Friends, this may be of interest, ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Solidarity in Action - Forum Event 3, 15th April 2021 [RSVP] Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 09:35:41 +0100 From: Solidarity in Action Network <[email protected]> To: Solidarity in Action Network <[email protected]> Dear All, You are warmly invited to the 3rd online Forum of the international *Solidarity in Action Network* on Thursday 15th April 2021, 2-5pm GMT (UK time). The theme is *'The Pedagogy of Solidarity in Two Provocations'.* * * * /*The Coloniality of Solidarity* - Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández/ Solidarity figures prominently in educational projects committed to social change. Yet what precisely solidarity entails, for whom, doing what, and under what conditions is usually only vaguely defined and often in contradictory terms, even when solidarity is a centrepiece of the work at hand. In this brief talk, Gaztambide-Fernández will unpack what the multifarious uses of the concept of solidarity reveal about the colonial and racist underpinnings of the concept and how these are revealed in contemporary uses. He will argue that without paying attention to its colonial and racist underpinnings, any project that invokes the concept of solidarity risks reissuing these logics. /Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of identification in educational contexts. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between cultural production and solidarity./ // * /*How institutions (un)learn?: some ideas around issues of solidarity, community and pedagogy* - Javier Rodrigo/ This presentation will explain how to approach solidarity issues through pedagogical projects in Barcelona, Spain, by examining two particular, contrasting experiences. One, is in collaboration with a group of youth migrants, in the context of a memory museum. The other is a community-run theatre, based on participatory budgeting and direct democracy with special emphasis on community and intercultural criteria for programme development. Both of these examples are presented in order to raise the issue of the need for an institutional pedagogy and to raise a core question of cultural institutions: How do institutions (Un)learn? /Javier Rodrigo is coordinator of Transductores <https://transductores.info/>, a platform about cultural politics, critical mediation, direct cultural democracy and experiments on governance and commons. See more of his writing here <https://independent.academia.edu/JavierRodrigo>./ *There will be an opportunity to question both speakers, before breaking into groups to tackle a series of particular challenges provided by the speakers. * *Some reading in preparation for the Forum* In advance of the 15th April, we request that, ideally, most people will have read at least one of the articles provided by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández below. The first two are short and written for a popular audience, one in English and one in Spanish, and similar in content. The second one is a bit longer and more academic. Here are the links: * Short piece about solidarity <https://theconversation.com/what-is-solidarity-during-coronavirus-and-always-its-more-than-were-all-in-this-together-135002> in English * Similar piece as above, but in Spanish <https://www.80grados.net/el-llamado-a-la-solidaridad/> for those who can read it and are interested * Longer and more academic piece, Decolonization and the Pedagogies of Solidarity <https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18633> *RSVP* We very much hope that as many participants as possible from the Solidarity in Action Network will be able to attend this event on *Thursday 15th April*. Please can you RSVP by *Tuesday 13th* to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (or on the website) and you will then be sent a* calendar invitation*. Looking forward to seeing you and our many new members there. In solidarity, Bernadette -- */Solidarity in Action Network/* e: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>