Bio
Short bio:
Nathan Viktor Fawaz (they/he/she) is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Nathan’s work orients itself around the question: how can we live together with a little less murder? Right now, they are working on developing tools and models that can support folks to train in times and spaces of relative peace in order to respond with clarity and kindness in times and spaces of overt conflict and dispute. Nathan's work is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as well as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada through the SMART-CREATE program at the University of Alberta.
More detailed, academic bio:
Nathan Viktor Fawaz (they/he/she) is a PhD Candidate and Trainee (Re-Creation Collective, NSERC SMART-CREATE) in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, as well as an Intern in the Office of the Vice Provost: Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at the University of Alberta. Nathan is curious about the way bodies are and can be mobilized: somatically, affectively, athletically, and narratively to determine and delimit the social conditions in which we exist, intervene, resist, and coexist. Fawaz’s work closely attends the ongoing conversation between stated and implied values (individual, familial, community, and institutional) and the varying effects of value expression (in practice, policy, procedure, and processes). Drawing on their training and experiences in teaching, as a patient, story-listening, fine arts and creative making, community-building, and conflict resolution, Nathan is interested in the ways in which liminal and intersectional subject positions can offer theoretical insight and applied tools toward taking non-exiling approaches to mutual flourishing and collective dignity. Nathan’s work is supported, in part, by funding from: the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada through the SMART-CREATE program at the University of Alberta, the Killam Trust, and the Mitacs Accelerate program.
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Sometimes, related to a talk, folks ask for a photo. Here it is.