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Aesthetics and Semiotics of Resistance: Cultural Production as Expression of Resilience
April 30 at 11am (EST)听
In this Mosiaque Dialogue, the presenters will discuss their research projects, examining how cultural production can forge pathways for sociopolitical identity construction and negotiation as a means of resistance in unequal societal relations. First, Amir Kalan and Bianca Gonzalez will describe their project, which explores the concept of Narrative Sovereignty in cultural production. Narrative Sovereignty is the act of re-creating one鈥檚 story on one鈥檚 own terms and by doing so having control over one鈥檚 artistic representations. Second, Yecid Ortega and Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird will describe their experiences collecting and analyzing multimodal data through ethnographic and soundwalking methodologies in their fieldwork at the Peace Walls and its surrounding areas in Belfast (Northern Ireland). In the third presentation, Emmanuel Tabi and Mama Adobea Nii Owoo will draw on Black Feminist Thought and the Rhetoric of Cultural Production to discuss how Black individuals and communities in Canada speak to their emotional lives through their cultural production. These presentations aim to initiate a dialogue with the audience on capturing, understanding, and amplifying the diverse knowledges of marginalized communities in Western cities, while also exploring how multimodal empirical approaches can enhance the description of cultural production as a form of resistance.
This event is co-hosted by and 苹果淫院鈥檚 Mosa茂que Research Network.
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Dr. Amir Kalan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at 苹果淫院. His work aims to create a sociology of literacy that provides insights into cultural, political, and power-relational dimensions of linguistic and textual practices. He is particularly interested in learning about the experiences of minoritized and racialized students in multicultural and multilingual contexts. He studies literacy practices that are unofficial, underground, community-based, plurilingual, and multi-semiotic.
Bianca Gonzalez is a PhD student in Educational Studies at 苹果淫院's DISE under the supervision of Amir Kalan. She recently completed her Master's Degree and thesis in Language Education within the same department and with the same supervisor where she investigated the often overlooked language practices embedded within the cultural productions of three translingual women of Montreal鈥檚 music community. Her research interests lie at the crossroads of out-of-school critical literacies,听cultural production, and translanguaging.听
Dr. Yecid Ortega is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Education, and Social Work at Queen鈥檚 University Belfast (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom), where he teaches graduate classes in TESOL and applied linguistics. He explores the linguistic and cultural lived experiences of marginalized migrant communities and the ways in which they assert their identities while integrating and resettling into the receiving societies. He currently focuses on alternative forms of research including but not limited to arts-based, creative, critical, and post-material methodologies to understand one鈥檚 place in the world.
Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird is a PhD candidate in Queen's University Belfast. Her thesis examines the relationship between Irish medium education (schools that educate through Irish) and community regeneration in west Belfast. Her research interests intersect with her history in activism, such as language rights, feminism and queer rights. For the purposes of this talk, her graffiti and murals for feminist causes and her belief in the power of those images intersect with this study on linguistic landscapes.
Dr. Emmanuel Tabi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Dr. Tabi completed his doctoral degree in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/University of Toronto. He has also successful completed a post-doctoral appointment through the Black Child and Youth Studies Network at the University of Windsor. Drawing on New Literacy Studies, Black Feminist Thought and the Rhetoric of Cultural Production. Dr. Tabi鈥檚 work examines how Black individuals and communities in Canada speak to their emotional lives through their cultural production.
Mama Adobea Nii Owoo is joining 苹果淫院's DISE as a post-doctoral researcher specializing in comparative international education policy and language and literacy education. Mama's research focuses on language planning and policy for minoritized language learners, and teacher education for multilingual English learners. Her dissertation uses film to capture the policy narratives of Black teachers, exploring the historical, political, linguistic, cultural, and ideological complexities of literacy teaching for students of Black/African heritage.
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