Event Details
Celebration of work-in-progress and publications
The ISUP Colloquium is a dedicated event to recognize the continuous journey of educational research and scholarly work in university pedagogy. This workshop highlights not only the final published work (e.g., papers, books, book chapters, monographs) but also the essential steps involved in shaping impactful research — from initial data collection and manuscript preparation to drafting funding proposals and completing the final product. It serves as an acknowledgment of the effort, collaboration, and innovation that define the field of pedagogy and provides the platform for feedback and dialogue on works in progress.
Join us for an inspiring and collaborative experience that enhances your research journey and strengthens your academic community.
When: Thursday, December 11, 2025 from 9:30AM–2:00PM EST
Where: University of Toronto Mississauga, Maanjiwe nendamowinan building, Room 3230 (CDRS).
Registration deadline Monday, December 1, 2025
Please contact mitchell.pedicelli@utoronto.ca for any questions or concerns.
Presentations
Research Partnerships Panel with Ruth Childs, Brian Kalakula, and Micheal Liut.
Community Partner Speaker: Heather Hermant.
Designing community-engaged courses is relational work: What/who is this course for? What configurations of “community” does the course foreground? How to facilitate meaningful interactions between partners and students? How to get institutional support and resources for this course? In this talk––part resource share, part conversation––I discuss my experience designing Community Writing: Understanding Mobility Justice, an advanced undergraduate course to be offered by ISUP in 2025-2026. I share how I’ve turned to reflective practice to guide relationship building and decision making through the design process so far. Adapting an analytical model from feminist rhetorical research that foregrounds activism’s relational nature (Nish, 2022), I propose situatedness, directionality, and collectivity as embodied-relational frames for reflection and action in community-engaged course design.
Expanding research communities across international boundaries can be very rewarding. For me it has been driven by my interest in interdisciplinary science, accessing expertise beyond my local research circle, exploring innovative approaches to issues, and responding to my own positionality and transnational paradigm. In this brief talk I identify the personal necessity of researching to our curiosities and purpose. This is often grounded in who we are, where we come from and the experiences that shape how we see the world and question it. As a scholar from a Caribbean background many of my international partnerships seek to return to a part of me that I have little understanding due to a colonial past that distorts the history of my ancestors. In seeking connection to my background, I have uncovered a decolonial praxis that shifts the geography of science from established and dominate research regions to emerging research economies. The co-creation of these international research partnerships will be reviewed through the lens of collaboration, change in the balance of research,
capitalizing on travel, opportunity and chance encounters, co-design and co-authorship.