JFLS: Stories on Stories
Bridging humanities, data science, law, journalism, and traditional science, these mini-lectures examine how narrative and evidence interact and can be wielded to shape public opinion, policy, and culture.
This event will be moderated by Professor Claire Battershill. Professor Battershill is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English. Her research focuses on the history and future of the book. Specifically, her work examines relationships between feminist experimental publishing, literary aesthetics, and practices of book making in 20th and 21st-century literature. Professor Battershill is a Co-Director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), a critical digital archive of early 20th-century publishers’ records, the author of a collection of short stories, Circus (McClelland & Stewart, 2014) and the Co-Creator of ‘Make Believe,’ a collaborative research-creation project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Her most recent books are Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom (revised 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, 2022).
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Patrick Yung Kang Lee is a second year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science. His research focusses on how identity and interpersonal relationships are affected by the growing desire to simulate human behaviour using conversational interfaces and artificial intelligence.
Patrick will discuss AI clones, digital replicas of real-world individuals, are quickly becoming a technological reality but the ethical, legal, and social ramifications of such technologies are largely unaddressed. In this talk, he will discuss some of the paradigms currently being considered to develop such technologies and the kinds of worlds participants in speculative design research (both his and others) believe they will give rise to.
Sina Sayyad is a medical student at Temerty Medicine with a BHSc. He has research interests in health equity, AI applications in medicine, and translational research. He has co-authored numerous papers and currently coordinates the Temerty Family Medicine Education lab, with previous work on the CONNECT and SPRITE studies, receiving the CIHR Travel Award to present his work at International Conferences.
Sina’s presentation responds to the alarming, epidemic-scale rise in Syphilis in a southeast, remote, Canadian city, its public health unit designed and implemented a novel outreach, test and treat model of care. Due to its significant success, the present qualitative case study utilized an implementation science framework to find the main themes that led to the adoption of this model of care – with the intention of enabling adoption across Canada. The themes will be presented and show how a concerning scientific and public narrative led to a multi-factorial “domino-effect,” resulting in the adoption of a new, equitable model of care for syphilis detection and treatment.
Catherine Stratton is an Epidemiology PhD student at the University of Toronto. Catherine’s doctoral research focuses on improving the methods for developing, implementing, and utilizing rare disease patient registries. She uses novel methods to engage patient partners, caregivers, and other knowledge users throughout the research process in order to gather richer evidence about rare disease registries. Catherine has received several national scholarships for her work.
Catherine’s talk interrogates how epidemiology typically employs quantitative approaches to answer questions. Yet, for rare disease research, the lack of coordinated data sources such as centralized registries proved that traditional epidemiological methods was limited in serving rare disease; therefore, she had to broaden her methodological repertoire beyond what has been traditional in her field.
Cindy Chen is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Aerospace Studies. Her NSERC-funded research focuses on improving the handling qualities of blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft through multidisciplinary design optimization. She uses computational fluid dynamics simulations and multifidelity stability analyses to credibly estimate BWB performance and identify design features that enhance fuel efficiency and fulfill critical performance requirements. She is passionate about advancing low-emissions aviation amid the escalating climate crisis.
Cindy’s presentation will examine the effectiveness of static stability constraints in an optimization problem as proxies for improving the damping of undesirable roll-yaw oscillations.
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