FORTHCOMING PRESENTATIONS (peer reviewed)

TBA

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES & PRESENTATIONS

Sensoy, Ö. (May 2, 2013). Beyond fearing the savage: Responding to Islamophobia in the classroom. Committee for Action on Social Justice (CASJ) , British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF), Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (May 30, 2013). Invited Presentation. Beyond fearing the savage: Responding to Islamophobia in the classroom. Democracy and Diversity in a Global Context: Tough Conversations on Social Justice. Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, Alberta.

PAST PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Sensoy, Ö. (Nov. 9, 2012). Panelist in session: Multicultural Teacher Education in Korea, Canada, and the United States. Center for Multicultural Education, Twentieth Year Celebration and Book Launch of the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (Nov. 1, 2012). In search of genie magic: Representational discourses of the Orientalist genie/harem seductress in popular culture. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2012, June 30). Is everyone really equal? Radio Interview with Sylvia Richardson for Latin Waves. CJSF Grassroots Radio. latinwavesmedia.com

Sensoy, Ö. (April 17, 2012). Panelist. Snapshots from ‘Post-racial’ and ‘Post-colonial’ Americas: A Transnational Conversation. Committee on Scholars of Color session [with Nikola Hobbel, Humboldt State Univ; Roland Sintos Coloma, OISE, UT; Marie Battiste, Univ of Saskatchewan; Edward Brockenbrough, Univ of Rochester; Dolores Delgado Bernal, Univ of Utah]. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (April 14, 2012). Picturing oppression: Vancouver seventh graders’ photo essays about living with racism, sexism, and classism. Session: Rethinking Youth Studies and Research: Indigenous, Immigrant and Islamic Youths’ Ambivalent Belonging in Multicultural Vancouver and The Making of Activist Research. [with Michael Marker, UBC; Dilek Kayaalp, UBC; Maryam Nabavi, UBC; Handel Wright, UBC; Chair: Handel Wright, UBC]. Spotlight on Canada Series. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, BC.

DiAngelo, R. & Sensoy, Ö. (December 6, 2011). Is everyone really equal? Radio Interview with Eddie Moore Jr. and Daryl Miller for Intersections Radio. blogtalkradio.com

Sensoy, Ö. & Semenec-Michalak, P. (October 1, 2011). Critical media literacy for social justice education. Northwest Teachers for Social Justice, annual conference, Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (September 22, 2011). Genies and victims: Essentializing Muslim girls and women through everyday texts. Violence in the Lives of Muslim Girls and Women: A CIHR Invitational Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. & Manavipour, S. (September 15, 2011). Pencils, books, and prayer: Experiences of Muslim youth in public schools. Invited talk for Westcoast Sheen. Rhizome Café, Vancouver.

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (April 8, 2011). The sway and magic of the Arabian Nights: Contemplations on a genealogy of shuttlecocks and genies. Session: Saints and Sluts: Racialized Pedagogies of the Good Girl/Bad Girl in Popular Youth Culture. [with Rochelle Brock, IU Northwest; Jeanine Staples, Penn State; Discussant: Annette Henry, UBC; Chair: Lisa Weems, Miami Univ.].  SIG: Media, Culture, & Curriculum. American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.

Sensoy, Ö. (March 3, 2011). Invited Presentation: International Women’s Day Events. Learning to think about masculinity and femininity in popular culture representation. Burnaby Mountain Secondary School. Burnaby BC.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R.J. (November 10, 2010). Invited Presentation. Down the rabbit hole: The first years after the Ph.D. Invited Presentation, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle.

Sensoy, Ö. (November 3, 2010). Workshop: The Selling of "Girlie Feminism": Gender and Media in the Classroom. With Liz Schulze, Education Manager, Pacific Cinémathèque. Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (October 22, 2010). Panelist: Critical thinking and civic engagement. BC Peace and Global Educators, Provincial Specialist Association (PAGE-PSA). Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (July 27, 2010). Genie magic: Representations of Islamic culture in school and societal curricula.  Expressions of diversity: A summer programme on Muslim cultures. Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University & The Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University.

Sensoy, Ö. (May 20, 2010). Picturing oppression: Seventh graders’ photo essays on living with racism, sexism, and classism. University of Washington, Bothell.

Sensoy, Ö. (May 25, 2010). Saving Muslim girls: The curricular construction of a deficit discourse. University of Washington, Tacoma.

Sensoy, Ö. & O’Neill, D.K. (May 3, 2010). Understanding Complex Social and Cultural Histories in a Changing World: A Multi-Method Study of Nationhood in a Diverse High School Social Studies Class. Division G/ Section 2. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (May 2, 2010). One World: Benevolent girlhood in the Cheetah Girls. Session: Saints and Sluts: Racialized pedagogies of the good girl/bad girl in global youth culture [with Lisa Weems, Miami Univ.; Jeanine Staples, Penn State; Discussant: Annette Henry, Univ of Wash.; Chair: Rochelle Brock, IU Northwest].  SIG: Media, Culture, & Curriculum. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.

Sensoy, Ö. (May 2, 2010). Session Chair. Session: Applying Freirian pedagogy in adult learning contexts. Paulo Freire SIG. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R.J. (November 20, 2009). Invited Presentation. Down the rabbit hole: The first years after the Ph.D. Invited Presentation, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle.

Sensoy, Ö., Stonebanks, C.D., Mir, S., & Ali-Khan, C. (October 29, 2009). Muslim voices in school: Narratives of identity and pluralism.  National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Denver, CO.

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (June, 2009). Missionary Girl Power: Saving the “Third World” one Girl at a Time. Ninth annual Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference (RACE), Concordia and McGill Universities, Montréal, PQ.

Sensoy, Ö. (April, 2009). Plenary paper presentation. Genie magic: Popular culture and knowledge construction about Muslims and the Middle East. International Conference on Critical Multicultural Education. Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), UBC.

DiAngelo, R.J. & Sensoy, Ö. (April, 2009). Paper presentation: “That’s just her opinion”: Challenging “opinion” discourse about social justice. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (April, 2009). Paper presentation: Disrupting youth: Film as cultural teaching machine. SIG: Media, Culture, & Curriculum. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2009, Feb 25). Invited Presentation. Muslims in Popular Culture & in Schools. Visiting Scholars Series. Westfield State College. Springfield, MA.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (2009, Mar.). Paper presentation: The same old hocus pocus: Pedagogies of gender and sexuality in Shrek 2. Gender & Education Association (GEA), Institute of Education, London, UK.

Sensoy, Ö. [with: Chinnery, A., & Walton, G.] (2008, Nov. 13). Challenging “studied ignorance.” National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

Sensoy, Ö. [with: Parhar, N., Parmar, G., & Sanghera, R.] (2008, Nov. 15). Beyond “heroes and holidays”: Using digitized ethnic group archives for developing critical learning modules. National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

Sensoy, Ö. (with DiAngelo, R.J.) (2008, Nov. 13). The Tyranny of the Opinion Card when Challenging Social Inequity in Education. National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, July 30). Invited Presentation. Imagining Islam: On TV and in Textbooks. Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures/ Aga Khan University: Joint Summer Institute. Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University.

Sensoy, Ö. & Sanghera, R. (2008, May). Seventh Graders Tell it Like it is: Photo Essays on Living with Racism, Classism, and Sexism.  Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Ethics, Evidence, and Social Justice, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, May). ”Hey, I won’t lighten up!”: Why Cartoons & mass media images are more than “just entertainment”. Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Ethics, Evidence, and Social Justice, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, January 18). Invited Presentation: Thinking of Islam and Muslim Students: Inclusion, Access, and Accommodation. BC Centre for International Education. Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Nov.) Invited Lecture: Unveil yourselves and dance, Muslim women!: How much am ‘eye’ willing to “reasonably accommodate”?: . The Paulo & Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Nov.) Session Chair. Session: Islamic Feminisms. Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montréal, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, June) Learning to think about cultures and societies. Social Science Education Consortium (SSEC). Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, May) Invited Presentation. Are music videos “just entertainment”? What can YOUth do? A symposium for Secondary Youth who want to make a Difference.  Simon Fraser University.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Feb.) Invited Presentation. Why Complexity Matters in Educating the Children of the World. BC School Trustees Association, Forum: Educating the children of the world in BC classrooms, Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Jan.) Why Fiona has no accent, and other mysteries: Using pop culture stereotypes to further a social justice approach in teacher education. Teacher Education & Social Justice. Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R.J. (2006, April). White female narratives of Muslim oppression. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2005, April). The relationship between textbook and newspaper representations of Arabs and Muslims. Division G/ Section 2. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montréal, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, April). Photo elicitation Methodology for Conducting Race Related Educational Research. Division G/ Section 2. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, April). A Photo-Elicitation Study on Preservice Teacher Knowledge about Islamic Cultures. Division G/ Section 2. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2003, Nov.). Arabs and Muslims in the United States: Lessons from Media and Textbooks. National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, Jan.). Invited Presentation. Islamic Civilizations in Social Studies Curricula: What Teachers Must Know. Washington State Social Studies Education conference. Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2003, June) Invited Presentation. Islamophobia: The Arab & Muslim “World.” National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI), Seattle, WA.

Photo of Steveston harbour, Vancouver BC by Özlem Sensoy