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Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently?
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Please join us for a panel entitled Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently?, part of the Decolonization In Focus series. This series, cosponsored by the Harriman Institute, was developed and executed by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, with support from the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies.

This event is online only.

Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently? is the fifth panel of the Decolonization in Focus SeriesThis session is devoted to how classroom pedagogies and syllabus design can help to decolonize Slavic studies. What practices are already in place within the region that can be implemented in the US? How can decolonizing the syllabus lead to better engagement by minority and first generation college students? Moderated by Caress Schenk, Associate Professor of Political Science, Nazarbayev University.

About the Series

The Russian war in Ukraine has had innumerable impacts, from the personal to the political, local, national and global. One of the many sea changes wrought by the war has been the reckoning within Slavic/Russian & Eurasian Studies over the outsized role Russia has played and continues to play in the field and what could and should be done about it. The invited panelists in this series will consider the relationships of power that have long dominated the region, how they have impacted the field of study, and what, if anything, could and should be done about it.

The series will consist of six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field. All sessions will be convened using Zoom, live-streamed via YouTube, and recorded to be made available for later viewing.

Speakers

  • Shoshana Keller, Chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Director of Russian Studies, Hamilton College
  • Louis Porter, Assistant Professor of History, Texas State University

 

Image: Oleg Petrasiuk, Ukraine

 

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