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.
Please provide us with your contact information and we will send you an access code that you may share with your entire institution. There is no need for your students or anyone else to register.
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
Day One
Thursday October 22
9am - 10:30am: 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.
10:45 am – 12:00 pm: Community in Education
Kimberley Nolan, Northeastern University. Nobody's Student: Education, Incarceration, and the Intersectional Erasure of Court-Involved Youth.
Precious Gauthier, McMaster University. Beyond the Language: How Academia Perpetuates the Politics of Silence.
Marvin Garbeth Davis, Sr., Garbeh Literary Press. When Landscapes Become Witnesses: Creative Writing and the Ethics of Remembering Ordinary Lives.
10:45 am – 12:00 pm: Neurodivergence Studies
Mollie Rubenbstein, 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.
Becca Lory Hector, Evolving Skye LLC. Lived Experience as Data: Measuring Autistic Quality of Life through Community-Led Research.
Noon - 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm - 2:45pm: Culture, Education & Space
Anne Cecil, Drexel University. Teaching Culture Through Participation: Experiential Learning, Identity, and Belonging in the Classroom.
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.
Elizabeth (Liz) Chase, St. John’s University. Slow Teaching in Fast Times: Explorations of Lived Experience in Learning Spaces.
Pancho McFarland, Chicago State University. Teaching and Researching Aid and Accountability at the Roseland Community Forest Garden
1:00pm – 2:45pm: Eating Disorders, Suicide, Aging & Home
Alison Hoy, Canadian Mental Health Association. Tracing Feeling in Anorexia Recovery: The Texture of Repair
Sarah I. Hugue, et al, University of Edinburgh. Discovering Liveability: Coproducing alternatives to suicide prevention.
Catherine Marienau and Gail Zelitsky, De Paul University. Reimagining Aging: Older Women as Co-Creators of Knowledge.
Suzan Ahmed. The Psychology and Spirituality of a Solo Nomadic Journey as a Mixed-Race Healer: Placemaking and Finding Home
2:45pm – 4:00pm Workshop: The Story Doesn’t End with Publication: Building Companion Resources that Extend the Life of a Book
Moderator: Anne Cecil, Drexel University
Participants: Joseph Hancock II, Drexel University
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DAY TWO
Friday October 23
9:00am - 10:30 am
Keynote Speaker: Steve Majors, Teach for America. A Multiracial Experience: One Man’s Search for Race, Identity and Family.
10:30 am - Noon: Queer and Transgender Identities
Kael Reid (they/them), York University, Toronto. Relationality, place, and belonging: The queerness of becoming.
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.
10:30 am - Noon: Accessibility & Disability Studies
Janice Phonepraseuth et al., University of Toronto, McMaster University, and University of British Columbia. 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 Male-Dominated Graduate Programs.
Michael Osborne, Accessible Me Ltd. Lived Experience as a Professional Method: Designing for Cognitive Access, Not Just Compliance.
Gozde Oncil et al. Bloorview Research Institute. Barriers and Facilitators to Leisure Participation Among Racially Minoritized Youth with Disabilities
Noon - 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm – 2:30pm: Fashion & Cultural Studies
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.
Sachi Fukuda, Sophia University. Acquiring Intersectional Viewpoints and Positionalities Among Japanese-Speaking K-Pop Fans.
2:45pm - 4: 00pm: Social Work
Myron Parks, The Divergent Collective. Accommodated Care: How To Fire a Social Worker While Out of Your Mind.
Arlene Weeks, University of Birmingham, England. Is Social Work Practice Really Anti-Oppressive When Viewed Through the Eyes of Black Dyslexic Women Social Workers?
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.
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