Presentations
KEYNOTES
Shannon, D. B. (September 2023). Neuroqueer(ing) intimacy as an animate literacy: The queer intimacy of intensive interactions in the special education classroom. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE).
CONFERENCES
Shannon, D. B., and Hackett, A. (January 2024) The ‘right to opacity’ in early childhood education: Reciprocity and Relation. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Philadelphia, USA.
Shannon, D. B. (March 2024) Why queer? Why neuroqueer? Why now? INeuro)Queering Education. Manchester, UK.
Shannon, D. B., and Truman, S. E. (January 2024). Cosmic Beavers: Queer counter-mythologies and the practice of research-creation. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI). Helsinki, Finland.
Shannon, D. B., and Truman, S. E. (January 2024) Queering nostalgia: Speculating with “Doctor Who” character Alpha Centauri towards utopic futures. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI). Helsinki, Finland.
Shannon, D. B., and Hackett, A. (January 2024) The ‘right to opacity’ in early childhood education: Reciprocity and Relation. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI). Helsinki, Finland.
Adams, G., Burnett, C., Shannon, D. B., Shetty, P. (August 2023). Is a Diversification in Sources of Expertise Accompanied by Lack of Diversity in the Research that Gains Influence? European Congress of Educational Research (ECER). Glasgow, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (August 2023). Problematising Competence in Special Education Classrooms through Intensive Interactions communication strategies. European Congress of Educational Research (ECER). Glasgow, UK.
Shannon, D. B. & Cermakova, A. (June 2023). Using case studies to examine movements of research. UK Literacy Associated (UKLA). Exeter, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (June 2023). A/autisms :: A queer labor of the incommensurate. Child as Method symposium. Manchester, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (March 2023) A/autisms :: A queer labor of the incommensurate. INeuro)Queering Childhoods. Manchester, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (April 2023). Neuroqueering ‘literacies:’ Contesting competence in a primary special education literacy classroom. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Chicago, US.
Shannon, D. B. and Truman, S. E. (April 2023). The Queer Temporal Contours of Alpha Centauri: Mobilising Future-Oriented Nostalgia as a Praxis for Imaging Queerer Worlds Through Musical Fan Fiction. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Chicago, US.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (January 2023). Conceptual Vaudeville: Songwriting Methodologies with Oblique Curiosities. European Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. Portsmouth, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (January 2023). European Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. Portsmouth, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (June 2022). Reciprocity as semiosis: Thinking literacy beyond meaning in ‘Intensive Interactions’.
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education.
Shannon, D. B. (June 2022). ‘Intensive interactions’: Neuroqueering ‘literacy’ in the special education classroom.
The International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE). Cyprus.
Shannon, D. B. (May 2022). ‘Intensive interactions’: (Neuro)Queer intimacies, and ‘animate literacies’ in the special education classroom.
Canadian Sociological Association. Virtual.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (May 2022). Cosmic Beavers: Queer counter-mythologies and the practice of research-creation.
Association for Philosophy and Literature. Banff.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (April 2021). Counter-archives of feeling: In-school speculations on queer pasts and anticolonial futures.
American Education Research Association (AERA). Virtual conference.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (August 2020). Speculative Songwriting and Queer Futurities.
European Congress of Educational Research (ECER). Glasgow, Scotland. [Conference cancelled]
Shannon, D. B. (April 2020). Beyond the “state of permanent tension”: Listening affirmatively to Black Madness in the music classroom.
American Education Research Association (AERA). San Francisco, California, USA. [Conference cancelled]
Shannon, D. B. (April 2020). Affirming neuro-queer rhetorics in early childhood education.
American Education Research Association (AERA). San Francisco, California, USA. [Conference cancelled]
Shannon, D. B. (April 2020). Refusing volition, refusing music, refusing time: Neuroqueer sonic/autonomic refrains in early childhood composition.
American Education Research Association (AERA). San Francisco, California, USA. [Conference cancelled]
Shannon, D. B. (December 2019). (in)Audible, (in)Audacious and (in)Affective: Neuroqueering the soundwalk.
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Shannon, D. B. (December 2019). Contesting chrono-ableism: Neuroqueer refrainic refusals in young children’s musical compositions.
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (December 2019). Queer textualities and temporalities: speculating-with Alpha Centauri.
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (December 2019). Luring Feeling: Composing with public’s affective milieu.
Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA). Brisbane, Queensland , Australia.
Shannon, D. B. (July 2019). Sounding a neuroqueer future: Walking-composing in Northern England.
Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies (CDS). Liverpool, UK.
Shannon, D. B. (May 2019). Chrono-ableist contours of neuroqueer meanderings: Electrodermal activity and sonic research-creation in northern England.
Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). Illinois, ON.
Shannon, D. B. (April 2019). (Neuro)queer temporalities: 'Surprising deviants' in northern England.
American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS). Toronto, ON.
Shannon, D. B. (April 2019). Rhetorical inclusion beyond the “Inclusion” rhetorics: Neuroqueer literacies in Northern England.
American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS). Toronto, ON.
Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (August 2018). Queer sonic cultures: An affective walking-composing project.
Capacious: Affective Inquiry/Making Space. Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Shannon, D. B. (August 2018). Affect and Neuro-diverse learning in the Early Years: Sound-art as relational pedagogy.
Capacious:Affective Inquiry/Making Space. Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Shannon, D. B. and Truman, S. E. (July 2018). Queer the landscape: Walking-songing-researching from Melrose to Lindisfarne.
Beyond The Pedestrian. Liverpool, UK.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
Shannon, D. B. (November 2023). Neuroqueer(ing) Noise. Social & Economic Research Institute Seminar Series. Sheffield Hallam University.
Shannon, D. B. (July 2023). A/autisms :: a “necessary queer labor of the incommensurate.” Child as Method International Symposium. University of Manchester.
Shannon, D. B. (May 2022). Neuroqueering literacy: Intimacies and intensities in the special education classroom.Language, Place and Childhood. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Shannon, D. B. (August 2021). Trajectories matter: Theories of affect and disability justice in an in-school research-creation project. Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry. University of Missouri and the University of the Western Cape.
Shannon, D. B. (July 2021). Teaching for neurodiversity. Montessori Network.