March 13, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Diversity in Leadership (50 – 30 Challenge)

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

The Diversity Institute and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce are presenting a series of webinars that will share strategies to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce.

In this webinar, we will explore why diversity in leadership matters and how to increase diversity in your organization’s boards and leadership. This session will address the status of board diversity, why diversity in leadership matters, voluntary codes and the ways forward.

• Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
• Time: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

The Role of Social Factors in Purchase Journey in the Social Commerce Era, Technological Forecasting & Social Change

Hosted by: Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

This research seminar examines the influence of information-sharing amongst consumers on e-commerce platforms. The findings suggest that social commerce information sharing increases consumer perceptions of familiarity, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of social commerce platforms. Furthermore, consumer learning and training in social commerce systems increased their intention to purchase using the platform. The theoretical contributions and practical implications of this research will also be explained.

Speaker:
Farid Shirazi, Professor, School of Information Technology Management, TRSM, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS 3-129 (55 Dundas Street West)

How to Leverage Diversity in Procurement

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

The Diversity Institute and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce are presenting a series of webinars that will share strategies to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce.

In this webinar, we will cover the importance of diversity in procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This session will address supply chain basics, demographics of SMEs in Canada and the state of supplier diversity, benefits of supplier diversity and ways to improve supplier diversity.

• Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
• Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Don Ford Public Lecture on Community Care – Connecting and Coordinating Ontario’s Health System: The Future of Integrated Care

Hosted by: Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

Don Ford, a recognized leader and generous mentor, passed away in March 2022. This open-to-the-public lecture is being held in response to the wishes of Toronto Metropolitan University Master of Health Administration (Community Care) students, alumni and other program stakeholders to recognize Don Ford’s profound contributions to Canadian healthcare and the program in particular.

Speaker:
Matthew Anderson, CEO and President, Ontario Health

• Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
• Time: 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Ted Rogers School of Management, TRSM Commons, TRS 1-148 (55 Dundas Street West)

Practice-Based Research & Research-Creation + You

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

This workshop is an introduction to “research-creation” (the intersection of making, theory and research) that looks at how you can use creative and practice-based research, whatever your discipline. As the understanding of knowledge generation and knowledge translation in academia evolve, opportunities for alternative forms of research and dissemination are rapidly expanding.

How can you incorporate these sometimes radical ideas into your projects, theses and dissertations, and how can interdisciplinary collaboration enhance your research? Participants from all backgrounds and fields are invited (but not required) to bring ideas, questions and works in progress. No prior experience with research creation is necessary.

• Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Model Multiplicity: Opportunities, Concerns, and Solutions

Hosted by: Responsible Artificial Intelligence

Recent scholarship has brought attention to the fact that there often exist multiple models for a given prediction task with equal accuracy that differ in their individual-level predictions or aggregate properties. This phenomenon, called model multiplicity, can introduce a good deal of flexibility into the model selection process, creating a range of exciting opportunities.

By demonstrating that there are many different ways of making equally accurate predictions, multiplicity gives model developers the freedom to prioritize other values in their model selection process without having to abandon their commitment to maximizing accuracy. However, model selection on the basis of accuracy alone - the default procedure in many deployment scenarios - fails to consider what might be meaningful differences between equally accurate models with respect to other criteria such as fairness, robustness, and interpretability. 

In this work, we investigate how to take advantage of the flexibility afforded by model multiplicity while addressing the concerns with justifiability that it might raise.

Speaker:
Solon Barocas, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

• Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

The Rise of the Italian Far-Right: Lessons for Europe and Beyond

Hosted by: Toronto Public Library (TPL) and the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

A new coalition government, dominated by a far-right party with neo-fascist roots, rules Italy today. What explains its rise? How will it exercise power? And what lessons does its ascent hold for democratic politics in Europe and beyond?

The resounding defeat of the centre-left in Italy’s recent general election owes much to its traditional supporters – the poor, unemployed, or low-wage workers – who either did not vote or supported their rivals. Yet their choices highlighted a deeper breakdown of political representation in Italy’s post-1945 democracy. The rise of populism explains and reflects this development. Yet the authoritarian tendencies within modern democracies, whose party systems are in decay, are more significant.

Speaker:
Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Columbia University

Moderator:
Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
• Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon (789 Yonge Street)

Migration Working Group: Migrant Agency

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration

Join CERC Migration for our upcoming Migration Working Group meeting. The March Migration Working Group addresses the theme of migrant agency. This meeting will be chaired by research assistant Rica Castaneda.

The Migration Working Group meets monthly to discuss the migration research of emerging and established scholars. Our meetings give researchers an opportunity to present their ongoing projects, learn about each other's work and share feedback.

Moderator:
Rica Castaneda, Research Assistant, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
• Time: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Hybrid (in-person at the CERC Migration office, 220 Yonge Street / online via Zoom)

What Diversity and Inclusion Means for Marketing

Hosted by: Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management

The Diversity Institute and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce are presenting a series of webinars that will share strategies to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce.

In this webinar, we will cover the concepts of inclusive marketing and how to apply best practices to your organization. This session will highlight key concepts of inclusive marketing, marketing gone wrong, inclusive campaigns and their impact and how to build effective inclusive marketing strategies.

• Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
• Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

Book Launch: The Future of Food Is Female: Reinventing the Food System to Save the Planet with Jennifer Stojkovic

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Alumni Relations

Food system reform is the greatest challenge facing humanity today – and women are leading the charge. With exclusive interviews and original insights, The Future of Food is Female features a collection of cross-cultural stories from fifteen CEOs, venture capitalists, scientists and trailblazers who are reinventing our food system and saving our planet.

This book shares their stories of advocacy within food tech and empowers future generations to learn, innovate and change the world.

Speaker:
Jennifer Stojkovic, Author of The Future of Food is Female, Toronto Metropolitan University alumni

Moderator:
Marcia Woods, CEO and Co-Founder, FreshSpoke

• Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023
• Time: 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Location: Online

What is Diversity, and Why Does it Matter?

Hosted by: Diversity Institute

Lower turnover and higher employee engagement and loyalty are just a few benefits of a more diverse workforce. Through initiatives like the 50 – 30 Challenge, organizations can access resources to increase the representation of women and equity-deserving groups at senior and board levels. But what, exactly, is meant by equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)? And how can small and medium-sized enterprises achieve them?

Wendy Cukier, founder and academic director of the Diversity Institute, joins the Ontario Chamber of Commerce to discuss the strategic necessity of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and actionable steps businesses can take to make changes, including how to sign up to the 50 – 30 Challenge.

Speaker:
Wendy Cukier, Founder and Academic Director, Diversity Institute, TMU

• Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2023
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

2023 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Explore Competition - Information Session

Hosted by: Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation (OVPRI)

The OVPRI will be hosting an information session for the 2023 SSHRC Explore Competition. The SSHRC Explore Grant provides external funding to TMU faculty members in pursuit of scholarly, research and creative activities in the social sciences and humanities. This session will provide an overview of the SSHRC Explore competition, application process, selection criteria and reporting requirements. Participants will be given the opportunity to engage during a dedicated question-and-answer period.

• Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023
• Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Common Directorship and Corporate Social Responsibility

Hosted by: Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

This research seminar will discuss the paper published by Associate Professor Yi Feng that explores the role of common directorship in propagating corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices across firms.

Using a sample of 2,380 U.S. public firms from 2003 to 2018, we find that firms’ CSR ratings are positively associated with the CSR measures at their overlapping firms through the common directors in the boardroom. In addition, the year-to-year changes in the CSR measures are directly influenced by the gaps between the firms and their overlapping peers.

We further discover that independent directors and directors with more outside board seats are more influential in spreading CSR practices. Large, profitable, and complex firms are more inclined to learn CSR practices from overlapping firms. The results are robust to various endogeneity tests.

Speaker:
Yi Feng, Associate Professor, School of Accounting and Finance, TRSM, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS 3-129 (55 Dundas Street West)

Migrant Futures – Understanding the Lasting Impact of Policy Changes on Highly Skilled Migrants’ Decision-Making: Comparative Perspectives in Post-Pandemic Times

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted immigration intake and caused immigrant-receiving countries, such as Australia, Canada, the UK and the US, to take policy action, ranging from harsh exclusionary measures to those that are more immigrant-friendly. As countries compete to regain immigration levels, how have policy initiatives and pandemic-related risks affected the future of decision-making among highly skilled migrants?

Join the international panel representing Canada, Australia and the UK, who will explore the lasting impact of the pandemic on migrant decision-making.

Speakers:
Margaret Walton-Roberts, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Chris F. Wright, Associate Professor, University of Sidney
Mucahit Aydemir, PhD candidate, University of Sheffield

Chair and Co-Chair:
Luisa Veronis, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Ashika Niraula, Senior Research Fellow – Project Coordinator, CERC Migration

• Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 
• Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Opening Reception: The Longhouse

Hosted by: Department of Architectural Science

The longhouse is a linear, long and narrow type of habitation made of one or several spaces corresponding to different dwelling organizations. Because of its complex spatial and social organization, the longhouse questions assumptions about domestic space, such as the relationship between the house, property and community.

This research aims to understand the different spatial manifestations of this type of habitation within their historical framework. This exploration follows the longhouse around the world, from the Dayak in Borneo Island to the Viking in Norway, and through time, from the Neolithic to the Modern era, and offers the first global atlas of this important type of habitation where living and working, dwelling and ritual, coexist within the same space.

Food and drinks will be served; no registration required.

Exhibition on display at Paul H. Cocker Gallery from February 2 to March 9, from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., seven days a week and open to the public.

• Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 
• Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Paul H. Cocker Gallery (325 Church Street)

Lecture Series: Martino Tattara

Hosted by: Department of Architectural Science

Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination, the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively separated from work.

In this lecture, we will argue against such a separation, countering the prevailing ideology of domesticity with a series of architectural projects that illustrate alternative approaches. The projects aim to move the house beyond the dichotomous logic of male/female, husband/wife, breadwinner/housewife and private/public. They include the reinvention of single-room occupancy as a new model for affordable housing and a plan for a modular, adaptable structure meant to house a temporary dweller.

Speaker:
Martino Tattara, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven (Belgium)

• Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 
• Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Architecture Building, ARC 202 (325 Church Street)

Risk, Uncertainty, and the Future of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence – In Conversation with Professor Malcolm Rogge

Hosted by: The Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR Institute)

Corporate human rights due diligence is now a social fact; it is no longer merely an idea or aspiration. The European Union, France and Germany, among other jurisdictions, have recently adopted laws requiring large businesses to conduct human rights due diligence (HRDD) in their supply chains. When it comes to assessing human rights risks, the key question that both corporate decision-makers and policymakers must contend with is one that Knight identified a century ago: “how far to go?”

Speaker:
Malcolm Rogge, Assistant Professor, Business & Human Rights Law and Corporate Law & Governance, University of Exeter School of Law

Moderator:
Kernaghan Webb, Director, CSR Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Friday, February 3, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

The "Missing Little" – A Renovation Revolution!

Hosted by: City Building TMU

Introducing the "Missing Little" – the opportunity to cost-effectively renovate the smaller-scale segment of the Missing Middle spectrum. How can we design and deliver units quickly and affordably to live in? Can we reduce construction costs by using less construction and simplified replicable plans? How do the numbers pencil out? 

This session is part of a four-part webinar series entitled How to Put Affordable in the Missing Middle and is presented by the University of Toronto's School of Cities, City Building TMU and Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto.

You are invited to register for free using the code MissingMiddle2023.

Opening Introduction:
Cherise Burda, Executive Director, City Building TMU
Karen Chapple, Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto

Moderator:
Michael Piper, Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Architecture, John H. Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto

Panellists:
Janna Levitt, Co-Founder, LGA Architectural Partners
Jacob Sofer, Co-Founder, Metrosuite
Kfir Gluzberg, Architect, Kilogram Studio
Rohan Walters, Principal Designer, Spaces by Rohan Inc.

• Date: Monday, February 6, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Busting Through the Barriers to the "Missing Little"

Hosted by: City Building TMU

In this session, we examine what needs to change, from bylaws to building code, to adopt replicable, simplified, cost-effective designs for the “Missing Little” housing supply. What can we learn from leaders in other cities? How can a municipal one-stop shop make the whole process easy and cost-effective, from financing to construction?

This session is part of a four-part webinar series entitled How to Put Affordable in the Missing Middle and is presented by the University of Toronto's School of Cities, City Building TMU and Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto.

You are invited to register for free using the code MissingMiddle2023.

Moderator:
Karen Chapple, Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto

Panelists:
Bindu Shah, Strategic Lead, Planning, Town of Caledon
Denise Pinkston, Partner, TMG Partners, and Founder, The Casita Coalition
Eli Spevak, Owner, Orange Splot LLC
Leith Moore, Co-Founder, R-Hauz Solutions

• Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Mapping Racialized Experiences in the Real Estate Development Sector: Challenges and Responses

Hosted by: Future Skills Centre

Real estate development is a vital sector in the Canadian economy, even more so today, as Canada faces a housing crisis and the daunting task of building millions of new affordable homes across the country.

Join our partners at Monumental as we discuss some of the significant barriers racialized individuals face to entering and thriving in this sector. The webinar will discuss the challenges and showcase BIPOC individuals within the sector who have been mobilizing to break down barriers and build a more inclusive industry. 

• Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Uptake Versus Affordability: What's in it for the Homeowner?

Hosted by: City Building TMU

Why would any homeowner want to go through a disruptive renovation and not charge as much market rent/sale price as possible? Can we create innovations in financing and incentives to strike a balance between homeowner revenue and affordable units? And what is the potential role of the National Housing Strategy?

This session is part of a four-part webinar series entitled How to Put Affordable in the Missing Middle and is presented by the University of Toronto's School of Cities, City Building TMU and Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto.

You are invited to register for free using the code MissingMiddle2023.

Moderator:
Cherise Burda, Executive Director, City Building TMU

Panelists:
Gracen Johnson, Senior Specialist, Research and Innovation, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Kira Gerwing, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer, Sacha Investments Ltd.
Marcel Greaux, Founder, Ownablii
Stewart Dutfield, Senior Project Manager, Environment and Climate Division, City of Toronto

• Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Curators in Conversation: Emily Hauver and Paul Roth on The "Thoughtography" of Ted Serios

Hosted by: The Image Centre (IMC)

Join IMC Director Paul Roth and Emily Hauver, Guest Curator of Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios, for a deep dive into the photographic process of Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who claimed he could capture his thoughts on film.

Speakers:
Paul Roth, Director, The Image Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University
Emily Hauver, Guest Curator

• Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 
• Time: 7:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

This Renovation Revolution Includes Equity

Hosted by: City Building TMU

How do we up-zone and gently increase the density of our neighbourhoods while promoting more inclusivity? How can Missing Middle policies and regulatory changes by municipalities and civic leaders facilitate equity and inclusion? Are there best practices and successful case studies that we can learn from? 

This session is part of a four-part webinar series entitled How to Put Affordable in the Missing Middle and is presented by the University of Toronto's School of Cities, City Building TMU and Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto.

You are invited to register for free using the code MissingMiddle2023.

Moderator:
Cheryll Case, Founder and Executive Director, CP Planning

Panelists:
Chazandra Kern, Founder, Office of Office
Paul Lewkowicz, Planner Principal, Housing Policy, Region of Peel
Sherry Taylor, Interim Executive Director, Durham Community Land Trustees

• Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Charismatic Leaders and Democratic Backsliding

Hosted by: Behavioural Political Economy Group

In recent years, democratic nations have frequently elected charismatic leaders. Political parties tend to benefit electorally from charismatic politicians' popularity. However, we demonstrate theoretically that parties may also pay a cost. When they become reliant on a leader's charisma, parties grow less able to sanction their behaviour in office and more prone to catering to their will. We show this is particularly true in contexts of high ideological polarization and strong institutional foundations of democracy.

This inversion of the power dynamic between parties and politicians provides greater room for charismatic leaders than less charismatic ones to enact anti-democratic policies. We find that the associations between leaders' charisma and patterns of democratic breakdown, democratic quality, party illiberalism, and party personalization over the past several decades are consistent with our theoretical expectations.

Speaker: 
Marko Klašnja, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University

• Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 
• Time: 12:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Jorgenson Hall, JOR1420 (380 Victoria Street)

Two Women in Power: Still Fighting for Fairness

Hosted by: Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

On Parliament Hill and at Queen’s Park, two cabinet ministers from opposing parties are coming together to fight for women’s rights across Canada and here in Ontario: Marci Ien is the federal Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth; Charmaine Williams is her Ontario counterpart responsible for Women’s Social and Economic Opportunity. Bring your questions to the Democracy Forum hosted by Toronto Star Columnist and TMU Visiting Practitioner Martin Regg Cohn. This free event is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts at TMU and is open to the public.

Panellists: 
Marci Ien, MP, Toronto Centre
Charmaine Williams, MPP, Brampton Centre

Moderator:
Martin Regg Cohn, Columnist, Toronto Star

• Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 
• Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Hybrid (in-person at the George Vari Engineering & Computing Centre, Sears Atrium, 3rd Floor (245 Church Street) / online via Zoom)

Equity/Diversity/Inclusion: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Hosted by: The Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought (SMACT)

This virtual and open-to-the-public event is the first in SMACT's Reclaim the University Speaker Series. It is a critical, anti-racist look at equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies in the academy and will include presentations from Shana Almeida, Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's (TMU) School of Professional Communication and author of the recently published Toronto the Good?: Negotiating Race in the Diverse, and other university activists.

Speaker:
Shana Almeida, Assistant Professor, School of Professional Communication, TMU

• Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 
• Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Pranab Bardhan: A World of Insecurity

Hosted by: Toronto Public Library (TPL) and the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

The retreat of liberal democracy in the twenty-first century is impossible to ignore. From Wisconsin to Warsaw, Budapest to Bangalore, many citizens are turning against the values of pluralism and the capacity of traditional liberal institutions to secure their demands. Instead, they profess unapologetic nationalism and political majoritarianism.

Many believe these changes are a predictable response to the rise of inequality generated by the logic of capitalism in the neoliberal era in many countries around the world over the last few decades. Critics of inequality argue that this is a predictable response to failures of capitalism and liberalism. Yet is inequality the culprit? Or is insecurity, financial and cultural, more to blame?

Speaker:
Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Moderator:
Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, TMU

• Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 
• Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon (789 Yonge Street)

An Introduction to Open Data

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

Open data is data that is freely accessible to everyone and can be used, shared and modified for any purpose – with minimal requirements (such as providing attribution or sharing under the same license). Open data can contribute to the development of innovation, as well as increased efficiency and transparency. This workshop will introduce participants to the benefits, challenges and best practices of creating, finding and working with open data.

• Date: Monday, February 13, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

2023 Strategic SRC Initiative Fund Competition – Information Session

Hosted by: Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation (OVPRI)

The OVPRI will host an information session for the 2023 Strategic SRC Initiative Fund Competition. The Strategic SRC Initiative Fund provides internal funds (up to $20,000) to enhance areas of SRC excellence that are of strategic importance to the university by giving researchers/scholars an opportunity to nurture and scale their SRC initiatives. This session will provide an overview of the Strategic SRC Initiative Fund competition, application process, selection criteria and reporting requirements. Participants will be given the opportunity to engage during a dedicated question-and-answer period.

• Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Who Is Counted? How to Use the Census of Canada Timeline to Search for Ethno-Racial and Indigenous Identities

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

Finding data on race, racialized populations and anti-racism in Canada can be a complex process when conducting research. One data source is the Census of Canada, which has been collecting socio-demographic data since 1871. However, the collection of racial, ethnic, or Indigenous data has changed throughout the years and from Census to Census. This session provides an overview of the Census Timeline guide, how questions about ethno-racial and Indigenous identity have been asked over time, and some challenges with searching for ethno-racial data.

• Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023
• Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Removal of the Foreign Property Rule and International Diversification: Evidence from Canadian Mutual Funds

Hosted by: Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

Between 1971 and 2005, Canadian investors in tax-deferred savings plans were limited in the proportion of securities that could be held in non-Canadian securities. In 2005, the Foreign Property Rule (FPR) was eliminated, and investors were free to diversify their portfolios internationally.

This study examines performance and geographic allocation data for tax-deferred plan-eligible mutual funds over time.

The results show that despite the policy change, the adoption rate of international diversification has not dramatically increased and that most international diversification was invested in the United States, an economy closely tied to the domestic economy. International investments were also concentrated in specific sectors: technology, healthcare, and infrastructure.

Speakers:
Kimberly A. Bates, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Ted Rogers School of Management, TMU
Laleh Samarbakhsh, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Finance, TRSM, TMU

• Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023 
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS 3-129 (55 Dundas Street West)

The Mining Association of Canada's Towards Sustainable Mining Initiative: in Conversation with MAC Vice President Ben Chalmers

Hosted by: The Institute for the Study of Social Corporate Responsibility (CSR Institute)

The CSR Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University is pleased to present an online interactive Zoom session, The Mining Association of Canada's Towards Sustainable Mining Initiative: in Conversation with MAC Vice President Ben Chalmers.

Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) is a globally recognized sustainability program that supports mining companies in managing key environmental and social responsibilities. TSM was the first responsible mining standard in the world to require site-level assessments with external verification and is mandatory for all companies that are members of implementing associations.

Speaker:
Ben Chalmers, Vice President, Mining Association of Canada

• Date: Friday, February 17, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Clean Energy Expo

Hosted by: Centre for Urban Energy

The Centre for Urban Energy at Toronto Metropolitan University will host the 2023 Clean Energy Expo. Please join us as we welcome Harneet Panesar, Katherine Sparkes and Cedric Tai to discuss current projects and opportunities in the industry. Meet the researchers and graduate students addressing important energy challenges in energy storage, smart grid, renewables and more. Come to network, get inspired and collaborate.

This event is free but spaces are limited. Please contact cueinfo@torontomu.ca to receive the promo code for your complimentary ticket.

Speakers:
Harneet Panesar, Chief Operating Officer, Hydro One
Katherine Sparkes, Director of Innovation, Research & Development, IESO
Cedric Tai, Staff Solutions Architect, GE Digital, DERMS

• Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023 
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Centre for Urban Innovation (44 Gerrard St East)

iBEST Visiting Lecturer Series: Dr. Mehmet Toner

Hosted by: Institute for Biomedical Engineering Science and Technology (iBEST)

The iBEST Visiting Lecturer Series is pleased to present an in-person talk by Dr. Mehmet Toner, Helen Andrus Benedict Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Toner serves as the Director of Research at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston and the Co-director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery. His research involves microfluidics, nano- and micro-technologies, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and cryobiology.

In his lecture, Dr. Toner will share some of his experiences in using microfluidics with complex bodily fluids to enable clinical applications. 

Speaker:
Mehmet Toner, Helen Andrus Benedict Professor, Harvard Medical School

Moderator:
Scott Tsai, Professor, Technical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Friday, February 24, 2023
• Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (EST)
• Location: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Auditorium (209 Victoria Street)

Migration Working Group: Migrant and Refugee Integration in Canada

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC Migration)

Join CERC Migration for the upcoming Migration Working Group meeting. The February Migration Working Group addresses the theme of migrant and refugee integration in Canada. 

The Migration Working Group meets monthly to discuss the migration research of emerging and established scholars. The meetings give researchers an opportunity to present their ongoing projects, learn about each other's work and share feedback.

Presenters:
Kathryn Dennler, Research Associate, Immigration, The Conference Board of Canada
Shervin Ghaem-Maghami, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Simona Chiose, Division Lead, Public Affairs, University of Toronto
Tony Fang, Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Economics and Cultural Transformation, Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad, PhD Candidate, Social and Cultural Analysis, Concordia University and University of Dhaka

Chair:
Shiva S. Mohan, Research Fellow, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 
• Time: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Hybrid (in-person at the CERC Migration office, 220 Yonge Street / online via Zoom)

Creative Technology Showcase at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

Hosted by: The Creative School

The Creative School at TMU invites you to explore the Creative Technology Showcase, an exhibition featuring projects that push the boundaries of creative technology and have been developed in The Creative School’s Design + Technology LAB. The featured projects include student, staff and faculty work from across The Creative School, ranging from digital knitting, robotic performances, CNC milled furniture, UV printed images, wearable technology and more.

The exhibition takes place from January 10 to January 29 as part of DesignTO at a retail space in CF Toronto Eaton Centre.

• Date: Tuesday, January 10 - Sunday, January 29, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: CF Toronto Eaton Centre Level 2 

Joseph Wong: The Path to Democracy in Asia

Hosted by: Toronto Public Library (TPL) and Faculty of Arts

TPL and TMU present professor of political science at the University of Toronto, Joseph Wong, in conversation with Sanjay Ruparelia at Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon space.

Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization and urbanization–a spectacular record of development that turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Many believed that such powerful socioeconomic transformations would encourage a transition to democracy.

Yet while some countries have democratized, most notably Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, others remain far more autocratic, from Singapore, Cambodia and Vietnam.

What explains these important variations? Why do some autocracies in Asia lose power while others do not? And what are the prospects for democracy in China given these lessons?

Speaker:
Joseph Wong, Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto

Moderator:
Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, TMU

• Date: Thursday, January 12, 2023
• Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon (789 Yonge Street)

Applying Indigenous Law in Canada

Hosted by: Lincoln Alexander School of Law

Indigenous peoples' laws guide decision-making in many places throughout the land. These laws are standards, principles, processes, measurements, norms, guideposts, precedents and authorities for regulating activities and resolving disputes. Canadian law has had difficulty recognizing Indigenous law, but it is present in case law, legislation and administrative structures. This lecture will discuss the challenges and opportunities found in recognizing and affirming Indigenous law from coast to coast to coast.

Speaker:
John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria

• Date: Monday, January 16, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Podium, POD455 (350 Victoria Street)

Exploring Corporate Integrity & ESG at MNC Subsidiaries with Siemens Canada's Richard Brait & Shawna-Leigh Moulton

Hosted by: The Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR Institute)

The Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility at TMU is pleased to present an online interactive Zoom session in conversation with Corporate Counsel Richard Brait and Chief Compliance Officer Shawna-Leigh Moulton of Siemens Canada.

Speakers:
Richard Brait, Corporate Counsel, Siemens Canada
Shawna-Leigh Moulton, Chief Compliance Officer, Siemens Canada

Moderator:
Kernaghan Webb, Director, CSR Institute, Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

• Date: Monday, January 16, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Demystifying the Literature Review

Hosted by: Toronto Metropolitan University Library

A literature review can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task, but it is a crucial academic skill. It is essential to research and is frequently required in course assignments throughout university. This session will break down the reasons why we do literature reviews and the steps one must take in order to ensure a sufficient and/or thorough exploration of the resources where the literature is found.

• Date: Thursday, January 19 and Tuesday, January 24, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EST) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Canada’s War on Whistleblowers

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression (CFE)

In more than 15 years of operation costing over $100 million, Canada’s federal whistleblower law has not protected a single whistleblower. For the more than 500 people reporting reprisals against them, Canada’s law has only made their lives worse. Join the discussion with a distinguished panel of experts about why this is, what it has meant for the public, and what can be done to protect those who speak up in the public interest.

Speakers:
Ian Bron, former Canadian Whistleblower; Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, Lecturer, Public Administration, Carleton University
David Hutton, Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, former Executive Director, Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform
Anna Myers, Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network

Moderator:
Karen Pugliese, Editor-in-Chief, Canada’s National Observer

• Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 
• Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Black Oculars: Disabled, Queer Re-Mixing: Radical Responses to Surveillance in Education

Hosted by: School of Disabilities Studies

This event focuses on responses by Disabled, queer, and trans-Black people to increased surveillance and the role of Big Data in education and healthcare, specifically as it impacts and intersects with AI and issues of privacy and access. Disabled and queer Black people have always found ways of surviving and resisting violent systems. This panel will offer current research and interventions that create liveable ways of being for disabled and queer people within the education and healthcare sectors.

Speakers:
Ciann Wilson, Health Researcher
Tanitiā Munroe, Researcher
Jennisha Wilson, Senior Manager, Racism Response, University of Waterloo

• Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 
• Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Migration Working Group - Global Challenges: Climate Change and Irregular Migration

Hosted by: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration (CERC Migration)

Join CERC Migration for the upcoming Migration Working Group meeting. The January Migration Working Group addresses the themes of climate change and irregular migration.

The Migration Working Group meets monthly to discuss the migration research of emerging and established scholars. Our meetings allow researchers to present their ongoing projects, learn about each other's work and share feedback.

• Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 
• Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Censorship Is No Friend of Social Justice: Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Polarized Times

Hosted by: Centre for Free Expression (CFE)

Libraries and universities are facing growing demands for censorship as a tool to make a better world. Join Emily Knox and Toni Samek, two of North America’s leading experts on intellectual freedom, as they explore rising censorship and what it means for social justice, equity and the future of democracy.

Speaker:
Emily Knox, Associate Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois

Moderator:
Toni Samek, Professor and former Chair of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta

• Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 
• Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

Behavioural Drivers of Intentions to Use Alternatives to Cash

Hosted by: Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM)

This research explores potential behavioural drivers for people to use cash or alternative payment methods in retail transactions. An online survey was conducted targeting adults in sub-Saharan Africa, a continent characterized by lower banking penetration levels, intensive use of cash, and the popularity of mobile money accounts to overcome financial exclusion. The impact of emotional drivers and cognitive traits on payment choice preferences is tested.

Speaker:
David Peón, Associate Professor at Universidade da Coruña (Spain) and visiting professor at TRSM

• Date: Thursday, January 26, 2023 
• Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS 3-129 (55 Dundas Street West)

Book Talk: Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty with Cheryl Thompson

Hosted by: Alumni Relations

Join us for a special Book Talk featuring Author, Public Speaker and TMU Professor Cheryl Thompson's book titled Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty.

Speaker:
Cheryl Thompson, Author, Public Speaker, Professor of Performance and Director of The Laboratory for Black Creativity (The LBC)

Moderator:
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, TMU

• Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 
• Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD)

Hosted by: Vice President, Equity and Inclusion

Join Access TMU in collaboration with the Employees with Disabilities Community Network (EwDCN) and the Community Student Engagement Group for Accessibility (CSEGA), as we celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

This event will feature a preview of the short film ‘Across the University’ produced by Gemini Award winning filmmaker and scholar, Cyrus Sunder Singh on behalf of the EwDCN. In the second part of this event, participants will be invited to learn about the upcoming Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) Education Standard, by engaging with the Access TMU community in discussions about the recommendations and planned university initiatives.

• Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022 
• Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online

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The 21st Century Carnival: Tech, Costuming and Culture with SugaCayne

Hosted by: Design Fabrication Zone (DFZ)

Candice Dixon and Dwayne Dixon share their practice, while discussing the very real threats to the carnival industry, both past and present. Their revelations seen during the pandemic have left them primed with solutions for a post-pandemic world. Hear about their next leap forward - an exciting demonstration of how to pivot when unforeseen circumstances prohibit the conventional ways of celebrating culture and creativity in community.

Speakers:
Candice Dixon, Co-Founder, Creative Director, SugaCayne
Dwayne Dixon, Co-Founder, Managing Director, SugaCayne

• Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022 
• Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (EST)
• Location: Online