The book, Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (Thomson Reuters, 2021), is co-edited with Aviv Gaon, director at IDC Herzliya of experiential programs, and Carole Piovesan, co-founder of INQ Law. Both are Osgoode alumni.

D’Agostino says the book provides a provocative analysis on the emerging terrain of AI and how it interrogates various areas of the law. It features a foreword from Marshall Rothstein, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as international collaboration of thought leaders in AI, with contributors from Canada, the U.S., Europe and Israel.

Issues of intellectual property, privacy, contract law, regulation, governance, ethics, business and more are discussed in the book. It is designed to present lawyers with implications that AI and new technologies may have on how legal services are delivered and how to approach emerging technology.

“Importantly, such issues merit a toolkit of practical and international perspectives, as they are increasingly complex and ajurisdictional,” says D’Agostino, who is also an Osgoode alum and currently co-chairs the 91��ɫ Artificial Intelligence and Society Task Force.

D’Agostino gives credit to Osgoode JD students Elif Babaoglu, Daniel Joseph, Joseph Simile, Rachel Marcus, Christopher Tsuji and Julianna Felendzer, who provided research assistance.

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Driven and passionate about the significance of Marx’s contributions in politics, sociology, the critique of political economy and philosophy, Musto has delivered seven books within the last three years. Each of them focuses on a different aspect of Marx’s work and highlights his relevance for finding alternative solutions to the most pressing current issues of capitalism.

Musto’s newest book, titled��Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration��(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of 20th-century socialism. This volume aims to generate a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. Among them there are Marx’s points of view about ecology, migration, gender, labour movement, globalization, social relations and the contours of a possible alternative to liberalism. The chapters assembled in this book suggest that today Marx’s analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly than they did in his own time.

The anthology��Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation��(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) offers an innovative reading of the theory of alienation, which occupied a significant place in the work of Marx and has long been considered one of his main contributions to the critique of capitalist mode of production. In this volume, Musto has concentrated his selection on Marx’s later economic works, where his thoughts on alienation were far more extensive and detailed than those of his earlier philosophical writings. Additionally, the materials contained in this new book offer valuable insights about Marx’s conception of communist society and the fundamental role of individual freedom. The anthology includes an extensive introduction written by Musto dedicated to the birth and the development of the concepts of alienation, commodity fetishism and reification.

Musto’s most recent monograph,��The Last Years of Karl Marx:��An Intellectual Biography��(Stanford University Press, 2020), investigates Marx’s theoretical insights from the final, mostly unexplored years of his life. In what many describe as a definitive work on the last phase of Marx’s intellectual development, there are clear indications that not only he had not ceased to write, as it has been wrongly assumed for a long time, but, on the contrary, that he extended the range of his research into new disciplines and directions. Based on unfinished manuscripts that remain unavailable in English, on excerpts from his readings, and on letters of the period 1881-83, Musto lays rest the myth that Marx was a Eurocentric and an economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. In his final years, the revolutionary who lived most of his life exiled in London, dedicated his attention on anthropological discoveries, analyzed communal forms of ownership in pre-capitalist societies, strongly opposed to colonial oppression in India, Algeria and Egypt, and considered the possibility of revolution in non-capitalist countries. Musto argues that all this allows an interesting reassessment of some of Marx’s key concepts. Originally published in Italian, in 2016, this book has already been translated into 14 languages.

For those interested in gaining new insight into Marx’s renaissance around the world,��The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations��(Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collection of 22 essays penned by international experts of this thinker that have been compiled and edited by Musto. The book offers a comprehensive guide to the importance of the author of the��Communist Manifesto��in understanding the major economic and political issues of our times. The contributors argue that Marx, freed from the association with Soviet Union and updated considering the changes since the late 19th century, has still a lot to teach us. Written in a clear form and accessible to a wider public, this volume brings together the liveliest and most thought-provoking contemporary interpretations of Marx and explains the reasons why his work is so relevant in today's world.

The collective volume��Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism��(Routledge, 2019) arises from the largest����held in the world to celebrate the 150th anniversary of��Capital’s publication in 1867. The book is divided into three parts: I) "Capitalism, Past and Present"; II) "Extending the Critique of��Capital"; III) "The Politics of��Capital" and contains the contributions of globally renowned scholars who offer diverse perspectives and critical insights into the interpretation of such a seminal text and of the principal contradictions of capitalism. While pointing to alternative economic and social models, the authors of this volume reconsider the most influential debates on��Capital��and provide new interpretations of Marx’s��magnum opus��considering themes rarely associated with it, such as gender, ecology, and non-European societies.

The edited book��Karl Marx’s Life, Ideas, Influences: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary��(Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) is a collection which showcases a lot of the latest global scholarship on Marx and his legacy.�� It contains 16 chapters from multiple academic disciplines and is divided into two parts: I) “On the Critique of Politics”; II) “On the Critique of Political Economy.” The volume represents a source of great appeal for both expert scholars of Marx as well as students and general readers who are approaching his theories for the first time.

Finally, the monograph Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) reconstructs the intellectual trajectory behind Marx’s main sociological and political ideas from his youth to the militancy in the . Built on the most recent textual acquisitions of the MEGA² – the historical-critical edition of the complete works of Marx and Friedrich Engels that has resumed publication in 1998 – this book offers an innovative examination of Marx’s ideas on post-Hegelian philosophy, alienated labor, the materialist conception of history, research methods, the theory of surplus-value, working-class self-emancipation, and class political organization. From this emerges “another Marx,” a thinker very different from the one depicted by so many of his critics and ostensible disciples.

More about Marcello Musto

In addition to his focus and extensive writings on Marx and Marxism, Musto’s research explores alternative socio-economic ideas, socialist thought, the history of the labour movement, and contemporary European politics. His writings – available at  – have been published worldwide in 25 languages. Musto’s forthcoming books include Travels with Marx: Destinations, Encounters, and Reflections (Europa Editions) and The Routledge Handbook of Marx’s ‘Capital’: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception (Ed. with Babak Amini, Routledge), both scheduled for 2022. Stay tuned. Follow Musto on Twitter @MarMusto.

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Canadian poet and 91��ɫ alumna Canisia Lubrin has won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize for her book The Dyzgraphxst (Penguin/Random House, 2020), a long poem that examines the idea of selfhood while exploring issues of race, oppression and colonialism.

Widely considered the most prestigious poetry award in Canada, the Griffin family gives out two $65,000 prizes annually: one to a Canadian poet and one to an international poet.

“The Dyzgraphxst is Canisia Lubrin’s spectacular feat of architecture called a poem,”  remarked the prize jury. “Built with ‘I’ – a single mark on the page, a voice, a blade, ‘a life-force soaring back’ – and assembled over seven acts addressing language, grammar, sentence, line, stage and world, the poet forms, invents, surprises and sharpens life.”

Lubrin is a graduate of 91��ɫ’s Creative Writing program in the Department of English, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

“We are thrilled and proud that Canisia’s exquisite book has won the Griffin Prize,” said David Goldstein, associate professor and co-ordinator of 91��ɫ’s Creative Writing program. “It’s so wonderful to see a graduate of the program receive such a well-deserved honour. "

Born and raised in Saint Lucia, Lubrin completed a BA in creative writing at 91��ɫ and an MFA at the University of Guelph. She teaches creative writing at OCAD University and poetry at the University of Toronto and is also the incoming poetry editor at the literary press McClelland & Stewart.

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The book, titled ¡SABÍA QUE NO SABÍA! and written in Spanish, is co-authored with Juan Carlos Aguirre and was published in 2021. The English translation is titled I Knew I Didn't Know.

The book discusses contemporary global issues and social phenomena such as culture, modernity, globalization, immigration-emigration, social inequalities, development, diversity, North-South relations and personal world views. It is a conversation on contemporary life, organized in five sections: reflections on the beings that we are; culture, generations and gender; interrogations about development; progress and modernity; and other worlds.

"The issues covered by the book echo critical conversations between two intellectuals and interactive sociological analysis on contemporary global issues and social phenomena," says Llambías-Wolff.

"We have tried to contribute in a more open and user-friendly language, by adding 160 footnotes for extra information. In this sense, we have considered the 'sociological imagination' of Wright Mills, who valued the relevance of everyday life to sociological perceptions."

Critical thinking, says Llambías-Wolff, starts with questions and though reflecting has never been an easy task, it is even less so now in these times of "intoxicating" levels of exposure to information.

The book focuses in on cultural understanding and cultural diversity, which Llambías-Wolff describes as a strength of 91��ɫ.

"It is what we do best at 91��ɫ; however – and unfortunately – we still have some non-conscious bias," he says. "Living in a global world should not be just a cliché sentence, but a true intellectual involvement."

Llambías-Wolff says another lesson learned from the research for this book is to better comprehend Voltaire, when he said that discord is the great evil of humanity and that tolerance is its only remedy.

To celebrate the launch of the book, there will be a virtual event scheduled in the upcoming months, as well as a workshop to be organized in Madrid in 2022.

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Britzman is the Tier 1 91��ɫ Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-Social Transformation and focuses her research on the histories of psychoanalysis with education.

Anticipating Education is addressed to teachers, professors and students engaged in the critical, conceptual study of subjectivity at the heart of education. Britzman writes of education as if it could be conducted as an uncertain search for concepts, ideas, histories, emotional situations, and states of becoming.

Readers will encounter surprising narratives, studied as lost memories, predicaments of trying to know, and desires for greater freedom, all treated as touchstones of old and new conflicts affecting university life.

Four themes of teaching and learning are analyzed: phantasies of education; difficult knowledge; transforming subjects; and psychoanalysis with education. Britzman joins the tenders of emotional situations of pedagogy as stretching from historical trauma, social change, sexuality, learning inhibitions, and dynamics of love and hate in group life. The book furthers Britzman’s highly influential and groundbreaking contributions to thinking broadly on the reach and limits of having education.

In her introduction, 'Late Education,’ Britzman writes, “If one could return to the sources of education, to where it all began, where would one be and with whom? What causes could be remembered? Such questions imagine education as a state of mind and the object of our search...”

As one of the most cited and prolific scholars in education, Britzman is internationally known for her erudite writing in the fields of philosophy, psychology, history, teacher education, critical theory, and literary studies and for taking on the difficult knowledge of our time.

In addition to earning the Tier 1 91��ɫ Chair, Pedagogy and Psychosocial Transformations in 2017, Britzman has previously earned awards and recognition, including: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; and Hans Loewald Memorial Reward, Internal Forum for Psychoanalytic Eduction (2015).

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Lunny, an associate professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), teaches in the Law & Society program and is a member of the graduate program in Socio-Legal Studies.

Her book  (UBC Press, 2017), is recognized as a leading work in the field. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, she argues that the parliamentary debates on hate crime and hate speech legislation reveal deeper concerns, trepidations and anxieties about victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.

At St. Thomas, she will pivot from this research and will refocus on mass killings of women in relation to misogynistic hate crime. Analyzing the language of hate, she will probe the relationship of incel ideology in the motives behind the Toronto van attack, the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique, and the recent mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research utilizes semiotics and affect theory to deepen the conversation about hate crime and ideology.   

While in residence at St. Thomas, Lunny will deliver the keynote address at a hate crime conference. She will also teach a fourth-year seminar for students interested in her research.

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Proximities: Experiments in Nearness��(University of Minnesota Press)��is co-edited with��, who is a professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Bowdoin College in Maine.

Today, disciplines and fields move consciously proximate to one another, in conversation and growing together. Books in the Proximities series think proximately, that is, in disciplinary tandem, about the relationships within and between the arts, literature and science, as well as how scholarship can best be in active dialogue with communities and the world around us today, and in the future. The series not only thinks across disciplines, but thinks about the continuities and crossings themselves, interrogating how and why their disciplinary proximities matter.

Proximities publishes work that is crafted with nearness in mind: human nearness to one another and the world around us; nearness to one another’s thoughts; to our written and unwritten pasts; to critical trends and crises; to our futures ahead. This kind of scholarship powerfully catalyzes awareness of what it means to work interdisciplinarily by challenging assumptions about disciplinary thinking from the outside in, and the inside out.

This new series is presented in collaboration with the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, an academic organization with members across disciplines, including the sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities and the arts. Cocchetto currently serves as president of the organization.

Cecchetto studies critical digital theory, sound and experimental media. He is an associate member of the graduate programs in Humanities and Film, as well as the 91��ɫ/Ryerson joint program in Communication & Culture; he is also a faculty associate with Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology and co-organizes the Tuning Speculation conferences and workshops as part of The Occulture.

Cecchetto’s published works include the monographs Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture (co-authored with The Occulture; Bloomsbury, 2017), Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and the forthcoming Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke University Press, 2022). In addition to Proximities, he is a series editor of the para-academic Catalyst book series (Noxious Sector Press).

Faculty members who are interested in submitting a proposal to��Proximities��can contact the editors at��dcecchet@yorku.ca��or��asaiber@bowdoin.edu��with a short description of your book project.

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An event to celebrate the pre-launch of the book will take place March 27 at 3:30 p.m., and will be presented by the Nai Children’s Choir, a program that focuses on music, relationship-building and the well-being of refugee families.

The storybook is the outcome of a collaborative project between the , Toronto Public Library, and the Connecting Culture and Childhood Project led by principal investigator and 91��ɫ Associate Professor (Children, Childhood & Youth Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies).

The online event is geared toward children ages six and up (attending with an adult) and aims to celebrate the story of Zahra through a child-led and creative process. Those in attendance will join Zahra on a quest to find the lost voices stolen from her village by an evil wizard, and along the way will meet an eagle, a mermaid, a firefly and children from around the world. After learning about, and participating in Zahra’s adventures, youngsters will be invited to partake in activities such as creating their own stories.

Zahra and the Lost Voices is authored by children who participate in the Nai Children’s Choir, which was founded in 2016 by a team of staff and volunteer musicians at CultureLink Settlement Services, a community organization with more than 30 years of experience delivering services to meet the needs of diverse communities. The Nai Children’s Choir offers children and youth a space to express themselves through free weekly music education, singing, art-making and other activities.

Emberly says the children participating in the choir and contributing to the book have shared their positive feedback on their experience. "A Nai Choir member and key contributor to the storybook and the song, told us 'People are so friendly, and you get to learn new music, new languages, and people make you feel welcome' and said because of her involvement with Nai Choir, she will 'keep singing forever,'" said Emberly.

Zahra and the Lost Voices also includes a song composed by Nai Children’s Choir called Music is for Everyone to Share, which will be shared during the online event. The song was recorded in partnership with Toronto producer, engineer and arranger, Lisa Patterson, along with , 91��ɫ Postdoctoral Fellow on the Connecting Culture and Childhood Project.

Reid, a Canadian singer-songwriter, recording artist and public academic, has been working for many years at the intersections of music, performance, play, education and social justice. Reid has produced audio and visual material culture in the form of songs and digital stories as a solo artist, and in collaboration with children, youth, adults and various research projects at 91��ɫ, the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Reid was recently awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Explore Grant to collaborate on a songwriting and recording project with children of the Nai Choir. Nai Choir songwriters and Reid will share their work-in-progress at the upcoming Children, Youth, and Performance Conference hosted by Young People’s Theatre in partnership with 91��ɫ in Toronto in June 2021.

Information about purchasing Zahra and the Lost Voices in both e-book and hard copy format will be shared at the event. The project and event are supported by Toronto Public Library, the Nai Children’s Choir, CultureLink, 91��ɫ, and SSHRC.

To for this free event on Saturday, March 27 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., visit the

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Co-edited with Professors  of Brock University and  of Leiden University in the Netherlands, the book brings together emerging and senior scholars from multiple disciplines – political science, international political economy, economics, business studies, communication studies, global studies, criminology, and technology ethics – and covers several geographical areas – China, Russia, the European Union, Brazil and North America. This diverse set of countries and regions allows for a comprehensive exploration of the ways in which forms of state, industry actors and civil society interact to shape internet regulation and governance domestically and globally. Through 10 case studies spanning the globe, and featuring experts from across the social sciences, this timely volume explores the future of internet governance at a time when its course has never been more unclear.

Power and Authority in Internet Governance aims to affect policy debates by moving the discussion of internet governance beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to also consider greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. The book’s goal is to lay the groundwork for a more critical and nuanced discussion of both how the internet is governed, and how it should be governed.

The volume grew out of workshop in July 2019 hosted at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, which brought together senior and emerging scholars from North America, Latin America and Europe. Tusikov and Haggart were inaugural internet governance research fellows at the Centre in 2019.

Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. In addition to this new book, she is the author of  (University of California Press, 2017). Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.

Power and Authority in Internet Governance launched March 15.

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Schulich marketing Professor Emeritus and author  delves into these and other issues in the fast-evolving world of luxury fashion in his new book, .

“The traditional model of luxury fashion – elegant retail palaces, perceived scarcity, fabulous runway shows, no discounting ever, no online selling – has faltered under the onslaught of millennials and influencers, all accelerated by the impact of a pandemic,” says Thompson.

The book includes stories about the people and inner workings of luxury fashion, gathered from New 91��ɫ, London, Paris and Milan, as well as the rapidly growing markets of China.

For example, fashion designer Tom Ford usually holds fashion shows in the Park Avenue Armory in New 91��ɫ City. In fall 2019, he switched to an abandoned subway station at Bowery and Delancey streets and required the guests – women in high heels – to walk down a three-story stairway to the rails to view his “runway show.” Transit Authority workers in safety vests acted as guides. Ford served dumplings and margaritas in plastic cups, rather than the usual champagne cocktails.

And New 91��ɫ’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Ball, run by Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, is the most difficult-to-obtain ticket for any cultural event in America with the longest waiting list – despite costing a hundred thousand dollars for tickets, gala outfit and hotel.

The book includes a chapter on “Death by Amazon and AI,” which examines the inroads and existential threat of Amazon to the luxury fashion world.

Thompson's book is the result of three years of research into the marketing secrets behind luxury fashion.

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