Lived Places Publishing invites all librarians, faculty, students and staff to join our first conference where scholars will share their research and the joy and challenges of their own identities. There is no cost to general attendees, and you may pick and choose which sessions you'd like to attend.
Once you register, please check your email for the login information and password. These credentials will work for any sessions in these rooms.
Why Attend?
Engage with scholars and practitioners across a wide variety of fields.
Examine the theoretical and the practical aspects of lived experience.
Coalesce around critical cultural and societal questions of the day.
Reflect on the present moment – and co-create a more inclusive future.
Inspirational Sessions that Align with Your Curricula
Subject to change
Day One
Thursday October 22
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
9 am – 10 am EST: Introduction to Conference and Presentation of Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker: Jessye Dylan DeSilva, Boston Conservatory at the Berklee School of Music. Singing the Landscapes of Queer Self: Gender, Religion, and Community in the Northeastern United States.*
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
10:15 am – 11:30 am EST: Workshop: The Story Doesn’t End with Publication: Building Companion Resources that Extend the Life of a Book.
Moderator: Anne Cecil, Drexel University
Participant: Joseph Hancock II, Drexel University
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 2
10:15 am – 11:30 am EST: Neurodivergence and Intersectional Erasure
Session Chair Kimberly Nolan, Northeastern University
Mollie Rubenstein, Rowan University. Exploring Sense of Belonging among Neurodivergent Students.
Terri Jackson, University of Prince Edward Island. Jackson, Are We Setting Up Neurodiverse Pre-Service Teachers to Succeed on Field Placement or Just Survive?
Kimberley Nolan, Northeastern University. Nobody's Student: Education, Incarceration, and the Intersectional Erasure of Court-Involved Youth.
11:45 – 12:15 EST Break
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
12:30 - 2:00 pm EST: Culture, Education & Space
Session Chair Elizabeth (Liz) Chase, St. John’s University
James Rudyk Jr. (he/him), DePaul University, and Lucy Gomez-Feliciano (she/her), Here to Stay Land Trust, Community Engagement Director. The Community Classroom: Experiential Learning with DePaul University and Here to Stay Community Land Trust.
Pancho McFarland, Chicago State University. Teaching and Researching Aid and Accountability at the Roseland Community Forest Garden
Gizem Arat, Dominican University, and Narine Kerelian, California State University, East Bay. Cultural Humility in Higher Education: Intersection of Multiple Identities
Elizabeth (Liz) Chase, St. John’s University. Slow Teaching in Fast Times: Explorations of Lived Experience in Learning Spaces.
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 2
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EST: Fashion & Cultural Studies
Session Chair Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University
Anne Cecil, Drexel University. Teaching Culture Through Participation: Experiential Learning, Identity, and Belonging in the Classroom.
Nicole Rivas, St. John’s University. The Archaeology of Fashion: Clothing as an Archive of Intersectional Lived Experience.
Elizabeth Kealy Morris, Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. The Affective Politics of Dressing: Disabled Bodies and Everyday Acts of Resistance.
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
2:15 pm – 4:00 pm EST: Anorexia, Dyslexia, Healing, and Older Women in Social Work
Session Chair Catherine Marienau, DePaul University
Alyson Hoy, Canadian Mental Health Association. Tracing Feeling in Anorexia Recovery: The Texture of Repair
Arlene Weekes, University of Birmingham, England. Is Social Work Practice Really Anti-Oppressive When Viewed Through the Eyes of Black Dyslexic Women Social Workers?
Suzan Ahmed. The Psychology and Spirituality of a Solo Nomadic Journey as a Mixed-Race Healer: Placemaking and Finding Home *
Catherine Marienau and Gail Zelitzky, De Paul University. Reimagining Aging: Older Women as Co-Creators of Knowledge.
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DAY TWO
Friday October 23
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
9:00 am - 10:00 am EST
Keynote Speaker: Steve Majors, Teach for America. A Multiracial Experience: One Man’s Search for Race, Identity and Family.
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
10:30 am – 12:15 pm EST: Queer and Transgender Identities
Session Chair: Kael Reid, York University Toronto
Charlie Lopes, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art and Design. Creating Space for Alternate Narratives: Using Co-Design to Value Transgender Lived Experience in Graphic Design.
Desmond A. D. O’Doherty, York University. Speaking from the Margins of the Map: Lived Experience, Intersectionality, and Queer Tongzhi Narratives in Sinophone East Asia.
Kael Reid (they/them), York University, Toronto. Relationality, place, and belonging: The queerness of becoming.
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 2
10:30 am – 12: 15 pm EST: Accessibility & Disability Studies
Session Chair: Stephanie A. N. Levin, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
Michael Osborne, Accessible Me Ltd. Lived Experience as a Professional Method: Designing for Cognitive Access, Not Just Compliance.
Gozde Oncil, Janice Phonepraseuth, Narges Abdeahad and Sally Lindsay. Barriers and Facilitators to Leisure Participation Among Racially Minoritized Youth with Disabilities
Sally Lindsay, Janice Phonepraseuth, Van Slothouber, Jaden Lo, Jennifer N. Stinson and Sharon Smile. Perspectives of Racially Minoritized Youth with Disabilities on Addressing Ableism and other Forms of Discrimination.
Stephanie A. N. Levin, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine. Exploring the Intersectional Experiences of Women with Invisible Disabilities in MaleDominated Graduate Programs.
Lived Places Publishing Zoom Room 1
12:30 pm- 2:15 pm EST: Practices, Identity, and Compassion
Session Chair: Danielle Denichaud, University of Toronto
María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado Binghamton University. Floreciendo como ser humano: Human Flourishing | Promising Practices
Kadian Pow, University, Birmingham, UK. The Place of the Black Aging Fangirl: Evolution, Cultural Identity and Self-Making
Sarah I. Huque, University of Edinburgh. Discovering Liveability: Coproducing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention.
Danielle Denichaud, University of Toronto. Why We Need Compassion Over Criticality in Education OR Making Peace with Vs. Waging War on Suffering.
* Complimentary Exam Copies Available Upon Request.
Meet Our KeyNote Speakers
Steve Majors, LPP Author and Chief External Affairs Officer for Teach for America.
Steve's moving memoir, A Multiracial Experience: One Man's Search for Race, Identity, and Family, reflects on his life and experiences as a multi-racial queer man. A poignant narrative of identity formation, rejection, and re-formation, this title covers themes of generational trauma, abuse, race, sexuality, and family relationships.
Singer and songwriter Jessye Dylan DeSilva
Jessye is also Assistant Professor of Voice at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee School of Music. Jessye recently published
Introducing the Conference Chair
Joseph H. Hancock, II is a professor at Drexel University and an international authority on fashion branding as a form of storytelling. He is known internationally for his scholarship on cargo pants, LGBTQIA+ fashion and retail culture.
For more information about the conference, or to share any ideas and thoughts, please email Joseph.Hancockii@gmail.com.
For more information about LPP please download our data sheet or visit www.livedplacespublishing.com.