Recorded: 19 March 2021

How do we teach now for a globalizing present and towards decolonial futures? Join Dr. Thashika Pillay (Faculty of Education, Queen’s University) and Dr. Beverley Mullings (Geography and Planning, Queen’s University), scholars concerned with diasporic and global identities, as they seek common and uncommon ground, in a Fireside Series chat about teaching in, from, and to the current moment.

Speaker Details:

Beverley Mullings – Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University

Beverley Mullings is a Professor of Geography whose work is located within the field of feminist political economy and engages questions of labour, social transformation, neoliberalism, and the politics of gender, race and class in the Caribbean and its diaspora. She is interested in the ways that evolving racial capitalist regimes are recasting and transforming work, divisions of labour, patterns of urban governance and ultimately, responses to social and economic injustice. Beverley is currently engaged in three major research projects: one examines the financialization of Caribbean remittance economies; the second explores the possibilities that diasporic dialogue holds for reviving Caribbean Radical Traditions; the third project traces the impact of the Black middle-class on social transformation in post-Plantation Economies. Find out more about Beverley Mullings here.

Thashika Pillay – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University

Dr. Thashika Pillay is Assistant Professor in Educational Policy in the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. Thashika has extensive research and teaching experience in K-12 and higher education in Canada, Australia, and Ethiopia. Her research program explores questions of social, cultural, economic, political, and epistemic justice and the possibilities for anticolonial educational policy in formal and informal contexts. Her current research explores the gaps exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic as related to racialized students’ educational experiences and the role of social media in educating youth around issues of justice and equity. In addition, Thashika is co-editor of Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education (2015) and Global Citizenship, Common Wealth and Uncommon Citizenships (2018). Find out more about Thashika Pillay here.

Tags:

Fireplace Series, Queen’s University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Stauffer Library, Beverley Mullings, Thashika Pillay

Credits:

• Series Directors: Dr Laura Jean Cameron (Department of Geography and Planning) and Dr Allison Morehead (Art History and Art Conservation)
• Assistant Coordinator: Claudia Hirtenfelder (PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Planning)
• Podcast recording and editing: Dr Matt Rogalsky (DAN School of Drama and Music)

20 November 2020

As our relations to time shift in the coronavirus crisis, this Fireplace Series conversation aims to spark interdisciplinary thought about the temporality of university life and its relationship to what appears to be sudden change. Queen’s University’s Elizabeth Hanson (English, FAS) and Elspeth Murray (Smith School of Business) meet for an impromptu and stimulating conversation, seeking both common and uncommon ground.

Speaker Details:

Elizabeth Hanson – Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Queen’s University

Elizabeth Hanson is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen’s University. Elizabeth is interested in the English Renaissance Drama, humanism, and the political economy of the modern day university. She is the President of Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA). Find out more about Elizabeth’s work here.

Elspeth Murray – Associate Dean, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University

Elspeth Murray has served as the Associate Dean – MBA and Masters Programs since 2012, and has been a professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Smith School of Business since 1996. Her current research is focused on best practices in leading and managing change to create an analytics culture. Find out more about Elspeth’s work here.

Tags:

Fireplace Series, Queen’s University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Stauffer Library, Time, Covid-19, Elizabeth Hanson, Elspeth Murray, Tertiary Education

Credits:

• Series Directors: Dr Laura Jean Cameron (Department of Geography and Planning) and Dr Allison Morehead (Art History and Art Conservation)
• Assistant Coordinator: Claudia Hirtenfelder (PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Planning)
• Podcast recording and editing: Dr Matt Rogalsky (DAN School of Drama and Music)
• Event Assistance: Thank you to the FAS and Queen’s Library for supporting the podcast series with special thanks to Barbara Crow, Sandra Morden, Michael Vandenburg, Jacquie Jameson, Nancy Petri, Vicky Arnold, Katie Vincent, and Donald Napier. Thank you also to Elizabeth Gibson and Constance Adamson for compiling the reading lists.
• Music: Marjan Mozetich
• Photograph: Matt Rogalsky

Reading List:

• Gibbs, Paul, editor. Universities in Flux: an Exploration of Time and Temporality in University Life. Routledge, 2015.https://doi-org.proxy.queensu.ca/10.4324/978131573883

• Morrish, Liz, and Helen Sauntson.

Recorded: 13 March 2020

This chat brings together scholars who spend much of their lives thinking about matter – what it is and what it does. Bronwyn Parry, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London (and herself an amalgam of anthropologist, sociologist and human geographer) here engages in conversation with Associate Dean Nick Mosey of Queen’s University to discuss how matter comes to matter in chemistry, forensics and wider social and public life. In thinking through these questions they consider how we understand presence and absence, wear and tear, and the politics of track and trace. These scholars invite you to join them in unpacking the interplay between mechanical forces, chemical reactions and affective materialities.

Speaker Details:

Bronwyn Parry – Professor, School of Global Affairs, King’s College London,

Bronwyn Parry is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Head of the School of Global Affairs at King’s College London. Bronwyn is interested in the social, ethical and legal implications of transforming human tissues and DNA into bio-information that can be circulated across multiple platforms and into multiple markets simultaneously. Her books Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-information (2004) and Bio-Information (2017) investigate the emergence of new global economies in bioinformation, revealing how tissue samples and DNA segue into and out of the commodity form at different moments and places in their careers. Find our more about Bronwyn Parry’s work here.

Nick Mosey – Associate Dean, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University

Nick Mosey currently serves as the Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University. He is also a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics and oversees students working in the Mosey Group. Research in the Mosey Group focuses on developing chemical simulation methods and using chemical simulation as a tool for gaining atomic-level insights into the properties and behaviour of molecules and materials. Find out more about Nick Mosey’s work here.

Tags:

Fireplace Series, Queen’s University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Stauffer Library, Matter, Bioinformation, bioethics, posthumanism, Chemistry, molecules, Bronwyn Parry, Nick Mosey

Credits:

• Series Directors: Dr Laura Jean Cameron (Department of Geography and Planning) and Dr Allison Morehead (Art History and Art Conservation)
• Assistant Coordinator: Claudia Hirtenfelder (PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Planning)
• Podcast recording and editing: Dr Matt Rogalsky (DAN School of Drama and Music)
• Event Assistance: Thank you to the FAS and Queen’s Library for supporting the podcast series with special thanks to Barbara Crow, Sandra Morden, Michael Vandenburg, Jacquie Jameson, Nancy Petri, Vicky Arnold, Katie Vincent, and Donald Napier
• Music: Marjan Mozetich