Author Archives: debcowen

Open letter to UofT VP Goel re: Promoting research funding from the Vale mega-mining company and other unethical corporate sources

April 21, 2020 Dear Vice-President Goel: We write with regard to the University of Toronto’s recent circulation of mining TNC Vale’s COVID-19 Challenge research funding invitation. Recognizing that the novel coronavirus is having an unprecedented public health, social, political, and economic impact globally and in Canada – and that there are urgent and ongoing needsContinue reading “Open letter to UofT VP Goel re: Promoting research funding from the Vale mega-mining company and other unethical corporate sources”

The List statement on anti-Blackness at the University of Toronto

U of T Faculty & Librarians, sign the statement here. In the wake of the latest episodes of lethal anti-Black police violence – the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and D’Andre Campbell – The List stands in solidarity with Black faculty, staff and students, and communities in this city andContinue reading “The List statement on anti-Blackness at the University of Toronto”

Emergency Town Hall for U of T faculty

WEDNESDAY APRIL 22, 2020 | 8 PM on ZOOM Friends, colleagues,  We are calling U of T faculty to join us for an urgent conversation this week about our responsibilities and the opportunities to make a collective contribution in this exceptional moment. In the context of the dramatic deepening of precarity among students, staff andContinue reading “Emergency Town Hall for U of T faculty”

Supporting U of T staff in an era of Covid-19

Dear friends – please consider signing this important and time sensitive letter by FRIDAY APRIL 3RD @ NOON. Please also circulate widely through your networks. Many thanks! SIGN HERE! https://forms.gle/yrJdgMFnUz5pNYkRA March 31, 2020 Open Letter to President Gertler re: Supporting our staff in an era of Covid-19 Dear President Gertler, We write with regard to the COVID-19 crisisContinue reading “Supporting U of T staff in an era of Covid-19”

THE LIST Presents – Screening Surveillance October 24, 6:30-9:30pm @ Innis Town Hall

Screening Surveillance, a short film series that uses near future fiction storytelling based on research to highlight potential social and privacy issues that arise as a result of big data surveillance. We will be screening all three short films (15 min each) followed by a discussion with the series producer, sava saheli singh, and theContinue reading “THE LIST Presents – Screening Surveillance October 24, 6:30-9:30pm @ Innis Town Hall”

HOLD THE DATE: Pedagogies of Complicity: Finance, Mining, and the University – November 29, 2018

Please join us for the second event of the term:  Pedagogies of Complicity: Finance, Mining, and the University  November 29, 2018, 7pm, At the new regular home of The List: A Different Booklist 779 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON M5S 0B7 Anna Zalik will facilitate the discussion. Anna is a faculty member at York University where she teaches in theContinue reading “HOLD THE DATE: Pedagogies of Complicity: Finance, Mining, and the University – November 29, 2018”