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The Department of Philosophy is sponsoring movement classes from 1PM-2PM on Thursdays Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, and Feb 17. The classes will be live on Zoom. The Zoom link will be shared via email. Keep your camera off, or turn it on for an interactive experience!

This will be a mid-week dance-based body refresh — no dance or movement experience required. Together (with a sense of humour about it all) we’ll move through easy-to-follow sequences set to energetic music. Throughout this session you’ll increase your range of motion, challenge your stamina, build strength and learn a couple humility-affirming dance moves along the way. You’ll be encouraged to customize your workout with modifications offered to amp up or tone down any exercise to suit your personal needs. Make this class a routine and you’ll feel energized, toned, bright and connected to your body! 

Our instructor, Alyssa Martin, is an award winning choreographer, director and educator. She is the Artistic Director of surrealist dance theatre company, , a creative home she founded in 2012. Her creations blur the lines of theatre, dance and comedy in mischievous conversation with her modern dance antecedents. She has toured her work internationally, working in residence at art centres including The Banff Centre, Stratford Festival Lab, The National Ballet of Canada and Canadian Stage. She most recently premiered a feature length experimental film, Bin Chicken, a commission for Toronto Dance Theatre. In addition to choreography, Alyssa works as a movement educator with people of all ages and experiences. She teaches Pilates and Dance Synergy at , Dance and Musical Theatre in the Performance Department at Ryerson University, Creative Composition at George Brown College’s Dance Program and has guest taught within Laurier University’s Opera Department. She also leads “NONDance” workshops for the Rock Bottom community. She holds her Pilates Mat and Reformer Certification (earned under the mentorship of Leslie Parker) as well as her BFA in Performance Dance from Ryerson University. She has supplemented her training with workshops in dance, movement and creative process in Montreal, New York, Berlin and Vienna. She approaches all that she does with a sense of play and places priority on the wellbeing of the individuals she is moving alongside!  Alyssa’s very excited to be leading these classes for Queen’s philosophers!

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The Department of Philosophy is sponsoring movement classes from 1PM-2PM on Thursdays Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, and Feb 17. The classes will be live on Zoom. The Zoom link will be shared via email. Keep your camera off, or turn it on for an interactive experience!

This will be a mid-week dance-based body refresh — no dance or movement experience required. Together (with a sense of humour about it all) we’ll move through easy-to-follow sequences set to energetic music. Throughout this session you’ll increase your range of motion, challenge your stamina, build strength and learn a couple humility-affirming dance moves along the way. You’ll be encouraged to customize your workout with modifications offered to amp up or tone down any exercise to suit your personal needs. Make this class a routine and you’ll feel energized, toned, bright and connected to your body! 

Our instructor, Alyssa Martin, is an award winning choreographer, director and educator. She is the Artistic Director of surrealist dance theatre company, , a creative home she founded in 2012. Her creations blur the lines of theatre, dance and comedy in mischievous conversation with her modern dance antecedents. She has toured her work internationally, working in residence at art centres including The Banff Centre, Stratford Festival Lab, The National Ballet of Canada and Canadian Stage. She most recently premiered a feature length experimental film, Bin Chicken, a commission for Toronto Dance Theatre. In addition to choreography, Alyssa works as a movement educator with people of all ages and experiences. She teaches Pilates and Dance Synergy at , Dance and Musical Theatre in the Performance Department at Ryerson University, Creative Composition at George Brown College’s Dance Program and has guest taught within Laurier University’s Opera Department. She also leads “NONDance” workshops for the Rock Bottom community. She holds her Pilates Mat and Reformer Certification (earned under the mentorship of Leslie Parker) as well as her BFA in Performance Dance from Ryerson University. She has supplemented her training with workshops in dance, movement and creative process in Montreal, New York, Berlin and Vienna. She approaches all that she does with a sense of play and places priority on the wellbeing of the individuals she is moving alongside!  Alyssa’s very excited to be leading these classes for Queen’s philosophers!

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Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Poulomi Chakrabarti (Queen’s and Harvard), titled, "Status and Development: How Social Hierarchy Undermines Public Goods Provision".

Further details, as well as Poulomi's, paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

Members of the Queen's community are invited to join, over Zoom, the final meeting of the 2021-22 Critical Phenomenology Reading Group (CPRG), which will welcome Kris Sealey (Fairfield), whose paper is titled, “‘Then’ and ‘Now’ of Mangrove Time: The Temporality of Lived Blackness in Octavia Butler’s Kindred”.

Kris's paper and Zoom details have been distributed via email. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive this information, please contact either Adam Schipper or Alisha Sharma, conveners of the Critical Phenomenology Reading Group.

Members of the Queen's community are invited to join, over Zoom, the second meeting of the 2021-22 Critical Phenomenology Reading Group (CPRG), which will welcome Alia Al-Saji (McGill), whose paper is titled, "Too Late: Fanon, the Dismembered Past, and a Phenomenology of Racialized Time".

Alia's paper and Zoom details have been distributed via email. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive this information, please contact either Adam Schipper or Alisha Sharma, conveners of the Critical Phenomenology Reading Group. Further information is also available via the poster below.

Critical Phenomenology Reading Group: Alia Al-Saji (McGill) | Poster (PDF 291KB)

Members of the Queen's community are invited to join, over Zoom, the first meeting of the 2021-22 Critical Phenomenology Reading Group (CPRG), which will welcome Andrea J. Pitts (U of North Carolina, Charlotte), whose chapter is titled, “Susto, Collective Trauma, and Disability Justice in the Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa.” 

Andrea's chapter and Zoom details have been distributed via email. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive this information, please contact either Adam Schipper or Alisha Sharma, conveners of the Critical Phenomenology Reading Group. Further information is also available via the poster below.

Critical Phenomenology Reading Group: Andrea J. Pitts (UNC, Charlotte) | Poster (PDF 287 KB)