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The 2020 US presidential election and the unprecedented events that followed have set the stage for a tumultuous contest in 2024. In this episode, hosts Carol and Jeevan talk to Dr. Paul J. Quirk, professor and Phil Lind Chair in US Politics and Representation in UBC's Department of Political Science, about the upcoming election and what its outcome could mean for democracy in the US. They delve into the back story of the Electoral College, discuss possible scenarios for election night and the weeks that follow, and look at the impact this election could have on Canadian democracy too.Want some post-election analysis? On November 7, Dr. Quirk will be on the panel for the alumni UBC webinar “US Elections 2024: Analyzing the Trump-Harris showdown”.LINKS FROM THIS EPISODEUBC profile: Professor Paul J. Quirkalumni UBC webinar: US Elections 2024: Analyzing the Trump-Harris showdown — register hereContinued reading:Richard Hasen's book on protecting American democracyPaul Quirk's book on democracy in the US and Canada

Find the transcript and episode notes here: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/gil-gershoni#details October is dyslexia awareness month, and we were recently introduced to Gil Gershoni, who is on a mission to help us all recognize dyslexia as a creative superpower. Gershoni runs an influential agency that's been reshaping brands with the power of dyslexic design thinking for decades. One in five people have dyslexia, and there are many other kinds of neurodivergent thinkers out there. We hope this bonus episode opens your eyes to other modes of creative thinking. Thanks for listening. Books & Links The Dyslexic Advantage The Bigger Picture Book of Dyslexics and the Things They Do Dyslexic Design Thinking Podcast Bio Gil Gershoni is the founder and creative director of Gershoni Creative in San Francisco and Dallas. For more than 25 years, Gil has worked with clients like Google, Apple, Spotify, Deloitte, Patrón, San Francisco Art Institute, BBC and Nike, and he has presented at the Whitney Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest, Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum and San Francisco Design Week. Gil is an advocate for the reframing of dyslexia as a hyper-ability and regularly speaks on neurodiversity's influence on design thinking. *** Last week we launched DB+, our new premium service that gives you access to ad-free versions of the show released a week early. Subscribers will be invited to AMA (Ask Me Anything) conversations with big names in design and tech from companies like Nike, Netflix, and The New York Times who will field your questions about compelling topics.  Early bird subscribers get 50% off for the first three months. Visit designbetter.plus to learn more and subscribe. *** isiting the links below is one of the best ways to support our show: American Giant: Makers of the best hoodie on the planet, their clothing is American-made, ethically produced, and built to last. What more could you ask for? Save 20% off your first order with American Giant using our promo code DESIGNBETTER at checkout. dbtr.co/americangiant Heath Ceramics: We love Heath Ceramics. They're the types of objects you pass on from generation to generation, the kind of gift you bring to a wedding, or the dishes that you'd want to put on a beautiful Thanksgiving table: dbtr.co/heathceramics Methodical Coffee: Roasted, blended, brewed, served and perfected by verified coffee nerds

Dr Peter German, Chair of the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute Advisory Committee joins the show with more on money laundering  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Dan Adleman, an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Toronto. He has also previously taught at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Dan received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2016, in his dissertation he explores new-rhetorical approaches to American fiction grappling with the emergence of a new media environment at the turn of the millennium. Alongside Am Johal, he is the co-founder of Vancouver Institute for Social Research, a non-profit graduate-level critical theory free school run out of the Or Gallery since 2013.

In this episode I am speaking with food photographer Darina Kopcok. She is also a food photography teacher at Vancouver Institute of Media Arts and contributing writer to PRO EDU and Digital Photography School. When researching stock photography I came across her article “Selling photos how to make money from photography” . It was an inspiring and educational article to me, and so I decided to invite Darina on my podcast. She tells us a lot about stock photography, how to approach it, what is the difference between micro stock and premium stock, what stock companies are out there and more.Inspiration sources for Darina:Lauren CarisTwo Loves StudioThe Bite ShotChristina Peters “Food photography club”,We Eat TogetherAndrew ScavaniDelores Custer Food stylingDarina also offers mentorship, has an e-book about food styling and a lovely blog about food photography. All that you can find on her website Gastrostoria. ———————————Follow me @kamilekave for food photography inspiration

What are the similarities and differences between Nationalism and Patriotism? Simon Fraser University professor Jerry Zaslove and graduate student Nermin Gogalic discuss this question through the lens of personal identity and political transformation as seen in the former state of Yugoslavia. This in depth and easygoing conversation between our guests and host Am Johal explores the topic from a number of different academic thinker’s perspectives, digging deep to identify the core components of each ideology. Jerry and Nermin also had a public conversation at the Vancouver Institute for Social Research in Spring 2019 entitled “Transition and Identity in the Post-Yugoslav Environment”, which you can listen to here: https://player.fm/series/visr-vancouver-institute-of-social-research/nermin-gogalic-in-conversation-with-jerry-zaslove-transition-and-identity-in-the-post-yugoslav-environment

With opinions from all of those interviewed in previous episodes, Max gets an idea of what the future of Davie Village looks like, and what Vancouver drag performers will need to do to survive and thrive in that future. Performers share the projects they are working on in the future. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

Max looks into drag performers that are taking their acts past the confines of the city’s nightclubs – she speaks with Do-It-Yourself community art venues to see how drag lives on outside of Davie Village, and finds out about those venues' own struggles with money and City legislature. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

Max heads to Vancouver's east side to learn more about the flourishing drag scene in that side of the city. She explains the differences between east side drag and west side drag (if there are any), and she learns more about the diverse history of drag on the East side from the help of a few friends. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

Max meets with a city planner to learn more about the climate of owning and operating a club in Vancouver from a legal perspective. Current club owners and Davie Village drag hosts explain how they are keeping themselves afloat in light of the closings. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

Max hears from performers that were around to witness the rise and fall of Jenn Mickey’s two clubs, 1181 and XY. Artists who worked in those spaces discuss their relationship with Mickey, the shows that they put on together, and the closing of those spaces. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

Max learns more about the history of Vancouver’s drag community: she hears stories that date as far back as the 1950’s, and discovers key moments in the struggle for safe spaces in the city. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

Max learns what drag is, and what drag means to the queer community in Vancouver. Performers from around the city share why drag is important to them. Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clothing and the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.

March 19th - Hilda Fernandez - Will a Cyborg Steal My Jouissance? Unconscious Labour and the Enjoying Body of the Virtual.Jouissance, understood as a sort of pleasurable pain, expressing an excessive tension of psychical nature, coded in the body, consumptive, and inaccessible to the symbolic order, is a universal characteristic of the human subject as bestowed by psychoanalysis. Based on the premise that jouissance and the body share interrelated yet separate spaces, as the latter is always displaced in an imagined other, in this talk I approach the virtual enjoyment dominating our current times to inquire the interrelation between the body, the unconscious labour and jouissance.I will engage with Alfie Bown’s report on videogames “The Playstation Dreamworld” (2017), Jon Raffman’s recent work “Dream Journal” (2017) and some examples from HBO TV Series “Western World” (2016) and Netflix’s “Black Mirror” (2011-2017) to read the unconscious labour, firstly, as an investment in the virtual space, via our dreams, fantasies and even symptoms (techno-addiction). And secondly, this same unconscious labour it is the subject’s jouissance-ingrained production, and as such, it involves an undecidable and paradoxical loss and a gain (surplus jouissance), which I aim to locate it with regards to the body (individual and social).With the concept of surplus enjoyment, which Lacan assumes to be parallel to surplus value, I argue that the enjoyment of the subject, via its disembodiment in the virtual space, has resulted in a larger social disembodiment which Tomsic explains as a “self fetishisation” of capitalism. I try to articulate it as a radical shift in subjectivity, where the temporal spatial conditions of embodiment are ever more reliant on mediation and where the lack is unbearable, unless the proliferating world of virtual images mediates it.At the dawn of artificial intelligence and the consolidation of virtual spaces, what relation can be thought between our bodies, the unconscious labour power and our enjoyment? Will our enjoying bodies, the last frontier of our imaginary property, turn out to be stolen goods by a cyborg in servitude of wealth accumulation of big data corporations who have algorithmically manufactured our desires?Hilda Fernandez was born and raised in Mexico City, receiving her MA in Clinical Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She also holds an MA in Spanish Literature from the University of British Columbia (UBC) She has more than 20 years of training in Lacanian psychoanalysis and practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy in Vancouver, Canada. She co-founded the Lacan Salon in 2007 and currently serves as its president. She is an academic associate with the SFU Institute for the Humanities and is currently engaged in a PhD Program in the Department of Human Geography at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she is conducting research on discursive spaces of trauma - collective and individual- and the institution.The Vancouver Institute of Social Research takes place on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples; the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. 

On Oct 15, Alyssa Milano Tweeted this .Me too.Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually assaulted ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write “ me too” as a reply to this tweet.Since then, 68, 000 replies to Milano’s Tweet on Twitter. By last Monday Twitter confirmed MeToo has been tweeted more than a half a million times.More than 6 million Facebook User were talking about “Me too. Instagram has more than 300,000 posts associated with the hashtag.It has opened the door for deeper conversations, thoughtful responses, and debate. But we need more.Much more.But what?That’a what we need to find out.Today is the first of the three part series on this topic.I have gathered 3 females to start this conversation. Two, I deeply respect and I personally consider great friends.Jenn Courtney,Kali ReadwinThe other is a student from Vancouver Institute of the Media Arts.The voice you heard at the start is Alexis Hart. She shares her perspective,We cover a number of different topics in this dialogue. They include.Your reactions to it.What are you hearing from other women about this?Male Privilege.Enthusiastic Consent.Why men need feminism.What are the conversations going forward?When we gather men, what would you like to hear us talk about?This is a heavy and tough topic. As I mentioned to the panel, and will remind you, take time to pause and reflect.What's coming up in this series.1.5-Online Dating with Casey Logan2-A Male Panel3-A male and female panel.Follow Alexis on all Social Media@AlexisChantalJenn and Kali are continuing these conversations on their own Social Media Channels.Follow meFacebook:Kevin OlenickTwitter:@kevoleSoundcloud:@kevoleSpreaker:@kevoleInstagram:@kevoleYou Tube:Kevin Olenick

Corwin Hiebert is a management and marketing consultant to creative entrepreneurs (like world-renowned photographer and best-selling author David duChemin). He is the author of the  book Living the Dream: Putting Your Creativity to Work [and Getting Paid] and he's the business development instructor at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. His company is called Taendem Agency. He doesn't blog, he delivers. He has released the Business Action Planner, a 300+ page PDF, which walks photographers through the process of creating a successful photographic business.    Resources:   http://corwinhiebert.com   http://www.businessactionplanner.com   http://www.davedelnea.com   http://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe   info@thecandidframe.com    

Corwin Hiebert is a management and marketing consultant to creative entrepreneurs (like world-renowned photographer and best-selling author David duChemin). He is the author of the new book  and he's the business development instructor at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. His company is called Taendem Agency. He doesn't blog, he delivers. You can learn more about Corwin and his work by visiting  or  if you are interested having him serve as a consultant to your business.  Phone: Email: G+:  T: W:  Book:  www.nickhallphotography.com www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com