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style="box-sizing:inherit">Min(d)ing our Data: </span></span></font><span
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the
University,
and the City</font></span></h2>
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28, 2019, 7pm, at <a
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Street, Toronto. <i><font
size="1">Wheelchair
accessible,
gender neutral
washroom on
site.</font></i></p>
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0px 1.8em"><i
style="color:rgb(25,41,48);font-family:"Cooper
Hewitt","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Is
Google taking
over Toronto's
waterfront? Who
is in charge of
the experiment
in city building
taking place at
Quayside, </i><font
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future of </i><font
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color="#192930"><i>urban
space? Why has
the 'Sidewalk
Labs' project
provoked so
many concerns
about data
protection and
urban </i><i>privatization</i><i> from
so many </i><i>quarters</i><i>?
And how do
these </i><i>kinds</i><i> of
smart cities
initiatives
intersect with
questions of
surveillance, </i><i>race
and</i><i> privacy? </i></font><i
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color="#192930"><i>exploring
a range of
urgent issues
related to the
current state
of the
'Sidewalk
Labs'
development,</i><i> the
implications
for Toronto's
waterfront </i><i>and
the</i><i> future
of city
building, and
how
institutions
of higher
learning -
including our
own - are
implicated in
these
conversations. </i></font></p>
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<p
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0px 1.8em"><b>Nehal
El-Hadi </b><font
size="1">is a
writer and
researcher whose
work explores
the
relationships
between the body
(racialised,
gendered), place
(urban,
virtual), and
technology
(internet,
health). As a
scholar, her
hybrid
digital/material
research methods
are informed by
her training and
experience as a
science and
environmental
journalist. She
advocates for
the responsible,
accountable, and
ethical
treatment of
user-generated
content in the
fields of
journalism,
planning, and
healthcare. Her
writing has
appeared in
academic
journals,
general
scholarship
publications,
literary
magazines, and
is forthcoming
in several
anthologies and
edited
collections. She
is currently a
Visiting Scholar
at the City
Institute at
York University
and sessional
faculty at the
Department of
Human Geography,
University of
Toronto
Scarborough.</font></p>
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0px 1.8em"><b
style="color:rgb(25,41,48);font-family:"Cooper
Hewitt","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Alexandra
Flynn</b><span
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size="1"> </font></span><font
size="1"><font
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Neue,
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color="#192930">Alexandra
Flynn is
assistant
professor at
UBC’s Allard
School of Law.
Her teaching
and research
focus on
municipal law
and
governance,
administrative
law, property
law, and
experiential
education. Her
previous
project, “The
Landscape of
Local in
Toronto’s
Governance
Model,” looked
at the
overlapping
geographies
and governance
of city space,
including the
formal and
informal
bodies that
represent
residents.
Professor
Flynn recently
began a
SSHRC-funded
project which
seeks to
understand the
legal
relationships
between First
Nations and
municipal
governments.
In addition to
these
projects,
Professor
Flynn is
contributing
to a deeper
understanding
of the
governance of
“smart cities”
in the City of
Toronto,
including the
role and
duties of
Waterfront
Toronto and
Sidewalk
Labs. </font><font
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color="#192930">Professor
Flynn received
her JD and PhD
from Osgoode
Hall Law
School and her
LLM from
University of
California,
Berkeley. She
practiced
banking and
securities law
at Milbank,
Tweed, Hadley
& McCloy
in New York.
She also
practiced
Aboriginal Law
at Ratcliff
& Company
in Vancouver,
representing
First Nations
on land-use
and
contractual
matters. Prior
to entering
academia, she
worked in a
senior policy
role at the
City of
Toronto,
where, amongst
other files,
she managed
the city’s
review of the
City of
Toronto Act. </font></font></p>
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color="#192930"><b>Mariana
Valverde </b>- <font
size="1">Mariana
Valverde is a
professor at
the Centre for
Criminology
and Sociolegal
Studies at the
University of
Toronto. She
served as
Director of
the Centre
from 2007 to
2013 and was
one of the
founders of
the Sexual
Diversity
Studies
program. She
holds a
courtesy
cross-appointment
to the
Department of
Geography and
Planning as
well as the
Faculty of
Law. In recent
years she has
mainly worked
on questions
of urban
governance. A
book pitched
to a partly
academic-partly
popular
audience that
was very well
received was
her 2012
"Everyday law
on the street:
city
governance in
an age of
diversity".
Lately she
been
researching
public-private
infrastructure partnerships. </font></font><font size="1" face="Cooper
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color="#192930">MV
has been
studying urban
governance and
public-private
infrastructure
partnerships for
about 15 years.
Most recently,
together with
Alexandra Flynn
she has been
investigating
Waterfront
Toronto’s
relationship
with the Google
affiliate
Sidewalk Labs.</font></p>
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