Working Group A Anahi Alviso-Marino / Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/University Gustave Eiffel, France / Project: Mapping Monument Stories (Find abstract and short bio here: Mapping Monument...
Reading Material for the Theoretical Considerations Sessions Thursday, 2 June 11.30 – 13.00 Theoretical considerations I: Social and Historical Context: How Biographies Move: The spatial and structural...
Second keynote lecture in the run up to the Summer School Moving Biography Thursday, 21 April 2022, 4-6pm (UTC+3) American University of Beirut, IFI Auditorium, Green Oval A...
First keynote lecture in the run up to the Summer School Moving Biography Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 6-7.30pm (UTC+3) Orient-Institut Beirut Abstract This is an attempt to examine in...
LAWHA/Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the American University of Beirut (AUB), and the Global (De)Centre (GDC) are convening an international Summer School, entitled Moving Biography, that will...
By Kwok Kian Chow: Think of how the switching between languages, cultures and epistemologies can itself be an integral part of reading and writing, and...
André Keet’s GDC webinar envisions a conversation between the notions of Africanising and decolonising the university; and how this may look like in the South African and African context. It further locates these discussions within an African interpretation of Critical University Studies, understood as the study of universities through analyses of power, privilege and authority. Reflecting on different programmes and their associated practices that orbit the notions of Africanisation and decolonisation within universities, the talk also attempts at linking these praxes with the general decentring programme.
Moving Biography is a one-week interdisciplinary summer school bringing together different perspectives, to question disciplinary assumptions and decenter life writing. Convening an interdisciplinary group of...
The title comes from a poem by Saleha Obeid Ghabesh, about solidarity between women across time and space. Raewyn considers the nature of the dominant knowledge formation, several kinds of alternative knowledge formations, and issues in the process of decolonizing university work and establishing epistemic diversity. Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, and Life Member of the National Tertiary Education Union. She is a widely-cited sociological researcher, the author of Gender & Power, Masculinities, and Southern Theory. Her recent books include The Good University and Gênero em termos reais. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Raewyn has been active in the labour movement, the peace movement, and work for gender equality. Details at www.raewynconnell.net and Twitter @raewynconnell.
In this conversation Peggy Levitt talks with GDC member May Al Dabbagh about the meaning of decentering from the Gulf region and about how she developed “Self Tracing” as a research method and pedagogy tool. May Al-Dabbagh is an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has an associated appointment as a global network assistant professor at New York University. She conducts research on gender and work in the Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She runs Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought as part of the the newly established Arab Center for the Study of Art.