Speakers
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Dan HornerIn accordance with provincial regulations, all members of our community who come into Massey College premises, must now be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide proof of vaccination.
Proof of vaccination may be a photocopy of a paper vaccination receipt for your second vaccination, or an electronic receipt presented to the Porter upon arrival to the College. The College will not copy nor retain any official health records of our residents nor visitors.
Guests to the College must complete a self-assessment, providing an email address and telephone number, to assist in contact tracing.
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Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa is professor in cultural and political sociologist in the Department of sociology (York University). Her research is interdisciplinary in many important respects. Her works bring together four major areas: Islam and secularism in Western societies, Cinema/art/media, memory and history, and radical/popular expressions in the Maghreb, all of which are informed by multidimensional axes including gender, politics, and minoritarian discourses and practices. She reflects on marginal and marginalized issues, people, and spaces, such as women, cinema and visual expressions, ‘the poor”, peripherical geographies, television publics and public spaces, history- memory and alternative memory, and riots, with the aim of contributing to the public exposure of each in a gesture that equally combines an examination of lived realities with theoretical investigation. She has an extensive research experience and have been a researcher in a variety of research projects at the national and international settings.
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Farzin Vejdani
Farzin Vejdani is currently an Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2009. He is the author of Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture (Stanford University Press, 2014), which received an Honorable Mention for the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award, in addition to numerous articles. In 2019-2020, he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World.
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John McDermott
Dr John McDermott’s research as McLaughlin Research Chair in the Department of Biology at York University is focused on the discovery of the molecular genetic circuitry underlying cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle gene expression. Professor McDermott’s areas of interest involve an interdisciplinary molecular and cellular based approach to research and include projects targeting the effects of β blockers on cardiac gene expression, the role of transcription factors (AP-1) in skeletal myogenesis (NSERC funded), and the regulation of a transcription factor (MEF2) by signaling pathways in the heart during development (CIHR funded). He has published 65 peer reviewed research papers in international journals, has contributed to several national peer review grant selection panels for CIHR and NSERC tri-council funding agencies, and has presented over 75 papers, including 13 invited papers at national and international conferences. Dr. McDermott has supervised over 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He has also contributed to the editorial boards of several international journals and received national and international awards including prestigious awards from the American Physiological Society, and a Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Previously, Dr McDermott was Visiting Professor at King’s College London, UK, obtained a Visiting Readership in Biological Sciences at the University of Durham, UK, was Visiting Honorary Scientist at the University of Manchester, UK, and also held a Research Fellow position in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at Harvard Medical School. John was a Member of the Institute Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis.
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Saskia Van Viegen
Saskia Van Viegen (PhD, OISE/University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream and English as a Second Language (ESL) Coordinator in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. Her research and scholarship in applied linguistics engages with language in education, bi/multilingualism and translanguaging. Her current projects include a SSHRC Insight Grant funded project (2017-2021) examining language and literacy practices of youth from refugee backgrounds, a SSHRC Insight Development Grant funded project (2019-2022) developing multilingual approaches to assessment in education, and a SSHRC Insight Grant funded study (2021-2024) investigating language teaching and learning in multilingual university contexts. Her publications appear in several journals including European Journal of Teacher Education, TESOL Quarterly, Language Assessment Quarterly, Language, Culture and Curriculum, and Canadian Modern Language Review. She is co-editor of the book Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical and Creative Undertakings for Equitable Language (in) Education (Springer, 2020) and is currently serving as co-editor of the international journal, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3748-1990
