Best, Concordia

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best, c. is a new podcast project from Concordia's Ethnography Lab promoting graduate student research. Host/Producer: John Bryans Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte Sound Producer: Kris Millett Production Assistants: Adam van Sertima, Pauline Hoebanx, Juan Pablo Neri, John Deidouss

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DPPH S01E04 Part 2: Instagram/Visual Culture for Empowerment

This is part 2 of a two-part episode. In this part, we're continuing our conversation with media practitioner and artist-researcher Prakash Krishnan from "Do The Kids Know?" We explore Instagram as a tool of community building and visual culture as a medium for empowerment. Contributors: Dean's Office, "Best, Concordia" Podcast, and the Ethnography Lab at Concordia. Prakash Krishnan (he/him) is a researcher and educator in the fields of digital media, archives, accessibility, and contemporary ar...

Jun 27, 2022•35 min

DPPH S01E04 Part 1: How to Talk About Race With Kids?

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. In this part, we're talking to media practitioner and artist-researcher Prakash Krishnan from Do The Kids Know? about his podcast as well as the ways we can use our positions in academia to advance our activism. Contributors: Dean's Office, "Best, Concordia" Podcast, and the Ethnography Lab at Concordia. Prakash Krishnan (he/him) is a researcher and educator in the fields of digital media, archives, accessibility, and contemporary art. He recently completed ...

Jan 10, 2022•28 min

DPPH S01E03 Part 2: Jazzing Up Syllabi

This full episode serves to explore, discuss, and develop actionable practices to deconstruct syllabus and alternative forms of pedagogy, by looking at intersections between music jams and a classroom. How can we "jazz-up" our syllabus? In the second part of episode 3, our team explore decolonial practices around syllabus deconstruction and explores new pedagogies inspired by artists, jam sessions and other ways to work together that gives room to each player, but also improves our listening and...

Sep 27, 2021•24 min

DPPH S01E03 Part 1: Jazzing Up Syllabi

This full episode serves to explore, discuss, and develop actionable practices to deconstruct syllabus and alternative forms of pedagogy, by looking at intersections between music jams and a classroom. How can we "jazz-up" our syllabus? In this first part, our team explore decolonial practices around syllabus deconstruction and explores new pedagogies inspired by artists, jam sessions and other ways to work together that gives room to each player, but also improves our listening and our way to t...

Sep 20, 2021•27 min

DPPH S01E02: Founding

This episode features DPPH’s founding members, Hone Mandefro and Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, along with one of the Hub’s current members, Albane Gaudissart, sharing some of the history on the beginnings of the Hub and how it came to be. The discussion is facilitated by Kris Millet from Best, Concordia. Speakers: Jamilah Dei-Sharpe is a second-generation Canadian-Black Jamaican Ghanaian women, who specializes in decolonial pedagogy, Black masculinity, critical race and gender studies. She offers strategi...

Aug 02, 2021•27 min

DPPH S01E01 Part 2: Reflections on Being Decolonial in a Digital World

Reflections on Being Decolonial in a Digital World (Part 2) Guest Speaker(s): Napatsi and Connie This episode features the DPPH members and guest speakers Napatsi and Connie sharing their reflections on being decolonial in a digital world amid the COVID pandemic. The group share their lived experiences with race, pedagogy, and colonialism as they aspire to create de/colonial learning environments. This episode proposes a reflections on race, racism, and being decolonial online during the COVID p...

Apr 19, 2021•37 min

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