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Exploring Relationship Dynamics: The Care Of Vietnamese Migrant Caregivers In Taiwanese Households, Stephen Lin

Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series

No abstract provided.

Critical Research Agendas Within The Metropolis Project: Reflections On A Study Of Precarious Housing And Hidden Homelessness Among Refugees, Asylum Seekers And Immigrants In Montréal, Toronto And Vancouver, Damaris Rose

Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series

No abstract provided.

Because I Am Not Here: Second Life Based Artists, Four Selected Case Studies, Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Second Life (SL) is an on-line virtual world ‘inhabited’ by avatars that are designed by actual life users (SL residents). In SL identity, sociability and subjectivity are important and permanent aspects of the goal of having a second (virtual) existence.

My doctoral thesis (in progress) is centred on the work of 4 artists in SL and how they play with autoempathy, identity an subjectivity in the liminal shifting of aesthetic regimes (that rely upon temporalities rather than spatialities) present in their SL artwork. This is what Anna Munster calls the distribute aesthetics1 of virtual worlds.

Lacan Galicia, my avatar in …

Rethinking Tradition: The Impact Of Technology & The Loss Of Serendipity On The Historical Research Process, Anabel Quan-Haase, Kim Martin

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

The move towards the digital humanities will see a growing interest in tools such as Ebooks. This study examines how historians perceive Ebooks and other technologies as impacting their research process. Findings indicate that historians are concerned that the digital environment reduces the possibility of chance encounters with a text. They continue to recreate the environment that encourages serendipity to occur within their field, and would readily welcome tools that facilitate this.

Intellectual Property And Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation And Ideology, Michael B. Mcnally

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This dissertation examines the ability of intellectual property (IP) and its alternatives to both facilitate and impede innovation. Over the past 30 years there has been both an expansionary IP policy regime marked by significant increases in IP protection and a flourishing of alternatives to IP as digital technologies empower end users to create and disseminate intellectual works. However, it remains unclear as to whether alternatives to IP can mitigate the problems of exclusionary IP rights while also encouraging innovation. This dissertation provides a theoretical framework for analyzing alternatives to IP focusing on the incentives structures utilized, ability to produce …

Technology Transfer And Innovation Policy At Canadian Universities: Opportunities And Social Costs, Samuel E. Trosow, Laura Briggs, Michael B. Mcnally

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This project examines the role of universities in transmitting knowledge in the forms of technology transfer mechanisms, intellectual property (IP) agreements and other knowledge diffusion policies.

Intergroup Romance And The Bicultural Identities Of Second Generation Asian Canadians, Richard N. Lalonde

Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series

No abstract provided.

Global Capitalism And Guest Workers: Neoliberal Paradigms And Precarious Labor Migration, Immanuel Ness

Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series

No abstract provided.