Presentations

Multi-Dimensional Food Values: New Metrics Integrating Food, Water and Energy, at IPCC 2021; Belgium, Wednesday, July 7, 2021:

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This paper is a critical review exploring the utility of combining two frameworks for characterizing complex systems perspectives within an ecological framework. This review offers guidance for developing appropriate instruments for policy makers to overcome lock-ins that perpetuate industrial food systems.

This presentation offers an outline for new metrics to characterize the food-water-energy nexus that is not currently captured where success is measured primarily through yield per acre.

Colonialism & Empire: Canada’s Origin Story, at University of Waterloo, Friday, June 18, 2021:

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This presentation was delivered to University of Waterloo students in a War and Conflict class, online, in June of 2021. Includes audio. Read more about Colonialism & Empire: Canada’s Origin Story

Beyond the Pandemic: a Breadth of Meaningful Assessments Thursday, June 17, 2021

I was one of four speakers in a Research Talks panel A Year of COVID-19: Teaching and Learning. The video of my talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZVv-tZ_8yI&t=1518s Read more about Beyond the Pandemic: a Breadth of Meaningful Assessments

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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