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SUMMARY:Philosophy and Cognitive Science of Attention Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading group led by Professor Alex Djedovic focused broadly on philosophical issues with attention\, ranging from high-level theories\, to relevant empirical data\, to applications of theory. The vision is to focus\, as much as possible\, on the most general\, high-level phenomena—the very metaphysical and empirical frames we use to pose questions about attention. \nTo begin the discussion\, on October 17\, the group will read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Wayne Wu’s “Attention.” \nMeetings will take place in person on Fridays from 4-6 PM at UC D301\, starting on October 17.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/philosophy-of-attention/
LOCATION:UC D301\, 15 King's College Circle\, Toronto
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SUMMARY:EASE Lab Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us Wednesday\, November 19th\, 12:30-2:30 pm for two presentations \nIn person at \nOn Zoom at https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84833201437 (Meeting ID: 848 3320 1437\, Passcode: 308188) \n“Citations as a Community Building Gratitude Practice” \nJeff Newman\, New College Librarian \n“Meaningful Attentiveness to the Environment in Psychological Interventions” \nHonour Stahl\, MA\, Environment and Sustainability \nMore about our speakers: \nJeff Newman is the College Librarian at New College. His work as a librarian has covered many areas of the information ecosystem\, from digitization projects to information literacy and online pedagogies\, emerging forms of scholarly communication\, digital humanities projects\, and more recently work on large language models\, bias\, and their implications for the University and society in general. \nHonour Stahl (she/her) is a recent graduate of the Master of Environment and Sustainability program at the University of Toronto. Her research explores attentiveness to the natural and social environment in environmental psychology\, focusing on Nature-Based Therapy interventions. Her leadership and work with environmental non-profits further ground her practice in intersectional\, community-based knowledge translation that supports both environmental and social wellbeing.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/nov-2025/
LOCATION:Wilson Hall Room 2002\, 40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251217T123000
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SUMMARY:EASE Lab Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85729777370 \nMeeting ID: 857 2977 7370\nPasscode: 653017 \nThis month’s presentations: \n“What is mad studies and what can it bring to mental health research?” \nLucy Costa is deputy executive director of a non-profit service user rights-based organization in Toronto\, Canada. She works as an advocate promoting the rights of mental health service users\, as well as encouraging critical analysis about service user inclusion  practices in the mental health sector.  She is co-editor of Madness\, Violence\, and Power: A Critical Collection (University of Toronto Press)  as well as a special edition of the Journal of Ethics and Mental Health (2019). She is also a longtime meditator and member of the Board of Directors at Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto. \nLori Ross is Associate Professor in the Division of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences\, Dalla Lana School of Public Health\, University of Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary mixed methods researcher with a particular interest in research methodologies for social justice. Lori is particularly interested in drawing from Mad Studies and other critical approaches to study mental health among 2SLGBTQ+ and other communities impacted by intersecting structural oppressions. You can learn about her research at www.lgbtqhealth.ca. \n“Pagbabalik ng Nawalay: Madness\, Forgiveness\, and the Affective Politics of Return” \nWalter Rafael Villanueva is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the New College Senior Doctoral Fellow in Buddhism\, Psychology and Mental Health. He has managed major grant programs and research projects with the Department of Health & Society\, the Centre for Global Disability Studies\, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His doctoral research explores Asian North American narratives of madness and\, in particular\, how Asian North American writers use storytelling as a counter or supplement to formal psychiatric diagnosis. He is currently working on an autoethnography that details his mother’s journey as a Filipina care worker in Canada who later develops vascular dementia and returns to the Philippines to make amends with her family\, her relationship with whom had become fractured after she became disabled. Enmeshed within his mother’s story is his experience being her Mad primary caregiver.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/dec-2025/
LOCATION:Wilson Hall Room 2002\, 40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260120T170000
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SUMMARY:EASE Lab Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us in 2026 for our EASE Lab Monthly Meetings! These are open to all U of T faculty\, students\, and staff. \nLocation: New College\, Wilson Hall\, Room 2007D – 40 Wilcocks Street. Enter the front sliding doors\, up the stairs\, and curve right around the staircase. \nOr on Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85072398524 (Meeting ID: 850 7239 8524\, Passcode: 101210) \nThis month’s presentation: \nFor January’s meeting\, we have two special guests! Geshe Sonam Ngodrup will tell us about the four close placements of mindfulness (dran pa nyer bzhag bzhi/ smṛtyupasthāna)\, a core meditation practice within most of the world’s Buddhist traditions. In these practices\, one can develop insight by developing mindfulness of the body\, feelings\, mind\, and phenomena. Geshe Sonam will begin with gentle awareness exercises to develop our concentration\, and then help us explore the four close placements through explanation and guided meditation. \n \nAt the age of 13\, Geshe Sonam Ngodrup left Kham\, Tibet for India to join Sera Jey monastery. After graduating as a Geshe Lharampa (the most distinguished of the four geshe degrees) at the top of his class\, Geshe-la began teaching. As one of the monastery’s most popular scripture teachers (dpe khrid dge rgan)\, Geshe-la spent a decade guiding over a hundred monastic students through the key scriptures of the tradition. From 2010 to 2018\, Geshe taught in Europe\, and since 2019\, he has been a resident teacher at Lama Yeshe Ling in Burlington\, Ontario. \n  \nRory Tasker (Venerable Khedrup) has been a Buddhist monk since 2004 and graduated from the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program in Dharamsala\, India\, in 2010. He has served Geshe Sonam and several other respected Himalayan teachers as their Tibetan-English interpreter since 2011. He completed an MA in Buddhist studies at McMaster in 2019 and had his PhD thesis accepted at the University of Toronto\, OISE in 2025. His research focused on the experiences and pedagogies of Tibetan and Himalayan teachers of Buddhism in North America.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/january-2026/
LOCATION:40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1C6\, 40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Monthly meeting
DESCRIPTION:February Meeting Research Presentations \nJoin us February 24th 12:30-2:30 pm for student presentations\, followed by a discussion panel! Open to all students\, faculty\, and staff. Food and refreshments will be provided. \nNew College\, Wilson Hall\, Room 2007D – 40 Wilcocks Street. Enter the front sliding doors\, up the stairs\, and curve right around the staircase \n   \n“Somakai: Embodiment Revolutions”\nMitsuko Noguchi\, UTSG undergraduate \nMitsuko Noguchi is a Canadian intermedia artist\, dancer\, and performer exploring (dis)embodiment in immersive media technologies and the reverberations of trauma in the corporal and spiritual body. Mitsuko is in their final year of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto as a Visual Studies Specialist in the Studio Stream\, and has worked as a research assistant and fellow for three years with the Japanese Canadian Arts and Activism Project (JCAAP). Mitsuko is also a commercial and VR actor represented by Inclusive Model and Talent Management (IMTM)\, and their foundation in circus arts fuses with stunts\, martial arts\, butoh dance\, and somatic arts training. \n“You May Never Get Better: A Review of Myself Reviewing the Literature on Anxiety Disorders and Autonomic Dysfunction”\nLinnea Sander\, UTM undergraduate \nLinnea Sander (he/they/xil) is a third-year Chemistry student at UTM minoring in Professional Writing and Communication as well as Drama and Dramaturgy Studies. He is also a multidisciplinary theatre artist with a degree in Professional Acting from John Abbott College in Montreal. Linnea firmly believes art and science benefit from each other and hopes to see more scientific creativity and artistic research. When it comes to his future\, Linnea hopes to construct his career around projects that combine science and the humanities. His last major project was a play featuring space science\, robots\, and dance. Linnea hopes he gets to do that type of thing for the rest of his life. \n“Why Healthcare Needs the Humanities”\nGillian Marr\, UTM undergraduate \nGillian Marr is a second-year undergraduate student studying English at UTM. She is heavily involved with the English and Drama Department as an LIA! executive\, a poetry editor for Folia Literary\, and the events associate for English with EDSS. Gillian is an avid reader and writer\, and aspires to become a published author. She intends to use her writing to encourage social change that creates an inclusive and beautiful world. \n 
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/february-meeting/
LOCATION:40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1C6\, 40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260317T150000
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SUMMARY:Monthly meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us March 17th from 3-5pm for student presentations and discussion panel! Open to all students\, faculty\, and staff. Food and refreshments will be provided. \nJoin us in person at New College\, Wilson Hall\, Room 2007D – 40 Wilcocks Street \nOr on Zoom\, https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86718836726 (Meeting ID: 867 1883 6726\, Passcode: 827181) \n  \nThis month we look forward to the following presentations: \n“Supporting Our Students’ Mental Health” \nDr. Lauren Brown \nVic One Faculty & Health Promotion Liaison \nDr. Lauren Brown is a scholar-practitioner working in the field of post-secondary student mental health with an emphasis on mental health literacy and education. She has been recognized by the University of Toronto for her excellence in research through the Inlight Student Mental Health Research Fellowship and her contribution to the institution through the Exemplary University of Toronto Ambassador Award. She is a Faculty member at Victoria College and a Health Promotion Liaison at Health & Wellness at the University of Toronto. \n“Look Again: A Meditative Museum Experience” \nMridula Sathyanarayanan \nUofT Undergraduate & Founder of Look Again ROM \nMridula is the creator behind Look Again. The collaboration with ROM only happened because someone from the museum attended her talk at the very first EASE lab presentation! After pitching the idea of meditative museum experience\, she spent a year researching and developing the experience through an independent study at New College — development of the Look Again program and the independent study was Supervised by Elli Weisbaum\, Asst. Professor Buddhism\, Psychology & Mental Health Program. \nMridula is in her fourth year at the University of Toronto\, studying neuroscience\, philosophy\, and Buddhist psychology\, an interdisciplinary combination that reflects her core interest in how meditation practices support individual and collective wellbeing. She has led a funded qualitative study with longtime Buddhist meditators in Toronto\, contributed to a mixed-methods project in Plum Village\, France\, and is collaborating with graduate students to edit an upcoming anthology of student-written mindfulness poems. \n 
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/march-meeting/
LOCATION:40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1C6\, 40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Monthly meeting
DESCRIPTION:We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday\, April 21\, 3-5 pm for our next EASE Lab presentation and discussion session! \nJoin us in person at New College\, Wilson Hall\, Room 2007D – 40 Wilcocks Street \nOr online via zoom (https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83454298467 | Meeting ID: 834 5429 8467 | Passcode: 723612) \nOpen to all students\, faculty\, and staff. Food and refreshments will be provided. \nThis month\, we feature the following presentations: \nDr. Henry Shiu: “Engaging the Heart Sūtra as a Resource for Buddhist Contemplative Care” \nHenry Shiu is the Shi Wu De Professor in Chinese Buddhism at the University of Toronto. He has a strong research interest in Mahāyāna Buddhism in India\, China and Tibet\, with particular emphasis on historical and doctrinal studies of the Madhyamaka and Yogācāra traditions. \nThis presentation engages the Heart Sūtra as a living text with practical relevance for contemporary contexts\, particularly in the domain of contemplative care. This interpretive approach is informed by the hermeneutical theory of Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) and shaped by\, and adapted from\, Tibetan Buddhist meditative traditions\, particularly the Dzogchen tradition. \nKyobin Hwang: “Illuminating the Culture of Medicine: Burnout and the Role of Applied Mindfulness Among Physicians Who Serve and Identify with Equity-Deserving Groups” \nGrounded in her interest in improving physician wellness\, Kyobin’s work explores how burnout is shaped by the culture of medicine\, particularly among physicians who serve and identify with equity-deserving communities. Through a qualitative study of a 5-week applied mindfulness program\, this project examines how intentional practices like reflection\, presence\, and self-compassion can help physicians navigate emotional strain\, systemic challenges\, and competing roles. Kyobin is a medical student at U of T.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/april-meeting/
LOCATION:40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1C6\, 40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Monthly meeting
DESCRIPTION:Hold the date!
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/may-meeting-2/
LOCATION:ON
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