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Newsletterct FINAL JUNE 8.Indd Volume 1 / Issue 1 Spring 2011 Ron Deibert’s “Arab Spring” PLANNING for our academic future David Cameron “Planning” is a recurrent feature of university life, and a major challenge for chairs and their administrative colleagues. For academic units in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George campus), 2009-10 was consumed by a strategic planning exercise that was destined to be especially dif! cult because of the need to confront major de! cits. A lot would depend on the academic performance of each unit, the vision it was able to develop, and evidence of resource pressure. The Department’s submission could quote from a recent external assessment by the Ontario Council of Graduate Egypt, Syria, and other parts of reaches around the globe. It includes Studies, characterizing it not only the “Arab Spring” are much on Ron students and professionals from political as “the preeminent political science Deibert’s mind. On one morning full of science, law, sociology, and computer department in Canada,” but also as news reports of large crowds gathering science. Beyond that are hundreds one that “ranks among the best in the in central Cairo, “we were monitoring; of researchers and monitors, in turn world.” The department’s pitch also we had colleagues looking for signs connected to hundreds more. talked about our faculty’s penchant for of government control, some at great All this has won dizzying media asking “big questions.” This, we argued, personal risk.” attention (including headlines in the positioned us well for confronting new This is Deibert’s world. For years, he N.Y. Times) and prestigious awards. political challenges (and old) across the has written and talked about the use of He was recently named one of the ! ve globe. internet connections to organize citizens, most in" uential IT security thinkers The planning document pointed out and for the sophisticated methods used world-wide, by SC Magazine (aimed how much student interest in politics by governments to control what they at security professionals). He’s been view as threatening activity. He and his included in media lists, either as one continued on page 5 team made headlines around the world of the “best and brightest” (Esquire) with their work pointing to a pattern of or as helping make the world a better cyber-espionage that seemed to be based place (Macleans). He’s received not in China. Since then, they have seen one but two top teaching awards at the other governments curtailing internet U of T. His long run as co-instructor use at crucial times like elections. (with Janice Stein) in the huge ! rst-year NEW The Citizen Lab is the hub of the course in global affairs (POL 108) has BOOKS multi-tentacled Deibert network that made him a legend among thousands of on page 11 continued on page 9 1 ALUMNI profi le NEWS at MISSISSAUGA Mike Layton’s new job Ronnie Beiner Seven years after graduating from Erindale College, Mike Layton was on Toronto’s City Council, representing Trinity-Spadina. He must have been told a hundred times that he had politics in his blood. His great-grandfather and grandfather were cabinet ministers (in Quebec and Ottawa). His father Jack We have seen dramatic changes in leads the federal NDP. Political Science at UTM. We have a That’s not quite where he was new home in what is now called the heading when in 1999 he entered what William G. Davis Building (re-named to was then called Erindale College – now honour Bill Davis’s contribution to the UTM. He was mostly interested in bio- founding of Erindale College). We have chemistry, and took an introduction to a new Principal (Deep Saini) and a new Canadian Politics as a lark. He liked Dean (Amy Mullin). In July 2012, Ed it, nding the issues being grappled Schatz will become the new chair, taking with more engaging than “breaking in the fall of 2010. As a progressive over from me and from Graham White, into equations.” And in his next year, getting into of ce in the same election who was the UTM department’s rst a comparative course taught by David that swung council and the mayoralty chair, and is returning as interim chair Wolfe opened up opportunities for away from his priorities, he has found for 2011-12. him to explore environmental policy in it a challenge. “You don’t win all your But most importantly of all for us, depth – “an incredible course.” battles, but in the process you build and most gratifying for me, has been After nishing his B.A. in 2003, he relationships, learn about new subject the addition of three tremendously went on to an M.E.S. at York University areas, and you have an opportunity to impressive and energetic new collea- specializing in urban planning. After impact people’s lives. You can go home gues. Peter Loewen, who works in that, he worked on the NDP’s 2005-06 thinking, ‘I helped solve a problem.’” political psychology and electoral national election campaign and the Did the academic material he politics, joined us in January 2010, Ontario provincial party’s campaign to encountered back in his undergraduate having completed a Ph.D. from Univer- get marginalized communities more days have any bearing on the world sité de Montréal and postdoctoral engaged in politics. An opportunity of politics he’s now immersed in? fellowships at UBC and the University opened up at Environmental Absolutely. “A lot of what happens of California, San Diego. Todd Hall Defence Canada, where he ended up here in council goes back to the core joined us a year ago with a broad set of coordinating the Green Energy Act principles were learned about in rst interests in international relations, after Alliance, pressuring and working with and second year. I was taught that you doctoral work at Chicago and postdocs the Ontario government to improve its base ideas and practice on principles, at Princeton and Harvard. This January, environmental practice. even if that means taking unpopular Lee Ann Fujii joined us after completing Layton hadn’t seriously thought stands on issues like taxation. This is her degree and three years of teaching of electoral politics before, but on the basic rst- and second-year stuff – what at George Washington University. She prompting of friends and supporters he is the role of government, how do you has worked on the politics of genocide, decided to make a run for the inner city balance private and public interests, and has published a penetrating study council seat that he ended up winning what are the priorities of a city?” § of the Rwandan genocide with Cornell University Press ( Killing Neighbors , 2009). The Department’s undergraduate Politics by the numbers enrolments have been growing by leaps and bounds, while our faculty 6 7 6 8 7 7 9 :; < = > : ? @ > A B C D: E D > F > 5 complement has remained static. So we P Q R S T U V S W X Y S U V U Z Y T W U \ S S X U T ] ] ^ S X Q [ have reason to hope that the process K I L G # ¥ ¦ ¢ of faculty renewal will accelerate at ¡ £ ¤ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¢ ¢ G H I J ! UTM. As a department, we have much " to be proud of (as an external review undertaken this year con rmed): § ¢ ¢ ¨ © ¢ ¦ £ § £ © § § $ % & ' $ % & ' $ % ( 4 ' $ % ( 4 ' ( ) * + ,- . , / 0 / & - 1 2 3 / ( ) * + ,- . , / 0 / & - 1 2 3 / M M N OM H L J I J OI I I excellent teachers, exceptionally productive researchers, and terri c staff. 2 Confronting AIDS in Africa Jenn Donville’s “War Child” Commitments with Antoinette Handley JennJe Donville must have been one Antoinette Handley’s research agenda does not have a particularly distinguished amazing bartender. has always tackled large and challenging history of treating its employees well. Soon after nishing issues. She is now in the midst of The mining sector is illustrative of a school, a regular exploring responses to AIDS in sub- broader shift in employment needs from customer at a Queen Saharan Africa, bringing her face to the 1970s on, away from unskilled and Street bar asked face with heroism and innovation in short-term labour and toward the more her what she did apart from serving some settings; criminal neglect and mis- skilled and long-term labour. This is drinks, and she started talking about guidedness in others. There are heroes a workforce that needs to be retained her passionate interest in African and villains aplenty, and much that is over a longer term. “Often there is an development. The customer worked confusing and uncertain in the middle. individual, high up, who is seized of the with War Child Canada, and soon The initial ideas for this germinated issue and pushes hard.” afterwards offered her contracts to while she was a graduate student. But The big picture is still dominated help them on HIV-AIDS and gender guidelines. The sparks behind this energy and commitment were lit during a second year course of Richard Sandbrook’s, and especially in Antoinette Handley’s third-year course in Sub-Saharan development. She was also deeply impressed by Stephen Lewis’s tireless work on HIV-AIDS, and his recognition of the need to focus on women. She completed her B.A. in 2004, and a year after that began an M.A. at the London School of Economics. Jenn is now Deputy Director of Handley meeting former Botswana President Mogae – the “AIDS president.” International Programs at War Child Canada. She has managed programs it was during a 2010 sabbatical that she by the most profound inequities, in Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and really dove into this “political economy” particularly where governments have has had a role in other locations of the epidemic, tracking corporate failed to respond, or where state capacity from Afghanistan to Uganda and the response in four very different countries is highly constrained.
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