Keynote Speakers

We are honoured to have four brilliant keynote speakers who will be presenting at this year’s conference. These speakers will engage in discussions that are based in both theory and application, from distinct and important disciplines.

Dr. Nathan Radke

Dr. Nathan Radke is a Cultural Theory professor at Humber College, and completed his MA in Sociology at Lakehead University. He co-authored the 2018 textbook Ethical Perspectives published by Oxford University Press. He specializes in conspiracy theories, particularly the manner in which ideas behave as social contagions. He is the author of Simveillance in Hyperreal Las Vegas and a contributor to Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History. He also co-founded the Conspiracy Theory podcast The Uncoverup which is available on iTunes and Soundcloud.

Dr. Lee Kuhnle

Dr. Lee Kuhnle is a college professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Humber College, a co-host of The Uncover Up podcast as well as a regular contributor to the Conspiracy Roundtable radio show on CFRB1010. He is a graduate of York University’s social and political thought doctoral program. Lee researches broadly in the field of ‘ideology critique, focusing most recently on the role of conspiracy theories in liberal democratic political cultures.

Dr. Gabriel Rockhill

Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher, cultural critic, and political theorist. He teaches at Villanova University and Graterford Prison, and he directs the Critical Theory Workshop at the Sorbonne. His recent books include Counter-History of the Present (2017), Interventions in Contemporary Thought (2016) and, Radical History & the Politics of Art (2014).

Nada Koreish

Nada Koreish is a disruptor and an academic, currently obtaining her PhD in Decolonial Fashion Studies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, where she also lectures. Nada is the founder of the Fashion Liberation Collective North Africa, and is a Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) academic. In her presentation, entitled, “Voices Lost in Time: Presenting a Distinct, Decolonial, North African Fashion Aesthetic by Reclaiming the Lost Traces of History and Culture,” Nada will be speaking to decoloniality and fashion; aesthetics/global fashion languages; North African identity and cultural representation; fashion sustainability and circular systems; decentering Western narratives in art and design; Orientalism; mega trends, trend analysis and their associated cultural vectors; ideas of wokeness; cultural appropriation; and, critical race theory.