FORTHCOMING PRESENTATIONS and CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

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PAST PRESENTATIONS and CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Sensoy, Ö. (November, 2016). My media #selfie portraits: Between Frida Kahlo and @kimkardashian in the fifth grade classroom. Session: Back-talkers: Pop culture representations and resistance among racialized, gendered youth (with Elizabeth Marshall, Lisa Weems, Jennifer Esposito, Robin DiAngelo). American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Seattle, WA.

DiAngelo, R. & Sensoy, Ö. (November, 2016). The turn of the screw: How academic hiring committees tighten the gates against diversity. Session: “We encourage all applicants”: How academia works against racial and gender justice (with Suhanthie Motha, Manka Varghese, Annette Henry, Lisa Loutzenheiser, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs). American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (September, 2016). Invited presentation. Enacting social justice practice in Manitoba schools. Rolling River School Division, Minnedosa, MB.

Sensoy, Ö. (August, 2016). Invited presentation. Teaching about the Middle East: A professional development workshop for Ohio teachers. Middle East Studies Center, The Ohio State University, OH.

Sensoy, Ö. (July, 2016). Invited presentation. Understanding power, privilege and social justice in the university classroom. Adler University, Vancouver.

Cassidy, W., Sensoy, Ö., & Beck, K. (March, 2016). Paper: Educating for human rights: Limited knowledge, inadequate action. Citizenship Education SIG. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Vancouver, BC. 

Sensoy, Ö. (January 26, 2016). Invited presentation. Muslim Rrrhhhage!! Pop culture pedagogy and Islamophobia. Education, Equity, & Society Colloquia Series. College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (August, 2015). Keynote: I won’t ask you to drink from the firehose: Let’s talk about real and effective action for equity in education. The Manitoba Association of School Superintendents Summer Institute.

Sensoy, Ö. (May, 2015). Invited workshop. From Sesame Street to Katy Perry: Gender Performance in Youth Popular Culture. Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta Spring General Assembly: A Celebration of Public School Education: Diversity is a Lesson Plan for Life.

Sensoy, Ö. (November, 2014). Beyond fearing the savage: Responding to Islamophobia in the classroom. Session: Reconceptualizing Social Education: Engaging with Histories, Theories, Practices and Discursive Strategies in (and Out of) the Classroom. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Toronto, ON.

Lisi, P., Marshall, P., & Sensoy, Ö. (November, 2014). Writing for Publication: Multicultural Perspectives. National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Tucson, AZ.

Sensoy, Ö. (August, 2014). Workshop. Getting Going: Putting Social Justice Concepts Together into Practice. The Manitoba Teachers’ Society. ESJ Chairs. Winnipeg, MB.

Sensoy, Ö. (August, 2014). Workshop. Challenges in Advocacy to Action. The Manitoba Teachers’ Society. PD Chairs. Winnipeg, MB.

Sensoy, Ö. (March, 2014). Keynote. The Four Foundations: What Every Teacher Committed to Diversity and Justice Must Know and Do. The Alberta Teachers’ Association, Diversity, Equity, and Human Rights Conference. Edmonton, AB.

Sensoy, Ö. (March, 2014). Workshop. Teaching Against Islamophobia. The Alberta Teachers’ Association, Diversity, Equity, and Human Rights Conference. Edmonton, AB.

Sensoy, Ö. (March, 2014). Invited Lecture. "Where do we go from here?": The challenges of social justice education. Department of Educational Policy Studies. Faculty of Education, The University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB.

Hobbel, N., Sensoy, Ö., & Brock, R. (November, 2013). Intensive Session. Counterstorytelling Interventions: Addressing Adichie’s “The Danger of The Single Story.” National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Oakland, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (November, 2013). Using popular culture and media in social justice education: Practical strategies. National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Oakland, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. & Manavipour, S. (October 19, 2013). Teaching Against Islamophobia. Northwest Teachers for Social Justice, annual conference, Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (May, 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.

Sensoy, Ö. (May, 2013). Invited Plenary Presentation. Tween Agents: Youth, Pop Culture, and Social Justice. Critical Canadian Youth Studies Conference. The Werklund Foundation Centre for Youth Leadership Education, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, Alberta.

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

Sensoy, Ö. (April, 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, 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, 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, 2011). Critical media literacy for social justice education. Northwest Teachers for Social Justice, annual conference, Seattle, WA.

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

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

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

Sensoy, Ö. & O’Neill, D.K. (May, 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, 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, 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, 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. (February, 2009). Invited Presentation. Muslims in Popular Culture & in Schools. Visiting Scholars Series. Westfield State College. Springfield, MA.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (March, 2009). 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.] (November, 2008). Challenging “studied ignorance.” National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

Sensoy, Ö. [with: Parhar, N., Parmar, G., & Sanghera, R.] (November, 2008). 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.) (November, 2008). The Tyranny of the Opinion Card when Challenging Social Inequity in Education. National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

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

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

Sensoy, Ö. (June, 2007) 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