About
The call for decolonisation is resonating in universities across the globe today. The most dramatic instance has been the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa, which inspired protests such as Rhodes Must Fall at Oxford and “Why is My Curriculum White” at UCL. These movements have found affinities with expanding struggles around race, gender, and class on North American campuses and with the upsurge of interest in decolonisation within professional academia. Our workshops and seminars will focus on one particular aspect of today’s demand to decolonise the university: the curriculum. Drawing from postcolonial, decolonial, and subaltern critiques of social science knowledge production and circulation, the research group will aim to explore the “postcolonial turn” or “Southern turn” in different domains of the humanities and social sciences. The series of activities are both inspired by and in dialogue with the increasing attention to the global plurality of particular disciplines, for example, the need to work toward “a world anthropologies framework”, “global sociology”, or non-Western international relations.
Our questions of decolonising knowledge in the academy are four-fold. First, why is the demand for decolonisation being heard so widely in universities today? Second, what place does decolonising the curriculum have in these broader demands for decolonising the university? Third, what are the experiences with decolonising the university curriculum in different parts of the world? Fourth, what would it mean to decolonise the curriculum in Cambridge?
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Convenors
Convenors
Dr Adam Branch (POLIS)
Dr Manali Desai (Department of Sociology)
Dr Monica Moreno Figueroa (Department of Sociology)
Dr Arathi Sriprakash (Faculty of Education)
Faculty Advisors
Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough (Reader, Faculty of Education)
Programme 2016-17
Decolonising the curriculum in Theory and Practice |
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Decolonizing the Curriculum (Launch) 19 October 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham), Kerem Nisancioglu (SOAS), Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge) -at Decolonising the Curriculum |
Decolonising the Curriculum: Experiences from Latin America 02 November 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Antonio Sergio Guimaraes (São Paulo), Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle), David Lehmann (Cambridge)-at Decolonising the Curriculum |
Pedagogy Workshop. Decolonising Pedagogies or Decolonising the Mind? 16 November 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Debbie Epstein (Roehampton), Sharon Walker (Cambridge)-at Decolonising the Curriculum. Online Registration. Limited places |
Decolonizing the Curriculum: Lessons from South Asia 30 November 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Subir Sinha (SOAS), Ananya Mishra and Mahvish Ahmed (University of Cambridge) (Cambridge) -at Decolonising the Curriculum |
Racism and Emotions in Knowledge-Encounters (Workshop) 01 February 2017, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Cambridge) -at Decolonising the Curriculum |
From Makerere 1962 to Cape Town 2015: Decolonising African Higher Education 15 February 2017, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Adam Cooper (Cape Town), Michael Eze and Njoki Wamai (POLIS, Cambridge) -at Decolonising the Curriculum |
Decolonising the Disciplines 01 March 2017, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS), Ipek Demir (Leicester), Adam Branch (POLIS)- at Decolonising the Curriculum |
Transforming the Tripos? 15 March 2017, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Adam Branch (Cambridge)- at Decolonising the Curriculum |
Decolonising the Curriculum in South Africa 26 April 2017, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Xolela Mangcu (Cape Town) at Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice |
Decolonising STEM 10 May 2017, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Seattle), Arianne Shahvisi (Sussex) at Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice |
British Migration History: Reconstructing the Curriculum 24 May 2017, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Malachi McIntosh (The Runnymede Trust), Robin Bunce (Cambridge), Joanna Story (Leicester) at Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice |
Towards a Decolonised Curriculum in Cambridge: A Draft Manifesto 07 June 2017, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Adam Branch, Manali Desai, Monica Moreno F. and Arathi Sriprakash (Cambridge) at Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice |