GradCast

53 | Facing Death with Cayley Bower

This week we are rejoined by Cayley Bower. Last time she came on to talk about her work as the PSAC Social Science chief steward, but today we sit down to talk about her research. Cayley studies a graveyard in Kingston, and what it says about the changing cultural approaches to death in the 19th century.

 

Hosts: Tristan Johnson and Susan Anthony

 

52 | Helping Moms with Natalie Scime

This week we meet with Natalie Scime, who wants to find out just what our hospitals are doing for moms of premature babies to have breast feeding and pumping support.

Hosts: Emma Bridgwater and Alex Moszczynski

 

51 | Laying Down the Law with Anandita Ghosh

This week we meet with Master's student of Law Anandita Ghosh, investigating a question that comes up in courts when an abused woman kills or injures her partner, but not in a dangerous situation.

Hosts: Susan and Yimin

Producers: Susan Anthony 

 

50 | Trolling Yimin Chen

This week we are interviewing a new crew-member Yimin Chen. He hails from Library and Information Science studying internet culture. Specifically, the act of trolling.

Host: Ani and Susan

Producer: Susan Anthony

 

49 | Chilly Spiders with Susan Anthony

This week we meet with new GradCast host and our guest Susan Anthony. She's been and goes from time to time to the arctic to find and study how spiders up there handle the cold.

Host and Producer: Tristan Johnson

48 | Interviewpunk with Mark Filipowich

This week we talk to Mark Filipowich and his research into cyberpunk and steampunk literature. He looks into how these sub-genres of science fiction reflect ideas about our relationship with machines.

Mark's blog: bigtallwords

Mark's twitter: @thecybersteam

and Critical Distance, a thing he does some curating, editing, etc. for.

Host: Yimin Chen and Taniya Nagpal

47 | Undervaluing Google Drive Labour with Alan Del Pino

This week, our bold heroes talk to FIMS student Alan Del Pino. He's looking at the value of intellectual labour, and its potential problems in a future with products like Google Drive.

Host: Yimin and Taniya

Producers: Tristan Johnson and Taniya Nagpal

46 | Ugandan Refugee Communities with Shezan Muhammedi

This week we're here with History PhD student Shezan Muhammedi. He comes to talk about South Asian Ugandan refugees coming to Canada in the 1970s. We use this refugee crisis to talk about the crisis going on today.

Hosts: Tristan and Taniya

Produced by Tristan Johnson

45 | All you Ever Wanted to Know about the Elbow with Ranita Manocha

This week we are joined by Ranita Manocha who teaches us about the field of bio-mechanics, and her work on the elbow joint.

Host: Alex and Andy

Produced by Tristan Johnson 

44 | Rehabilitation Through Play with Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque

This week we meet with our new Gradcast committee member Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque who works with mice exposed to alcohol during brain development. He tries to find ways to rehabilitate them through novelty, play, and socialization.

Host: Yimin and Alex

Produce by Tristan Johnson