Welcome to engage with Prof.dr. Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University, USA) during her visit to WUR.
Farhana Sultana recently edited Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice.
At WUR we teach on her work on decolonizing education at universities and on emotional geographies
on women’s access to water wells in Bangladesh.
Internationally she is a renown interdisciplinary scholar on climate justice, water governance, political
ecology, development geography, and decolonizing knowledge.
Her website adds her work is grounded in critical, feminist, and anti-colonial epistemologies and methodologies,
with particular interest in issues of feminist fieldwork, positionality, power relations, decolonizing academia, and research ethics.
As follow-up on her online keynote at the symposium Gender+ Equality in Academia and Research, she will visit WUR 24-25 June.
You are cordially invited to join:
OPEN LECTURE
Climate Coloniality and the University: Forging Intersectional Pathways in Praxis and Pedagogy
Time: Wednesday 24 June, 11.00-12.30, Orion Building, room C1005, afterwards time for informal exchange
Please register (for updates, calendar invite, optional livestream): https://forms.office.com/e/JGf6a3gnAj
Participating in person is preferred; a livestream link will be provided upon registration.
Abstract
Climate breakdown is the inheritance of centuries of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and uneven development.
It is inequitably borne across intersectionally gendered, racialized, and classed bodies globally.
Climate coloniality names this matrix and the ways it continues to operate through climate impacts, climate
governance, and the very knowledge systems we use to make sense of the crisis.
Universities are not outside these entanglements. Curricula, citation practices, research partnerships, and
institutional cultures all carry colonial legacies that must be confronted if scholarship is to support meaningful justice.
This lecture works through:
- what climate coloniality means as a framework,
- how intersectional gender dynamics are constitutive of it rather than parallel to it, and
- what successful strategies for decolonizing praxis, pedagogy, and higher education institutions themselves could involve.
WASS MASTER CLASS
How to Decolonize Climate Coloniality in Research Complexities and Strategies
Time: Wednesday 24 June, 14.00-16.00, Lumen Building, room 1
Registration is required: https://forms.office.com/e/uwJxrUJ5Cb
Upon registration you get a calendar invite and programme updates.
Participating in person is preferred; a livestream link will be provided upon registration.
This masterclass is open to Ph.D. candidates, postdocs and other interested researchers, also beyond WASS.
In the registration form you can introduce your research, raise any questions beforehand, and tell whether
you like to take the opportunity to pitch (in person only!) your research in 5 minutes and get direct feed-back.
We will select two or three sets of PhD candidates/researchers to actually pitch their research around a poster or
slides highlighting the issues they encountered and sought to solve when trying to include a decolonial perspective.
Farhana Sultana will first react on those pitches after which all can engage in the follow-up exchange.
EXCHANGE MEETING
Practices and Strategies: including decolonial perspectives in courses and curricula
Time: Thursday 25 June, 9.30-11.00, Lumen Building, room 2, tbc
This exchange meeting is meant for the group of teaching staff who includes a decolonial perspective in their teaching
and regularly exchange on experiences and strategies for further integration at both the course and curriculum level.
When you are not yet included in this group and would like to participate, please express your interest.
Farhana Sultana’s visit is made possible by:
* Financial support of WASS, WUR staff group on decolonizing education, WUR Gender+ Equality Plan, SSG-KTI and ESG-WRM.* Organisers Margreet van der Burg (contact/SSG-KTI)), Birgit Boogaard (SSG-KTI) and Bert Bruins (ESG-WRM)