Beyond the Jargon

In this episode, theatre grad student, Lindsay Delaronde shares her journey in academia and how her trajectories of personal growth influenced her desires of being in the healing field. From fine arts, to counselling; from art therapy to theatre; from land-based to academia settings. Lindsay shares her processes of working with and in community while working in academia and how she keeps the balance between the civic engagement and the expectations of the scholarly world. Her work adds to the decolonizing efforts of many others Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, students, and community members at the University of Victoria.  Lindsay has been genuine, brave and honest to her own values and pathways while processing real struggles in the life journey. Currently, she is ready to embark in an exciting new future endeavours as the recently awarded Audain Professorship from the Department of Visual Arts. With this episode, we celebrate diversity, beauty and the different ways of being and doing at the University of Victoria.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-delaronde-544b7865
https://www.yammagazine.com/creative-lindsay-katsitsakatste-delaronde/
https://dancewest.net/lindsay-katsitsakatste-delaronde-kanienkehaka-mohawknation

Indigenous Theatre Festival
September 16 - 18 (Phoenix Theatre, UVic)

The festival includes workshops, panel discussions, and performances and supports artists and Indigenous communities working to invigorate their languages through the medium of theatre with a goal of strengthen the exchange of research-based knowledge and best practices. Reawakening Language on Stage is hosted in collaboration with the Hul’q’umi’num’ Language and Culture Society, Hul’q’umi’num’ Language Academy, Simon Fraser University Indigenous Language Program, and Royal Roads University.
 
All events are FREE and open to everyone with advance registration. More information or register at indigenoustheatrefestival.com.

Luke Kernan is an anthropology graduate student at the University of Victoria currently researching psychosis narratives for his PhD. His research focuses on studying the sensory states of madness within people’s psychosis narratives. He is interested in imaginative ethnography and how comics-poetry can be incorporated in anthropological writing. How can depth and expression break and remold plateaus of communication?

For more information about Luke and his research visit https://luke-kernan.com/ and https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/psychosis/
Find Luke on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lukekernan -- or @lukekernan
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Luke.Kernan.Writer - or @Luke.Kernan.Writer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leo_mactighearnaigh/ - or @leo_mactighearnaigh

Two Mental Health groups that Luke Manages:
Unquiet Minds Project - https://www.facebook.com/unquietmindsproject.
“UNQUIET MINDS” is a recurring poetry-and-music, open-mic event, which seeks to openly generate mental health awareness for the Foundry BC network and its communities. We support youth performance via workshops as well as a chapbook publication series.
 
Graduate Student Health Awareness Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/244849375927364.
This group focuses on social support for graduate students--dealing with the stressors of life and mental health issues. Open to current graduate students and alumni wishing to impart their wisdom. The idea here is to organize social outings to engage each other, share advice, and most importantly, motivate each other and have as much fun as possible living well within the community! Feel free to add others!

Talya Jesperson is an MA student in Sociology concentrating in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) at the University of Victoria. She holds a BA Honours in Sociology with a minor in Technology and Society from the University of Victoria. Her research interests are the democratization of digital media and digital technologies, knowledge commons, internet decentralization, digital platforms, surveillance capitalism, and techno-social relationships.
As AI becomes more prevalent in daily life, Talya's qualitative research project aims to examine human relationships with popular AI technologies in the context of AI capitalism. Using conversation agents as the focal point, this study will demonstrate how AI is reshaping techno-social life and explore the potential for AI as a tool for capitalist exploitation.

For more information about Talya and her work, visit https://talya.is/ or find her on twitter @tortalynii (https://twitter.com/tortalynii)

The music featured in this episode includes Tomorrow by Space Monkey Death Sequence, and Camelia byUV protection.
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Caitie Frenkel is a first year master's student in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria studying why and where commercial fishing gear gets lost in the Salish Sea. Caitie’s previous career experience includes an internship with Ocean Networks Canada, a naturalist in Victoria’s whale watching industry, coordinating commercial fishing data at Archipelago, and collaborating with the Global Ghost Gear Initiative. 

For more information about Caitie and her research: https://natalieban.wordpress.com/
For more information about ghost gear: https://www.ghostgear.org/

This interview features guests Shannon Cherry and Wolfgang Vachon. 

Shannon is a school based CYCP (from care) who has been working in Child and Youth Care for nearly two decades. She has recently completed her masters at Ryerson University, where her primary focus has been youth leadership in child welfare. 

Wolfgang has been working with children and youth for close to three decades including those who are street involved, LGBTQ+, survivors of trauma, minoritized, living in state detention, and other forms of state care. A significant part of his practice uses communtiy-arts. Wolfgang teaches child and youth care at Humber College and is currently completing his PhD in CYC at the University of Victoria.

Link to Wolfgang and Shannon's work: https://tuningintocyc.com
www.refiled.ca 

Sources: https://www.iicrd.org/sites/default/files/resources/Asset-based_Development_for_child_and_youthcare_0.pdf

In this episode Taiwo sits down with Dennis Gupa - a PhD Candidate in the Theatre Department. Dennis explores how indigenous performance and human settlements are affected by the onslaught of modernities and colonialism. 

Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join Taiwo as he explores the about cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.

In this very special episode; Taiwo chats with Leah Tidey, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Theatre, University of Victoria. Leah does research in Qualitative Social Research and Performing Arts. Taiwo - who's research is also in Applied Theatre as a vehicle for social change - and Leah discuss the convergence and intersections their two research themes possess through theatrical arts.

Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join Taiwo as he explores the about cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.

In this episode; Taiwo interviews Stephanie Grukhle. Stephanie is a Master's student in the Department of Political Science and her research focuses on the international effort to eradicate sex trafficking, particularly within a European context.

Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join Taiwo as he explores the about cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.

Taiwo chats with Smith Oduro-Marfo, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Smith's research explores surveillance, privacy, and identification systems in Africa - and how they interact with the concept of development.

Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join Taiwo as he explores the about cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.

Taiwo sits down with Nicole Bates-Eamer, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science, whose research explores the intersection between climate change and the movement of people (voluntary migration and involuntary displacement).

Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join Taiwo as he explores the about cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.