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
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