Tag: COVID19

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The Climate Crisis: The Brains and Banter Podcast in Conversation with Professor Kehinde Andrews

In this excerpt from The Brains & Banter podcast, created by the very talented Emmanuel Juma of Ashy Productions, Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City School of Social Sciences (UK), discusses the climate crisis (and its impact on the underdeveloped world), climate refugees, poverty, and COVID-19 (and the impact of lockdowns globally).

Professor Andrews is also an activist and author whose books include:

The New Age of Empire: How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World (2021)

Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018)

Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013)

Kehinde led the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity, and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.

Thanks so much again, Kehinde – it was such a pleasure to get to speak with you!

Website: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/social-sciences/about-us/staff/criminology-and-sociology/kehinde-andrews

Twitter & Instagram: @kehinde_andrews

Emmanuel Juma (Ashy Productions), thank you for your amazing work!

Twitter: @AshyProductions

The Brains & Banter Podcast

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgWpCpjqqqhTtp3zshUJZqw

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrainsandbanter/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BanterBrains

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Rethinking Our Approach to Higher Education – An Interview with Jasmeen Deol and Ravneet Sahota (3/6)

In this six-part interview, I speak with my former Kwantlen Polytechnic University students Jasmeen Deol (Psychology, KPU) and Ravneet Sahota (Criminology, KPU) about their experiences attending university during a pandemic. They have so much knowledge to share, and they are absolutely amazing!!

Jasmeen and Ravneet are the Co-Directors of an initiative tracking media coverage of COVID-19 in BC prisons and jails and are also co-organizers for an international forum, “Redesigning Our World,” which will be held virtually in 2022 (this video was recorded before we decided to change the date from September 2021 to Spring 2022). Annamie Paul, lawyer, activist, and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, will be our opening keynote!

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How COVID Has Altered Higher Ed, An Interview with Jasmeen Deol and Ravneet Sahota (2/6)

In this six-part interview, I speak with my former Kwantlen Polytechnic University students Jasmeen Deol (Psychology, KPU) and Ravneet Sahota (Criminology, KPU) about their experiences attending university during a pandemic. They have so much knowledge to share, and they are absolutely amazing!!

In Part Two, we discuss synchronous and asynchronous learning, Zoom fatigue, and the possibility of instituting a Pass/Fail system at university and of making higher education free! Yes, please!

Jasmeen and Ravneet are the Co-Directors of an initiative tracking media coverage of COVID-19 in BC prisons and jails and are also co-organizers for an international forum, “Redesigning Our World,” which will be held virtually in 2022 (this video was recorded before we decided to change the date from September 2021 to Spring 2022). Annamie Paul, lawyer, activist, and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, will be our opening keynote!

Thank you so much to the ridiculously talented Johanna Hauterville for your always amazing work editing these videos—I would be lost without you!

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Pursuing Higher Education During a Pandemic – An Interview with Jasmeen Deol and Ravneet Sahota (1/6)

In this six-part interview, I speak with my former students Kwantlen Polytechnic University students Jasmeen Deol (Psychology, KPU) and Ravneet Sahota (Criminology, KPU) about their experiences attending university during COVID-19. They have so much knowledge to share, and they are absolutely amazing!!

Jasmeen and Ravneet are the Co-Directors of an initiative tracking media coverage of COVID-19 in BC prisons and jails and are also co-organizers for an international forum, “Redesigning Our World,” which will be held virtually in 2022 (this video was recorded before we decided to change the date from September 2021 to Spring 2022). Annamie Paul, lawyer, activist, and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, will be our opening keynote!

Please do check out the following links if you’re interested:

Tracking Media Coverage of COVID-19 in BC Prisons and Jails, Website and Instagram Links:

https://trackingcovid19bcprisons.wordpress.com/

https://www.instagram.com/covid19inbcprisons/

Thank you so much to the ridiculously talented Johanna Hauterville for your always amazing work editing these videos—I would be lost without you!

Empathy, Eco-Anxiety, and Activism: Radical Humanism in the Face of Climate Change and Social Upheaval (2/4)

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In this video, part two of four, Dr. Todd Dufresne, Dr. Carol-Ann Farkas, and Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square discuss the role of scholarship in addressing the climate emergency and COVID-19.

Todd is a Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University (CA) and, most recently, author of The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene (2019).

Carol-Ann is a Professor of English and the Director of Writing Programs in the School of Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS). She is the the editor of Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something, Nothing, Everything (Routledge 2017), and her current research focuses on the ways in which we turn to popular media to learn about, and cope with, eco-anxiety. She is currently co-authoring a chapter for The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media (2021)—“Climate Health is Human Health: Working Through Eco-Anxiety With the Written Word in Print and Digital Media”—with Bryn.

Bryn is an Interdisciplinary Instructor in the Faculty of Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and an editor for Epilogue magazine. She is currently co-authoring a chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, as you know from above, and she is also co-editing a collected volume, Intersex and the Health and Medical Humanities (2021), with Dr. Katelyn Dykstra.

Thank you so much to the very talented Johanna Hauterville for editing this video (which would have taken me my entire life)!