In this first episode of Best Concordia Podcast, our host Johnny Bee interviews two graduate students, Aryana Soliz (PhD student in Social and Cultural Analysis) and Elizabeth White (incoming PhD student in Humanities), former and actual Coordinators of Concordia’s Ethnography Lab to learn about the creation of this new faculty members and graduate students initiative as well as its past and upcoming events and workshops. This interview is followed by a talk on ethnography with Ceyda Yolgörmez and Gabrielle Lavenir, two PhD students in the Social and Cultural Analysis program and also members of a research group interested in gender in the trucking industry who also work respectively on artificial intelligence and agency and silver gamers. The last segment entitled "Conference Corner" contains excerpts of interviews taken by producers Kris Millett and Adam van Sertima during the Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Association (SAGSA) 2017 Conference "To Bodly Go: Reflections on New World Possibilities" that took place at Concordia University in Montreal from March 23-25. It includes discussions with Concordia students as well as students visiting from other universities, featuring Sandra Cayo, Guillaume T. Boily, Demi Vrettas, Mona Ghassemi, and James Kolla. This podcast features music by our production assistant Adam van Sertima and his band The Snipes. For more of Adam's work visit "Between Adam's ears" on PodOmatic. This podcast also features music by our sound producer's Kris Millett and his band No Fly List. You can download No Fly List's two albums Blaze On (2011) and Both Sides (2016) on iTunes and SoundCloud. The band will also perform at the Casa del Popolo in Montreal on July 6th, 2017.
Host/Producer: Johnny Bee (MA Student in Concordia's Sociology Program)
Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte (PhD Student in Concordia's Social and Cultural Analysis Program)
Sound/Content Producer: Kris Millett (PhD Student in Concordia's Social and Cultural Analysis Program)
Production Assistant: Adam van Sertima (PhD student in Concordia's Interdisciplinary Program)