Wednesday Talk: February 28, 2024, 2-4 pm – in-person and on Zoom
Speaker: Celia Smith, CEO Luminato Festival, Toronto Title: “Arts, Culture & Creativity in a Time of Dynamic Change” Abstract: Is […]
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Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7
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Wednesday Talk: March 6, 2024, 2-4 pm – in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Morgan Barense, Neuropsyschology, U of T Title: “A smartphone Intervention to Enhance Real-World Event Memory” Abstract: The act of […]
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Wednesday Talk: March 13, 2024, 2-4 pm – in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Caryl Clark, Faculty of Music, U of T Title: “Labours of Love: Resurrecting Haydn’s Orfeo” Abstract: In late May 2023, […]
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Wednesday Talk: March 20, 2024, 2-4 pm – in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Matti Siemiatycki, Geography and Planning, U of T Title: “Patterns, Causes and Cures for Cost Overruns and Delays in […]
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Wednesday Talk: March 27, 2024, 2-4 pm – in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Jesse Billett, Divinity, Trinity College, Divinity, Trinity College; Centre for Medieval Studies Title: “The Lost Chants of Anglo-Saxon England” […]
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Wednesday Talk: April 3, 2024, 2-4 pm on Zoom [an extra, zoom-only session]
ZoomSpeaker: Rafaël Newman, Comparative Literature, Zurich Title: “The Work of Art in the Age of Neural Machine Translation” Abstract: “But […]
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Wednesday Talk: Sept. 11, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Marlene Shore, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar, Department of History/York University Title: “Down from the Mountain: Reckoning with Unrest, […]
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Wednesday Talk: Sept. 18, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Kent Roach, Law, University of Toronto Topic: “Wrongfully Convicted: Lessons from the Canadian Registry” Abstract: This talk will discuss […]
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Wednesday Talk: Sept. 25, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Lissa Paul, Professor of English, Brock University Title: “Children’s Literature and Literary History: From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and […]
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Wednesday Talk: Oct. 2, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Ian Cusson, Composer Title: “Indigeneity in Contemporary Opera: Wolf-men and Vacations to Prague” Abstract: Ian will explore Indigenous representation […]
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Wednesday Talk: Oct. 9, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Kenneth Bartlett, History and Renaissance Studies, U of T Title: “Raphael and the Mystery of the Frame: Art, Science […]
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Wednesday Talk: Oct. 16, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Nandita Bajaj, Executive Director, Population Balance Title: “Connecting the Dots between Reproductive Autonomy and Environmental Sustainability” Abstract: Human population […]
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Wednesday Talk: Oct. 23, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Soren Brothers, Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change, ROM; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U of T Title: […]
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Wednesday Talk: Oct. 30, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Paul Stevens, English Department, University of Toronto Title: “Robinson Crusoe and the Slave Trade: A Treatise against Adventure” Abstract: […]
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Wednesday Talk: Nov. 6, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Mary Nyquist, English/Comparative Literature, U of T Title: “Early Modern Freedom, Tyranny, and the Rhetorical Power of ‘Slave’” Abstract: […]
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Wednesday Talk: Nov. 13, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Yvonne Bombard, IHPME, U of T Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, U of T Title: “Delivering Precision […]
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Wednesday Talk: Nov. 20, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Clifford Orwin, Political Science, U of T Title: “The Double 24-Hour Makeover Election” Abstract: The venerable conservative columnist George Will […]
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Wednesday Talk: Nov. 27, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Franca Iacovetta, History, U of T, and Cynthia Wright, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York U Title: […]
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Wednesday Talk: January 8 , 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Wednesday Talk: January 8 , 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom Speaker: Elizabeth Clare, Biology, York University Title: “A […]
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Wednesday Talk: January 15 , 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Wednesday Talk: January 15 , 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom Speaker: Gerry Friesen, History, University of […]
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Wednesday Talk: January 22 , 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Wednesday Talk: January 22 , 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom Speaker: Anne Urbancic, Italian; Semiotics, Victoria […]
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Wednesday Talk: January 29 , 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Wednesday Talk: January 29 , 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom Speaker: Sharon Vattay, architectural historian, cultural […]
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Wednesday Talk: February 5 , 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Matthew Light, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, U of T Title: “Ukraine: […]
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Wednesday Talk: February 12, 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Tom Keymer, English, U of T Title: “Jane Austen and the Jurassic” ABSTRACT: Ecocritical scholarship on 19th-century literature has explored […]
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Wednesday Talk: February 19, 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Patricia Brubaker, Physiology and Medicine, U of T Title: The basic science underlying the beneficial actions of ♪O, O, […]
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Wednesday Talk: February 26, 2025, at 2-4pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Netami Stuart, Senior Project Manager for Parks, Waterfront Toronto Title: “The Port Lands Flood Protection Infrastructure Project: How to […]
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Wednesday Talk: March 12, 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Madeleine Zurowski, Physics, U of T Title: “Searching in the Dark” Abstract: Dark Matter is a hypothesised new particle thought to make up […]
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Wednesday Talk: March 19, 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: James Campbell Topic: “Music Inside Out” Abstract: James Campbell has collaborated with many legendary artists, including Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, Janus Starker, […]
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Wednesday Talk: March 26, 2025, at 2pm. It is in-person and on Zoom
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Mark G. McGowan, St. Michael’s College, U of T Topic: “’Kindred Spirits’ in the North: Indigenous Peoples in British […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 10, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Lorraine York, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster U Tittle “'Yes, I’m a Witch”: Yoko Ono, Paracelebrity as Parasitism, and the […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 17, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Susan McCahan, Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Digital Strategies and Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education “The Impact of AI on University […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 24, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Liat Margolis, Daniels, U of T; Nikibii Dawadinna Giigwag/Flooded Valley Healing Title: “Call to Action #66: A Land-based Indigenous Youth […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 1, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Larry Moran, Biochemistry, U of T Title: “What’s in Your Genome?” Introducer: Jim Gurd Abstract: Scientists have been studying the […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 8, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Bob Davidson, Spanish, U of T Title: “Smelling the Humanities” Introducer: Anne Urbancic Abstract: We don’t truly appreciate our sense […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 15, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Robert Sharpe, Law, U of T Title: “The Persons Case: Equality of Women and the Constitution as a Living Tree” […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 22, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Eric Jennings, History, U of T Title: “A World History of Vanilla” Introducer: Charles Maurer Abstract: Open your fridge or […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 29, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Zhang, Di, Music, York U Title: “Exploring Regional Yangqin Music in China” Introducer: Daphne Maurer Abstract: This presentation offers an […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 5, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Carl Knappett, Art History, U of T Title: “The Coastal World of Minoan Palaikastro” Introducer: Susan Pfeiffer Abstract: Lying on […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 12, 10am-12pm – hybrid. Please note: This event will be held upstairs at the Faculty Club and not the ground floor.
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Ian Radforth, History, U of T Title: "Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario That Gripped the World" Introducer: […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 19, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7David Rayside, History Title: “The Biography of an Early Upper Canadian House” Introducer: Jim Gurd Abstract: One of Ontario’s oldest […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 26, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Quinya Liu, Earth Sciences, Physics, U of T Title: “Rumbles Beneath Your Feet: Earthquakes, Resource Exploration and Earth’s Tectonic History” […]
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Special End-of-Term Event: The Autumn of Brahms
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Special Events Special End-of-Term Event: The Autumn of Brahms On Wednesday, November 26, following our final morning lecture, join us in the Lounge for a […]
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Isaac Bogoch, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, U of T, Wednesday Talk: January 7, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Isaac Bogoch, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, U of T Title: “Emerging Infections and How to Fight Them” Abstract: We will […]
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Speaker: Neil Besner, English, U of Winnipeg Wednesday Talk: January 14,2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Neil Besner, English, U of Winnipeg Title: Montreal Standard Time, 1944-1950: Mavis Gallant’s Short Stories and Her Early Journalism […]
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Speaker: David Townsend, English and Medieval Studies, U of T., Wednesday Talk: January 21, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: David Townsend, English and Medieval Studies, U of T. Title: “Imagination, Historical Knowledge, and Public Discourse” Abstract: Guilty pleasure […]
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Speaker: Daphne Maurer, Psychology, McMaster U., Wednesday Talk: January 28, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Daphne Maurer, Psychology, McMaster U Title: “An Invisible Pandemic” Abstract: In this century, most schoolchildren are becoming nearsighted--80% to […]
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Speaker: Jennifer DeSilva, Woodsworth College, U of T, Wednesday Talk: February 4, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Jennifer DeSilva, Woodsworth College, U of T Title: "Women's Labour in Renaissance Florence's Streets and Taverns" Abstract: Early modern […]
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Speaker: Beatrix Dart, Rotman School of Management, U of T, Wednesday Talk: February 11, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Beatrix Dart, Rotman School of Management, U of T Title: “Retired, Not Expired: The Longevity Economy Unveiled” Abstract: As […]
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Speaker: Laura Hug, Environmental Microbiology, Biology, U of Waterloo, Wednesday Talk: February 18, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Laura Hug, Environmental Microbiology, Biology, U of Waterloo Title: “Man's Trash Is a Microbe's Treasure: The Microbiology of Landfills” […]
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Speaker: Ira Wells, President, PEN Canada; Victoria College, U of T, Wednesday Talk: February 25, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Ira Wells, President, PEN Canada; Victoria College, U of T Title: “On Book Banning: Saving Children from the Harm […]
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Stephen Brooke, History, York University , U of T. Wednesday, Talk: March 4, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Stephen Brooke, History, York University Title: "‘Gleaming Obelisks’ and ‘Dilapidated Streets’: London in the 1980s: Abstract: This talk will […]
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Speaker: Carl Knappett, Art History, U of T, Wednesday Talk: March 11, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Carl Knappett, Art History, U of T Title: “The Coastal World of Minoan Palaikastro” Abstract: Lying on the eastern […]
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Speaker: Jennifer Bonnell, History, York U, Wednesday Talk: March 18, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Jennifer Bonnell, History, York U Title: “Place and People at the Margins: A History of Toronto’s Don River Valley” […]
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Speaker: Nick Terpstra, History, U of T; Provost, Trinity College., Wednesday Talk: March 25, 2026, 2pm-4pm, Faculty Club and Zoom – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Nick Terpstra, History, U of T; Provost, Trinity College. Title: “Moving Targets: Young People in the Early Modern World” […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 9, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Domenico Pietropaolo, Drama and Italian, U of T Title: “The Colours of Harlequin: Costumes, Cultural Adaptability, and Popular Culture” […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 16, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Brian Levine, Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences; Professor of Psychology and Medicine (Neurology), U of T […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 23, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Andrés Jiménez Monge, Executive Director, Ontario Nature Title: “Environmental Problem Solving: A Wicked Thing” Abstract: Environmental problems are people […]
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Wednesday Talk: September 30, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Bruce Kidd, Sports Policy, Kinesiology, U of T Title: “The Challenges of Sports Betting” Abstract: Canada legalized sports betting […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 7, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Jim Phillips, Law, U of T Title: “’I Did Not Commit Adultery’: A Unique (Parliamentary) Divorce from in the […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 14, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Jacalyn Duffin, Hannah Chair of History of Medicine, Queen’s U Title: “Canada on Easter Island: The Secret History of […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 21, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Reuben Gaetani, Strategic Management, Rotman Title: "Location and Innovation: Why Geography Still Matters" Abstract: Innovation does not happen uniformly […]
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Wednesday Talk: October 28, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Karina Vernon, English, U of T Title: “Cowboy Songs and the ‘Alternate Archives’ of the Black Atlantic” Abstract: In […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 4, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Helmut Reichenbächer, English, OCAD U Title: “Mendelssohn, Shakespeare, and the Politics of Race: Cultural Programming in the Third Reich” […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 11, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Roberto Verdecchia, TV director, writer, producer Title: “The Real World of Science Communication” Abstract: Theoretical models of science communication […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 18, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: J.D.M. Stewart, historian, author Title: Prime Ministers and the Presidents Abstract: J.D.M. Stewart will talk about his book, The Prime […]
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Wednesday Talk: November 25, 2026, 10am-12pm – hybrid
Zoom AND The Faculty Club, UofT, 41 Willcocks Street Toronto, ON M5S 1C7Speaker: Daniel Bender, CRC in Food and Culture, U of T Title: "Typicity’s End: Tasting Wine in the Anthropocene” Abstract: […]