April 15, 2021 | Alumni
Listen now: Maydianne Andrade's podcast, The New Normal, navigates us into the future
The global pandemic has altered much of our daily lives and is shaping how we view our future.
“You would think spending the last 20 years teaching evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto might have prepared me for some of this,” says U of T Scarborough professor, and U of T alumna, Maydianne Andrade (MSc 1995). “But none of that helped.”
In a podcast created in collaboration with a University of Toronto Communications team led by producer Lisa Lightbourn, Andrade – the Canada Research Chair in Integrative Behavioural Ecology and vice-dean of faculty affairs and equity at U of T Scarborough – explores how we’re coping with this “new normal” and what kind of future we’re building in the process.
“We are all in this together,” Andrade says. “And what we are when we come out the other side will depend on how we work together to overcome the challenges of this new time.”
Listen to episode 19 (April 8): "Scapegoat" (part two) with students Gigi Hoi and Alfonso Ralph Mendoza Malano
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Listen to episode 19 (April 8): "Scapegoat" (part one) with professors Jooyoung Lee and Diana Fu
Listen to episode 18 (March 25, 2021): "One Year Later" - with students, alumni and faculty guests
Listen to episode 17 (March 18, 2021): "Re-shuffle" - the Corona Shuffle revisited
Listen to episode 16 (March 11, 2021): "Binding Myths" WITH UTM PRINCIPAL Alexandra Gillespie
Listen to episode 15 (February 25, 2021): "In Cities we Trust" WITH President Meric Gertler
Listen to episode 14 (February 4, 2021): "The WIsdom of Citizenship" WITH GUEST Wisdom Tettey
Listen to episode 13 (January 14, 2021): "Vulnerable populations" WITH GUEST HOST Kimberley Tull
Listen to episode 12 (November 27, 2020): "The Pedagogy of kindness" WITH GUEST HOST Fiona Rawle
Listen to episode 11 (oCTOBER 30, 2020): "BEING INTERNATIONAL" WITH GUEST HOST jOSEPH wONG
Listen to episode 10 (August 28, 2020): Podcasting in a pandemic
Listen to episode 9 (August 14, 2020): Quiet Streets
Listen to episode 8 (July 31, 2020): Queering the New Normal
Listen to episode 7 (July 10, 2020): A crossroad
Listen to episode 6 (June 19, 2020): Enough: Part 2
Listen to episode 6 (June 12, 2020): Enough: Part 1
Listen to episode 5 (May 29, 2020): Class of 2020
Listen to episode 4 (May 20, 2020): Checking in
Listen to episode 3 (May 13, 2020): Social solidarity
Listen to episode 2 (May 6, 2020): There will be music
Listen to episode 1 (April 29, 2020): The corona shuffle
Listen to Introduction (April 22, 2020): The New Normal
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