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:
Spring Semester speakers:
Date
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Time
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Speaker
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Format
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31/01/2024
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16:00
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Kay Sidebottom (Stirling)
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F2F/hybrid
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07/02/2024
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09:00
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Mike Huffman (Kyoto)
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Online
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14/02/2024
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16:00
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Amaya Albalat (Stirling)
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Talk F2F/hybrid
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21/02/2024
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16:00
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Kirsten Blakey (Stirling)
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Talk F2F/hybrid
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28/02/2024
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16:00
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TBC
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06/03/2024
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No meeting (reading week)
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13/03/2024
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16:00
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TBC
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20/03/2024
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16:00
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Impact research catch up (core BERGers)
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F2F
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27/03/2024
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16:00
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Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge)
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Online
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03/04/2024
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16:00
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TBC
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F2F
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10/04/2024
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16:00
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Matti Wilks (Edinburgh; TENTATIVE will confirm in Jan)
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F2F
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17/04/2024
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16:00
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Victor Shirimizu (Strathlyde)
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F2F
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24/04/2024
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16:00
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Lifespan equipment demonstration. F2F
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01/05/2024
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16:00
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Victoria Lee (SRUC)
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F2F/hybrid
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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
Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844
Twitter: @fedurekp @BERG_Stirling
I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday).