PODCAST

Welcome to History-in-the-Now Conversations!

In the History-in-the-Now Conversations! Podcast, which emerges from my book Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology, I talk to different people to explore what they believe history is, what it can do, and how they use it in their everyday lives. Because I firmly believe that people use history regularly without them even knowing, it would be very interesting to see what their views are.

What makes the History-in-the-Now Conversations! Podcast appealing is that my guests are people who do not work in any field directly related to history but — as we shall discover — hold valuable insights about its worth and relevance. The aim is to thus listen and learn from their everyday realities and experiences and how they believe history fits into the equation.

Through these exciting conversations, I hope that we come to better understand history’s practical life uses and through this perhaps find better ways of understanding our daily interactions in our families, with our friends and colleagues at work, and in broader society. What may result could point us into new directions for improving how we dialogue and share knowledge with each other, and through this perhaps learn to become fuller and more complete persons, happy and feeling fulfilled.

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SEASON 1

EPISODE 1:
Introduction to the History-in-the-Now Conversations! Podcast Series: Dr. Paul Zanazanian, Associate Professor, McGill University

Paul Zanazanian (Host). In this podcast series, Paul Zanazanian, author and Associate Professor at McGill University, explores what history is, what it can do, and how people use it in their everyday lives. What is unique about this series is that Zanazanian engages in conversations with scholars and other professionals [...]

EPISODE 2:
INVITED GUEST: Dr. Joseph Levitan, Associate Professor, McGill University

Dr. Joseph (Joe) Levitan, (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Since 2010, he has been working with communities in multiple contexts on community-based action research projects to address deep challenges to education, wellbeing, health, and prosperity. Joe currently engages in [...]

EPISODE 3:
INVITED GUEST: Dr. Signy Sheldon, Associate Professor, McGill University

Dr. Signy Sheldon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology and the director of the Sheldon Memory Lab at McGill University. Dr. Sheldon studies the mechanisms that allow us to recall the past in different ways and why we have such a flexible memory, using behavioural and brain [...]

EPISODE 4:
INVITED GUEST: Vivek Venkatesh, Dean of the Faculty of Education and James McGill Professor at McGill University

Vivek Venkatesh, PhD is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Since 2017, Vivek has held the UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism. Vivek is a filmmaker, musician, curator and applied learning scientist whose [...]

EPISODE 5:
INVITED GUEST: Dr. Michael Lipset, McGill University

Dr. Michael Lipset is a scholar, author, educator, artist, creative producer and Hip-Hop head. His work sits at the intersections of critical arts pedagogies, education change, pushout re-engagement, teacher preparation, and social justice. He holds a Ph.D. in Education Studies from McGill University with an Ed.M. in the Arts in [...]

EPISODE 6:
INVITED GUEST: Dr. Tina C. Montreuil, Associate Professor, McGill University

Dr. Tina C. Montreuil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and an Associate Member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at McGill University. She is a Scientist at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre and a PI with the Montreal Antenatal [...]

EPISODE 7:
INVITED GUEST: Blane Harvey, Associate Professor, McGill University

Dr. Blane Harvey is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University (Canada), where he leads the Leadership and Learning for Sustainability Lab. He is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans across the social and natural sciences on the themes of learning, [...]

EPISODE 8:
INVITED GUEST: Steven Jordan, Associate Professor, McGill University

Steven Jordan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and an Associate member of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has published in several fields, including critiques of qualitative research, Indigenous program evaluation, workplace learning/education, participatory action research and whole person care. He [...]

EPISODE 9:
INVITED GUEST: Jayne Malenfant, Assistant Professor, McGill University

Jayne Malenfant is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, in Tio’tiá:ke/Montreal.They work with institutional ethnography and anarchist education to explore the experiences of youth and adults navigating homelessness, the engagement of people with lived and living experience of housing precarity in advocacy and research, and the experiences of Two-Spirit, trans, and non-binary [...]

EPISODE 10:
INVITED GUEST: Emmanuel Tabi, Assistant Professor, McGill University

Dr. Emmanuel Tabi completed his doctoral degree in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/University of Toronto. He has also successful completed a post-doctoral appointment through the Black Child and Youth Studies Network at the University of Windsor. Further, Dr. Tabi holds an M.Ed degree in Human Development and Applied Psychology [...]

EPISODE 11:
INVITED GUEST: Dwayne Donald, Professor, University of Alberta

Dwayne Donald is a descendent of amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills Cree), Metis, and Norwegian ancestry. He works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. He is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Teacher Education with Indigenous Wisdom Traditions. REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES: [...]

EPISODE 12:
INVITED GUEST: Michelle Kennedy, Assistant Professor, McGill University

Michelle Kennedy is a member of Oneida of the Thames First Nation, raised in London, Ontario, Bear Clan. Michelle is a registered teacher with the Ontario College of Teachers, specializing in Junior-Intermediate Native Studies. In her MA degree, her research focused on Indigenous community leadership in the area of violence [...]

SPECIAL SUMMER EDITION:
Paul Zanazanian, Associate Professor, McGill University

Paul Zanazanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His research examines historical consciousness’s workings in social actors’ everyday means of knowing and doing when constructing social reality for purposes of living life. Theoretically and methodologically, he explores historical consciousness’s role in the [...]

SEASON 2

EPISODE 1:
INVITED GUEST: Dr. David I. Waddington, Professor, Concordia University

David I. Waddington is a Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University who specializes in the philosophy of education. His research interests include teacher free speech, video games and citizenship, philosophical questions in science and technology education, and the history and philosophy of progressive education (esp. John Dewey). [...]

EPISODE 2:
INVITED GUEST: DR. CONSTANTINE SOULELLIS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, McGILL UNIVERSITY

Dr. Constantine (Dean) Soulellis is a physician currently residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with his two sons. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physiology from McGill University in 1998 and went on to complete a medical degree there (2002), as well as a residency in Internal Medicine (2005) followed by a [...]

EPISODE 3:
INVITED GUEST: TRISTAN VERBOVEN, TEACHER, BOIS DE BOULOGNE COLLEGE

Tristan Verboven (BFA, M.Ed, MA.) is currently employed at Bois de Boulogne College in Montreal as an English Teacher. Tristan has a diverse professional background. After studying Fine Arts (Film Animation) at Concordia, he travelled through Europe and the Middle East, working in film and radio, and teaching English, as [...]

EPISODE 4:
INVITED GUEST: LAUREN BIALYSTOK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Lauren Bialystok is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Ethics and affiliated with the Centre for Jewish Studies. Her research spans topics in ethics, education, and [...]

EPISODE 5:
INVITED GUEST: DANIEL GOLDSMITH, TEACHER, DAWSON COLLEGE

Daniel Goldsmith has been teaching in the humanities department at Dawson College since 2009, where his courses deal with questions of self-identity, compassionate action, and enlightened consciousness. His courses draw on his formal education (BA and MA from McGill University), as well as the nearly 2 years he spent in India learning about [...]

EPISODE 6:
INVITED GUEST: CLAUDIA MITCHELL, FULL PROFESSOR, McGILL UNIVERSITY

Claudia Michell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University in Montreal, where she is the Founder and Director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is also an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Claudia’s empirical work focuses on participatory [...]

PODCAST

Welcome to History-in-the-Now Conversations!

ALSO AVAILABLE ON

SEASON 1

EPISODE 1: Introduction to the History-in-the-Now Conversations! Podcast Series: Dr. Paul Zanazanian, Associate Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 2: INVITED GUEST: Dr. Joseph Levitan, Associate Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 3: INVITED GUEST: Dr. Signy Sheldon, Associate Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 4: INVITED GUEST: Vivek Venkatesh, Dean of the Faculty of Education and James McGill Professor at McGill University

EPISODE 5: INVITED GUEST: Dr. Michael Lipset, McGill University

EPISODE 6: INVITED GUEST: Dr. Tina C. Montreuil, Associate Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 7: INVITED GUEST: Blane Harvey, Associate Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 8: INVITED GUEST: Steven Jordan, Associate Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 9: INVITED GUEST: Jayne Malenfant, Assistant Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 10: INVITED GUEST: Emmanuel Tabi, Assistant Professor, McGill University

EPISODE 11: INVITED GUEST: Dwayne Donald, Professor, University of Alberta

EPISODE 12:INVITED GUEST: Michelle Kennedy, Assistant Professor, McGill University

SPECIAL SUMMER EDITION: Paul Zanazanian, Associate Professor, McGill University