School of Education PhD students share their research internationally this summer
From 21–24th June, PhD students in The School of Education Lindsay Miller and Michael Miller travelled to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada to attend the 4th Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference (#cesa2018ubc) on unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish Territory to present work from each of their research projects. The theme of this year’s conference was “Critical Insurrections: Decolonizing Difficulties, Activist Imaginaries, and Collective Possibilities.” CESA is and was a very well attended and full conference with multiple parallel sessions that included films, workshops, roundtable discussions, and multiple keynotes. Lindsay’s presentation was entitled “Fractal Thinking: Madness, Blackness and Decolonial Demands” and Michael’s presentation was entitled “Pedagogical Processes of Individuation: Policies and Policings.” Together they also facilitated a workshop entitled “Praxivist Imaginaries: Abolition Pedagogies and Objections to the Curricular Object.” Lindsay’s and Michael’s sessions (both individual and together) were well-received, generating stimulating and thought-provoking discussion around the themes of the conference and their specific research topics that carried on at other points both within the conference setting and beyond. They will be travelling to Buffalo, New York and Toronto, Canada within the coming weeks to follow up with contacts made at the CESA Conference as well as to facilitate satellite events for iHuman. They would like to thank the School’s Learned Society for providing partial funding for this important opportunity. You can follow them on twitter: @praxivist @no_michael_ and can check out their academia profiles here: https://sheffield.academia.edu/LMiller and https://sheffield.academia.edu/MichaelJMiller.
