KEYNOTES
Henry Jenkins is the Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He will be the opening keynote speaker for the 33rd Colloquium of the MayDay Group. A central theme of Dr. Jenkins' scholarship concerns the ways that everyday people learn, work, create, and advocate in a context where more people have the capacity to create, curate and circulate media content. This concern has taken him from an early focus on media fans and audiences to then work on the ways participatory culture impacts education, business, and more recently, politics. Dr. Jenkins leads the Civic Paths research group (funded by the MacArthur Foundation) which experiments with new ways of enhancing civic engagement and fostering the civic imagination.
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Dr. Jenkin's keynote will include a panel discussion with the following four music education scholars who have drawn upon his concept of "participatory culture" in their research and the implications that "participatory culture" have for music making and learning.
Chris Cayari (he/they)
Associate Professor of Music Education Purdue University |
Roger Mantie
Associate Professor of Music Education University of Toronto-Scarborough |
Evan Tobias
Associate Professor of Music Education Arizona State University |
Janice Waldron
Professor of Music Education University of Windsor |
Patricia G. Lange is an award-winning anthropologist and new media scholar. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Critical Studies (undergraduate program) and Associate Professor of Visual & Critical Studies (graduate program) at California College of the Arts. Her work focuses on mediated communication, digital literacies, YouTube, technical identity performance, and use of digital video to express the self and accomplish civic engagement. Patricia’s current work focuses on issues of online safety, and how participants conceptualize usable and personal digital spaces. Her latest books include Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube (2019) and Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies (2014).
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Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Keeper and Elder Theresa Sims is upper Mohawk, Turtle Clan of the Six Nations Reserve. She is a Two-Spirit grandmother who is making it her mission to deliver her healing message across southern Ontario. Theresa has performed with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, 4th Wall Music, and Orchestra Breva. Theresa has also had a long and varied career working in health-care, first as a mental health outreach worker and later as executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society in Hamilton. In Windsor, she continued her work in the healing profession, working with suicidal individuals, in newborn clinics, and as a literacy coordinator. Theresa is currently the Culture and Language Specialist at the Ska:na Family Learning Centre. She is committed to using her gifts of storytelling, songs, and dance to bring together our entire community while honouring and sharing the cultural traditions of her people, and working closely with Indigenous communities across Windsor and Essex County, and beyond.
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Teajai Travis proudly identifies as an Afro-Indigenous descendant of the Underground Railroad travellers that made a home in North Buxton, Ontario, following the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He is currently serving as Executive Director for Artcite Inc. in Windsor, and as an Artist Educator and Workshop Facilitator with Arts Can Teach Windsor-Essex. Travis facilitates workshops on poetry, hand drumming, meditation, and personal development. He is also the founder and administrator for The Bloomfield House – a Sandwich Town community collective dedicated to grass roots community-run outreach with a mission to provide a safe and accessible space for human growth through community outreach. As a spoken word artist, Travis turned his family’s story into a piece of performance art titled Born Enslaved: A Freedom Story. He later used that work as an educational tool, and continues to go into schools to provide workshops for both students and teachers. Over the years, Travis has worked as a storyteller with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, 4th Wall Music, Destination Ontario, the University of Windsor, Urban Farmhouse Press, Greater Essex County District School Board, Charles Wright Museum in Detroit, Freedom Museum in Amherstburg, and with Windsor Endowment for the Arts Changing the Odds program.
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Anabel Quan-Hasse is a Professor of Sociology and Information and Media Studies and the Rogers Chair at Western University in Ontario. A sociologist who studies social networks and social change, she is also the director of the Sociodigital Lab at the University of Western Ontario, a research lab which explores a wide range of topics linked to how information and communication technologies lead to social change. Quan-Haase has published numerous articles and book chapters on the topics of social networking, information technology, instant messaging, older adults, and internet use. Additionally, she is the author of numerous books including Information Brokering in the High-Tech Industry: Online Social Networks at Work (2009), Technology and Society (2009): Inequality, Power, and Social Networks (2012), Real-Life Sociology (2018) (with Lorne Tepperman), and Technology and Society (2020). Her latest co-edited book is the Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2017); second edition to be published in 2022.
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