IDSR Seminar Series: How do you do interdisciplinary research?
Seminars are held on Zoom. Register in advance at trentu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpc-ihpj4pEtUydbvhnRlSsl3m0PDg7fN1. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information to join the meetings. Everyone welcome.
Graduate Students: attend 4 out of 5 seminars to win a gift card from the Trent Bookstore!!
Friday, May 31st, 2024
9:30 AM Nadiya Ali: Islamophobia as an affective field: death and elimination
Twenty young adults attended an arts-based workshop in Toronto, Canada and responded to the question of ‘what does Islamophobia feel like?’ in order to document their lived reality of everyday Islamophobia.
This talk focuses on the overarching ‘story of feelings’ marking the art-pieces in an effort to understand how the art-makers use emotional fields to make Islamophobia legible from their lived standpoint. The Muslim protagonist is consistently illustrated by the artmakers as occupying an affective field marked by an everyday spatial politics of contact-and-recoil, i.e. an emotional field of disgust, while made to endure a continuous depletion-centred onslaught of violence.
This article addresses a subset of the illustrations using image-based deep-story methods to argue that ‘disgust’ is the primary racialized emotional field through which young Muslims conceptualize the operational life of Islamophobia. Full paper available: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2YC2PNRTRNTQ5TFPZDNK/full?target=10.1080/1070289X.2024.2353466
10:30 AM Student Workshop: Negotiating the juggle – a PhD, work, and relational accountabilities
Friday, September 29th Grant-writing and scholarship applications + how to ask for a reference letter (and other things you need) with Naomi Nichols, IDSR Program Director
Friday, October 27th Interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches to food and environmental justice with Evan Bowness, Trent School of the Environment - Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems + Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant
Friday, November 24th Feminism and Scholarship: Personal, Political, Professional with Denise Handlarski, School of Education + Forming a PhD Supervisory Committee
Friday, January 26th, Eugena Kwon: Engaged Scholarship on Work, Migration and Racialization + The what, why, and how of a learning plan with Lisa Ditschun
Friday, February 23rd, Eyitayo Aloh: Blackness, Humour and Resistance in Canada + Student perspectives on the QED with Lisa Ditschun and Iyanuoluwa Akinrinola
Friday, April 5th, Abeer Omar: How to publish as a PhD student
Friday, April 26th, Marina Morgenshtern: Photovoice as Knowledge Mobilization + Academic networking with IDSR PhD student Iyanuoluwa Akinrinola