Koby Rogers Hall

Koby Rogers Hall is an artist, writer and social practice facilitator based in Montreal. Her recent projects are dedicated to dialogical arts practices, archiving as cultural activism, and public interventions for political engagement. She conceives and facilitates social practice design with the performance collective Mischief Theatre, the multidisciplinary arts activist PreOccupations, the Politics & Care project, and the Artists’ Bloc of the Immigrant Workers’ Center in Montreal. She has taught classes at UQAM (Montreal), the Department of Arts Politics (NYU), and as part-time faculty with the Theatre Department and with the Community Economic Development (CED) Graduate Diploma Program through the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. Her pedagogical practice has been invited by the Living Knowledge project of the Office of Community Engagement at Concordia, distinguishing itself as a community-based experiential learning project. 

Koby has exhibited and performed at La Mama ETC. and No Longer Empty, New York; centre des arts actuels Skol, Fonderie Darling, Tangente, and Studio 303, Montreal; the Rhubarb Festival and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto; the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentros in Montreal and Sao Paolo; and in Hawai’i as a YEMOYA international artist in residency with mentor-facilitator d’bi young anitafrika; among others.

She has received multi-year awards and funding from York University, Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), the Rosa Parks Fellowship for Non-violent studies, the Zonta Club of Ottawa Emerging Artist Award, the Canadian Millenium Scholarship Awards, Engrenage Rouage Noir, and the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Koby holds an MA in Arts Politics from Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) and a BFA in Theatre, specialised in Collective Creation (York University). She is pursuing her PhD in Humanities at Concordia's Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISCC) with a focus on migrant justice in social arts practices. Her thesis research has been supported by the Concordia Merit Scholarship, Hydro-Quebec Graduate Award, and the Miriam Aaron Roland Fellowship in PhD Humanities. Koby is a Social Justice Fellow (2021-22) with the Social Justice Centre at Concordia, and a SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship recipient for her research-creation thesis.

Living and writing from Tiohtiá:ke on unceded Indigenous lands, I recognise the Kanien’kehá:ka people as the keepers of the land and water. These territories have been meeting grounds for many nations over time, as well as the Kanien’kehá:ka inspiring resistance through the Kanehsatà:ke and Akwesane 1990 blockades, to name some of many.  My research-creation involves a commitment to engaging with contested knowledge systems, and an ongoing curiosity for my embodiment of settler-colonial relations to Indigenous Peoples resurgence, in past, present and futures.  

2020

COMS352: Media Policy in Canada, Bachelor of Arts program of the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University (Nostudent evaluations due to COVID-19)

2019

COMS225: Media Institutions and Policies, Bachelor of Arts program of the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University (Overall Student Evaluation: 1.43 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS460:Political Communication,Bachelor of Arts program of the Department of Communication Studies,Concordia University (Overall Student Evaluation: 2.33outof 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

2018

COMS352: Media Policy in Canada, Bachelor of Arts program of the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University (Overall Student Evaluation: 1.78 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS644: Media Policy, Masters of Arts in Media Studies program of the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University (Overall Student Evaluation: 2.00 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

2017

COMS225: Media Institutions and Policies, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University

COMS352: Media Policy in Canada, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University (OverallStudent Evaluation: 1.53 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS460: Political Communication, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University

COMS460: Political Communication, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University (OverallStudent Evaluation: 1.85 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

2016

COMS225: Media Institutions and Policies, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University (OverallStudent Evaluation: 1.88 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS352: Media Policy in Canada, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University (OverallStudent Evaluation: 2.41 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS422: Perspectives on the Information Society, Bachelor of Artsprogram of the Department of Communication Studies, ConcordiaUniversity (Overall Student Evaluation: 1.92 out of 5 with 1 meaningExcellent)

COMS627: Political Economy of Communication, Masters of Arts in MediaStudies Program of the Department of Communication Studies, ConcordiaUniversity (Overall Student Evaluation: 1.33 out of 5 with 1 meaningExcellent)

2015

COMS 893 (Concordia) /FCM918G (UQAM) / COM7191 (U de M): Special Topic : Approaches tointellectual property and media piracy / Séminaire avancé encommunication : propriété intellectuelle et piratage des médias,Joint Doctorate in Communication program in the Department ofCommunication, Concordia University

COMS 225: MediaInstitutions and Policies, Bachelor of Arts program of the Departmentof Communication Studies, Concordia University (OverallStudent Evaluation: 1.95out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS 642E : SpecialTopics in Media Studies: ARRRGH! Approaches to Media Piracy andIntellectual Property, Masters of Arts in Media Studies Program ofthe Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University(Overall Student Evaluation: 1.33 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS352: Media Policy in Canada, Bachelor of Arts program of theDepartment of Communication Studies, Concordia University (OverallStudent Evaluation: 1.75 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

2014

COMS 506: Approaches toMedia and Technology, Diploma of the Department of CommunicationStudies, Concordia University (Overall Student Evaluation: 1.71 outof 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS 352: Media Policy inCanada, Bachelor of Arts program of the Department of CommunicationStudies, Concordia University (Overall Student Evaluation: 1.95 outof 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

2013

COMS 225: MediaInstitutions and Policies, Bachelor of Arts program of the Departmentof Communication Studies, Concordia University (Overall StudentEvaluation: 1.32 out of 5 with 1 meaning Excellent)

COMS 495: Special Topicsin Communications, Department of Communication, University ofWashington

COM 407: CommunicationTechnology and Politics, Department of Communication, University ofWashington

Research Funding

2021-2022,Heritage Department, Government of Canada, “What to Watch Next,”$90,536,Primary Investigator,Co-applicants:Jonathan Roberge, Ganaele Langlois & Greg Elmer.

2020-2024,Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada InsightGrant,“Media Governance After AI,”$218,383,Primary Investigator. Co-PI:Jonathan Roberge.

2020-2023,Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Open Research Area, “Shaping 21st Century AI: Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy, and Research”. Canadian team co-lead with Jonathan Roberge, $368,777 (Canadian budget).

2020-2021,Heritage Department, Government of Canada, “Digital Disinformation and Citizenship Network,” $230,000,Primary Investigator,Co-applicants:Ganaele Langlois, Wendy Chun & Ahmed Al-Rawi.

2020-2027,FRQSC Program: Strategic Cluster (Network), “Hexagram”,$1,827,000, Collaborator.

2018-2019,Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge, “The GreatCanadian Encyclopedia of Political Memes”,$49,000,Primary Investigator.

2018-2019,Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connections Grant, “Democracy in disruption? Engaging Canadians to face emerging threats to democracy,” $49,853, Primary Investigator.

2018, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Engage Grant, "Identifying effective policies to respond to online interference in elections,” $24,954,collaborator.

2016-2019, Fonds derecherche du Québec – Société et culture, Établissement denouveaux professeurs-chercheurs, “Le vote programmé, ou comment la politique est devenue affaire de calcul”, $37,638, PrimaryInvestigator .

2016-2018, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant, “Publicizing the Canadian Internet”, $71,929,Primary Investigator (Dr. Light, Co-applicant, Dr. Rajabiun,collaborator)

2016-2018, Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship Seed Grant, “One Person, One Vote? Blockchain Technologies and Experiments in Voting and Party Governance”, $6,831 Primary Investigator (Dr. Jeremy Clark,Co-applicant)

2014-2015,Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Digging into Data, “Project Arclight: Analytics for the Study of 20thCentury Media”, $204,066, Internal Co-Investigator (Dr. Charles Acland and Dr. Eric Hoyt, Primary Investigators).