Queen’s University, ON, Canada

Kate is a visual artist working primarily with textiles and performance art. Her work explores the capacity that textile-related tools and processes hold for spiritual communication and healing. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art at Concordia University in Studio Practice and Art History, a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto, and a Master of Fine Art at Western University in Studio Practice. Her work has been exhibited at various public galleries in Ontario including the Art Gallery of Mississauga, The McIntosh Gallery in London, and the Agnes Jamieson gallery in Minden. Kate has been teaching at Yorkville University since 2021, and joined the Bachelor of Creative Arts faculty in 2023.

PhD. (Philosophy), Carleton University, ON, Canada

Academic administrator and professor of Philosophy and History with senior management and business experience. My main area of teaching, course development and research has been on human leisure. Everything from working in practical recreation services and recreation management into my Masters and Doctoral studies around purely philosophical theories of leisure. (Which tend to all be footnotes to Aristotle’s ideas of leisure as found in the Politics)

MA (English and Literature), Lorestan University, Iran.

PhD. student in English at York University.

University instructor and experienced ESL/IELTS/TOEFL Teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Skilled in Multilingual, English as a Second Language (ESL), Microsoft Word, Linguistics, and Translation. Strong education professional with a TESL focused on Teaching of English as a Second Language from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology.

PhD. (Political Science and International Relations), Istanbul University, Turkey

Çağdaş Dedeoğlu, PhD teaches social sciences and (post)humanities at Yorkville University in Toronto, ON (Canada).

He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Posthumanism. He also is a research associate at the US-based Center for Critical Research on Religion. 

Dr. Dedeoğlu specialized in political science, security, and religion, with an emphasis on ecological and technological issues. For many years, he has been involved with grassroots ecological movements, as well as research organizations including the Political Ecology Network, the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society.

More information about his research and publications can be found on his website.

PhD. (Philosophy), York University.

Academic:
AOS: David Hume; Early Modern Philosophy; Fictionalism; Hans Vaihinger; Epistemology.
AOC: Metaphysics; Utopian Studies; Philosophical Fiction.

Creative:
As a screenwriter, my screenplays have been optioned and developed by Cirrus Communications, Skyfarm Entertainment and Kickstand Entertainment. In 2021, two of my screenplays were Academy Nicholl Fellowship semifinalists, one of which was a top 50 finalist. In addition, I won first prize for best historical screenplay in the 2021 Page Awards, along with a semifinalist placement in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.

Nedi is a visual artist and graphic communicator, a roundly-panoramic profile with a career spreading among Romania, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, and the USA, from the Biennale in Venice with video installations to teaching in OCAD, Toronto, Visual Communications & Art Direction, from teaching classical art and art theory in Paris to teaching Theology and Art of Icon in the theological academic milieu in USA, from art-directing and designing for BBDO, Young&Rubicam to art-directing cinema magazines and theme-based fashion shows in Bucharest and Paris, Nedi Gavriliu brings the colourfully-exotic breath of the very cultural milieu of Europe and a world-round perspective upon Visual Communication. Nedi speaks Romanian, English, French, German, Italian and holds Masters in Fine Arts, Engineering and Theology.