GI Members Present at UWaterloo Conference “From Targeting in Academia to Promoting Trust and Understanding”

Thursday, July 18, 2024

From June 27th to 28th, GI members presented and attended UWaterloo’s in-person conference that brought together international and local scholars from various disciplines to demonstrate the different ways our communities can—and shouldfoster trust within academia. Read more about the impact of the conference and key takeaways in the UWaterloo News article "Overcoming fear for social justice."

GI members presented the following: 

Bolded names denote GI members. Names marked with "(A)" denote former GI members. (Stratford School) denotes affiliation to the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business. 

  • Pay for access: On the implications of limiting access to GPT’s data and design in the API economy 

    • Dr. Lai-Tze Fan (Sociology and Legal Studies), Tatum Weicker (Sociology and Legal Studies), Cecilia A.W. Martin, Amanda Yu, and Jin Sol Kim 

  • Solidarity as method: Building stronger research coalitions to counter antagonism

    • Dr. Shana MacDonald (Communication Arts) 

  • Witnessing and researching traumatic histories and histories of harm

    • Dr. Susan Roy (History)