Teaching South Asia Today: Decolonization, Diaspora, Diversity, Devastation, and Disciplinarity

About This Event

MORNING: Research Presentations.

LUNCH: Socializing/Conversations.

AFTERNOON: Syllabus/Teaching Workshop.

While our institutions can provide formal syllabus workshops focused on general pedagogical goals, only fellow South Asianists can have constructive conversations about substantive issues involving syllabus content. How should we engage terms of recent concern--such as decolonization, diaspora, diversity, devastation, and disciplinarity--in our South Asia-focused classrooms? How do we "decolonize" our syllabi? Students with relationships to South Asia have been steadily increasing in classrooms in recent decades, but how does this "diaspora" effect topics taught? What do recent criticisms of "diversity" mean for our courses? How should the nowness of ecological "devastation" effect our weekly assignments? What is the role of "disciplinarity" in cultivating critical thinking amidst high tech innovations facilitating fast and easy thematic connections?

Co-sponsors

New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium