Student & Faculty Research at King's
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“A Phenomenology of Image-Bearing: Spirituality,
Humanity, and the ‘Supra-’ Relation,” in Image, Phenomenon and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious
Experience eds. Martin Nitsche
and Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (Verlag T. Bautz GmbH, forthcomi
This article develops a notion of humanity as an inherently image-bearing thing. In doing so, it touches on phenomenological understandings of the 'heart' and of spirituality, and introduces the notion of the 'supra-' relation as a way of making sense of transcendentality (in phenomenology) and of God's relation to creation (in Christian thought).
Book Chapter
Submitted
Discovery
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Spirituality in the ‘Living Philosophical
Tradition’ of Reformational Philosophy,” in Essays
in Honor of Doug Blomberg ed. Agnes Struik and Nik Ansell (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock,
forthcoming
This article develops the notion of spirituality in the "reformational" philosophical tradition of Dooyeweerd. In doing so, it seeks to suggest that such a notion not only helps us make better sense of Dooyeweerd's otherwise enigmatic (though essential) notions of the heart and of supra-temporality, but also helps us see the ongoing importance of reformational philosophy for contemporary philosophy and cultural.
Book Chapter
Accepted
Discovery Engagement
Arts
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“Merleau-Ponty
and Ab/Normal Phenomenology: The Husserlian Roots of Merleau-Ponty’s Account of
Expression,” in Normality,
Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, ed. Talia Walsh and Susan Bredlau. Ithaca: State University of New York Press, 2021
This work traces Merleau-Ponty's use of the concept of expression back to its development in the work of Husserl. In doing so, it finds a continuity in Merleau-Ponty's thought that helps us re-think the contours of phenomenology as a discipline.
Book Chapter
In-press
Discovery
Education
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Kirk, Andrew. (April 2023). Calling all boundary pioneers: Making sense of science and religion. Christian Educators Journal, 62(4): 37-41.
The book review summarizes the twin aims of the NSTA book, Making Sense of Science and Religion, to equip and encourage science teachers to engage students in science and religion. The book is organized in three parts - foundations, educational strategies, and external engagement. The book review celebrates the educational emphasis of the book, which is itself both novel and greatly needed. (Most discussions focus primarily, if not exclusively, on philosophical, historical, theological, etc. concerns, and assume educational foundations and methods.) Deficiencies, however, limit the scope of the book to evolution and Christianity (and not science and religion, most broadly), and fail to directly engage with educational theory and offer more than standard strategies. Readers are encouraged to consider the book as a starting point, especially for their own teaching of science and religion within the science classroom. The term, boundary pioneers (from Elaine Ecklund's work) is introduced in the book; and the book review invites readers to take up their calling to be boundary pioneers in their schools and communities.
Article - Non-refereed Journal
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Engagement Integration
Social Science
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Beling, Adrian & Alejandro Pelfini (in review).
“Backcasting as a tool to fostering a kaleidoscopic dialectic and a radical
sociological imagination”. In Souza, Jesse and Ilka Sommer (Eds.), forthcoming
in Beltz Juventa
This chapter constitutes an attempt to try and derive implications from Boike Rehbein's social-philosophical contributions, in particular, his "kaleidoscopic dialectics", for the applied field of critical sustainability governance. It raises the questionof how diversification-oriented (“kaleidoscopic”) deliberative approaches – in particular,backcasting as a method for the exploration of global futures that breaks open the epistemic,cultural, and ideological canon of expertcratic governance – can contribute to advancing collectivelearning towards effectively addressing the gravest predicament of the contemporary world,namely: its structural tendency to undermine the conditions for life on earth, and, with it, anyrealistic prospect of a dignified life for the many.
Book Chapter
Under Revision
Discovery
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Beling, A. E. (2023). REPAM: Source of life at the heart of the Amazon (and of the church)? Working Paper 1, CRC T2S Lab Working Paper Series, The King's University.
This report summarizes the findings of an exploratory inquiry on the Pan Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM, for its Spanish and Portuguese acronym), an ecclesial service, platform and network affiliated to the Roman Catholic church, which was formally founded in 2014 to promote cooperation among Church organizations, civil society actors, and communities in protecting the cultural and biological diversity and protect the vulnerable populations of the Pan-Amazon from the relentless expansion of the extractive frontier in this vast territory which comprises 34 million inhabitants, distributed across 9 countries, with a total surface of nearly 8 million square kilometres.
Other scholarly work
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Discovery
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Beling, A. E. (2023-04-27). Hoffnung und Wissen rimieren: Die Rolle von Wissenschaft und Kirche als change agents hin zu einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation ("On ryming hope and knowledge: The Role of Science and the Church as Change Agents Towa
In his keynote address to the conference “The Future of our Planet: Global Perspectives on the Care for our Common Home”, organized by the German Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD for its German acronym) and held in Bonn from 27-30 April 2023, Dr. Beling first introduced the highlights of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si’ to the audience, the "Carta Magna of Integral Ecology," as theologian Leonardo Boff has dubbed it, and its sociopolitical significance. Next, Beling referred to the mixed reactions to Laudato Si in both the political and the public sphere, noting the tendency to sideline the encyclical’s “inconvenient truths” to adapt it to mainstream conventions in sustainability governance. Dr. Beling then goes on to elaborate on the role that sustainability science and the church can and should play in countering this discursive narrowing that is underpinning the current state of “sustained unsustainability”, thus contributing to open the canon of governance options towards a social-ecological sustainability transformation. In so doing, Beling synthesized what he sees as reciprocal challenges from church to science and vice versa, ending with an outlook on the future role of church and science as sustainability governance actors.
Conference/Scholarly meeting presentation
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Application Engagement Integration
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Khramova T. (2023, May 5). Challenges of the Game Assignment for the First-Year Students.
ACURIT 2023 - The Augustana Conference on Undergraduate Research and Innovative
Teaching. Camrose, AB, Canada
The presenter
will lead an intense conversation on how to shape, manage, and assess the game
assignment for sophomores. Experience of running the Practice Marketing Game in
the form of an individual and a team assignment will be presented together with
the pros and cons of both approaches. The open discussion will contribute to
finding the best solution for engaging the first-year students in a fun but
challenging learning activity as well as for understanding their roles as
learners at the early stages.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Pedagogy
Business
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Khramova
T. (2023, May 5). Pivoting from Hybrid to Blended: Reflection on
Teaching a Senior Business Course During and After Pandemic. ACURIT 2023 - The Augustana Conference on
Undergraduate Research and Innovative Teaching. Camrose, AB, Canada
This presentation will outline the experience of teaching Statistics for Business
Advanced course on the year the COVID19 pandemic hit, during and after the
pandemic. The specifics related to delivering a course to senior students will
be discussed. It was found by the author that in the winter of 2020, when all face-to-face
courses were moved online in the middle of semester and course delivery has to
be adjusted, course grades’ distribution became binomial compared to usual
normal distribution. This finding led to many changes made in the course
supporting materials to accommodate those students who haven’t adjusted well to
online learning. During the pandemic the same course was delivered as a hybrid
when students had a choice to be in the classroom or online and the flexibility
to switch between these two. The encounters and rewards of this delivery type will
be presented together with the changes in course grades’ distribution. On the
top of that definitions and differences between “hybrid” and “blended” learning
will be discussed as well as the reasons of why the blended one has been chosen
for after pandemic time. The speaker will help the cross-disciplinary audience
in addressing issues related to engaging the senior students in the learning
process and the more general issues such as accommodation and accessibility in
post-secondary education
Refereed Conference presentation
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Pedagogy
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Bruyn, James, "What we learn about change from the Unchanging One", Biblical Leadership, April 13, 2023. https://www.biblicalleadership.com/blogs/what-we-learn-about-change-from-the-unchanging-one/
Who was the first change agent? What was the first change?
Article - Non-refereed Journal
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Application
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Bruyn James, "Are you waiting to feel qualified to lead?", Biblical Leadership, April 27, 2023. https://www.biblicalleadership.com/blogs/are-you-waiting-to-feel-qualified-to-lead/
Have you every asked yourself, "Who am I Lord, that you are asking me to lead this?" If you have, you are in the company of many godly leaders throughout history.
Article - Non-refereed Journal
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Bruyn, James, "6 Questions to ask as you lead change", Biblical Leadership, May 10, 2023. https://www.biblicalleadership.com/blogs/6-questions-to-ask-as-you-lead-change-2/
As you lead a change initiative, here are six things to
ponder.
Article - Non-refereed Journal
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Application
Business
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Bruyn, James, 2023. Corporate Support for Workplace 'Spirituality' is an Opportunity We Should Take, But Take Wisely. Faith and Flourishing, Karam Fellowship (2023)
The corporate movement to welcome spirituality in the workplace offers a wonderful opportunity for local churches to more fully commission their people to full-time mission. At the same time, we must be aware of how corporate conceptions of "spirituality" may deform our faith if we are not careful.
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Beling, A. E. (2023). Circular politics: Politicizing the cultural performativity of politics. [Public lecture] University of Freiburg (Germany), hosted by the Global Studies Programme. 17. April 2023
Any chance at an effective governance for
socio-ecological sustainability would need to address the structurally
unsustainable way of life that both prevails and drives aspirational
trajectories in the modern world. Yet such possibility is precluded by the
“linear” understanding of politics underpinning political liberalism, which
conflates socio-cultural parameters such as moral and aesthetic values,
perceptions, sensitivities, and aspirations with individual autonomous choice.
Consequently, politics is understood as a system of representation of
pre-existing realities, with the "culturally acceptable" and the
"politically possible" demarcating the field of the political. Yet an
a priori definition of the possible leads to self-fulfilling prophecies:
politics can then only attend to what exists, but never shape the possible.
What is self-evident to any marketing agent – namely, that supply shapes demand
as much as demand shapes supply – seems inadmissible in the world of politics:
the actual (re)shaping of culture that happens through political (and otherwise
myriad) interventions remains veiled to the public eye, while any attempt at
deliberately steering the agent-structure dialectics at play at the interface
of politics and culture runs the risk of being framed as an illegitimate
interference in the social fabric and an attack on the free will of
individuals. Emerging challenges to the prevailing cultural bedrock
underpinning our unsustainable way of life come in the form of claims to a right to sufficiency, a right to repair, to food sovereignty, etc., or, more far-reaching even, in the form of
intercultural irritations of the reified anthropological assumptions underlying
the Western liberal worldview, as this paper explores with the case of the
Latin-American Buen vivir experiment.
Yet so far, these alternative political forms lack a broader framework bridging
political philosophy, theory of action, and social change theory. The
model of “circular politics” proposed in
this paper both appears as a more accurate depiction of real-world political
processes, and, at the same time, allows
to visualize and theorize conditions for the emergence or strengthening of alternatives
to the prevailing “sustained unsustainability”.
Other scholarly work
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Beling, A.E., P. Belbey, D. Cebryk, J. Gesshe, J. Lea, S. Johannesen, K. Thiessen (2023). "A big idea from a small country: the Yasuni-ITT initiative (or how global are global public goods?)" [Breakout presentation]. In "Moral Contests"
Ecuador is a poor, oil-producing country, and cannot afford to simply leave the oil in the ground. In 2014, President Rafael Correa proposed to the UN General Assembly, under the YASUNI-ITT initiative, that Ecuador would not extract oil if the international community paid half the value of the lost revenue into a UN trust fund. Preserving rainforests and forgoing the use of oil are important fronts in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss. The current emissions trading system rewards countries for reforesting a degraded forest—why not also reward a country for leaving its forest alone in the first place?
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Beling, A. E. (2023). Ecologia Integral: Por que es importante para nosotros, los cristianos? ["Integral ecology, why is it an important issue for us Christians?"] [Public lecture]. Webinar "Integral Ecology and the Paths to Climate Justice
I would like to address not so much a conceptual definition, but the practical implications of this fundamental contribution of Pope Francis to the global debate and action for a global transition to socio-ecological sustainability. To my understanding, this is the most relevant register for a lay network of Catholic intellectuals and professionals, rather than that of abstract theological and philosophical disquisitions (which I would not venture into, in any case, as they would be far from my area of expertise). And I would like to approach this discussion by contrasting the concept of integral ecology with the concept that has dominated our cultural imagination and our political thinking on socio-environmental issues for the last four decades: sustainable development.
Other scholarly work
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Kirk, Andrew. (July 2023). Embodying climate change education: Stories from the secondary science classroom. American Scientific Affiliation conference. Toronto, Ontario. [Oral presentation]
This presentation would have developed the resources of science, technology, technology and environment (STSE) for the teaching of climate change education in the science classroom. After summarizing the reality of climate change and the challenges faced by teachers (e.g., lack of resources, training, etc.), a brief history of STSE within science education would be presented and then applied to the present context of climate change education. Examples from the classroom (e.g., role play of socio-scientific issues, history of science and narratives, and futures thinking) would be provided to reflect possible pedagogical strategies.
Conference/Scholarly meeting presentation
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Integration Pedagogy
Social Science
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Beling, A.E. (2023). The Catholic Church in Times of Ecological Crisis: An “Unusual Suspect” in Advancing the Transition to Sustainability? Religion & Development. Special issue on Catholic-Muslim Dialogue (Severine Deneulin and Masooda Bano, gue
Religious traditions and institutions have historically played a significant role in shaping cultural scaffoldings and social practices. Can they also help re-shape the unsustainable world humans have made for themselves, which is now undermining not only the actual and prospective minimum standards of dignified life for the many, but also the basic fabric of Earth’s life support? From an approach critical of mainstream sustainability and looking to the example of the Catholic Church and Pope Francis’ vision of an “integral ecology”, this article argues that, in spite of being a latecomer to the global sustainability debate, the Church is structurally uniquely positioned to play the role of a global sustainability governance agent in the necessary transition to future-able way(s) of societal organization. It can, however, do so only if it proves capable of avoiding the risks of corporatist takeover, instrumentalisation for economic and political purposes, and assimilation of the integral ecology narrative used by the overall ineffective approaches of mainstream sustainable development.
Article - Refereed Journal
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Discovery Integration
Natural Science
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Britton AP, Visser KA, Zhang P, Wassink H, Doerksen TA, Ongenae V, Manocha C, Lynch KH, van Belkum MJ, Dennis JJ, Yang X, Claessen D, Briegel A, Martin-Visscher LA. Taxonomic Proposal to ICTV: Create a new genus (Carnodivirus) containing two new species (
Taxonomic Proposal to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses:Create a new genus (Carnodivirus) containing two new species (Caudoviricetes)
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Britton AP, Visser KA, Ongenae VMA, Zhang P, Wassink H, Doerksen TA, Welke CA, Lynch KH, van Belkum MJ, Dennis JJ, Yang X, Claessen D, Briegel A, Martin-Visscher LA. 2023. Characterization of Bacteriophage cd2, a Siphophage Infecting Carnobacterium diverg
Carnobacterium divergens is frequently isolated from natural environments and is a predominant species found in refrigerated foods, particularly meat, seafood and dairy. While there is substantial interest in using C. divergens as biopreservatives and/or probiotics, some strains are known to be fish pathogens, and the uncontrolled growth of C. divergens has been associated with food spoilage. Bacteriophages offer a selective approach to identify and control the growth of bacteria, but to date, few phages targeting C. divergens have been reported. In this study, we characterize bacteriophage cd2, which we recently isolated from minced beef. A detailed host range study reveals that phage cd2 infects certain phylogenetic groups of C. divergens. This phage has a latent period of 60 min and a burst size of ~28 PFU/infected cell. The phage was found to be acid and heat sensitive, with a complete loss of phage activity when stored at pH 2 or heated to 60oC. Electron microscopy shows that phage cd2 is a siphophage and while it shares the B3 morphotype with a unique cluster of Listeria and Enterococcus phages, a comparison of genomes reveals that phage cd2 comprises a new genus of phage, which we have termed as Carnodivirus. ImportanceCurrently, very little is known about phages that infect carnobacteria, an important genus of lactic acid bacteria with both beneficial and detrimental effects in the food and aquaculture industries. This report provides a detailed characterization of phage cd2, a novel siphophage that targets Carnobacterium divergens, and sets the groundwork for understanding the biology of these phages and their potential use in the detection and biocontrol of C. divergens isolates.
Article - Refereed Journal
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Bruyn, James, 2023. Opportunities for Workplace Ministry in Canada. Journal of the Evangelical Missiological Society of Canada Vol. 3, No. 2: 45-61.
Most Christians spend one to ten hours per month at church. They spend another 160 to 200 hours per month at work where they must contextualize what they learned and experienced at church. Christians who effectively contextualize the gospel in their workplace are a blessing to their workplace and beyond. Christians who struggle to see the relevance of the gospel to their workplace context often struggle with their faith, may leave the local church, or may abandon their faith.
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Biswal, R., Sinclair A.J. and Spaling, H. 2023. Moving to next generation community-based environmental assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Published online 2023-08-04. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2243019
Undertaking environmental assessments for small, rural development projects has proven to be both vexing and essential. Our research considers one approach to assessing such projects, community-based environmental assessment (CBEA). The purpose of our work was to gauge current CBEA practice and consider next generation approaches in the face of challenges such as lack of adequate capacity, resource and power imbalances, achieving meaningful participation, narrow conceptions of sustainability, and weak follow-up and monitoring. Through a literature review and semi-structured interviews with various EA experts from around the globe, we consider these issues and propose a framework for next-generation community-based environmental assessment (NG-CBEA) that builds on four key next generation themes; sustainability, meaningful public participation, follow-up and monitoring, and learning.
Article - Refereed Journal
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Discovery
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Kirk, A.D. (2022). Resilience in the Social-Ecological Approach & Its Significance for Secondary Science Education [Conference session]. 14th Annual Graduate Research Showcase, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
The concept of resilience impacts teaching and learning in educational settings in addition to its broader impact in society in general. The social-ecological approach provides critical context and guidance for how to understand its relevance to the classroom, and the secondary science classroom in particular. After a brief introduction to both the social-ecological approach and research on resilience, the session explores the relevance and applicability of a dynamic understanding of resilience to science teaching. Particular attention is given to its place in relation to established themes and outcomes, as described in the Alberta Programs of Studies in secondary sciences (e.g., Science 10 or Chemistry 20). The session concludes with questions and directions for future research.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Long, David and Gurneet Baidwan. 2022. Men's Diverse Health Journeys.
Description and analysis of similarities and differences in men's health journeys
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Carballo, Ana E., Adrian E. Beling, Johannes Waldmüller, and Julien Vanhulst (2022). Alternautas in The Changing Landscape of Latin America’s and Global Development Imaginaries. Alternautas, Vol. 9 (1). ISSN - 2057-4924
First off, a very warm welcome to this landmark issue of Alternautas, now hosted in an OJS platform at the University of Warwick. Opening our first issue as an OJS journal is a significant milestone and in this editorial introduction we would like to share with you, our dear readers, some insights about our journey so far. Alternautas collective editorial project has been one of the pioneers in the creation of decentralized and collaborative media platforms for the production and dissemination of non-mainstream academic and activist knowledge.
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Vanhulst, Julien , Karla Gonzalez Tapia, Adrian E. Beling, Ricardo Rivas, Rachel Elfant (2022). From NIMBY to transformation? Lessons from four case studies in the Maule Region in Chile. Local Environment, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2022.2091529
Research on local environmental struggles as a politicisation process opens space to reflect on the contributions of socio-ecological resistance movements toward systemic sustainability governance. This article seeks to empirically test Sebastien’s theoretical and methodological framework on enlightening resistance through four case studies from Chile, while additionally exploring the capacity of politically proactive movements to push socio-ecological change beyond lifeworld sustainability toward systemic sustainability. This study aims to inquire into the usefulness of the enlightening resistance framework as a contribution to a larger theoretical effort to shed light on the blockers and enablers of political action towards transformative social change. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, and applying interpretive content-based analysis on the variables of the enlightening resistance framework for each case, our study finds a dull transition happening from resistance to proactive-type movements, yet challenging certain aspects of Sebastien’s thesis. While the movements are partially successful in reframing discourses about the territory, they do not translate into proposals capable of outcompeting the resisted projects, nor into any change in relevant decision-making processes. In addition, we introduce a hypothesis about the adequacy of this framework in socio-political and socio-economic contexts characterised by a disempowered civil society and a type of "neoliberal" sustainability governance favouring market actors as well as experts – both technical and legal –, while silencing local actors. Also, the capacity of proactive-type movements to transcend the boundaries of lifeworld sustainability has been shown to be limited because of a structural decoupling of the latter from system sustainability.
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Beling, A. E. (2022). "Laudato si’ como respuesta a la postergada pregunta por el rol de la Iglesia en la Gran Transformación socio-ecológica". Miríada. Investigación en Ciencias Sociales. Buenos Aires: Universidad del Salvador
This essay offers a reflection on the current and potential role of religions, and in particular of the global ecumenical Church, in the necessary socio-ecological transformation of our "expansive modernity", a major transformation analogous in scope and depth to that described by Karl Polanyi in reference to the societal transition that historically accompanied the Industrial Revolution. The main impetus for this reflection is provided by Pope Francis' encyclical letter, Laudato si': On Care for the Common Home (2015), which can be understood as a spiritual, moral, practical and institutional tool that adds to the existing repertoires of response to the global socio-environmental crisis. Thus, the present text undertakes an "archaeological" reading that analyzes the encyclical as part of a contemporary intertextual network shaped around the socio-political challenge of the global socio-environmental crisis.
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Beling, Adrián E. & Emmanuel Poretti (2022). “Del desarrollo a la ecología integral: La Red Universitaria para el Cuidado de la Casa Común (RUC) y su Diplomatura Superior en Ecología Integral”. En: Ana María Bonet de Viola, Manuel Gómez Mendoza, Thoma
Within the framework of the global debate on the implications of a necessary socio-ecological transition to implications of a necessary socio-ecological transition to sustainability for the reorientation of current current development trajectories, the present text aims to present a concrete experience in the present a concrete experience of construction and articulation of an institutional network of Latin American universities of an institutional network of Latin American universities around the regulative ideal of an "ecological regulatory ideal of an "integral ecology".
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Pelfini, Alejandro, Beling, Adrián E. Beling & Julien Vanhulst (2022) Semi-peripheral ecological modernization and environmental governance in Chile: locked into the iron cage of unsustainability? Transcience. Berlin: Humboldt University.
This paper sets out to critically examine the adoption of a “New
Institutional Framework for Environmental Governance” (NIFEG) enacted in Chile
through new legislation since 2010. Though nominally progressive in both social
and environmental terms, the heavy reliance on bureaucratization as the key
means for improving the legitimacy and effectiveness of environmental governance paradoxically appears to result in the reinforcement of the network
of dominant interests in this policy domain, leading to the channeling of
socio-environmental conflicts towards public mobilization and judicialization, that
is: to the bypassing of political representative institutions. By framing Chile
as a laboratory of ecological modernization in a semi-peripheral, extractivist
context, and through the theoretical and heuristic lens of dramaturgical
analysis, this paper looks at discursive processes shaping environmental
governance as a result of staged performances. It seeks to explore how the
interplay of diverse material and symbolic results in the reinforcement of
path-dependencies in the way of framing sustainable development within
traditional power structures. This results in an “oligarchization” of
environmental governance which ultimately translates into further deteriorating
environmental trends and raises fundamental questions about the limits of
environmental governance alongside the discursive lines of ecological
modernization.
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Conference panel: "Making the sustainability transition politically feasible" (ID627) at the Earth System Governance Conference 2022" "Governing accelerated transitions. Justice, creativity and power in a transforming world"
The ever-increasing probability of a global ecological collapse in the near future has hitherto not made a dent in the continued expansive drive of global development. While the need for far-reaching societal transformation becomes ever more apparent as a condition to achieve sustainability, agents and structures of governance, as well as individual and collective practices at both the global and local levels, seem to remain trapped in a fundamental dilemma: managing the ecological crisis, in order to keep its disruptive effects in check when possible, while simultaneously guaranteeing the continuity of the capitalist consumer society and pursuing the universalization of inherently unsustainable ways of life. In this context, this session seeks to focus on theories and empirical cases that address and show some promise of overcoming the dilemma of sustaining the unsustainable as a condition for sociopolitical stabilization. We ask the question: how can the production of alternative realities be actively pursued without undermining the social bond? A first set of papers undertakes analytically tackles the structural blockers of change, including a theoretical analysis of the functional dilemmas constituting the structural “glass ceiling of transformation” and the resulting need for an “intentional creative destruction” of persistent socio-techno-economic structures (Hausknost) and their path-dependencies and inertias locking-in unsustainable socioeconomic dynamics from the global north with those the global south (Landherr & Graf). A second set of papers proposes ways forward to unlock and thus enable change: Vanhulst critically assesses a theoretical model that seeks to explain how resistance turns into proactive political engagement towards socio-ecological sustainability through a set of empirical case-studies. Beling proposes an exploration of promising innovations in “glocal” governance architectures by unconventional actors such as religion, while Smith and Fressoli address the technological dimension of transitions by looking at open collaborative production as prefiguring the emergence of non-growth-dependent regimes of economic organization, while problematizing the depoliticizing effect of their non-programmatic character. Finally, Deflorian explores “utopia crowdsourcing” as a novel mechanism adopted by environmental alternative action organizations (EAAOs) to circumvent the lack of substantive eco-political actions at the political-institutional level. Taken as a whole, this session is aimed at offering a glimpse into (potentially) emerging forms of world-making capable of circumventing the dilemma outlined in our guiding question. This session gathers presentations covering the conference streams of Architecture and Agency, Democracy and Power, and Anticipation & Imagination
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June 24, 2022: The Trinity Forum, Online conversation: https://www.ttf.org/portfolios/online-conversation-an-online-conversation-with-curt-thompson-and-jeffery-dudiak/
Trinity Forum online conversation with my friend and psychiatrist Dr. Curt Thompson, appears online as of June 24, 2022.
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Beling, A.E. (2022). “Holy transition”? The Church as ‘glocal’ sustainability transition agent: The case of the The Panamazonian Ecclesial Network. Conference presentation at the Panel Making the sustainability transition politically feasible, 2
In its biological and cultural richness and diversity, as well as in the exponentially progressing depletion thereof as a result of unsustainable glocal development patterns, the Amazon basin can be seen as a ‘small universe’ mirroring the relationship between humanity as a whole and “our common home” (Pope Francis), and therefore a critical setting to experiment with the governance of sustainability transitions. The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) is an ecclesial service, platform and network founded in 2013, which promotes cooperation among Church organizations, civil society actors, and the diverse population groups and communities living in an area of 34 million inhabitants, who collectively stand in defense of cultural and biological diversity in the face of an ever-expanding extractive frontier. REPAM can thus be understood as an unprecedented experiment in church-mediated commoning (Gibson-Graham et al., 2016) at the meso-/macro-societal level.Yet the REPAM experiment is relevant not only because of the ecological and cultural importance of the Amazon region, but also due to its model-character. Indeed, REPAM has kickstarted a domino-effect of (self-)reflection and transformation across geographical scales and institutional levels. First, REPAM is branching into various replicative experiments in “other biomes/ territories that are essential for the planetary future” (REPAM, 2019): the Congo River Basin, the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, the tropical forests of the Asia Pacific region, and the Guarani Aquifer. In addition, the REPAM-experiment has led to a process of institutional self-reflection and transformation in the Catholic church at the global level, to include the stewardship of “our common home” as a central feature of its mission (the “Amazonization of the church”, in Pope Francis’ wording).This paper seeks to account for these unfolding developments, distilling insights into both structural and contingent conditions enabling/constraining the role of the Church as a sustainability transition agent in a particular territorial setting (“governance for transition”), but also to theoretically reflect on the changing roles and functions of sustainability governance itself (“governance in transition”)
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Vanhulst, J. & Beling, A.E. (2022). ESAtlas: the Atlas of initiatives for an eco-social transition. Online presentation at the 2022 Latin-American Congress of Sociology (ALAS), WG 14 Environment, Solidarity Economy, and Development. Guadalajara (Mexic
The SustENABLE Transformation research agenda (http://fundacionecoceno.org/es/sustenable-transformation/) is aimed at opening an exploratory reflection on eco-social transition initiatives based on the hypothesis that despite the sociocultural inertia that incessantly reproduces unsustainability, there exist myriad initiatives out there, which are more or less articulated among themselves and with their institutional context, and seek to unmake unsustainability and enable pathways towards sustainable societies, thus rendering the concept of transition to socio-ecological sustainability tangible.To render these eco-social initiatives visible, we developed a collaborative and open-data Atlas in which the different alternatives that contribute to a global ecosocial transition can be mapped: https://www.ecosocialatlas.org. This presentation seeks to introduce the Ecosocial Atlas and its foundations by reviewing some theoretical bases about transitions to sustainability and presenting an overview of the web platform.
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Lamer T, van Belkum MJ, Wijewardane A, Chiorean S, Martin‐Visscher LA, Vederas JC. 2022. SPI “sandwich”: Combined SUMO‐Peptide‐Intein expression system and isolation procedure for improved stability and yield of peptides. Protein Sci 31:e4316. DOI: 1
Recombinant peptide production in Escherichia coli is often accomplished through cloning and expression of a fusion protein. The fusion protein partner generally has two requirements: (a) it contains an affinity tag to assist with purification and (b) it can be cleaved off to leave only the desired peptide sequence behind. Common soluble fusion partners include small ubiquitin-like modifier protein (SUMO), maltose-binding protein (MBP), glutathione S-transferase (GST), or intein proteins. However, heterologously expressed peptides can suffer from proteolytic degradation or instability. This degradation can pose a major issue for applications requiring a large amount of purified peptide, such as NMR structural assignments or biochemical assays. Improving peptide yield by testing various expression and isolation conditions requires a significant amount of effort and may not lead to improved results. Here, we cloned and expressed four different peptides as SUMO fusion proteins. These peptides (lactococcin A, leucocin A, faerocin MK, neopetrosiamide A) were truncated during expression and isolation as SUMO fusions, resulting in low yields of purified peptide. To prevent this degradation and improve yield, we designed a new expression system to create a "sandwiched" fusion protein of the form: His6 -SUMO-peptide-intein (SPI). These sandwiched peptides were more stable and protected against degradation, resulting in improved yields (up to 17-fold) under a set of standard expression and isolation procedures. This SPI expression system uses only two commercially available vectors and standard protein purification techniques, and therefore may offer an economical and facile route to improve yields for peptides that undergo degradation.
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"Bunyan’s Daring Compassion: The Curious Case of Much-afraid and Changing Attitudes to Suicide in Late Seventeenth- Century England." Foster, Lorrie and Arlette Zinck. Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture. No.
This article explores a curious episode in The Pilgrim's Progress, The Second Part, in the context of emerging social perspectives on suicide and the specific historical context that surrounds Bunyan and his community. It argues that in a subtle moment of allegorical literalism, John Bunyan manages both to maintain his theological orthodoxy around the prohibition against suicide while simultaneously providing a compassionate, pastoral reading of a non compos mentis case.
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Leah A. Martin-Visscher, Kristopher Ooms, and Peter Mahaffy. Chemistry as if students matter: from student to student’s learning outcomes. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 99(8): 685-691. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2020-0349
As a tribute to the legacy of Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour, we report on an initiative that involves university undergraduate students directly and meaningfully in the articulation and implementation of student learning outcomes for their chemistry programs. Student learning outcomes describe what a student should know, do, and value at the end of a learning experience. The initiative was carried out over several years at the King’s University in Edmonton, a small undergraduate liberal arts and science institution with a Chemical Institute of Canada accredited B.Sc. chemistry program. Senior students were involved in articulating their own learning outcomes for their chemistry program and mapping them onto the courses in the program. The resultant heat map provided an interesting visual tool to help the learning community assess strengths and gaps in coverage, as perceived by students. The authors then led a workshop at the Chemistry Education program of a Canadian Society for Chemistry national chemistry meeting to share experiences among Canadian chemistry programs on the diverse ways faculty and programs articulate, implement, and assess student learning outcomes. We conclude with suggestions for steps that departments and programs can take to meaningfully implement student learning outcomes in the design, review, and modification of chemistry programs, including benchmarking those learning outcomes with international outcomes published as a result of an IUPAC project.
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Kits, Gerda, Roy Berkenbosch, and Joanne Moyer. 2021. Cultivating Hope in the Christian University Classroom. International Journal of Christianity and Education 25(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056997120972140
Today’s post-secondary students
struggle with increasing depression and anxiety, in part influenced by the
troubling state of the world. Our students desperately need hope; yet too
often, their university classes diminish rather than increase hope. A key role
of the Christian educator is to teach students to live in biblical hope, rooted
in the transformational work of God in human history. Drawing on the work of diverse
scholars and educators, this paper lays out a theological framework for hope
and uses it to outline orientations and practices for the classroom that equip
students to live faithfully into that hope.
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Stolte, Charles. Saxophone quartet recital. University of Alberta Graduate Composers. Convocation Hall and online, 14 December, 2021.
Edmonton Saxophone Quartet public performance of seven new works by University of Alberta graduate composers.
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Geographic Lament: Applying Ancient Practices to Contemporary Social and Environmental Tragedies. 2021 Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers.
In the discipline of Geography, students are exposed to environmental and social tragedies that can elicit feelings of devastating loss, unspeakable suffering, unrelieved grief, and protest. Addressing rather than ignoring these feelings can establish productive means of resilience and capacity building. Lament has been used by many cultures and traditions to address grief and loss. By integrating lament into pedagogy, students and professors can grow in their capacity to appropriately grieve while making room for productive conversation on a variety of social and environmental issues.
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Zhang, P., Britton, AP, Visser, KA, Welke, CA, Wassink, H., Prins, E., Yang, X. & Martin-Visscher, LA (2021). Genome Sequences of Bacteriophages cd2, cd3, and cd4, which Specifically Target Carnobacterium divergens. Microbiology Resource Ann
Carnobacteria have been implicated in food spoilage, but also in protection against pathogenic bacteria. We report the isolation and complete genome sequences of three bacteriophages (phages cd2, cd3, and cd4) that specifically target Carnobacterium divergens. The genome sizes are approximately 57 kbp and have limited homology to known enterococcal and streptococcal phages.MRAVolume 10, Number 3426 August 2021ABSTRACTANNOUNCEMENTACKNOWLEDGMENTSREFERENCESCarnobacteria have been implicated in food spoilage, but also in protection against pathogenic bacteria. We report the isolation and complete genome sequences of three bacteriophages (phages cd2, cd3, and cd4) that specifically target Carnobacterium divergens. The genome sizes are approximately 57 kbp and have limited homology to known enterococcal and streptococcal phages.ABSTRACTCarnobacteria have been implicated in food spoilage, but also in protection against pathogenic bacteria. We report the isolation and complete genome sequences of three bacteriophages (phages cd2, cd3, and cd4) that specifically target Carnobacterium divergens. The genome sizes are approximately 57 kbp and have limited homology to known enterococcal and streptococcal phages.MRAVolume 10, Number 3426 August 2021ABSTRACTANNOUNCEMENTACKNOWLEDGMENTSREFERENCESCarnobacteria have been implicated in food spoilage, but also in protection against pathogenic bacteria. We report the isolation and complete genome sequences of three bacteriophages (phages cd2, cd3, and cd4) that specifically target Carnobacterium divergens. The genome sizes are approximately 57 kbp and have limited homology to known enterococcal and streptococcal phages.
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Long, David. (2021). Engaging Dads in All Their Diversity: developing a welcoming and inclusive perspective on
family service agency supports for dads in Canada.
Presentation for Side by Side: Celebrating the Diversity of Fatherhood Conference (online)
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Long, David. (2021) Rethinking Men’s Health: From Preventing Illness and Suicide to Promoting Life. CMHA Forum on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Online
Presentation on men's health and wellness for national Canadian Mental Health Association forum on mental health and suicide prevention
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Alphonse, Danielle, Shirley Tagalik, Erica Hurley, David Long. (2021). Bridging Indigenous and Western Paradigms in Community-Based Research. National Forum on Bridging Indigenous and Western Paradigms in Community
Based Research. Community Based Research
Presenter and panel discussant for national forum on bridging Indigenous and Western paradigms in community-based research.
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Braun, J. and Clement, D. (2021) State Funding for Immigration in Canada. Canadian Studies.
Abstract:This study is the first of its kind to use grants data to document trends in state funding for the settlement sector in Canada. It demonstrates, among other things, how both federal and provincial funding for settlement is unevenly distributed across the country compared with landing rates; and how funding for settlement and integration is highly concentrated among a few Immigrant Serving Organizations (ISAs) across a small number of jurisdictions. We argue that this has implications for the access and quality of settlements services available to newcomers depending on where they land in Canada.
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Heather Prior, Dylan Van Gaalen, and Jack Lacroix. Effects of rosmarinic acid and β-cyclodextrin on lens clarity in adult zebrafish. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Conference, 2021.
This study was designed to evaluate the effect of rosmarinic acid and β-cyclodextrin on lens clarity in zebrafish with induced cataracts. We have previously developed a method for the induction of cataracts in adult zebrafish which was used to produce cataracts in our study animals. We treated extracted cataractous and healthy lenses with rosmarinic acid as well as β-cyclodextrin, and assessed lens clarity in response to various treatment combinations compared to controls.
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“Spiritual Life and Cultural Discernment: Renewing
Spirituality through Henry,” in The Practical
Philosophy of Michel Henry, edited by Brian Harding and Michael R. Kelly [Ohio
University, Press
This article develops the notion of spirituality in the work of Michel Henry, and then uses this notion to understand the practical value of Henry's work as a critique of culture.
Book Chapter
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Riddle 95. Translation and Commentary. The Riddle Ages.
Translation: https://theriddleages.bham.ac.uk/riddles/post/exeter-riddle-95/Commentary: https://theriddleages.bham.ac.uk/riddles/post/commentary-for-exeter-riddle-95/
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Britton, A.P; van der Ende, S.R.; van Belkum, M.J, Martin-Visscher, L.A. The membrane topology of immunity proteins for the two-peptide bacteriocins carnobacteriocin XY, lactococcin G and lactococcin MN show structural diversity. MicrobiologyOpen 9:e00957
The two‐peptide bacteriocins produced by Gram‐positive bacteria require two different peptides, present in equimolar amounts, to elicit optimal antimicrobial activity. Producer organisms are protected from their bacteriocin by a dedicated immunity protein. The immunity proteins for two‐peptide bacteriocins contain putative transmembrane domains (TMDs) and might therefore be associated with the membrane. The immunity protein CbnZ for the two‐peptide bacteriocin carnobacteriocin XY (CbnXY) was identified by heterologously expressing the cbnZ gene in sensitive host strains. Using protein topology prediction methods and the dual pho‐lac reporter system, we mapped out the membrane topology of CbnZ, along with those of the immunity proteins LagC and LciM for the two‐peptide bacteriocins lactococcin G and lactococcin MN, respectively. Our results reveal wide structural variety between these immunity proteins that can contain as little as one TMD or as many as four TMDs.
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Long, David. (2020) Men, Masculinities and Sexual Consent. Edmonton: Edmonton Multicultural Coalition.
Public workshop presentation on the
meaning of gender and the nature of men and masculinities and how culture
influences men’s practice of masculinity
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Long. David. (2020) Aging and changing
gracefully together. Sherwood Park: Sherwood Park United Church
After outlining how some of the more significant societal changes can and do affect family and church relationships, participants were invited to share their insights into how members of their families and their congregation as a whole can learn to age and change “gracefully” together.
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Long, David. (2020) Understanding, Engaging and Supporting Men in All Our Diversity. Edmonton: NextGenMen
Public presentation on the challenges faced by government and organizational policy and program developers in understanding, engaging and supporting men in all our diversity.
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Long, David. 2020. Planting the Seeds of Reconciliation: moving Indigenous/Settler relations forward in a colonial context.
The purpose of this paper is to: (i) describe the community-engaged research project entitled “Planting the Seeds of Reconciliation” involving the Creating Hope Society (CHS) of Edmonton, (ii) outline some of the challenges we have experienced throughout the implementation of our project and, (iii) discuss a number of questions I have been compelled to think about as a settler-ally involved with Indigenous colleagues in this and other reconciliation-focused projects.
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Long, David. 2019. Planting the Seeds of Reconciliation: organizational initiatives, services and resources. Edmonton: Creating Hope Society.
Evaluation of reconciliation-focused initiatives, services and resources supported by Edmonton educational, media, business, religious and huuman service organizations.
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Stolte, Charles. Alto saxophone performer with Don Berner Big Band. Edmonton: 21, 22 December, 2019.
Played alto saxophone with the Don Berner Big Band in their 2019 Christmas concert series in Edmonton.
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Stolte, Charles. Saxophone recital with Joachim Segger, piano accompaniment. Noon Tunes Series, The King's University. 4 October, 2019.
The 50-minute program included my own work, True Confessions for solo saxophone (1994), and the Canadian premiere of three movements from The Moment When.. for solo alto saxophone by Dr. Richard Covey, UPEI.
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Stolte, Charles. Cadence for solo piano. 4'30"
Cadence is a pre-existing piece performed by Edmonton pianist, Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, as part of her multi-disciplinary From See to Sound to See project, which paired Edmonton visual artists with Edmonton composers in collaborative, complementary art works. This piece was interpreted in a sculpture of the same name by Edmonton sculptor, James Lavoie. Premiere performance 16 August, Edmonton. Second performance, 20 August, Red Deer. Projected performance June 2021, Strata Festival, Saskatoon.
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Stolte, Charles. Tenebris (Darkness) for solo piano. 5'
Tenebris (Darkness) was one of two pieces written for Edmonton pianist, Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, as part of her multi-disciplinary From See to Sound to See project, which paired Edmonton visual artists with Edmonton composers in collaborative, complementary art works. This piece was complemented by the sculpture, Night, by Edmonton sculptor, James Lavoie. Premiere performance 16 August, Edmonton. Second performance, 20 August, Red Deer. Projected performance June 2021, Strata Festival, Saskatoon.
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Stolte, Charles. Ex lucem sonus for solo piano (2020). 5'
Ex lucem sonus was one of two pieces written for Edmonton pianist, Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, as part of her multi-disciplinary From See to Sound to See project, which paired Edmonton visual artists with Edmonton composers in collaborative, complementary art works. This piece was composed to reflect the sculpture, Ex terra lucem, by Edmonton sculptor, James Lavoie. Premiere performance 16 August, Edmonton. Second performance, 20 August, Red Deer. Projected performance June 2021, Strata Festival, Saskatoon
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Accepted to a journal called Management and Labour studies
This survey study examined predictors of the task performance of Korean expatriates to India while considering their globalization status. Task performance was significantly influenced by opportunities for career development and satisfaction of global human resource management practices. However, cultural intelligence, family adjustment, and willingness to accept a global assignment did not significantly influence task performance. Using an emissary model of international HR strategy that conforms to Korean companies' current globalization status, we explain these results and also suggest valuable insights to fast-growing companies from newly industrializing or emerging economies so that they can develop a relevant strategy for improving task performance of their expatriates.
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Dawe, D.A., Peters, V.S., and Flannigan, M.D. 2020. Post-fire regeneration of endangered limber pine (Pinus flexilis) at the northern extent of its range, Forest Ecology and Management 457(2020) 117725:1-12.
We present original research on the lack of efficacy of fires for providing regeneration opportunities for limber pine in the immediate post-fire period. We caution managers about using prescribed burns as a recovery strategy for the endangered limber pine.
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Kim, H. D., & Kamalanabhan, T. J. (2020).
Task Performance of Expatriates Based on Emissary Model of Global Human
Resource Strategy. Management and Labour Studies, 45(4): 1-16
This survey study examined predictors of the task performance of Korean expatriates in India, while considering their globalization status. Task performance was significantly influenced by opportunities for career development and satisfaction of global human resource management practices. However, cultural intelligence, family adjustment and willingness to accept a global assignment did not significantly influence task performance. Using an emissary model of international HR strategy that conforms to Korean companies’ current globalization status, we explain these results and also suggest valuable insights to fast-growing companies from newly industrializing or emerging economies so that they can develop a relevant strategy for improving task performance of their expatriates.
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Joyce, Adrienna, Reid, Erin, Nabisere, Immaculate, Patrick, Margie, Aijazi, Omer, & Chan, W.Y. Alice. What is a "Good Life"? Looking at worldviews, dialogue, and integration. Workshop Presentation at Metropolis, March 19, 2020, Winnipeg. Con
"How do I interpret a Eurocentric curriculum to reflect the realities of non-White students when I am a white settler Canadian?" "Why do aspirations of Muslim survivors from conflict zones differ from those trying to help them?" We discuss these worldviews via a vignette and small group discussions.
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The Soviet Utopia: presentation at Philosopher's Cafe in Edmonton in Jan 2020
presentation at Philosopher's Cafe in Edmonton in January 2020
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Caroline Lieffers (producer, host), Disability History Association Podcast, Episode 18: Disability and Design (Interview with Bess Williamson), January 2020.
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Long, David. (2020). What Dads in Edmonton Need and What Service Providers Can Do About
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Final report of my study for Edmonton Family and Community Services
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Peet, C. (2020). Author-meets-critics: Discussion of "Practicing Transcendence: Axial Age Spiritualities for a World in Crisis" (Published 2019, Palgrave). Panel at 2020 “Religion and Spirituality in a Frightening World” Conference hosted b
Had gathered 4 critics who had agreed to speak on panel.Participant
1Michael Ferber
The King's University, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Email: michael.ferber@kingsu.caParticipant
2David Rutherford
University of Mississippi
Email: druther@olemiss.eduParticipant
3Justin Tse
Singapore Management University
Email: justintse@smu.edu.sgParticipant
4David Butler
University College Cork
Email: D.Butler@ucc.ie
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Don't know how to cite, it was a podcast!Peet, C., Singh, K., & Strand, D. (2020). Afterthought podcast. Hosted by AnchorFM by Spotify.
https://anchor.fm/afterthoughtcdk
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Heather Prior. All Generations: A Personal Story of Inheritance. Keynote address, Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation Annual General Meeting, Nov. 13, 2020. (online)
Genetics, genomes, and genealogies – we live in an age of unprecedented power to unlock our biological heritage. But we still experience human frailties such as infertility, disease, and ultimately death. By considering her own hereditary legacy, both biological and spiritual, CSCA Vice-president Heather Prior will reflect on the theme of inheritance, and consider what it might mean to pass on a rich inheritance to future generations.
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Ozoike-Dennis, P., Spaling, H. , Sinclair, A.J. and Walker, H. 2019 SEA, urban plans and solid waste management in Kenya: Participation and learning for sustainable cities. Journal of Environmental Assessment, Policy and Management. https://doi.org/10.114
Open Access
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Peet, C. (2019). Practicing transcendence: Axial Age
spiritualities for a world in crisis. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
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"The Telos of Prison Education: Renewal and Reconciliation through the Liberal Arts" How Cultural Forms Support Reconciliation. MacEwan University, July 2-5th, 2019.
Michael Foucault
charts the evolution of punishment from punitive acts against a body to acts against
the soul.[1] By
soul, he does not refer to the “illusion of the theologians”, but to the entity
created by the “surplus power” exercised upon the condemned body by “warders,
doctors, chaplains, psychiatrists, psychologists, educationalists.” It is a sobering
thought. If Foucault is right, then educational interventions in carceral
spaces are not only counterproductive but immoral, a transgression against the
implied ethics of the post-secondary teaching profession.For Foucault,
structures of power within prison invariably render relationship between the
incarcerated person and the practitioner toxic. This paper investigates the claim
and connects Foucault’s pessimism to assumptions in his mythological account of
the soul’s creation. It begins by paying attention to this mythological
account, and it juxtaposes Foucault’s mythology of power with the creation account
implied in Catholic doctrine of Psychologist, William Lynch. A decade before
Foucault’s land mark study of prisons emerged, William Lynch published his
study of another equally insidious carceral environment: the prison of a despairing
mind. Lynch’s work surveys images of hope and offers a clinician’s taxonomy of
the virtue. Hope, argues Lynch, is deeply connected to the imagination and to the
empirical project of hypothesis and experimentation. Lynch posits that hope is
a communal
virtue, that we can only hope together.
Finally, he asserts that hope is profoundly connected to the capacity to wish,
to desire.This paper will reflect
on Lynch’s three-part analysis of hope by way of practical anecdotes and
experiences from the instructors and students in The Ephesus Project, a
post-secondary liberal arts prison program in Edmonton, Alberta. The Ephesus
Project originated as an outreach project of a Christian University that shares
Lynch’s mythological understanding of the soul and for whom renewal and
reconciliation are core to the university’s mission statement. It has since
grown to include faculty from other schools who share the program’s core
assumptions but not necessarily the Christian faith. These stories suggest that
liberal arts courses provide unique opportunities to develop the imagination,
build healthy community, and foster the kind of knowledge of self and other
that allows wishes and desires to blossom. They also suggest that the
mythological assumptions that inform the intentions and direction of prison
teaching may influence positively the ends they serve. While Foucault’s
critique is essential motivation for the work of prison abolition, a
reassessment of his mythological assumptions may help mitigate despair over all
who are currently trapped in the system. This discussion posits that a pedagogy
directed toward belonging and a teaching practice rooted in hope might foster
renewal and reconciliation.Bibliography:Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books, rpt
1995.Lynch, William. Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless. University
of Notre Dame Press, rpt 1975.Smith, Caleb. The Prison and the American Imagination. Yale UP, 2009.[1] “Soul” is Foucault’s word. This English translation of
his original French term, âme, is accurate. By using the term “soul,” however,
Foucault employs the term as a metaphor for the materialist reading of power he
provides throughout his study.
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Kits, Gerda J. 2019. Why Educating for Shalom Requires Decolonization. International Journal of Christianity and Education 23(2): 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2056997119826123
Indigenous scholars argue that reconciliation requires
educators to make space for Indigenous perspectives in the curriculum. This
paper agrees, arguing that Christians who are committed to Wolterstorff’s
concept of “educating for shalom” must work towards decolonization of the
educational system. Eurocentrism in the current system is a product of racism,
and prevents students from learning from a diversity of cultural perspectives.
Further, failing to decolonize actively perpetuates injustice towards both
Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, and fails to equip students to
participate in the societal changes that are necessary to heal the relationship
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in North America.
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Kim, H.D., & Tung, R. L. The Effect of Boundaryless Career Attitude on Intention to Leave: the Case of Korean Expatriates in India
This study seeks to address the predictors of expatriates’ intention to leave the organization and to examine how boundaryless career attitude affects the intention under various situations based on a questionnaire survey of 82 Korean expatriate managers in India. The results revealed that a boundaryless career attitude did not directly influence the intention to leave, and perceived organizational support also did not reduce the intention. But repatriation concerns were a significant factor of Korean expatriates' intention's to leave. When repatriation concerns were present, both lower-level managers and those who had a high boundaryless career attitude with high task performance perception increased the intention. These findings suggest that companies positively view the notion of boundaryless careers and reflect it in career development programs that should be transparent and predictable, and also contain appropriate repatriation care. The practical implications for international human resource management are also discussed.
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Kim, H. D., & Kamalanabhan, T. J. Task Performance of Expatriates Based on Emissary Model of Global Human Resource Strategy
This survey study examined predictors of task performance of Korean expatriates to India while considering their globalization status, and revealed that career development opportunities and satisfaction of international human resource management practices significantly influenced the performance, but cultural intelligence, family adjustment, and willingness to accept an international assignment did not. An emissary model of global HR strategy that fits with Koreans companies' current globalization status explains these results and suggests valuable insights to fast-growing companies from newly industrializing or emerging economies so that they can develop a relevant strategy for improving task performance of their expatriates.
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Kim, H. D., & Tung, R. L. Kim, H. D., & Tung, R. L. Home Away from Home As A Queen Bee Goes – Metaphor for Capturing Hyundai Motor’s Entry into the India Automotive Market
This study examines how the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) became a global automaker through its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) experience in India. HMC outperformed its competition by taking a different approach to the Indian automobile market and making efforts toward improving efficiency and became a major global automaker in a short period of time despite its limited international experience. We study HMC’s previous FDI strategy and practices and examine how the lessons learned from its failed investment in Canada enabled it to overcome the challenges of establishing its operations in India. This paper also analyzes the reasons for HMC’s success in India and how its experience can be imitated by other companies whose home countries are at a similar stage of development as that of Korea’s or at the emerging market status.
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Kim, H. D. (2019, December) Challenges and Opportunities of Contextual Performance in Emerging Market: Korean expatriates in India, Paper is to be presented at Agile Workforce Conference 2019: Transforming Talent, Technology and Ideas, Puducherry, India
This survey study examined predictors of contextual performance of Korean expatriates to India based on a questionnaire survey of 123 Korean expatriate managers in India and found that English fluency, job enrichment, and boundaryless career significantly influenced the performance, but tenure in India and pre-departure training did not. These results call for immediate action for Korean multinational companies to review their current expatriate management and also suggest valuable insights to fast-growing companies from newly industrializing or emerging economies so that they can develop a relevant strategy for improving the contextual performance of their expatriates.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Kim, H. D. (2019). Determinants of Organizational Commitment in Emerging Market: Korean Expatriates in India. European Journal of Economics and Business Studies, 5(1): 116-125.
This study examined expatriates’ organizational commitment by focusing on how willingness to accept an international assignment, training for an international assignment, expatriate empowerment, perceived organizational support, and demographic variables in order to predict the Korean expatriates’ organizational commitment in India. The results provided empirical evidence that expatriates are more committed to their organization when they perceived organizational support and empowerment and gave some valuable insights to develop relevant training for cultural adjustment and managerial skill development as well as supporting programs, especially for growing companies in emerging economies. By building on the cross-cultural management and organizational theories and researches, this study expands these recent findings to expatriate studies.
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Kim, H, D. Developing a Cross-Cultural Motivation Strategy for Korean Multinational Companies in India, The 18th Conference on Social Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. May 17, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. May 17, 2019
This exploratory study examines how cultural variations affect the motivation of Indian employees of Indian companies in India (INDIAN), Indian employees of Korean companies in India (INDO-KOREAN), and Korean employees of Korean companies in Korea (KOREAN) based on a questionnaire survey of 514 employees. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that culture played a moderating effect between the factors of motivation and overall motivation in the combination of INDIAN and KOREAN and also revealed that the interaction between culture and provision of feedback had predictive value on overall motivation. In addition, the study showed that the similarities among three groups’ culture explained similar responses to compensation and equity at work, but two different cultural dimensions such as Uncertainty Avoidance and Monumentalism provided important insights that provision of feedback should be implemented in a different manner. The implications, both theoretical and practical, for international human resource management are provided.
Conference/Scholarly meeting presentation
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Application Discovery
Business
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Kim, H, D. (2019, May) Determinants of Organizational Commitment in Emerging Market: Korean Expatriates in India, Paper presented at The 18th Conference on Social Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal
The organizational commitment of expatriates is one of the most important attitudes that could lead to the high performance of multinational companies(MNCs). This study found that work recognition, job autonomy, and high social status really empowered Korean expatriate and resulted in strong commitment. And when they perceived their company’s support tangibly, their commitment also increased significantly. However, this study also found some gaps between the perception and the reality in the areas of financial, career development, family-related, and living adjustment supports where Korean MNCs should take action on.One of the most pressing issues for MNCs from emerging economies is to develop a relevant international human resource management strategy because their contexts are different from those who are from developed countries. Most Korean MNCs also experienced very similar situations because they became global in a very short span of time. Therefore, this research contributes to knowledge of International human resource management theoretically and practically, especially to those who seek a relevant model for expatriate management in MNCs from emerging economies.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Discovery
Natural Science
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Dawe, D. 2019. Post-fire regeneration of endangered limber pine (Pinus flexilis) at the northern extent of its range. M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
Prescribed fire was tested as a potential recovery strategy for the endangered limber pine. We found that fire did not create regeneration opportunities in short term,, as only 6 seedlings were found on 8 - 16 year old fires. In contrast, 20 times this much regeneration occurred over this same time period on unburned seedbeds in adjacent mature stands. We recommend that alternative restoration practices, namely planting disease resistant seedlings, be considered for meeting short term recovery goals.
Other scholarly work
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Discovery
Arts
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“Expression and Phenomenology: The
Question of Method,” Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, University
of British Columbia, June 3-5 2019.
This presentation lays out the importance of expression to the phenomenological method, and as such provides a methodological (rather than merely historical) case for the centrality of expression to phenomenology.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Discovery
Arts
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“Phenomenological Spirituality and its
Relationship to Religion,” Engaging the Contemporary 2019, University
of Malta, Valletta, Malta, Nov 7-8, 2019.
This presentation will outline a phenomenological understanding of spirituality, and show how it helps us develop more nuanced analyses of religion by suggesting four distinct levels of phenomenological analysis at work in any religious phenomenon.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Discovery
Arts
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“On the Relationship Between Divinity and
Materiality in the Continental Tradition,” Canadian Philosophical
Association, Vancouver, Canada, June 4, 2019.
This presentation summarized two distinct approaches to the relationship between divinity and materiality at work in the Continental tradition of philosophy: the liturgical and the event-al approaches. It then develops the notion of "material spirituality" and shows how that provides something new to our understanding of the divine-material relationship, and how this, in turn, opens new avenues for the analysis of religious phenomena.
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Discovery
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“The Sense of Spirituality,” International
Network in Philosophy of Religion, Bi-annual Meeting, Institut
Catholique de Paris, Paris, France, June 18-23, 2019.
This presentation develops the phenomenological understanding of spirituality, and then shows how this reveals four distinct levels of phenomenological analysis for any religious phenomenon. this, in turn, will help us offer a more refined understanding of religion.
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Discovery
Arts
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“Distinguishing Four Levels of the Phenomenological
Analysis of Religion,” 2019 Regional meeting of the Society for the
Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SoPheRE), Valparaiso University, October
10-12, 2019.
This presentation helps us distinguish between spiritual and various religious levels at work in religious phenomena. It lays out the four distinct levels, and then explains both the relationship between them, and the problems that result (in both analysis and in lived religious experience) when these four levels are confused with each other or ignored.
Conference/Scholarly meeting presentation
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Discovery
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“The Spiritual Task of Phenomenology,”
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, September 21,,2019.
this paper develops Husserl's notion of spirituality, and then argues, following Husserl's own argument in The Crisis of the European Sciences, that phenomenology has a necessarily spiritual task, one that is important to the development of Western culture.
Conference/Scholarly meeting presentation
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Discovery
Arts
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“From Roots to Petals: The Spirituality of
Money,” Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church, Calgary AB, Aug
25, 2019.
This presentation argues that our views of money necessarily grow out of a spiritual root. It discusses consumerism, as the spiritual soil of our contemporary society, and shows how it leads to a particular view of money that shapes our everyday lives. It then offers a different spiritual approach (rooted in God's gracious redemptive activity in the world) and how it leads to a different view of money and its impact on our daily lives.
Other scholarly work
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Engagement Integration
Arts
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“Idols at Ikea: The Gospel of Consumerism,”
The King’s University, September 18, 2019.
this talk explains consumerism as a "rival gospel" to Christianity, outlining its spiritual component and how it alters our everyday lived experience of money and of the practice of Christianity.
Other scholarly work
Accepted
Engagement Integration
Arts
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“Buying Happiness,” Keynote Address at
public conference “Cash Rules Everything Around Me?,” The King’s University, September 18-19,
2019
This talk shows that a consumerist spirituality shapes our views on money, which in turn shapes how we 'do university.' It then also suggests another way of 'doing university' that is rooted in another spirituality, one focused on God's redemptive activity in the world.
Other scholarly work
Accepted
Engagement Integration
Arts
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“Changing the Spiritual Soil,” Keynote
Address at public conference “Cash Rules Everything Around Me?,” The King’s University, September
18-19, 2019
This talk discusses how spiritual change is possible, laying out concrete steps by which people can begin to change the 'spiritual soil' in which their views of money grow.
Other scholarly work
Accepted
Engagement Integration
Arts
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“What do you want? Faith and Christian
Education,” annual meeting of the Western Canada region of the
Association of Christian Schools International (ASCI), October 18, 2019.
This talk suggests that we should think of faith primarily in terms of love (what we want) rather than belief (what we think). It then discusses concretely how this affects the practice(s) of Christian education.
Other scholarly work
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Engagement Pedagogy
Natural Science
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Dylan Van Gaalen and Heather Prior. Lanosterol treatment of induced cataracts in adult zebrafish shows reduction of cataract severity, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Vancourver, BC, April 28, 2019.
Poster Presentation on original research based on Dylan's senior biology research project given at conference jointly by Heather Prior and Dylan Van Gaalen.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Discovery
Social Science
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Starblanket, Gina and David Long. (2019). Imagining New Futures: a concluding dialogue. Pp. 252-256 in Starblanket, Gina and David Long (eds.). Visions of the Heart. Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada 5th ed. Toronto: O
Concluding chapter of our co-edited collection of articles addressing issues involving Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Book Chapter
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Engagement Integration
Social Science
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Starblanket, Gina and David Long. (eds.) 2019). An Invitation to Dialogue. in Starblanket, Gina and David Long. Visions of the Heart. Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada 5th ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press
Introductory chapter for the collection of articles on issues involving Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Book Chapter
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Discovery Engagement
Social Science
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Starblanket, Gina and David Long (eds). (2019) Visions of the Heart. Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada. 5th ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Co-edited volume addressing a variety of issues involving Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Book - Edited/Co-edited
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Application Discovery Engagement
Natural Science
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Mahaffy,
P. G.; Matlin, S.A; "Systems thinking to educate about the molecular
basis of sustainability" L’ actualité chimique, N° 446, pp. 47-49 (Dec 2019,
Featured in International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry 100 stories for their Centenial. IUPAC 100 Stories. Retrieved from https://iupac.org/100/stories/systems-thinking-to-educate-about-the-molecular-basis-of-sustainability/. Reproduced from
Article - Refereed Journal
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Application Engagement
Natural Science
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Christian Teaching Examples in Computing Science. Michael Janzen (2019), Presented at the SHAPING CHRISTIAN LEARNING: THE KUYERS INSTITUTE/INCHE 2019 CONFERENCE, held at Prince Conference Center, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A benefit to Christian education in Computing Science is viewing the discipline through a Christian lens. This may be initially difficult for Christian instructors with a secular educational background, but a set of examples may help guide new instructors to see Christian issues in typical topics. This talk provides Christian teaching examples from various sub-disciplines including Object- Oriented Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Architecture, Algorithm Analysis, Computer Video Game Development, Software Testing, Web Development, and Artificial Intelligence.
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Pedagogy
Business
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Kim, H. D. (2019, December) Challenges and Opportunities of Contextual Performance in Emerging Market: Korean expatriates in India, Paper is to be presented at International Conference on Building Agile Workforce: Transforming Talent, Technology & Ide
This survey study examined predictors of contextual performance of Korean expatriates to India and found that English fluency, job enrichment, and boundaryless career significantly influenced the performance, but tenure in India and pre-departure training did not. These results call for immediate action for Korean multinational companies to review their current expatriate management and also suggest valuable insights to fast-growing companies from newly industrializing or emerging economies so that they can develop a relevant strategy for improving the contextual performance of their expatriates.
Refereed Conference presentation
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Discovery
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“Is Science a Spiritual Practice?: Material
Spirituality, Barbarism and Our Place in the Cosmos,” Faith and Science
Lecture Series, Concordia University of Edmonton, Oct 22, 2018.
This presentation uses the work of Michel Henry (and my own notion of 'material spirituality) to analyze the 'spiritual' component of scientific inquiry to argue that science is inherently a spiritual practice, and that the physical make-up of our contemporary world is a spiritual product.
Other scholarly work
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Discovery
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Patrick, M. Teaching about religion in Alberta public schools. Research findings conference held on April 11 to which we invited various education stakeholders.
We debuted a website to support teachers in their teaching about religion.
Other scholarly work
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Engagement