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  • CHYS Colloquium – Oct 4, 2024

    Cate Denial posing in front of a building.Please join us for our upcoming CHYS Colloquium, “What does it mean to practice a Pedagogy of Kindness?” on Friday, October 4 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. with guest speaker Cate Denial. 

    The hybrid event will take place in CRN 207 and on Lifesize.

    This presentation will explore three tenets of compassionate teaching: justice, believing students, and believing in students. We’ll reflect together on what kindness (and its lack) has meant to us within academia, and how we can – piece by piece – assemble a kind approach to pedagogy that meets the needs of our students and ourselves in a time of great change.

    The faculty and staff will be putting on a potluck lunch with coffee and tea for those who attend in person.

    If you are attending in person, please be there for 11 a.m. to get your food and get seated. If you are attending virtually, please log on for 11:15 a.m.

    All are welcome!

    Speaker Bio:

    Cate Denial is the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Her new book, A Pedagogy of Kindness, is now available from the University of Oklahoma Press. Her historical research has examined the early nineteenth-century experience of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing in Upper Midwestern Ojibwe and missionary cultures, research that grew from Cate’s previous book, Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country (2013). From July 2022 to December 2023, Cate was the PI on a $150,000 Mellon-funded grant bringing together thirty-six participants from across higher education in the United States to explore “Pedagogies, Communities, and Practices of Care in the Academy After COVID-19.” Cate consults on teaching in higher education with individuals, departments, and institutions in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, and Australia

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  • PhD Defence – Lisa Whittingham – April 30, 2024

    Lisa Whittingham, PhD candidate, Child and Youth Studies, will defend their dissertation “Is It Better to Be Known?: Understanding the Vulnerability of Autistic Individuals in Registry-based Programs Used by Police Services in Ontario, Canada” on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 10:00 am in person at Brock University.

    The examination committee includes Dr. Brian Roy, Chair; Dr. Voula Marinos, Supervisor; Dr. Roxanna Dehaghani, External Examiner (Professor, Cardiff University); Dr. Kimberley Zonneveld, Internal-External Examiner (Associate Professor, Applied Disability Studies, Brock University); Dr. Maureen Connolly and Dr. Jennifer Lavoie, Committee Members.

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  • PhD Defence – Abneet Atwal – April 16, 2024

    Abneet Atwal, PhD candidate, Child and Youth Studies, will defend their dissertation “Moving through the system: The ruling relations of migration, mobility, and childhood disability” on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 9:00 am in person at Brock University.

    The examination committee includes Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak, Chair; Dr. Donato Tarulli and Dr. Kathryn Underwood, Co-Supervisors; Dr. Jay Dolmage, External Examiner (Professor, Department of English, University of Waterloo); Dr. Sandra Della Porta, Internal-External Examiner (Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Brock University); Dr. Dan Cui and Dr. Chelsea Jones, Committee Members.

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  • CHYS Colloquium – April 4, 2024

    Please join us on Thursday, April 4, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. for CHYS’ seventh and final colloquium event of the 2023-2024 school year! We have our faculty panel, Dr. Chelsea Jones, Dr. Kaitlin Fredericks, Dr. Hunter Knight and Dr. Shannon Moore, speaking about their research.

    This will be a hybrid event, held in room PLZ 600F and on Lifesize. The faculty and staff will be putting on a potluck lunch with also coffee and tea for those who are able to attend in person.

    If you are attending in person, please be there for 11 a.m. to get your food and get seated. If you are attending virtually, please log on for 11:15 a.m.

    We hope you all can make it whether it be in person or virtually.

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  • CHYS Colloquium – March 28, 2024

    Please join us on Thursday, March 28, 2024, from 11:00am – 1:00pm for CHYS’ sixth colloquium event of the 2023-2024 school year! We have Lacey Bobier, Post-Doc from the University of Toronto, speaking about “Dealing with Dress Codes: Girls’ Bodies as Sites of Risk and Distraction”.

    This will be a hybrid event, held in room CRN 207 and on Lifesize. The faculty and staff will be putting on a potluck lunch with also coffee and tea for those that are able to attend in person.

    If you are attending in person, please be there for 11am to get your food and seated. If you are attending virtually, please log on for 11:15am.

    We hope you all can make it whether it be in person or virtually via Lifesize.

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  • CHYS Colloquium Jan. 25

    Poster for Fallon Farinacci event

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  • MA Defence – Sarah Epp – January 12, 2024

    Sarah Epp, Masters of Arts candidate, Child and Youth Studies, will defend their thesis “Moving forward: Perspectives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities regarding the effectiveness of Individual Support Plans” on January 12, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. via video conference.

    The examination committee includes Dr. Dawn Zinga, Chair; Dr. Donato Tarulli , Supervisor; Dr. Heather Lawford , External Examiner (Department of Psychology, Bishop’s University); Dr. Maureen Connolly and Dr. Tricia Vause, Committee Members.

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  • CHYS Colloquium Nov. 27

    poster for Natalie Coulter event

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  • CHYS Colloquium Nov. 1

    CHYS poster

    Hybrid Event: Room CRN 207 & Microsoft Teams meeting

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  • MA Defence – Patrick Segawa – October 10, 2023

    Patrick Segawa, Masters of Arts candidate, Child and Youth Studies, will defend their thesis “Drawing on Lived Experience of Peer Support Workers in provision of substance and addiction services: A Case study of ABC Health Centre.” on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 7:00 pm via video conference.

    The examination committee includes Dr. Dawn Zinga, Chair; Dr. Rebecca Raby, Supervisor; Dr. Magenta Simmons, External Examiner (Senior Research Fellow, Head of Youth Involvement Research at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne); Dr. Heather Ramey and Jeff Sica, Committee Members

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