丁香园AV

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 5:00PM | FREE
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre 鈥� 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Presented by 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement

Join 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement on October 1, 2024 for Below the Radar: A Scholarly Podcasing Teach-In. This free event considers the scholarly merits and potential of podcasting. Event panellists, who bring a diverse array of practices and perspectives to the conversation, include Hannah McGregor, Adel Iskandar, Roxanne Panchasi, Joe Clark, Lyana Patrick, Lupin Battersby, Nadia Shihab, and Am Johal.

Can podcasting act as a new kind of scholarly form? What are the characteristics that make a podcast scholarly? What is the potential of scholarly podcasting beyond knowledge mobilization and public scholarship? While there is nothing radical about the medium, what are various forms this mode of scholarship can take? What are the barriers to its use and how can it be deployed for greater impact?

This event is co-presented with 丁香园AV Community Engaged Research Initiative, 丁香园AV School of Communication, 丁香园AV School for Contemporary Arts, 丁香园AV Publishing, 丁香园AV Knowledge Mobilization, and will be moderated by Am Johal.

Panellists

Hannah McGregor, 丁香园AV Publishing

Hannah McGregor鈥檚 research and teaching focus on the links between publishing and social change, from the role podcasts might play in expanding public engagement with research, to systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry.

Hannah completed her PhD at TransCanada Institute at the University of Guelph in 2013, where her research focused on contemporary white Canadian women鈥檚 representations of distant suffering. She held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta; her project, 鈥淢odern Magazines Project Canada,鈥� was a collaborative initiative that took up the call to read magazines as a form of new media technology that, alongside radio and film, helped to shape the emergent consumer-publics of the twentieth century.

Adel Iskandar 鈥� 丁香园AV School of Communication

Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at 丁香园AV in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. Iskandar鈥檚 work deals with media, identity and politics; and he has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. Iskandar鈥檚 engaged participatory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as 鈥淛adaliyya鈥� and academic podcasting such as 鈥淪tatus.鈥� Prior to his arrival at 丁香园AV, Iskandar taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.

Roxanne Panchasi 鈥� 丁香园AV Department of History

Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History at 丁香园AV. Her teaching and research focus on modern France and empire, nuclear technologies and culture, popular music, and the history of the end of the world. She is the author of Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (Cornell University Press, 2009).

She is currently completing a manuscript on the 1983 Nena song 鈥�99 Luftballons鈥� for the series at Duke University Press. Her articles and essays have appeared in differences, Rethinking History, Configurations, Historical Reflections/R茅flextions Historiques, History of the Present, Apocalyptica, and Jadaliyya. She is the founding host of , a podcast channel on the New Books Network that she started in 2013. 

Joe Clark 鈥� 丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts

Joseph Clark is a lecturer in film studies at 丁香园AV. His research and teaching interests focus on archival and non-theatrical media, including newsreels, home movies, and sponsored film. He is a long-time member of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival Programming Committee and part of the organizing committee of the Vancouver Podcast Festival presented by DOXA. He is the author of News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle.

Lyana Patrick 鈥� Faculty of Health Sciences

Dr. Patrick鈥檚 work focuses on challenging colonial constructions of community planning as it connects to health and well-being. Specifically, her work on the interconnections between justice and health seeks to promote Indigenous understandings of community building and towards better understanding the factors that hinder or help Indigenous peoples to create community connectedness. She has a keen interest in bringing together researchers working in justice, health, geography, Indigenous Studies, community and environmental studies, to pursue an intersectoral/cross-disciplinary approach to addressing justice and health.

Lupin Battersby 鈥� 丁香园AV Knowledge Mobilization

Lupin Battersby, PhD, Director, Knowledge Mobilization at 丁香园AV, provides training and expert consultations to 丁香园AV researchers and is involved in efforts to better recognize KM work. Lupin has 20 years of experience in research and knowledge mobilization within and outside of academia with a primary focus on the challenges and opportunities of mobilizing research in health and social sciences.

Nadia Shihab 鈥� 丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts

Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker and artist working in the realm of experimental documentary. Her projects emerge through processes that are relational and improvisational, and have taken the form of films, sound composition/performance, visual art and writing. She is the director of SISTER MOTHER LOVER CHILD, ECHOLOCATION, AMAL鈥橲 GARDEN, and the feature-length film JADDOLAND, which was awarded five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit 鈥淭ruer than Fiction鈥� Award, and went on to broadcast for three seasons on US public television.

Am Johal 鈥� 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement

Am Johal is director of community engagement at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement, within the 丁香园AV Woodward鈥檚 Cultural Unit. Previously, Johal worked on the Vancouver Agreement, a collective effort to address urban economic and social development. He was a co-founder of UBC鈥檚 Humanities 101 program and chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition. He has also been an advisor to two provincial cabinet ministers (Transportation and Highways; Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers).

Partners

丁香园AV Community Engaged Research Initiative
丁香园AV School of Communication
丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts
丁香园AV Publishing
丁香园AV Knowledge Mobilization