[PeDAGoG] Invitation to virtual interactive session | 8 July, 2pm GMT

Tue Jun 23 21:10:38 CEST 2020

Hi Julia,

I will try to join circumstances permitting.

Warmly,

Leah

Leah Temper, PhD
Research Associate, Leadership for the Ecozoic, McGill University
PI, Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice
(ACKnowl-EJ) project www.acknowlej.org
Director, Atlas of Environmental Justice www.ejatlas.org

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:32 PM Schöneberg, Julia, Dr.
<Julia.Schoeneberg at uni-kassel.de> wrote:
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> Dear friends,
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> Encouraged by Brandon and Ashish’s call for more interactive collaboration, I would like to propose a virtual session and hope that you’d be interested to participate.
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> At this point, probably all of us are already quite “Zoom”-fatigued. Nevertheless, in some spaces I have also found comfort and new energy through the distant but immediate community with like-minded, in what feels like a detached and rather surreal socially distant situation.
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> I hope that with PeDAGoG we can also create such mutually supportive community, and while I appreciate the resources and interventions shared via the list, I sometimes wish I could put a face to a name.
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> In that spirit, I would like to invite everyone to join me for an interactive workshop/exchange session on 8 July, 2pm GMT.
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> In thematical break-away rooms we will be discussing in smaller groups, giving everyone the chance to talk, share and getting to know each other, before coming back to a final plenary discussion.
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> In terms of thematical foci I have drawn the following from the collaborative board. Of course, these are proposals, please feel free to send me your suggestions of what you’d find important:
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> Teaching in crises: What are the pedagogical implications of the pandemic?
> Neoliberal academic environments: Strategies to cope and counter
> Practicing epistemic disobedience: Decolonizing the classroom
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> Please register through this link:
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> https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrd-ugpj0pHNZzsKmYwGZAMgPUkRbpnDOO
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> Do let me know your thoughts or comments on this.
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> Looking forward to getting to know many new faces on 8 July.
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> Warm wishes,
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> Julia
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> Dr. Julia Schöneberg
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> University of Kassel
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> Chair for Development and Postcolonial Studies
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> DFG-funded project “Theorizing Post-Development”
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> Twitter: @j_schoeneberg
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> RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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> (2019) Development: a failed project, Blog for Open Democracy
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> (2019) Imagining Postcolonial-Development Studies - Reflections on Positionality and Research Practices, in: Baud, Isabelle, Tiina Kontinen, Elisabetta Basile (eds.): "Building Development Studies for the New Millennium" (EADI Series on Global Development), Palgrave MacMillan: London.
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> (2019) Manoueuvring political realms: Alternatives to Development in Haiti, in: Elise Klein, Carlos Eduardo Morreo (eds.) Post-Development in Practice, Routledge: London.
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