Presentations

Carrying Authentic Assessment from Online to In-Person Monday, June 14, 2021:

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Talk at the Actuarial Teachers' and Researchers' Conference, hosted by University College Dublin, Ireland. Read more about Carrying Authentic Assessment from Online to In-Person

Bringing Statistics to the Learner: Tailoring Material to Match Student Passions Friday, June 11, 2021:

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Presentation at the Statistical Society of Canada's Annual Meeting as part of a session on Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Probability. A video of the talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dllYy4Or1b8 Read more about Bringing Statistics to the Learner: Tailoring Material to Match Student Passions

Settler actions in support of Land Back: An ecofeminist approach, at University of Waterloo, Wednesday, June 9, 2021:

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Dr. Vandana Shiva draws attention to the artificial conflict between “economic growth” and “environmental sustainability” that dominates commodity-based economies. Wealth generated by destroying the carrying capacity of the planet is in fact impoverishment:

“We are living in a global economy of genocide, and it is rooted in these decisions because of the destruction of democracy… One of the costs that this genocidal economics has had is that it has robbed us of our very humanity. It has killed our humanity both by making us so scared all the time of the...

“Representations of Black Characters in Viennese Newspaper Comic Strips, 1929–1939”, at Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Conference, Olds, AB (virtual), Friday, June 4, 2021

“‘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:

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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...

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