Proposal Title
Gender Violence and Course & Curriculum Design: Performing a Feminist Pedagogy
Location
Room 2-048
Start Date
9-11-2018 10:45 AM
End Date
9-11-2018 11:45 AM
Presentation Type
Workshop
Abstract
This workshop presents participants with an undergraduate curriculum and an evolving toolkit – a feminist pedagogy (Ahmed, 2017) – to articulate specific ways the presenters are incorporating the study of gender violence while exploring ideas of collective action. The curriculum focus emerged from a program review and the critical need for universities to respond to the ongoing and pervasive crisis of gender-based and sexual violence. Plans for administering regular and robust offerings in the new gender violence curriculum for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) will be shared. As presenters share syllabi for three seminars, their own tools include multi-lingual historical analysis, performance as a didactic practice of resistance, and collective forms of response, praxis, and archives that recuperate local and transhistorical instances of gender violence. This work affirms that a curricular focus on gender violence, resistance, and abolition can effect cultural change that dismantles the conditions of possibility for future violence.
Gender Violence and Course & Curriculum Design: Performing a Feminist Pedagogy
Room 2-048
This workshop presents participants with an undergraduate curriculum and an evolving toolkit – a feminist pedagogy (Ahmed, 2017) – to articulate specific ways the presenters are incorporating the study of gender violence while exploring ideas of collective action. The curriculum focus emerged from a program review and the critical need for universities to respond to the ongoing and pervasive crisis of gender-based and sexual violence. Plans for administering regular and robust offerings in the new gender violence curriculum for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) will be shared. As presenters share syllabi for three seminars, their own tools include multi-lingual historical analysis, performance as a didactic practice of resistance, and collective forms of response, praxis, and archives that recuperate local and transhistorical instances of gender violence. This work affirms that a curricular focus on gender violence, resistance, and abolition can effect cultural change that dismantles the conditions of possibility for future violence.
Comments
I am co-leading this workshop with Drs. Erika Damer and Mari Lee Mifsud.
Erika Zimmermann Damer Associate Professor of Classical Studies and
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
University of Richmond
109 Ryland Hall Richmond, Virginia 23173 Phone: (804) 289-8080
edamer@richmond.edu
Mari Lee Mifsud
Professor of Rhetoric
Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA. 23173
804-426-8240
mmifsud@richmond.edu
KEY WORDS: Gender Violence; Curriculum Design; Course Development; Sexual violence; Gender Violence Resistance; Gender Violence Abolition; Collective action; Feminist Pedagogy; Performance; Archives