About this Event
The morning will include two presentations. The first will be from Professor Devika Chawla, Ohio State University, whom we are delighted to welcome to Edinburgh:
The Smallness of Things: On the Im/Possibilities of Decolonial Epistemologies
Devika Chawla
My talk is an autobiographical self-inventory about two journeys and two destinations in qualitative research. These journeys and destinations reflect my current larger decolonial epistemological project that attends to the “Smallness of Things.” I hope to illuminate the ongoing struggle to reconcile my western academic training in qualitative research with the contingencies and surprises of fieldwork, the complexities of human experience, and ultimately meditate upon where this struggle is taking me.
Devika Chawla is the Stocker Professor of Interpersonal Communication in the School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA. Her current work accesses both experimental and memoir-essay modes to understand the relationship between family objects, affect, home, and identity.
The second presentation will be by J. Karen Serra Undurraga and Jonathan Wyatt, University of Edinburgh:
Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality
What happens when, as scholars who have habitually been working with posthumanism and the new materialisms, we find ourselves summoned by thinkers who critique the covert coloniality present in these approaches? We use collaborative writing as an approach to delve into our encounters with readings, our own histories, and our ways of relating to the academy and each other. We conclude it is crucial to reflexively acknowledge and work with our concrete positionalities and interests, thereby making our conceptualizations necessarily provincial, limited, and in some ways problematic.
Karen Serra Undurraga is a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her current work explores how the insidious presence of coloniality and neoliberalism makes itself felt in how we make sense of our selves and lives.
Jonathan Wyatt is professor of qualitative inquiry and co-director of the Center for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh. He is working (slowly) on a new book, Writing, the Everyday, and Creative-Relational Inquiry, with Routledge.
There will also be space for reflection and discussion, and also a break when coffee and tea will be available.
Organised by: J. Karen Serra U, Kartika Ladwal, Zoi Simopoulou and Jonathan Wyatt
This project is funded by the EDI grant of the School of Health in Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, and supported by the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry.
The symposium is free and open to all
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The University of Edinburgh, Central campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
