Nov 8th 1:00 PM - 2:30PM via Zoom

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Please join us for a jointly hosted event from the FHSS Research Talks Seminar Series and the J-Series with speakers:

• Alexis Shotwell

• Denise Taliaferro Baszile

• Shaista Patel

The panel is a kickoff to this year’s FHSS Research Talks Seminar Series on the theme “Theories of Change in Research,” which invites faculty to ruminate on how theories of change are embedded in their work. The theme is drawn from a series of provocations offered by Unangax̂ scholar Dr. Eve Tuck, who writes about the settler colonial roots of the academy, damaged-centred research, and the imperatives of interrogating theories of change underpinning research. As a joint committee, we intentionally invited scholars whose work engages with questions of social and political action, thinking about the self as formed through both formal and informal education, and the challenges of collaborative research between communities and researchers.

FHSS Faculty Members, Drs. Janelle Baker, Veronica Fynn Bruey, and Melissa Jay will be responding to our speakers

About the Speakers

Denise Taliaferro Baszile’s work emphasizes the significance of critically questioning how one’s self has been formed through both formal and informal education in order to enact more careful (or less dangerous) pedagogies. In a recent article, “Rewriting/recurricularlizing as a matter of life and death: The coloniality of academic writing and the challenge of black mattering therein,” she affirms that rewriting, rethinking, and recurricularizing knowledge practices calls for “rhetorical disobedience,” and asks “how possible is it to practice such rhetorical disobedience from within the gated community that is academia?” Denise Taliaferro Baszile is Professor, Education and Leadership and Associate Dean for Student Services and Diversity at Miami University (Ohio).

Shaista Aziz Patel identifies as a Pakistani Shi’i Muslim scholar and does interdisciplinary work addressing questions of multiple colonialisms, caste, race, and Muslimness. A recently published article, “‘We Cannot Write About Complicity Together’: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy,” co-authored with Dia Da Costa offers space for ethical reflection on collaborations across different and unequal power relations. She works as Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies at University of California, San Diego.

Alexis Shotwell’s work Against Purity questions aspirations to purity that motivate and frame several accounts of social and political action, arguing that it eschews the complex ways that we are complicity entangled and leads to de-collectivisation and defeatism. Rather than purity, Shotwell encourages a turn towards the political in the ordinary and an engagement in collective social action to change the world. Alexis Shotwell is Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and is cross-appointed with Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University.