CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & SCHOLAR-ARTIST TALKS
2022
Sobko, Sophia. (2022, Oct). Building Community in the University Classroom. Invited speaker in Graduate Pedagogy course, Professor Glynda Hull. Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.
Sobko, Sophia. (2022, March). On Jewish Art and Fear. Panel: Fear + Expression in Contemporary Jewish Art Practice. The Conney Conference on Jewish Arts. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sobko, Sophia and Santiago Slabodsky (2022, April). The Ukraine Crisis: Jewish and Queer Perspectives. Hofstra University.
2021
Sobko, Sophia. (2021, Dec 19). Decolonial and Abolitionist Approaches to Jewish Whiteness in the U.S. Roundtable organized for the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Sobko, Sophia. (2021, Dec 19). To Be Queer, Soviet and Jewish on Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada). Paper presented on the panel “Queer Studies in Global Contexts”, at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Sobko, Sophia (2021, Nov 25). The Weaponization of Soviet Jewish Immigration, a Decolonial Perspective. Migration to/from/within Central and Eastern Europe: Decolonial perspectives on race, gender, sexuality and class. Regional Studies Association Research Network on Postdependence Geographies in Central and Eastern Europe (PostCEE).
Sobko, Sophia. (2021, Oct 11). Re-Imagining Diaspora From Assimilation to Co-Liberation: a Collaborative, Virtual Approach Among Queer Post-Soviet Jews. Paper presented on the panel “Promising Pedagogies”, at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association.
Sobko, Sophia. (2021, April 12). Kolektiv Goluboy Vagon: A Virtual, Collaborative Approach to De-assimilation Among White(ned) Immigrants. Paper presented on the panel “Telling Our Own Stories, Together; Singularity & Solidarity in Literacy Collectives” at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association.
Sobko, Sophia. (2021, February). Community, Conflict, and Inclusion —What Kind of Classroom do I Want to Create? Invited speaker in Graduate Pedagogy course, Professor Glynda Hull. Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.
2020
Sobko, Sophia. (2020, Dec 7). Soviet Jewish Negotiations of Whiteness in the U.S. Diaspora, 1980s-present. Paper presented on panel “Jews, Race, and Ethnicity” at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.
2019
Sobko, Sophia. (2019, November). Queer, Soviet Jewish Immigrants: Political Education and Art Studio. Artist talk given at Asylum Arts Retreat, SF Bay Area.
Sobko, Sophia. (2019, April). Weaponized as White: Soviet Jewish Immigrant-Settlers Under U.S. Neoliberal Multiculturalism. Paper presented at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education Research Day.
Sobko, Sophia. (2019, April). Weaponized as White: Soviet Jewish Immigrant-Settlers Under U.S. Neoliberal Multiculturalism. Invited Talk in graduate Critical Whiteness Studies course, Professor Zeus Leonardo. Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.
Sobko, S., Varona, Y., Galvan Godoy, M., Sanchez Paulsen, M. (2019, March 13). Cuentos Para Dormir. Invited Guest Lecture, English Department, UC Berkeley.
2018
Sobko, S. and Adams, J. (2018, May 19). Collaborative Media and Critical Practices: Transforming Undergraduate Learning Online. Paper presented at Dis-Covering Discourse Conference.
Sobko, S., Arbara, S. and Willenz, G. (2018, April). Monumental Monument: Graphite Rubbings and Double Anachronism: Staging Antigone in Medieval Times at the Border. Artist Talk given at Border Talks, UC Berkeley.
Sobko, Sophia. (2018, March). “Photovoice: from recognition to redistribution through images.“ Invited presentation in graduate Community Based Participatory Action Research course, Professor Emily Ozer. School of Public Health, UC Berkeley.
2017
Sobko, Sophia, Robert Vivar and Yolanda Varona. (2017, September 29). Presentation: Cuentos Para Dormir/Bedtime Stories by Deported Parents. Invited Guest Lecture. San Diego State University.
Sobko, S., Unadkat, D., & Hull, G. (April 2017). Collaborative Meaning-Making in Online and Hybrid Classroom Contexts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
2016
Sobko, Sophia and Dreamers Moms USA-Tijuana. (2016, Oct 3-4). Bedtime Stories: Historias de Familias Separadas por la Deportación. Art Exhibition: Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, MX.
Sobko, Sophia and Dreamers Moms USA-Tijuana (2016, May 3). Cuentos Para Dormir: Binational Reading. Presentation given at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, BC, MX.
Sobko, S., Vivar, R. and Varona, Y. (2016, May 2). Cuentos Para Dormir/Bedtime Stories by Deported Parents. Invited Guest Lecture given at University of Oregon.
Sobko, Sophia. (2016, February 26). Perceptions of Belonging Among First-Year Latinx Undergraduates at UC Berkeley. Paper presented at Graduate School of Education Research Day.
Sobko, S., Vivar, R. and Varona, Y. (2016, March 12). Cuentos Para Dormir/Bedtime Stories by Deported Parents. Invited Guest Lecture given at Universidad Autónoma, Tijuana, BC, MX.
Sobko, S., Vivar, R. and Varona, Y. (2016, March 11). Cuentos Para Dormir/Bedtime Stories by Deported Parents. Presentation at Creando Enlaces Bi-National Library Conference, Tijuana, BC, MX.