Best, Concordia

This is part 2 of a two-part episode. In this part, we're continuing our conversation with media practitioner and artist-researcher Prakash Krishnan from "Do The Kids Know?" We explore Instagram as a tool of community building and visual culture as a medium for empowerment. Contributors: Dean's Office, "Best, Concordia" Podcast, and the Ethnography Lab at Concordia. Prakash Krishnan (he/him) is a researcher and educator in the fields of digital media, archives, accessibility, and contemporary art. He recently completed a Master of Arts in Media Studies and is the coordinator at Concordia's Access in the Making (AIM) Lab. Apart from his duties at AIM, Prakash co-produces and hosts Do The Kids Know?, a biweekly podcast exploring race, media, popular culture, and politics in Canada and occasionally moonlights as an artist, essayist, and comedian. Having had struggled in solitude to navigate issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality for over twenty years, Prakash is deeply committed in facilitating these discussions for those new to the work of un/learning.

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. In this part, we're talking to media practitioner and artist-researcher Prakash Krishnan from Do The Kids Know? about his podcast as well as the ways we can use our positions in academia to advance our activism. Contributors: Dean's Office, "Best, Concordia" Podcast, and the Ethnography Lab at Concordia. Prakash Krishnan (he/him) is a researcher and educator in the fields of digital media, archives, accessibility, and contemporary art. He recently completed a Master of Arts in Media Studies and is the coordinator at Concordia's Access in the Making (AIM) Lab. Apart from his duties at AIM, Prakash co-produces and hosts Do The Kids Know?, a biweekly podcast exploring race, media, popular culture, and politics in Canada and occasionally moonlights as an artist, essayist, and comedian. Having had struggled in solitude to navigate issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality for over twenty years, Prakash is deeply committed in facilitating these discussions for those new to the work of un/learning.

This full episode serves to explore, discuss, and develop actionable practices to deconstruct syllabus and alternative forms of pedagogy, by looking at intersections between music jams and a classroom. How can we "jazz-up" our syllabus? In the second part of episode 3, our team explore decolonial practices around syllabus deconstruction and explores new pedagogies inspired by artists, jam sessions and other ways to work together that gives room to each player, but also improves our listening and our way to tune in. Building on lived experiences we also highlight some of the best classroom experiences that push the limits of student agency and create a new learning environment. Some of these explorations could potentially evolve the social dynamics, to become undisciplined and flatten awkward power dynamics in the classroom towards horizontality. DPP Members hosting: Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Chesline Pierre-Paul, Albane Gaudissart Best Concordia Producer: Kris Millet Editor: Connie Phung Guests: Matthias Mushinski: Matthias is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia. His doctoral research is, above all else, a rigorous celebration of another way of being together that is offered in the social aesthetics of free jazz and its improvisatory protocols. In April 2022 he will begin a residency at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia where he will study under the direction of Linda Goode Bryant, Thomas Lax, Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa. An avid record collector and olfactory cosmonaut, Matthias spends his days meditating on themes such as beauty, (non)relationality, and the distinction--or lack thereof--between montage and ensemble. He is part of a listening collective that hosts a monthly radio show on n10.as titled Out From Outside.

This full episode serves to explore, discuss, and develop actionable practices to deconstruct syllabus and alternative forms of pedagogy, by looking at intersections between music jams and a classroom. How can we "jazz-up" our syllabus? In this first part, our team explore decolonial practices around syllabus deconstruction and explores new pedagogies inspired by artists, jam sessions and other ways to work together that gives room to each player, but also improves our listening and our way to tune in. Building on lived experiences we also highlight some of the best classroom experiences that push the limits of student agency and create a new learning environment. Some of these explorations could potentially evolve the social dynamics, to become undisciplined and flatten awkward power dynamics in the classroom towards horizontality. DPP Members hosting: Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Chesline Pierre-Paul, Albane Gaudissart Best Concordia Producer: Kris Millet Editor: Connie Phung Guests: Matthias Mushinski: Matthias is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia. His doctoral research is, above all else, a rigorous celebration of another way of being together that is offered in the social aesthetics of free jazz and its improvisatory protocols. In April 2022 he will begin a residency at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia where he will study under the direction of Linda Goode Bryant, Thomas Lax, Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa. An avid record collector and olfactory cosmonaut, Matthias spends his days meditating on themes such as beauty, (non)relationality, and the distinction--or lack thereof--between montage and ensemble. He is part of a listening collective that hosts a monthly radio show on n10.as titled Out From Outside.

This episode features DPPH's founding members, Hone Mandefro and Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, along with one of the Hub's current members, Albane Gaudissart, sharing some of the history on the beginnings of the Hub and how it came to be. The discussion is facilitated by Kris Millet from Best, Concordia. Speakers: Jamilah Dei-Sharpe is a second-generation Canadian-Black Jamaican Ghanaian women, who specializes in decolonial pedagogy, Black masculinity, critical race and gender studies. She offers strategies for community mobilization, participatory facilitation and sedimenting critical pedagogies from her experiences co-founding the NBGN and the DPPH, with public speaking engagements and multiple initiatives against anti-Black racism on Concordia campus. Hone Mandefro is an Ethiopian international Ph.D. student that has over a decade of experience lecturing and training students in Social Policy and Social Work. As well as extensive experience in international political advocacy with the Ethiopian polity. Albane Gaudissart is a French gender equality activist that has been working for eight years in Tanzania with the feminist, decolonial Non-For Profit organization 'TATU Project'; using her MA Anthropology degree to research the adoption of mobile technologies in the Tanzanian community Maasais. She has unmatched expertise in managing social-justice organizations and grassroots activism, whilst connecting the DPPPH to her international Tanzanian network. Facilitator: Kris Millet, PhD student in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. Editor: Connie Phung, PhD student in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia.

Reflections on Being Decolonial in a Digital World (Part 2) Guest Speaker(s): Napatsi and Connie This episode features the DPPH members and guest speakers Napatsi and Connie sharing their reflections on being decolonial in a digital world amid the COVID pandemic. The group share their lived experiences with race, pedagogy, and colonialism as they aspire to create de/colonial learning environments. This episode proposes a reflections on race, racism, and being decolonial online during the COVID pandemic.

Reflections on Being Decolonial in a Digital World Guest Speaker(s): Napatsi and Connie This episode features the DPPH members and guest speakers Napatsi and Connie sharing their reflections on being decolonial in a digital world amid the COVID pandemic. The group share their lived experiences with race, pedagogy, and colonialism as they aspire to create de/colonial learning environments. This episode presents a reflections on race, racism, and being decolonial online during the COVID pandemic. Many thanks to the Concordia Ethnography Lab, the Concordia School of Graduate Studies, DPPH members Chesline Pierre-Paul, Albane Gaudissart, Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Connie Phung, Hone Mandefro, Best Concordia Produders Kris Millett who has overseen the project, Anne-marie Turcotte and Pauline Hoebanx.

This week, the Best C. podcast team let me (Anne-Marie) produce my own episode. Was this wise? We'll let you be the judge of that! In this episode, we are talking ontology(!) with the Thinking In SpaceTime working group at the Concordia Ethnography Lab and connecting this to an interview Johnny Bee did with PhD candidate and TAG member, Ida Marie Toft, about their work looking at interactive design and gaming. Featuring killer beats by Perv Club, check them out at https://pervclub.bandcamp.com/ The text discussed by Marie-Ève Drouin Gagné is : Medeiros, João Leonardo. Marx and the ontology of social being. available here: https://marxismocritico.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/medeiros_joao-ontology_and_epistemology_in_marx.pdf the text discussed by Fintan Neylan is : da Silva, Denise Ferreira. Toward a black feminist poethics: the quest (ion) of blackness toward the end of the world. the black scholar, 2014, vol. 44, no 2, p. 81-97. additional production on today's episode by: Pauline Hoebanx, Kris Millett, and John Bryans special thanks to the Concordia School of Graduate Studies, The Office of the Dean of Arts and Science, The Milieu Institute, The Concordia Ethnography Lab, and The TAG Research Group

Following Johnny Bee's wonderful first episode of our "concept album", this episode, produced by Pauline Hoebanx, takes on the question of the value of knowledge. If you want to hear about the struggles of grad students figuring our their research topic, this is the episode for you! Master's student Samantha Ilacqa talks us through her change of thesis topic, and the Thinking In Space Time group discusses axiology. The amazing 80's sounding techno music is brought to you by PervClub. You can find this track and much more at their BandCamp page: https://pervclub.bandcamp.com/ Grab a snack, sit back, and get ready to be transported to the strange land of graduate school. Special thanks to the Concordia Ethnography Lab, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Science at Concordia, the Concordia School of Graduate Studies, and the Concordia Sociology and Anthropology Department. Shout out to The Milieu Institute, and the TAG Research Group Produced, edited, & hosted by Pauline Hoebanx. Additional production by John Bryans, Anne Marie Turcotte, and Kris Millett.

Friends! Romans! Beautiful People! lend us your ears! it’s SEASON 3 Y’ALL!! and our first foray into long-form storytelling! this season is our “concept album” season, inspired by the Thinking In Space Time group at the Ethnolab. this episode, produced by Johnny Bee, is about combat sports and how race, gender, class, and injury can change your life. master’s student John Deidouss is our fabulous guest and our musical guest is papa Elie Deidouss! we’re so excited to bring you this season and we hope that you love it as much as we do. special thanks to the Concordia Ethnography Lab, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Science at Concordia, the Concordia School of Graduate Studies, and the Concordia Sociology and Anthropology Department shout out to The Milieu Institute, and the TAG Research Group produced, edited, & hosted by John Bryans produced by Pauline Hoebanx, Kris Millett, Anne Marie Turcotte, and John Deidouss music by Elie Deidouss

As a special bonus this week we are posting Marie-Eve's interview UNCUT! This interview was super interesting and includes lots of great info about conducting fieldwork. We hope you enjoy! best, Concordia

this week on our SEASON 2 FINALE!!!! host Johnny Bee and co-host Anne-Marie are talking transformation and reclamation. we sat down with University of Mexico Anthropology Masters student, Juan Pablo Neri, to talk about his research investigating quinoa production in Bolivia. next we caught up with Cabot Square Photovoice Collective member and PhD student, Marie-Eve Drouin Gagné, to hear about how the Collective's fieldwork went over the summer in Cabot Square in Montreal and how the research transformed. our musical guests this week are Montreal Indie sensations and "rétrofuturiste" vanguards, Couteau Papillon! check them out at https://couteaupapillon.bandcamp.com/ this week's episode was produced by Adam Van Sertima, Pauline Hoebanx, Juan Pablo Neri, Anne-Marie Turcotte, Kris Millett, and John Bryans. special thanks to the Concordia Ethnography Lab, the Milieu Institute, and the Speculative Live Research Cluster. thank you to all of you listeners who have joined us this season. stay tuned for bonus content coming soon! best, Concordia

In this week's episode, our host Johnny Bee sits down with a visiting scholar from the University of California Santa Cruz, Anthropology PhD candidate Alix Johnson, to discuss data centres and surveillance in Iceland. Then, John catches up with returning guest Lucian Ivanov who is now an MA graduate(Sociology) and talks about secret files of the Romanian secret police under the former communist regime. This episode features music by emerging synth artist Shannon Floyd. Host/Producer: Johnny Bee Sound/Content Producers: Kris Millett, Juan Pablo Neri, Pauline Hoebanx, Adam van Sertima Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte Production Assistant: Alejandra Melian-Morse

This week, our host Johnny Bee meets up with Phd student Guillaume T. Boily to find out more about priest and french marxist leninists and the reasons that led them to go work in factories during the 1970s. Then, John sits down with this week's musical guest, @Kurt-Chaboyer to discuss his latest projects. Finally, John catches up with returning guest PhD candidate Kris Murray to learn all about the two beautiful murals of Leonard Cohen that were painted this summer in Montreal. This episode features music by @Kurt-Chaboyer. To learn more about this artist visit: https://kurtchaboyer.bandcamp.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/kurt-chaboyer/id1221064250 You can also follow him on: https://www.facebook.com/KurtChaboyerMusic/ Host/Producer: Johnny Bee Sound/Content Producers: Kris Millett, Juan Pablo Neri, Pauline Hoebanx, Adam van Sertima Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte Production Assistant: Alejandra Melian-Morse

This week, our host Johnny Bee interviews three new students from Concordia's Department of Sociology & Anthropology. First, Johnny sits down with Jamilah Dei-Sharpe and Pauline Hoebanx to chat about what led them both to pursue their MA studies in Sociology. Jamilah shares with us how a professor influenced her life course and her multiple past research experiences concerning minority youth, postpartum depression groups, racial identification and minority status in different multicultural settings. In addition, Jamilah discusses her current research interest on dating & Hip-hop music. Then, exchange student Pauline Hoebanx shares with us her singular academic trajectory (from Architecture in Belgium to Sociology in Montreal) and her research interest in video dating advice. Finally, John meets with PhD student (Social & Cultural Analysis) Shoshana Paget to discuss her research on marriage equality laws. This episode features music by Montreal Punk group Pale Lips. For information on @palelipsband performances near you, visit: https://www.facebook.com/palelips/ and to purchase their Should've Known Better album visit: https://palelips.bandcamp.com/ You can also follow Pale Lips on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/palelipsband/ Host/Producer: Johnny Bee   Sound/Content Producers: Kris Millett, Juan Pablo Neri, Pauline Hoebanx, Adam van Sertima Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte Production Assistant: Alejandra Melian-Morse

This week, our host Johnny Bee reports live from the Design In The Making workshop and sits down with the two organiser, Florian Tichy and Verena Eireiner who are visiting scholars from the Technical University of Munich, to discuss prototypes, design and ethnography. John then meets with Desiree Foerster from the University of Potsdam (Germany) and discusses processes of embodiment and design. Our host also sits down with returning musical guest, Willem Burnaby, to talk about his work and his new recording studio (Urban Jungle Studio). Finally, John interviews Concordia Indi PhD student Ida Toft (Denmark) about her studies in the field of interaction design. This episode features music by Concordia music student Willem Burnaby. If you are interested in Willem's work, please visit his SoundCloud page @Willtunes778. For more information on the Urban Jungle Studio (Recording, Producing, Sound Engineering), text Willem @(514) 668 - 8933 or email him @Will.urbanjungle@Gmail.com Host/Producer: Johnny Bee   Sound/Content Producer: Kris Millett Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte Production Assistant: Adam van Sertima, Pauline Hoebanx, Juan Pablo Neri, Alejandra Melian-Morse

Recorded live from Concordia's Ethnography Lab, we are back with a second season of Best C Podcast. In this first episode of the season, our host Johnny Bee discusses literature and elephant rescue with best C new producer and Concordian Alejandra Melian-Morse who is pursuing her MA in Anthropology. Johnny Bee also exchanges with this week's musical guest Shaggal Starkiller about his indie musical duo Perv Club and catches up with two members of the EthnoLab trucking group. This episode features music by Bolivian Indie duo PervClub. To listen to more of Perv Club's tracks, visit their Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/perv-club, Bandcamp: https://pervclub.bandcamp.com/, youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy7G10qs0jZtlnDrhXKlCQ, Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pervclub Host/Producer: Johnny Bee Sound/Content Producer: Kris Millett Creative Producer: Anne-Marie Turcotte Production Assistant: Adam van Sertima, Pauline Hoebanx, Juan Pablo Neri, Alejandra Melian-Morse

In this sixth and last episode of this first season of Best Concordia Podcast, Producers John Bryans, Kris Millett and Anne-Marie Turcotte discuss their appreciation of this season as well as their aspirations for the future of the show. This episode also contains their favourite outtakes of the season featuring Sara Breitkreutz discussing grad studies and maternity, Heather T. R. Wallman talking about reality television and Tristan Biehn recounting her experience as a lecturer after a night out that involves many sake bombs and searching for keys. This episode features music by Kimberly Sunstrum from her new album The Kid, The Wall, and The Box (“Wondering”, “The Kid”, “The Wall”, “My Stupid Heart”, “The Box”). Kimberly is releasing her new album on May 31 with a show at Pressed in Ottawa. She’ll also be playing our Best, Concordia end-of-season party on July 6 at Casa del Popolo with No Fly List and Wild Mercury! Preview Kimberly’s new album here: https://kimberlysunstrum.bandcamp.com/ Check out her music video for the single “My Stupid Heart”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXol1zfA094 Best Concordia Production team: 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)

In this fifth episode of Best Concordia Podcast, our host Johnny Bee interviews three MA students from Concordia University’s department of Sociology & Anthropology. First, Johnny speaks with Tristan Biehn about her research and field work in a co-op farm in the Montreal region. Johnny then interviews Heather T. R. Wallman about her undergraduate research thesis about Hell Houses and liminal spaces. Finally, our host talks to Lucian Ivanov about his thesis on files kept by the secret police before the fall of the communist regime in Romania. This episode features music by Bats in the Belfry. If you want to listen to more of their music, visit: https://montrealbats.bandcamp.com/releases . Bats in the Belfry is also launching their new album at the Divan Orange in Montreal on May 30. Visit their Facebook page to learn about their tour dates: https://www.facebook.com/montrealbats/?fref=ts 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)

In this fourth episode of Best, C. Podcast, our host Johnny Bee interviews Claude Leduc, a student from Concordia's Sociology MA, and discusses his passion for metal music to then link it to his actual research surrounding the idea of technology becoming an automating process. He then interviews Best, C's Production Assistant Adam van Sertima (INDI PhD Program at Concordia) to discuss his involvement in the EthnoLab's Creative-Reuse Working Group, the concept of boundary objects and the notion of joint attention. Finally, in another one of our "Off the Record" segment, Adam turns the table and asks our host Johnny Bee some questions about his own research. To learn more about Johnny Bee's research, watch his video "The Actor's Dude Dilemma", which just made it into the top 25 finalist in the SSHRC Storyteller 2017 competition on our YouTube page playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaXHtrO-noQ&list=PLhCmlhYUMgmiWbY1CB2ZRZSFnqsCp2Njf This episode features music by Concordia Sociology student Claude Leduc musical projects Chthe'ilist and Sutrah. If you are interested in Claude's work, Chthe'ilist's album "Le Dernier crepuscule" is available for download on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/le-dernier-crépuscule/id1074144631 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)

In this third episode of Best, C. Podcast, our host Johnny Bee interviews three students from the Social and Cultural Analysis PhD program here at Concordia. Johnny first discusses graffiti, photography and methodology with Kris Murray. He then interviews Sara Breitkreutz and Marie-Eve Drouin Gagne who both participate in a research project surrounding Cabot Square. This episode features music by Concordia music student Willem Burnaby. If you are interested in Willem's work, please visit his SoundCloud page: Willtunes778. 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

In this second episode, our host Johnny Bee discusses Indigenous higher education as a tool for decolonization with Social and Cultural Analysis PhD candidate Marie-Eve Drouin Gagne (Concordia). This talk is followed by an interview with Social and Cultural Analysis Phd student Sarah Breitkreutz (Concordia) who discusses her involvement in the community radio show Nipivut. This podcast features music by our Sound Producer 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. Outro music is by Adam van Sertima. For more information on Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling: http://storytelling.concordia.ca You can access Montreal Inuit community's podcast Nipivut on iTunes and SoundCloud. 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)

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)