The Fireplace Series: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Set around a fireplace in Queen’s Stauffer Library, this series aims to spark interdisciplinary thought and ideas about all sorts of places that matter. Two speakers from different disciplinary backgrounds meet for an impromptu conversation, seeking both common and uncommon ground. After the conversation, the audience is invited to join in with questions. Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Science and ֱ Library, these gatherings are also recorded and shared as podcasts in partnership with CFRC radio. You can listen .
Past Events & Podcasts
Timely Teaching for a Globalizing Present and Decolonial Futures
March 19, 2021
Beverley Mullings, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, ֱ
Thashika Pillay, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, ֱ
Reading List
- Pillay, T., & Asadi, N. (2018). Creating educative spaces for Somali-Canadian youth through informal education. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 12(4), 201-213. [.]
- Pillay, T., & Asadi, N. (2020). "Disrupting the Capitalist Narrative of De/Credentialization". In A. A. Abdi (Ed.). Critical theorizations of education. Brill | Sense. [.]
- Shultz, L., Pillay, T., & Karsgaard, C. (2020). A global youth deliberation and their international youth position paper on global citizenship. In J. P. Myers (Ed.), Research on teaching global issues : Pedagogy for global citizenship education. Information Age Publishing, 2020. [.]
- Teasley, C., & Butler, A. (2020). Intersecting critical pedagogies to counter coloniality. In S. R. Steinberg, & B. Down The SAGE handbook of critical pedagogies (Vol. 3, pp. 186-204). SAGE. [.]
- Mullings, B. (2021). Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come. Geoforum, 118, 150–158. [.]
- Mullings, B., & Mukherjee, S. (2018). "Reflections on mentoring as decolonial, transnational, feminist praxis." Gender, Place & Culture 25(10): 1405-1422. [.]
- Peake, L. & Mullings, B. (2016). "Critical Reflections on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Academy." ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 15(2), 253-284. [.]
- Pellerin, H., & Mullings, B. (2013). The “Diaspora option”, migration and the changing political economy of development. Review of International Political Economy : RIPE, 20(1), 89–120. [.]
- Trotz, D., & Mullings, B. (2013). "Transnational Migration, the State, and Development: Reflecting on the “Diaspora” Option." Small Axe 17(2): 154-171. [.]
- Background reading: Entries on “Neoliberalism”, “Remittances” and “Colonialism” in Kobayashi, A. (2020). International encyclopedia of human geography. Volume 1 (Second edition.). Elsevier. [.]
Time, Change and University Life
November 20, 2020
Elizabeth Hanson, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, ֱ
Elspeth Murray, Associate Dean, Smith School of Business, ֱ
Reading List
- Gibbs, Paul, editor. Universities in Flux: an Exploration of Time and Temporality in University Life. Routledge, 2015.
- Morrish, Liz, and Helen Sauntson. Academic Irregularities : Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education. Routledge, 2020.
- Shahjahan, Riyad A. “Re/conceptualizing time in higher education.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 26 Nov 2018.
- Dollinger, Mollie. “The Projectification of the University: Consequences and Alternatives.” Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 669-682.
- Vostal, Filip. “Academic life in the fast lane: The experience of time and speed in British academia.” Time & Society, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 71-95.
How Matter Matters
March 13, 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Bronwyn Parry, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London
Nick Mosey, Department of Chemistry, Associate Dean - Research (Faculty of Arts and Science), ֱ
Looking Online
February 14, 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Laila Haidarali, Departments of Gender Studies and History, ֱ
Martin Hand, Department of Sociology, ֱ
Settler Accountability and Responsibility
November 1, 2019 10:00am-11:30am
Selena Couture, Assistant Professor, Drama, University of Alberta
Dorit Naaaman, Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Film and Media, ֱ
Animals, Ethics and Everyday Politics
October 11, 2019 10:00am-11:30am
Will Kymlicka, Professor, Department of Political Studies, ֱ
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy
Samantha King, Head, Department of Gender Studies and Professor School of Kiniesiology and Health Studies, ֱ
Ecological Grief
March 28, 2019 9:30am-11:00am
JULIE SALVERSON, Associate Professor, ֱ, Department of Drama
[Stories, Drama, Resiliency, Foolish Witness]
ROBERT WAY, Assistant Professor, ֱ, Department of Geography and Planning
[Climate Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Northern Environments]
Kindness and Interconnectivity
February 14, 10:00am-11:30am
PAUL GROGAN, Professor, ֱ, Department of Biology
[Ecology, Terrestrial Ecosystems,Sustainability]
JACQUELINE M. DAVIES, Associate Professor, ֱ, Department of Philosophy
[Philosophies of gender, sex and love, Social Justice, Levinas, Jewish textual reasoning]
Sounding Routes and Places
November 16, 2018 10:00am-12:00pm
LAURA MURRAY, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
[History of colonialism, oral history, critical heritage, pedagogy]
ANDRA MCCARTNEY, Professor Emerita, Concordia University, Centre for Sensory Studies
[Acoustics, soundwalks, culture, communication]
Spaces and Places of Interdisciplinarity
November 2, 2018, 10:00am-12:00pm
BARBARA CROW, Professor in Sociology and Dean of Arts and Science
Feminism, Aging, Technology
DYLAN ROBINSON, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts
Indigenous Public Art, Indigenous Perspectives on Listening and Sensory Perception, Sound Studies
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: Liberation and Confinement in the Single Room
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
A conversation between:
Dr. Lisa Guenther and Dr. Leslie Topp
Psychoanalysis in the Classroom: History, Pedagogy, and Research
Friday, February 2, 2018
A conversation between:
Visiting Professor Deborah Britzman and Queen’s Professor Laura Cameron