Jeudi 20 avril 18h – 20h en ligne
5th session of the “Invisible Lives, Silent Voices” International Seminar co-organised by Alice Borrego (EMMA, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Héloïse Lecomte (IRHIM, ENS Lyon), Dr Gero Guttzeit (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) and Professor Esther Peeren (ASCA, University of Amsterdam).
Invisible Lives, Silent Voices: Decolonial Pedagogy – Dr Sukanya Banerjee (UC Berkeley) & Pr Fiona McCann (University of Lille);
Chair: Dr Sandeep Bakshi (Université Paris Cité)
Sukanya Banerjee (UC Berkeley) - “The Sketch, Mid-Victorian Urbanity, and Literary/Colonial Historiography”
What can a Bengali text from the mid-nineteenth century teach us about decolonial pedagogy? Kaliprasanna Sinha’s Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (Observations of Hutom the Owl; 1862) provides a bird’s eye-view, so to speak, of nineteenth-century Calcutta, the bustling metropolis that also served as the seat of the British government in India. The text provides vignettes of urban life but does so by deploying the form of the literary sketch and a narrative mode that is nonevental. In so doing, Hutom, this paper suggests, provides an object lesson in negotiating the assumptions of an Anglocentric literary history. But reading Sinha’s text in this vein is also to query received notions of “colonial resistance” in ways that urge us to review what we choose to render visible, and why.
Fiona McCann (University of Lille) - “Teaching and Researching with Care in the Capitalocene: Towards Decolonial Pedagogies?”
This presentation will attempt to unpack the ways in which decolonial and care thinking (and practices) speak to, and complement, each other, whether in the classroom or in research. Starting from the premise that we are in the midst of catastrophic climate disaster engineered by several hundred years of enmeshed colonialism and capitalism, and that this situation can, beyond the obvious physical consequences, engender both intense anxiety and feelings of futility, I would like to explore some of the ways in which we might proactively counter these affective responses. I will briefly point to the points of convergence of care and decolonial thinking before gesturing towards how they can be harnessed in university classroom situations to the mutual benefit of students and teachers. I will finally offer a few examples of how this two-pronged reflection might translate into research on contemporary literatures.
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