What Now?

Director of the Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert sits down with Randy to breakdown everything from privacy and propaganda, to how to solve marital problems and intricacies of being a Libra.

Jeffrey Rosenthal, Professor of Statistics, was born on Friday the 13th. He joins Randy to talk about luck, chance, Markov's chain - and no that’s not a 90's band - and play a round of rock, paper, scissors!

Beth Coleman, Associate Professor of Data & Cities joins Randy to dive into “smarter cities” and what a more human-centered city could be.

Edward Jones-Imhotep, is a historian of the social and cultural life of machines. He and Randy talk tech, Black androids, social order and slow disasters.

Randy Boyagoda and Clémentine Van Effenterre dive deep into economic policies and protests, privilege and class divisions, and the new shape of work across the globe.

Randy meets Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández at his OISE office for the first time since the pandemic, as they talk about whether schools have changed for the worse (or the better) since March 2020.

Maydianne Andrade is a Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist and (UTSC) professor known for her work on the mating habits of a variety of widow spiders. During the pandemic, she hosted The New Normal, a podcast about our steps into the unknown and how we as a community are getting through it. She pursues research, teaching, service, and public engagement in a variety of ways, including as a Canada Research Chair and as president of the Canadian Black Scientist Network. And we ask – what now? https://blackscientists.ca/about-us/#mission https://www.maydianne.com/ 

A podcast about the post pandemic world: how we live together, work together, recover, thrive, teardown, and rebuild. What has changed? Are we ready for the next challenges? Climate change, inequality, identity, housing, healthcare, supply chain, technology, community.

Season one host – author and professor Randy Boyagoda – explores our city and ideas, talking with members of the U of T community and its neighbors about this brand-new world.