2023 Summer Institute
June 19-22, 2023
Hosted by:
The Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
Details:
The institute is structured as 3 days of collaborative, embodied crafting/creating culminating in a half-day interactive community symposium on June 22 from 9am-1pm MST.
Sponsored/Supported By:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant, The Werklund School of Education, SUNY Plattsburgh, IAMAS, American Canary
Introducing our mother / daughter / teacher / feminist transdisciplinary scholars!
Mairi McDermott, PhD
(she/her/hers)
Mairi McDermott, PhD, is a motherscholar whose current passion and work is bending towards m/otherworlds. Through curriculum, pedagogy, and story, she asks how we might imagine and carry forth worlds that are shaped through compassion, care, grace, and community?
Akanksha Misra, PhD
(she/her/hers)
Akanksha is a Feminist Motherscholar whose life has taken her from the shores of Malaysia to the United States via India, Turkey, and many other parts of the world. Currently an Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh, Read More
Michelann Parr, PhD
(she/her/hers)
Michelann Parr is professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. Mother to three and nana to two, she works at the intersection of motherhood, care, and sustainability. Recent and upcoming edited collections include Read More
Bridget Haina
(she/her/hers)
Bridget Haina is a mother of two, a professor in the Communication Studies Department at the SUNY Plattsburgh and co-founder of American Canary. Her past scholarly focus was within examining outrage language on Facebook, which has led her to explore how we communicate and create cultures of harm vs. care in our own institutions. Read More
Jeong-Eun Rhee
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As an interdisciplinary cultural researcher and educator, I am committed to developing transnational, intergenerational, and decolonial feminist knowledge projects. I value body-mind/spirit integrated, learner-centered, and community-based healing, knowledge, and approaches.
Dr. Ghada Alatrash
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Dr. Ghada Alatrash is an Asst. Professor and the Director of the School of Critical and Creative Studies at Alberta University of the Arts. Her current research focuses on art and creative expression as resistance to dictatorship, and in particular within the Syrian context. Read More
Dr. Patricia (Patti) Johnston
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Patricia Johnston is a White settler from Western Canada residing on Treaty 6 territory (Edmonton); the homeland of Metis and many First Nations. She has worked in Arctic Canada with Inuit women, children and families for almost two decades. Read More
Dr. Ronna Mosher
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Ronna Mosher is an Assistant Professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her current research focuses on children’s play and literacies education and on the curricular possibilities of relational reading.
sheliza ladhani. other-mother. PhD candidate.
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grounded in anti-racism and decolonial approaches, sheliza’s scholarship moves across multiple temporalities and porous worlds of haunting and abundance, as one way of thinking-feeling-being in relation with memory, affect, and multisensory stories. Read More
Zoya Hayes, Daughter
(she/her/hers)
Zoya Hayes, is a current undergraduate student at SUNY Plattsburgh studying Psychology and Gender and Women’s Studies. She desires to combine the biological with the methodical to encompass the diversity within our lives and relationships. Read More
Gabrielle Lindstrom, PhD
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Dr. Gabrielle E. Lindstrom, Tsa’piinak,i is a member of the Kainai Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy. An Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies with Mount Royal University, her teaching background includes instructing on topics around First Nation, Métis, and Inuit history and current issues, Indigenous Studies (Canadian and International perspectives), Indigenous cross-cultural approaches, and Indigenous research methods and ethics. Read More
Maria do Mar Pereira
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Maria do Mar Pereira is a feminist ethnographer, interested in epistemology and committed to socially engaged research and teaching. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and a Co-Director of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. She tries (not always successfully) to juggle this work with sanity, mothering and involvement in feminist activism.
stephanie tyler. motherscholar. phd candidate.
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through the sacred pathways of nehiyawewin (the Cree language), ceremony and song, teachings, relations in the natural world, and mothering, stephanie’s scholarship creatively weaves together and preserves individual and collective stories of decolonizing, healing, and becoming. Read More
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