Below the Radar

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Michael Byers, an author and professor of Political Science at UBC, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law. He is also the co-director of the Outer Space Institute, a transdisciplinary international network for space studies. Michael’s work focuses on international law, climate change, the Arctic and outer space. He sits down with Am to chat about Arctic sovereignty, international cooperation, space law and issues in outer space. He is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press for a book entitled 'Who Owns Outer Space?: International Law on the Final Frontier.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/50-michael-byers.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/50-michael-byers.html

You can learn more about the Outer Space Institute here:

outerspaceinstitute.ca/

Bio:

Michael Byers is a professor of Political Science at UBC, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law. His work focuses on Outer Space, Arctic sovereignty, climate change, the law of the sea, the laws of war, and Canadian foreign and defence policy. Dr. Byers has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, a Professor of Law at Duke University, and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Nord (Norway) and Novosibirsk (Russia). His most recent book is International Law and the Arctic (Cambridge University Press), which won the 2013 Donner Prize. Dr. Byers is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail newspaper. He is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press for a book entitled Who Owns Outer Space?: International Law on the Final Frontier.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Far Out: Outer Space Law — with Michael Byers.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 26, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/50-michael-byers.html.

In this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations series we speak with ICU physician and writer Dr. Kevin Patterson about what he has learned working in the front lines during COVID-19. He chats with Am Johal about planning for a second wave, what we can learn from past pandemics, the relationship between this outbreak and climate change, and how we can improve our local healthcare systems here in Vancouver, Canada.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/49-kevin-patterson.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/49-kevin-patterson.html

Read Dr. Kevin Patterson's writings on COVID-19: https://thewalrus.ca/anatomy-of-an-epidemic/

And an interview The Tyee had with Dr. Kevin Patterson: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/03/15/Kevin-Patterson-COVID/

Bio:

Dr. Kevin Patterson is a writer and a physician specializing in internal medicine. He grew up in Manitoba, and put himself through medical school by joining the Canadian army. As a specialist in internal medicine, he practices in the Arctic and on the coast of British Columbia. His first book, The Water In Between, was a New York Times Notable Book. Country of Cold, his debut short fiction collection, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003, as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. He lives on Saltspring Island, Canada.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Pandemic Conversations: Working the Front Lines During COVID-19 — with Dr. Kevin Patterson.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 14, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/49-kevin-patterson.html.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Tara Mahoney, the Research and Engagement Coordinator of SFU’s Community-Engaged Research initiative team (CERi). Tara holds a PhD from SFU’s School of Communications, is also a research fellow in climate change communications at the David Suzuki Foundation and is the creative director of Gen Why Media. She sits down with Am to talk about her research in the recent years, involving the emerging forms of participatory political culture in Canada.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/48-tara-mahoney.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/48-tara-mahoney.html

You can learn more about CERi here:

https://www.sfu.ca/ceri.html

You can learn more about Gen Why Media here:

https://genwhymedia.ca/

Bio:

Tara Mahoney is the Research and Engagement Coordinator with SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi). She holds a PhD from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University where her dissertation explored emerging forms of participatory political culture in Canada. In addition to her role at CERi, Tara is an instructor with the Civic Innovation Change Lab at RADIUS SFU, a research fellow in climate change communications at the David Suzuki Foundation and the creative director of Gen Why Media.

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Johal, Am. “Social Transformation — with Tara Mahoney.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 19, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/48-tara-mahoney.html.

This episode of Below the Radar features two members of SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative, or CERi: co-director Stuart Poyntz and program manager Joanna Habdank. Both Stuart and Joanna bring their own experiences and expertise to CERi with hopes to create more opportunities for research that is respectful, ethical, and collaborates with community members. They discuss with host Am Johal what Community-Engaged Research is and how SFU is answering the call to provide more opportunities for collaboration in research with communities.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/47-stuart-poyntz-joanna-habdank.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/47-stuart-poyntz-joanna-habdank.html

To learn more about SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative (SFU CERi), please check out their website: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri.html

Bio:

Stuart R. Poyntz is an Associate Professor in SFU's School of Communication and currently serves as Co-Director of the Young, Creative, Connected research network. His research addresses children’s media cultures, theories of public life and urban youth media production. He has published four books and is currently Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded research project, Youthsites: Charting the non-formal arts learning sector in creative lives, and Lead Investigator of the Social Media and News Section of the SSHRC-funded research project, IMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus. He has published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Oxford Review of Education, Canadian Journal of Communication, Popular Culture, Journal of Children and Media, Cultural Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, and the Canadian Journal of Education, and in various edited collections.

Joanna Habdank has worked extensively in areas of community development with a focus on program and policy development for immigrant and refugee populations. She has six years of non-profit management experience preceded by five years working as a journalist. Her work has appeared in the Vancouver Sun and other publications throughout Canada. She has an MSc in Human Rights (LSE) and MA in International Journalism (Cardiff). Her research interests have explored the extent to which legal frameworks can be applicable to the protection of rights for women facing precarious migration situations such as displacement and trafficking.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Community-Engaged Research — with Stuart Poyntz and Joanna Habdank.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 12, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/47-stuart-poyntz-joanna-habdank.html.

This is the second edition of our Below the Radar Conversations. In this episode, Am Johal speaks with Paul Rogers on COVID-19 and how it impacts geopolitics and climate change.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/46-paul-rogers.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/46-paul-rogers.html

Paul Rogers is professor emeritus in the department of peace studies at Bradford University in the UK. He is openDemocracy's international security adviser, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 2001; he also writes a monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. You can read more of his work and writing on openDemocracy here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/paul-rogers/.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Pandemic Conversations: COVID-19, Geopolitics and Climate Change — with Paul Rogers.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 5, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/46-paul-rogers.html.

On this episode of Below the Radar, we welcome psychoanalyst Hilda Fernandez and clinical counsellor Fernanda Selayzin Souza who practice in Vancouver. Both Hilda and Fernanda dive into a discussion around urban intimacy and the good life, including how technology impacts intimacy and relationships, the potential mainstreaming of polyamory, and the differences across generations and cultures that change the way we relate to others and ourselves.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/45-hilda-fernandez-fernanda-souza.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/45-hilda-fernandez-fernanda-souza.html

You can learn more about the work, practice and research of both Hilda and Fernanda here:

https://www.hildafernandez.com/

http://www.fernandapsychotherapy.com/

Take a listen to our earlier conversation with Hilda, "Psychoanalyzing Love and Desire": https://soundcloud.com/sfu_voce/btr-episode-17-hilda-fernandez

Bio:

Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez is a Lacanian psychoanalyst based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a vast clinical experience with diverse populations in public (hospital and outpatient) and private settings in Mexico and Canada. Her research has been published internationally and focuses on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, trauma, discursive and socio-spatial practices, love and politics. She co-founded the Lacan Salon in 2007 and currently acts as its clinical director. She is an academic associate with the SFU Institute for the Humanities at SFU and is registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.

Fernanda is a registered clinical counsellor with a Master’s Degree in Education (MEd) from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology (MCP) from the Adler University. Originally she was trained as a Psychologist in Brazil (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais) where she is still apt to practice (CRP-MG). She runs a busy private practice downtown Vancouver where she sees individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds, some of which in consensual non-monogamies, and all seeking support for better navigating postmodern relationships.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Urban Intimacy — with Hilda Fernandez and Fernanda Souza.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 28, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/45-hilda-fernandez-fernanda-souza.html.

In this first episode of our Below the Radar conversations series, we hear from Dr. Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University. In this conversation, she chats with Am Johal about the World Health Organization and COVID-19.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/44-kelley-lee.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/44-kelley-lee.html

Bio:

Dr. Lee is trained in International Relations and Public Administration with a focus on international political economy. She spent over twenty years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, initially analyzing the role of the UN in health. She was a core member of two major donor-led studies on WHO reform during the 1990s. She co-established the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health, and chaired the WHO Resource Group on Globalization, Trade and Health. Dr Lee also co-led a major international initiative to secure public access to tobacco industry documents, and analyze their contents in relation to the globalization of the tobacco industry. She has authored over 100 peer reviewed papers, 50 book chapters and 13 books including Globalization and Health, An introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The World Health Organization (Routledge, 2008), Global Health and International Relations (Polity Press with Colin McInnes, 2012), and Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance (Rowman and Littlefield International with Nora Kenworthy and Ross MacKenzie, 2016). She joined the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences in 2011 as Associate Dean, Research and Director of Global Health. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Dr. Kelley Lee was featured in a Rolling Stone article entitled "Why the World Health Organization’s Response to COVID-19 Is Crucial to the Future of Public Health" :

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/world-health-organization-coronavirus-response-975543/

Note: This interview was recorded prior to the United States cutting funding to the WHO.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Pandemic Conversations: The World Health Organization and COVID-19— with Kelley Lee.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 21, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/44-kelley-lee.html.

On this episode of Below the Radar, we are joined by SFU President, Andrew Petter. For 10 years, Andrew has led SFU in becoming Canada’s Engaged University. Prior to that, Andrew had extensive teaching experience as a faculty member at the University of Victoria as well as serving the province as an MLA with a variety of cabinet portfolios during his time in office. Am Johal talks to Andrew about the experiences he had prior to coming to SFU, what it’s been like to serve as SFU’s president, and why SFU will always be a big part of his life.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/43-andrew-petter.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/43-andrew-petter.html

Check out our blog post that accompanies this episode: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/about/updates/all-updates/andrew-petter-on-the-engaged-university.html

Note: we recorded this episode before COVID-19 restrictions in our region required us to practice social distancing.

Bio:

Andrew Petter, C.M., Q.C., is the President and Vice Chancellor of Simon Fraser University and Professor in its School of Public Policy. Prior to joining SFU in 2010, he was Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Victoria where he served as Dean from 2001 to 2008. From 1991 to 2001, Professor Petter served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia and held numerous cabinet portfolios, including Aboriginal Affairs, Advanced Education and Attorney General. In 2018, he was appointed to the Order of Canada in recognition of his commitment and leadership in advancing university-community engagement and higher education throughout the country. Since becoming President, Professor Petter has overseen the development and implementation of a Strategic Vision that seeks to distinguish SFU as a “leading engaged university defined by its dynamic integration of innovative education, cutting edge research, and far-reaching community engagement."

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Andrew Petter on the Engaged University.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 14, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/43-andrew-petter.html.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Barbara Adler, interdisciplinary artist, programmer and SFU’s School for Contemporary Arts’ Professional Development Coordinator. Barbara’s artistic work has been presented at The Vancouver Folk Festival, Ballet BC, the Vienna Literature Festival and many more. She currently produces the weekly performance series Sawdust Collector, which showcases experimental and improvised works by established and emerging artists. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/42-barbara-adler.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/42-barbara-adler.html

You can find out more about Barbara's artistic work here:

http://www.tenthousandwolves.com/

You can learn about Sawdust Collector here:

https://www.sawdustcollector.com/

Bio:

Barbara Adler is an interdisciplinary artist whose work brings together text, composition, performance, and event making. Her writing and music have been presented through multiple solo and band albums, theatre and dance productions and performances at major music and literary festivals. In her own work, Barbara is inspired by real life happenings that blur between authenticity and counterfeit, the wild and the cultivated. Her projects often combine speculative fiction, holiday-gothic imagery and field research –– she looks for masks in people and in the natural world. Since 2016, she has collaborated with artists Cole Schmidt and James Meger to program and produce Sawdust Collector, an interdisciplinary series presenting new, experimental and improvised performance. Her most recent project is Mermaid Spring, a sprawling work of music theatre tracing the connections between precarious human labour and environmental collapse, in creation with Kyla Gardiner/The Public Swoon. Barbara holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies and a BA in Art and Cultural Studies, both from Simon Fraser University. She is the Professional Development Coordinator at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts. Somehow, she's a horse owner.

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Johal, Am. “Cowboys, Mermaids, and Interdisciplinary Art — with Barbara Adler.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 31, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/42-barbara-adler.html.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Scott Bernstein, the Director of Policy at Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, a project based at the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU. He has also done work with Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver and internationally with Open Society Foundations in New York. Together, Am and Scott talk about his work involving harm reduction, decriminalization and drug regulation policies, and discuss potential regulation models with studies such as the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) and Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME).

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/41-scott-bernstein.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/41-scott-bernstein.html

Learn more about the work of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition by visiting their website: https://drugpolicy.ca/

Bio:

Scott Bernstein is Director of Policy with the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, where he leads the organization’s work on legal regulation of drugs, decriminalization, and international drug policy. Through his own legal practice and with Vancouver-based non-profit Pivot Legal Society, Scott has participated in strategic litigation focused on advancing human rights of people who use drugs, including challenging municipal anti-harm reduction bylaws, advocating for access to prescription heroin treatment, and defending Insite, North America’s first sanctioned injection site in the Supreme Court of Canada and lower courts. Prior to joining CDPC, Scott was a program officer with the Global Drug Policy Program of Open Society Foundations in New York. There, he supported collaboration within a global reform movement targeted at the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session through grant-making, policy expertise and strategic planning, as well as supporting a nascent drug policy reform movement in Africa. Scott has a MSc in environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin and a JD from the University of British Columbia.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Advocating for Drug Policy Reform — with Scott Bernstein.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 17, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/41-scott-bernstein.html.