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Place and pedagogy: anti-colonial and feminist approaches

When: Friday, May 23, 2025, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: Senior Common Room, 4th Floor, ArtsTwo Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS and offsite around Whitechapel

A workshop organised by Dr Kate Lewis Hood as part of the Place and Pedagogy network in the School of the Arts

This workshop seeks to generate and nurture cross-disciplinary conversations around place-based pedagogies in teaching and research. The workshop focuses on responding to ongoing legacies of empire, capitalism, and environmental breakdown via anti-colonial, anti-racist, and feminist methods and perspectives. Together, we will share and envision pedagogies that build responsible relationships with the places we work with and from.

This workshop is open to teaching staff, postgraduate and early career researchers, and academics across the humanities and social sciences. Please join us if you currently use, or are interested in using, place-based methods in teaching and/or research (this could include walking lectures, fieldwork, site-specific creative practices, and more).

Key questions

The workshop aims to respond to the following questions through collective conversation, study, and practice:

  1. What are the possibilities and responsibilities of place-based pedagogies in the context of colonial legacies and uneven environmental breakdown?
  2. How do anti-colonial and feminist approaches that question and seek to transform spatial inscriptions of power enable and reconfigure critical, redistributive, and reciprocal place-based pedagogies?
  3. What mutual learning can emerge between research, teaching, and practice engaging with place-based pedagogies?
  4. How might this learning feed into situated, interconnected research and teaching agendas that intervene in extractive modes of knowledge production?

Agenda

09.30-10.00: Welcome, tea and coffee

10.00-11.00: Introductions and collective questions

11.00-13.00: Walk led by Dr Ansar Ahmed Ullah (Swadhinata Trust) on Bengali anti-racist mobilisation in the East End

13.00-14.00: Lunch (vegetarian/vegan)

14.00-15.30: Discussion and practice-sharing around place-based pedagogies (suggested readings will be circulated in advance)

15.30-16.00: Break, tea and coffee

16.00-17.00: Reflections and co-imagining

Accessibility

The workshop will take place in ArtsTwo building on the Mile End campus, and offsite around Brick Lane and Whitechapel. For the walking session, we will travel in groups from QMUL, and participants can choose between public transport (bus/tube, 15-20 mins), walk (approx. 30 mins), or cycle (approx. 10 mins). We will spend 1.5-2 hours outside, with a mixture of walking and standing. You can find more accessibility information about ArtsTwo here: https://www.accessable.co.uk/queen-mary-university-of-london/mile-end/access-guides/arts-two. Please reach out to Kate at k.lewishood@qmul.ac.uk if you would like to discuss accessibility further.

All are welcome but please register via Eventbrite webpage.

Organiser

This workshop has been organised by Dr Kate Lewis Hood as part of the Place and Pedagogy network in the School of the Arts. The workshop is funded by the IHSS Early Career Workshop Funding Scheme.

Image credit: Alan Denney, 1978

 

 

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