The 2024 Royal Society of Canada Eastern Ontario Symposium is a free event open to anyone from the Kingston community and beyond, interested in hearing four experts talk passionately about their research. The speakers are all RSC Fellows or Members of the RSC New College of Scholars, Scientists and Artists. There will be a short period for questions following each presentation. Tickets are required and can be obtained in advance from the IBCPA Box Office (up to two tickets per order). Seating is assigned so getting tickets early will ensure a good seat. Unless the event is sold out, tickets will also be available at the door on the evening of the presentation. A cash bar will be open at 5:30 PM and during the intermission. This event will be available for livestream viewing using the link on this page and for the week following the event on the IBCPA Digital Concert Hall.
In presenting this symposium, the support of the Royal Society of Canada, Queen’s Vice-Principal Research Portfolio, and the IBCPA is gratefully acknowledged.
MERLYNA LIM: Algorithmic Heartbeats: Love and Hate in the Time of Social Media
Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, Carleton University and RSC Fellow, researches the co-shaping of digital technologies and society, focusing on citizen participation, activism, and democratization/autocratization in the Global South.
MARGARET MOORE: Territory and SELF-determination
Margaret Moore is a professor of Political Studies at Queen’s and RSC Fellow. Her book, A Political Theory of Territory (2015), was recognized with a Best Book Prize by the Canadian Philosophical Association.
PARVIN MOUSAVI: From Diagnosis to Surgery: AI's Role in Transforming Cancer Care
Parvin Mousavi, Canada Research Chair in Medical Informatics at Queen’s, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector AI Institute and an RSC College member, focuses on developing and translating machine learning approaches for precision medicine.
KERRY ROWE: Why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot? The “forever chemical” story.
Dr. Rowe is a world-leading geoenvironmental engineer whose research deals with safe containment of human generated waste. His talk deals with a new challenge of managing and containing toxic “forever chemicals” that are so ubiquitous that they can be found in the blood of almost all Canadians.
For more information on the speakers, their presentation, and their research, please see this link: