Cathryn Van Kessel's guest appearances

Cathryn Van Kessel

Visions of Education

Powerful with Jeff Couillard

Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” Stuff

Paul Gorski

John Dewey

Adam Friedman

Brenda Tracy

David Levy

Jenn Binis

Betsy DeVos

José Vilson

Dave Burgess

Howard Rheingold

Rafranz Davis

Cindy Blackstock

Peter Nelson

Jennifer Gallagher

Kevin Powell

OwlTail

In this sixth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Cathryn van Kessel, also known as @DrEvilAcademic in relation to her work at the University of Alberta. During their conversation, Dr. van Kessel shares her perspectives on terror management theory (TMT) in relation to the politics of coping with existential threat during a pandemic. She discusses some of the following concepts: love of history, living in Alberta, our mortality, encountering worldviews, fetishizing fear, genocide, assimilation, derogation, annihilation, tolerance, DJ-ing interdisciplinary studies, existential antiracist theory, ideas on evil and death, species humility, Ernest Becker, Alain Badiou, Hannah Arendt, being a weird academic, feeling gross, a caring classroom, and so much more.

Dr. Cathryn van Kessel

Today on Powerful Jeff sits down with Dr. Cathryn Van Kessel and together they conceptualize good and evil and societal ideas surrounding death and the impacts on one's life. Cathryn is a professor at the University of Alberta where she teaches and researches all things evil. In this episode Cathryn discusses how as humans we have a natural biological response to death and that we want to feel stable and permanent and don’t want to die. Cathryn introduces listeners to the fascinating concepts that make up Terror Management Theory and how it illustrates how a direct reminder of death makes humans do weird and quirky things. Give this episode a listen and click on the resources if you want to find out more about this week's topic. Resources Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrEvilAcademic Cathryn Van Kessel profile at U of A: https://www.ualberta.ca/education/about-us/professor-profiles/cathryn-van-kessel The Grim Educator Website: https://pressbooks.library.ualberta.ca/grimeducator/ The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon: https://www.amazon.ca/Worm-Core-Role-Death-Life/dp/1400067472/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiAyeTxBRBvEiwAuM8dnW60T7qRWs_aHT9CSRfKvxrUoNzsabE1IGphNxrqAYjt2_Sj2Us8ixoCAboQAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=208264203762&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9001343&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=8482690808591347758&amp;hvtargid=aud-854586742982%3Akwd-300604677728&amp;hydadcr=22430_9261609&amp;keywords=worm+at+the+core&amp;qid=1580874806&amp;sr=8-1 Wecroak App Cathryn talked about in Episode: https://www.wecroak.com/

Today on Powerful Jeff sits down with Dr. Cathryn Van Kessel and together they conceptualize good and evil and societal ideas surrounding death and the impacts on one's life. Cathryn is a professor at the University of Alberta where she teaches and researches all things evil. In this episode Cathryn discusses how as humans we have a natural biological response to death and that we want to feel stable and permanent and don’t want to die. Cathryn introduces listeners to the fascinating concepts that make up Terror Management Theory and how it illustrates how a direct reminder of death makes humans do weird and quirky things. Give this episode a listen and click on the resources if you want to find out more about this week's topic. Resources Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEvilAcademic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DrEvilAcademic</a> Cathryn Van Kessel profile at U of A: <a href="https://www.ualberta.ca/education/about-us/professor-profiles/cathryn-van-kessel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ualberta.ca/education/about-us/professor-profiles/cathryn-van-kessel</a> The Grim Educator Website: <a href="https://pressbooks.library.ualberta.ca/grimeducator/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pressbooks.library.ualberta.ca/grimeducator/</a> The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon: <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Worm-Core-Role-Death-Life/dp/1400067472/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiAyeTxBRBvEiwAuM8dnW60T7qRWs_aHT9CSRfKvxrUoNzsabE1IGphNxrqAYjt2_Sj2Us8ixoCAboQAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=208264203762&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9001343&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=8482690808591347758&amp;hvtargid=aud-854586742982%3Akwd-300604677728&amp;hydadcr=22430_9261609&amp;keywords=worm+at+the+core&amp;qid=1580874806&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Worm-Core-Role-Death-Life/dp/1400067472/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiAyeTxBRBvEiwAuM8dnW60T7qRWs_aHT9CSRfKvxrUoNzsabE1IGphNxrqAYjt2_Sj2Us8ixoCAboQAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=208264203762&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9001343&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=8482690808591347758&amp;hvtargid=aud-854586742982%3Akwd-300604677728&amp;hydadcr=22430_9261609&amp;keywords=worm+at+the+core&amp;qid=1580874806&amp;sr=8-1</a> Wecroak App Cathryn talked about in Episode: <a href="https://www.wecroak.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wecroak.com/</a>

017 - Dr. Cathryn van Kessel (aka. Dr. Evil)

Ryan Crowley

In episode 75, Michael &amp; Dan chat with Cathryn van Kessel &amp; Ryan M. Crowley about their recent work "Villainification and Evil in Social Studies Education" published in Theory &amp; Research in Social Education. They discuss the need to make historic villains less 'cardboard cutouts' and more three dimensional.

Episode 75: Evil and Villainification in the Social Studies with Cathryn Van Kessel & Ryan Crowley