30 Jan
2024
30 Jan
'24
9:23 a.m.
Dear BERGers,
Just a quick reminder that Kay Sidebottom (University of Stirling) will be giving a
seminar tomorrow entitled "Pedagogies of Attunement: Learning from More-Than-Human
Teachers". Please see the abstract below. The meeting will take place in the Common
Room with an option to join online (link below).
Abstract: Our current ecological predicament requires a shift to a post-anthropocentric
educational paradigm in which we educate for and about a world that is not ‘for us,’ but
comprised of a multitude of eco-systems of which we are simply a part. To facilitate this,
education should be enacted differently; we need to experience learning not as furthering
entrenched nature/culture binaries, but as ‘worlding’ processes, whereby imaginary divides
between individual and environment are troubled, as humans and the material world are
revealed to be relational and entangled (Braidotti, 2019). In this seminar I will share
the story of a recent research project which in which participants (both human and non-)
came together to explore what happens when we cease to privilege humans as the ultimate
instructors and holders of knowledge. In doing so we disrupted normative research
methodologies, drawing on an ethics of care and relationality which extended the ‘teacher’
role to non-human kin such as water, plants and animals.
MSTeams link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…
Spring Semester speakers:
Date
Time
Speaker
Format
31/01/2024
16:00
Kay Sidebottom (Stirling)
F2F/hybrid
07/02/2024
09:00
Mike Huffman (Kyoto)
Online
14/02/2024
16:00
Amaya Albalat (Stirling)
Talk F2F/hybrid
21/02/2024
16:00
Kirsten Blakey (Stirling)
Talk F2F/hybrid
28/02/2024
16:00
TBC
06/03/2024
No meeting (reading week)
13/03/2024
16:00
TBC
20/03/2024
16:00
Impact research catch up (core BERGers)
F2F
27/03/2024
16:00
Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge)
Online
03/04/2024
16:00
TBC
F2F
10/04/2024
16:00
Matti Wilks (Edinburgh; TENTATIVE will confirm in Jan)
F2F
17/04/2024
16:00
Victor Shirimizu (Strathlyde)
F2F
24/04/2024
16:00
Lifespan equipment demonstration. F2F
01/05/2024
16:00
Victoria Lee (SRUC)
F2F/hybrid
Best wishes,
Pawel
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Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his)
Lecturer in Psychology
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)
Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK
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I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday).
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