News of publications, conference presentations, awards, and outreach activities for the past month are all listed below in alphabetical order. Three Rotman alumni took part in the Super-Pac Early Career Workshop in Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology at The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh on Oct 27 - 29. Yann Benétreau-Dupin gave [...]
This month we welcomed a new Administrative Assitant, Stephanie Desarmeau, who joined us from the Clinical Skills Learning Program at Schulich. Stephanie has taken over for Rob Read, who left the institute at the end of last month to pursue a full-time career in organic farming. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Stephanie, [...]
We'd like to begin with a welcome to the 2017-18 school year--hope everyone had a great summer and is excited for the year ahead. The start of the new year includes some changes in the members of our Steering Committee. Thank you to our outgoing elected members Tony Weis and Markus Müller, and to the [...]
We're very pleased to begin this month's post with exciting job news from some of our members. First, Samantha Brennan has been appointed the new Dean of Arts at the University of Guelph. She will begin her five-year term in January 2018. She will be deeply missed here at Western, but we wish her the [...]
This month, members of the Rotman Institute hosted three annual conferences: the Rotman 2017 Annual Conference, Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime; the 2017 Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference (LMP); and the 2017 PhilMiLCog Graduate Student Conference. In addition to these events, other member activities for the month are listed below in [...]
May was an eventful month for members of the Institute. 34 Rotman members participated in the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that began at the end of May. (A detailed listing of Rotman member sessions at Congress can be seen here. Please note that the original post did not include Catherine Stinson, who [...]
This year's Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will take place on May 27 - June 2 at Ryerson University in Toronto. Rotman Institute members will be participating in numerous sessions throughout the congress. If you’re attending this year’s congress, we invite you to attend these sessions and learn about some of the exciting [...]
Rotman members took part in a variety of conferences, gave a number of talks, and had some new publications during the month of April. In addition, the final Rotman event of the term took place on April 6--a public lecture by Hanna Pickard: Why Do Addicts Use? Getting Real about Drugs, Identity, and Adversity. Video of [...]
In March, The Rotman Institute hosted a successful series of events on responsible robotics and robot ethics. The series included a panel discussion held at Wolf Hall on March 15 (featuring Aimee van Wynsberghe, Ryan Gariepy, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Kristen Thomasen, and Christopher Schlachta), and two related lectures on March 16 & 17. Videos of all three [...]
Four Rotman graduate students were among the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) award recipients announced recently. Please join us in congratulating each of our 2015 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Doctoral Scholarship recipients (pictured above, left to right): Adam Woodcox - "Plato on the nature and value of pleasure" Tracy de Boer [...]
