We are happy to share with you the start of a new graduate student working group at UConn! The group is dedicated to the study of decolonial theory and praxis, specially in the teaching of area studies and second language education. It is open to all graduate students with an interest to incorporate an anti-racist perspective to the classroom and beyond.
The graduate student working group is part of "Decolonizing Area Studies: Towards Intercultural Citizenship and Social Justice", a project supported by the CLAS anti-racism initiative. The goal of this project that involves a series of lectures and a symposium is to de-center whiteness in area studies and language education by developing and implementing curricula, learning materials and teaching methods that truly reflect the diversity and cultural variety of modern-day societies and help uncover the oppression that minoritized students often suffer and that dominant groups perpetuate.
The graduate student working group will hold monthly meetings to discuss the lectures and accompanying readings. For registration, click here.
Our first meeting will be on Friday, October 16th, 2:30pm on Zoom.
For more information, contact: Languages Graduate Students Association at langsa@uconn.edu