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Presenting in the AERI symposium
Human Rights through Mobile Justice at the Finnish Border: Looking back and Mapping for Future Peace Education through Art
In this presentation we explore both the historical and current situation of the Finnish/Russian border, which was protected by the Finns during World War Two (WWII) and closed for the first time in history in November 2023. We share the findings of our interdisciplinary research on the conflict, focusing on family member’s narrations, along with the recent events of mobile individuals in the context of the Finnish border. This research project is conducted in the intersection of international law and arts-based research in art education.
Presenters: Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin and Oona Kallio / September 21, 2024 / University of Cambridge
Presenting in the AERI symposium
The ongoing collaborative research project is identified as post-humanist.The most accurate and broadly applicable definition for the project is artistic research, the utilized methods and approaches benefit from the traditions of qualitative research. Through the artwork and artistic research processes carried out by us and others, and particularly being informed by the challenges our research and pedagogical processes have presented to us, we propose an orientation of care for/through/with as a form of slow resistance, as an act of taking a stance, an engagement in subtle activism that may not seem radical but that asks for a gradual and holistic reorientation.
Presenters: Mira Kallio-Tavin & Anniina Suominen
Keynote Speaker in the InSEA 2023 World Congress
Fault Lines, September 4-8, 2023, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Western Turkey
This presentation will discuss some of the contemporary struggles of our times and present insights on how art education might be able to tackle them. While many current societal, environmental, and geopolitical situations are causing worry and anxiety in multiple and intersecting ways, the main focus of the presentation is on dismantling methods driven from care work and work on justice by artists and educators. The examples come particularly from the intersection of critical disability studies and critical animal studies. Key concepts of the presentation, agency, care, and equity are problematized and further developed to respond better to the needs of art classrooms and in the society at large. Art and art educational practices are discussed as important recourses for art teachers and art educators. The presentation will focus on questions, such as, how art teachers could better include justice in their curriculum.
Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin Wins 2022 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award for Art Education
The National Art Education Association (NAEA) has granted Winnie Chandler Distinguished Professor of Art, Dr. Kallio-Tavin, the 2022 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award. The prestigious award recognizes an outstanding NAEA member who, through their published work in either Art Education or Studies in Art Education, has contributed a product of scholarly merit to the field of art education. The award was presented at the NAEA National Convention in New York on March 5, 2022.
The award was granted for Dr. Kallio-Tavin on her Studies in Art Education publication titled “Art Education Beyond Anthropocentricism: The Question of Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Art and its Education.” The publication recognizes current problems in human co-existence with nonhuman lives and speaks to the urgent needs of environmental, ecological, ethical, and social justice concerns of current times. The publication develops and decenters humanist-centered philosophy in art education through posthumanist lenses, introducing critical animal studies to the field of art education.