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April 5th, 2014The moment was both painful and telling. As the MC introduced me to the 250 teenagers assembled to engage in a discussion about the importance of media literacy in an image-dominated age, I watched every kid’s eyes glaze-over. It wasn’t the reference to my two award-winning books for youth, or my ten years as president […]
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April 20th, 2013… that’s the title of the talk I delivered three times this past week — and I didn’t even need to explain the context for the title to get a laugh. A wide variety of women working in high tech (Girl Geek Dinners Ottawa), education (symposium hosted by the Canadian Teachers Federation), and the non-profit […]
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July 15th, 2012When Jill Scott, a professor in Queen’s German department, participated in an Informed Opinions workshop last year, I had no idea she was the self-proclaimed “death and grief girl”… Until a few months later, she wrote a thoughtful op ed for the Toronto Star, providing insight and analysis relating to the outpouring of emotion that […]
read more...Ideas about knowledge mobilization from Queen’s University’s “death and grief girl”Our Advocacy Work
June 16th, 2011Do scholars have a responsibility to contribute to public debate in the media? That was the question framing a lively discussion this afternoon at the OCUFA-organized World Views conference on Media and Higher Education in Toronto. Bill Ayers, retired University of Illinois professor who was once again denied entry into Canada (likely due to his […]
read more...Academics: what responsibility for public discourse?