The Fireplace Series

The Fireplace Series: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Set around a fireplace in Queen鈥檚 Stauffer Library, this series aims to spark interdisciplinary thought and ideas about all sorts of places that matter. Two speakers from different disciplinary backgrounds meet for an impromptu conversation, seeking both common and uncommon ground. After the conversation, the audience is invited to join in with questions. Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Science and 成人大片 Library, these gatherings are also recorded and shared as podcasts in partnership with CFRC radio. You can listen .

Fireplace Series
Stauffer Library

Past Events & Podcasts

Timely Teaching for a Globalizing Present and Decolonial Futures

March 19, 2021
Beverley Mullings, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, 成人大片
Thashika Pillay, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, 成人大片

Reading List

  • Pillay, T., & Asadi, N. (2018). Creating educative spaces for Somali-Canadian youth through informal education. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 12(4), 201-213.  [.]
  • Pillay, T., & Asadi, N. (2020). "Disrupting the Capitalist Narrative of De/Credentialization". In A. A. Abdi (Ed.). Critical theorizations of education. Brill | Sense.  [.]
  • Shultz, L., Pillay, T., & Karsgaard, C. (2020). A global youth deliberation and their international youth position paper on global citizenship. In J. P. Myers  (Ed.),  Research on teaching global issues : Pedagogy for global citizenship education. Information Age Publishing, 2020.  [.]
  • Teasley, C., & Butler, A. (2020). Intersecting critical pedagogies to counter coloniality. In S. R. Steinberg, & B. Down The SAGE handbook of critical pedagogies (Vol. 3, pp. 186-204). SAGE. [.]
  • Mullings, B. (2021). Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come. Geoforum, 118, 150鈥158.  [.]
  • Mullings, B., & Mukherjee, S. (2018). "Reflections on mentoring as decolonial, transnational, feminist praxis." Gender, Place & Culture 25(10): 1405-1422.  [.] 
  • Peake, L. & Mullings, B. (2016). "Critical Reflections on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Academy." ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 15(2), 253-284. [.] 
  • Pellerin, H., & Mullings, B. (2013). The 鈥淒iaspora option鈥, migration and the changing political economy of development. Review of International Political Economy鈥: RIPE, 20(1), 89鈥120.  [.] 
  • Trotz, D., & Mullings, B. (2013). "Transnational Migration, the State, and Development: Reflecting on the 鈥淒iaspora鈥 Option." Small Axe 17(2): 154-171.  [.]
  • Background reading: Entries on 鈥淣eoliberalism鈥, 鈥淩emittances鈥 and 鈥淐olonialism鈥 in Kobayashi, A. (2020). International encyclopedia of human geography. Volume 1  (Second edition.). Elsevier. [.]   

Time, Change and University Life

November 20, 2020
Elizabeth Hanson, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, 成人大片
Elspeth Murray, Associate Dean, Smith School of Business, 成人大片

Reading List

  • Gibbs, Paul, editor. Universities in Flux: an Exploration of Time and Temporality in University Life. Routledge, 2015.
  • Morrish, Liz, and Helen Sauntson. Academic Irregularities : Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education. Routledge, 2020.
  • Shahjahan, Riyad A. 鈥淩e/conceptualizing time in higher education.鈥 Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 26 Nov 2018.
  • Dollinger, Mollie. 鈥淭he Projectification of the University: Consequences and Alternatives.鈥 Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 669-682. 
  • Vostal, Filip. 鈥淎cademic life in the fast lane: The experience of time and speed in British academia.鈥 Time & Society, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 71-95. 

How Matter Matters

March 13, 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Bronwyn Parry, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London
Nick Mosey, Department of Chemistry, Associate Dean - Research (Faculty of Arts and Science), 成人大片

Looking Online

February 14, 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Laila Haidarali, Departments of Gender Studies and History, 成人大片
Martin Hand, Department of Sociology, 成人大片

Settler Accountability and Responsibility

November 1, 2019 10:00am-11:30am
Selena Couture, Assistant Professor, Drama, University of Alberta
Dorit Naaaman, Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Film and Media, 成人大片

Animals, Ethics and Everyday Politics

October 11, 2019 10:00am-11:30am
Will Kymlicka, Professor, Department of Political Studies, 成人大片
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy
Samantha King, Head, Department of Gender Studies and Professor School of Kiniesiology and Health Studies, 成人大片

Ecological Grief

March 28, 2019 9:30am-11:00am
JULIE SALVERSON, Associate Professor, 成人大片, Department of Drama
[Stories, Drama, Resiliency, Foolish Witness]
ROBERT WAY, Assistant Professor, 成人大片, Department of Geography and Planning
[Climate Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Northern Environments]

Kindness and Interconnectivity

February 14, 10:00am-11:30am
PAUL GROGAN, Professor, 成人大片, Department of Biology 
[Ecology, Terrestrial Ecosystems,Sustainability]
JACQUELINE M. DAVIES, Associate Professor, 成人大片, Department of Philosophy
[Philosophies of gender, sex and love, Social Justice, Levinas, Jewish textual reasoning]

Sounding Routes and Places 

November 16, 2018 10:00am-12:00pm
LAURA MURRAY, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program 
[History of colonialism, oral history, critical heritage, pedagogy]
ANDRA MCCARTNEY, Professor Emerita, Concordia University, Centre for Sensory Studies
[Acoustics, soundwalks, culture, communication]

Spaces and Places of Interdisciplinarity

November 2, 2018, 10:00am-12:00pm
BARBARA CROW, Professor in Sociology and Dean of Arts and Science
Feminism, Aging, Technology
DYLAN ROBINSON, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts 
Indigenous Public Art, Indigenous Perspectives on Listening and Sensory Perception, Sound Studies

A ROOM OF ONE鈥橲 OWN: Liberation and Confinement in the Single Room

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
A conversation between:
Dr. Lisa Guenther and Dr. Leslie Topp

Psychoanalysis in the Classroom: History, Pedagogy, and Research

Friday, February 2, 2018
A conversation between:
Visiting Professor Deborah Britzman and Queen鈥檚 Professor Laura Cameron