Presentations

“‘Doing Without Women’ in a Viennese Women’s Newspaper: Otto Bittner’s Wendelin (1935-6)”, at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (virtual), Thursday, June 3, 2021

In February 1934, Engelbert Dolfuss’s regime outlawed the Austrian Social Democratic Party and took over its various newspapers, many of which were “normalized” – integrated into a nationalist and anti-socialist, but also anti-Nazi, worldview.

One of these newspapers was the weekly Die Unzufriedene, founded in 1923 under the editorship of Eugenie Brandt to expose the oppression of working-class women – though it soon came to include kitschy serialized novels as well. Now, however, the paper was handed over to a male editor, Fritz Robert Kirchner; its new title, Das Kleine...

VIDEO: Decolonizing Neurodiversity? Implications for Social Work Education, at CASWE-ACFTS Conference 2021, Thursday, June 3, 2021:

caswe-acfts-decolonizing_neurodiversity-june_3-pr-v1-0900.pdf

Lead Presenter - Margaret F. Gibson
Co-Presenter - Izumi Sakamoto
Co-Presenter - Hannah Monroe

In this presentation, we discuss whether and how the term and ideas of neurodiversity might continue to exclude some within the community, particularly along the lines of race, perceived “functioning”, and gender. We ask, what might it mean to “decolonize” neurodiversity?

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SHORT FILM AND PODCAST: Storying Neurodiversity: Critical Reflections Through Field Education, at CASWE-ACFTS Conference 2021, Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Lead Presenter - Paula B Crockford, MSW Candidate, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
Co-Presenter - Sarah N. Leo, BA, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
Co-Presenter - Margaret F. Gibson, Assistant Professor - Social Development Studies and Social Work, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

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Using Collaborative In-Class Assignments in Large Introductory Classes Thursday, April 29, 2021:

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Dina Dawoud and I talked about how we extended in-class assignments to larger classes, and how we made it work online. Presented at the UW's 2021 CTE Teaching & Learning Conference. Video of talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1N_njsmPss Read more about Using Collaborative In-Class Assignments in Large Introductory Classes

“‘This’ll Make You Laugh: I’m Not Wearing a Costume!’—The Dalles: Personifying Austrian Economic Problems in Newspaper Cartoons in the 1920 and 1930s”, at Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Online Symposium, Olds, AB (virtual), Friday, April 16, 2021

Knot homology and coherent sheaves on Coulomb branches Thursday, April 8, 2021

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Recent work of Aganagic proposes the construction of a homological knot invariant categorifying the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of miniscule representations of type ADE Lie algebras, using the geometry and physics of coherent sheaves on a space which one can alternately describe as a resolved slice in the affine Grassmannian, a space of G-monopoles with specified...

Research consultations in the academic library: a scoping review and methods analysis, at LAAUW Lunch N' Learn, Waterloo, ON, Friday, November 13, 2020

Presenters: Jackie Stapleton, Caitlin Carter, Laura Bredahl

A presentation for LAAUW members outlining the process and outcomes of a scoping review we conducted from September 2019 to April 2020.

Hypertoric mirror symmetry Thursday, November 5, 2020:

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I’ve frequently heard the assertion that “hyperkahler manifolds are self-mirror up to rotation.” I’m not so sure this is true in general, but I know one example of such a variety: multiplicative hypertoric varieties; these are what happens when you cut up a real torus into polytopes, and then send the polytopes to have a toric hyperkahler party. I’ll discuss recent work with Gammage and McBreen showing that self-homological homological mirror symmetry after rotation...

Coulomb branches and cylindrical KLRW algebras Friday, September 11, 2020:

categorification-2020-i.pdf

categorification-2020-ii.pdf

video of the talk: part I

video of the talk: part II

Abstract: Remarkable work of Braverman-Finkelberg-Nakajima has constructed, based on some fancy quantum field theory, a fascinating collection of spaces called "Coulomb branches." The definition of these involves the geometry of affine Grassmannians, and thus is not so easy for many people think about. Luckily, the algebraic tools for understanding the most...

Tensor functors and categorification Thursday, August 20, 2020:

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Abstract: One key tool in understanding categories of representations of Lie (super)algebras and quantum groups is how the fun tour of tensor product with finite dimensional representations behaves. I’ll first explain how my work as well as that of many others has led to a good understanding of this in the type A case, and then say a few words about how we might generalize to BCD types.

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