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  Teaching about Extremism, Terror, and Trauma
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2nd International Symposium on Teaching about Extremism, Terror, and Trauma
What is radicalization? What can educators do about it?
April 14-16 Department of Education
Concordia University, Montreal

Program
 

 Thursday April 14 – Room FB-620

9:30 – 10:00
Symposium Inauguration
Welcome by Dr. M. Ayaz Naseem, Convener, TETT Symposia
Dr. Andre Roy, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University
Dr. Richard Schmid, Chair, Department of Education, Concordia University
Message from Dean, College of Arts, Nova Southeastern University

Session 1
What is radicalization?                                                                                 
Chair: Renee Jackson


10:00 – 10:45
Mario Novelli              
University of Sussex, UK
Education and countering violent extremism: Western logics from South to North

Adeela Arshad- Ayaz
Concordia University
(Re) defining and (Re) understanding extremism and radicalization

Shirley Steinberg
University of Calgary
The terror and trauma of media: Critical reads of radicalization and youth

10:45 – 11:15
Small Group Discussion

11:15 – 11:30
Break

Session 2
Session 2: What radicalizes?                                                  
Chair: Nadia Naffi

11:30 – 12:15
 
Naved Bakali                    
McGill University
ISIS and the evolution of Muslim youth radicalization: Approaches, techniques, and interventions

Marie Lamensch
Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, Concordia University
Understanding and countering female extremism: Radicalization and the female factor among jihadist groups

Nassim Noorozi
McGill University
Radical philosophies: Extremism as “totalities-in-practice”

12:15 – 12:45
Critical Engagement

12:45 – 2:00
Lunch

Session 3
Islamophobia: Cause or Effect of Radicalization?                               
Chair:
Jihan Rabah
2:00 – 2:45

Anila Asghar                     
McGill University
Islamophobia: Discourses of resistance and resilience in Canada

Sameena Eidoo
University of Toronto
"Cool clock, Ahmed."-Counter-storying the young Muslim inventor

Carolina Cambre
Concordia University
Aylan Kurdi's death image: Processes of prefiguration, pedagogy, & praxis

2:45 – 3:15
Small Group Discussion

3:15 – 3:30
Break

Session 4
Social media, “Radicalization” and “Deredicalization”          
Chair: Alicia Piechowiak

3:30 – 4:30

Jihan Rabah            
Concordia University
Terrorism and propaganda:  A critical discourse analysis of ISIS video recordings

Khaled Nour               
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, and Queens University
Do anti radicalization programs prevent youth from becoming homegrown terrorists?

Nadia Naffi                
Concordia University
The settlement of Syrian refugees in Canada: Debates in online transnational environments after the Paris attacks

Ghayda Hassan
Université du Québec à Montréal
Building strong alternative narratives to violent extremism: supporting youth voices through citizenship engagement and mobile/digital technologies

4:30 – 5:00
Critical Engagement

Friday April 15 – Room 11.655-EV Building, 11th Floor

Session 1
Students-led workshop on Water, Environment and Radicalization

9:00 – 12:00
 
Adan Suazo, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability (LCDS), + National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand
Cristina Bell, CEO of the Sustainability Action Fund (SAF), Concordia University + Liberal Arts College, Concordia

12:00 – 1:30
Lunch hosted by LCDS and SAF Concordia University: EV- Building 11th Floor Atrium

Session 2 (Room 11.655-EV Building, 11th Floor)
Educational Responses to Counter Radicalization in Canada
Chair: Ashley de Martini


1:30 – 2:15
Meriem Rebbani-Gosselin                   
Centre de Prevention de la Radicalisation menant a la violence, Montreal
Practices of counter-radicalization: The Quebec model            
                    
Hicham Tiflati          
Musulmans Canadiens enLigne, and Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Tackling radicalization through Islamic education: The case of Quebec        

Mahad Yusuf               
Midaynta Community Services, Toronto
Youth radicalization: policy and education response’          

2:15 – 2:45
Small Group Discussion

2:45 – 3:00
Break

Session 3 (Room 11.655-EV Building, 11th Floor)
Educational Responses to Counter Radicalization  Chair: Svjetlana Markovic

3:00 – 3:45
Cheryl Duckworth              
Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
Teaching 9/11 in the classroom
         
Evan Hoffman            
Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiations, Ottawa
Educating a new generation of peace leaders as a way to prevent homegrown terrorism

Aleks Nesic                  
 Florida State University
The role and responsibility of global citizenship education in preventing violence, extremism and radicalization of young people

3:45-4;00
Break

4:00 – 4:30
Small Group Discussion

Saturday April 16 – Room FB 620

Session 1
Countering Extremism through Citizenship and Youth Engagement 
Chair: Naved Bakali


9:00 – 10:00
 
Paul R. Carr and Gina Thesee                           
Universite du Quebec en Outaouais & Université du Québec à Montréal
Radicalizing engagement, and engaging radicalization: Could the intersection be a critically-engaged education for democracy?

Lynette Shultz              
University of Alberta
An educator’s response to radicalization concerns: citizenship education and a ‘right to the city’

Terry Godwaldt                
Global Citizenship Education, Alberta
Combating extremism and radicalization through engaging youth in the democratic process 

Arshed Bhatti
Development Consultant
The cartography of radicalization and responses to it: What can the world learn from Pakistan?

10:00 – 10:30
Critical Engagement

10:30 – 10:45
Break

Session 2
Radicalization and the National Security State                                 
Chair: Mariam Sambe


10:45 – 11:45
 
Laila Kadiwal
University of Sussex
 Perceptions of youth radicalization in Karachi, Pakistan: Situating 'terrorism' in socio-political-economy context

Bruce Collet
Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
 Religion and the securitizing state: The 2014 Birmingham school “Trojan Horse” affair

Ashley de Martini
McGill University
The Canadian state's invention of the "anti-petrol radical": when radicalization functions as an apparatus of state control

Hassan Bashir
Texas A&M, Doha, Qatar
Illiberal education: Exploring pedagogical possibilities to combat extremism from within the Muslim fundamentalist thought

11:44 – 12:15
Small Group Discussion

12:15 – 12:30
Feedback on Symposium

12:30 – 12:40
Final Words






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