[Fdu] TONIGHT! The List presents: Min(d)ing our Data: Google, the University, and the City

[Cynthia Wright]

    Min(d)ing our Data: Google, the University, and the City

March 28, 2019, 7pm, at A Different Booklist 
<https://adifferentbooklist.com/>779 Bathurst Street, Toronto. 
/Wheelchair accessible, gender neutral washroom on site./

/Is Google taking over Toronto's waterfront? Who is in charge of the 
experiment in city building taking place at Quayside, //and// what could 
this mean for the future of //urban space? Why has the 'Sidewalk Labs' 
project provoked so many concerns about data protection and urban 
//privatization// from so many //quarters//? And how do these 
//kinds// of smart cities initiatives intersect with questions of 
surveillance, //race and// privacy? //Join us for a //discussion 
//exploring a range of urgent issues related to the current state of the 
'Sidewalk Labs' development,// the implications for Toronto's waterfront 
//and the// future of city building, and how institutions of higher 
learning - including our own - are implicated in these conversations. /

  Featuring:

*Nehal El-Hadi *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.

*Alexandra Flynn* -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. 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.

*Mariana Valverde *- 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. 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.



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