Below the Radar: A Scholarly Podcasting Teach-In
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 5:00PM | FREE
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre – 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Join SFU’s 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 SFU Community Engaged Research Initiative, SFU School of Communication, SFU School for Contemporary Arts, SFU Publishing, SFU Knowledge Mobilization, and will be moderated by Am Johal.
Panellists
Hannah McGregor, SFU Publishing
Hannah McGregor’s 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’s representations of distant suffering. She held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta; her project, “Modern Magazines Project Canada,” 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 – SFU School of Communication
Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. Iskandar’s work deals with media, identity and politics; and he has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. Iskandar’s engaged participatory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as “Jadaliyya” and academic podcasting such as “Status.” Prior to his arrival at SFU, Iskandar taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.
Roxanne Panchasi – SFU Department of History
Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. 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 “99 Luftballons” for the Singles series at Duke University Press. Her articles and essays have appeared in differences, Rethinking History, Configurations, Historical Reflections/Réflextions Historiques, History of the Present, Apocalyptica, and Jadaliyya. She is the founding host of New Books in French Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network that she started in 2013.
Joe Clark – SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Joseph Clark is a lecturer in film studies at Simon Fraser University. 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 – Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr. Patrick’s 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 – SFU Knowledge Mobilization
Lupin Battersby, PhD, Director, Knowledge Mobilization at SFU, provides training and expert consultations to SFU 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 – SFU 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’S GARDEN, and the feature-length film JADDOLAND, which was awarded five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit “Truer than Fiction” Award, and went on to broadcast for three seasons on US public television.
Am Johal – SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Am Johal is director of community engagement at SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, within the SFU Woodward’s 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’s 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
SFU Community Engaged Research Initiative
SFU School of Communication
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
SFU Publishing
SFU Knowledge Mobilization