Pedagogical Responses to Whatever's Happening Now (NeMLA 25)
Philadelphia
Organization: NeMLA
Event: NeMLA 25
Humanities programs, and the writing programs often housed within, are under threat for reasons that are as much political as they are economic. It is not simply a question of whether humanities degrees or writing skills reward students with economic value or how much revenue humanities faculty bring to an institution, but of what humanities programs and writing classes teach: critical histories, texts that capture the perspectives of the oppressed, and how to think critically about complicated social, political, and historical events.
This roundtable will discuss how our pedagogy has evolved in response to these pressures. How have we adapted our teaching to confront, or at least respond to, social, political, or institutional hazards?
Possible topics include:
· Emerging spaces for the work and interests of the humanities, including professional interdisciplinary curriculum such as medical and health humanities programs;
· Pedagogical approaches to threats from emerging technologies and/or administrative insistence on the importance thereof;
· Pedagogical approaches to disinformation in writing courses;
· Other pedagogical work you view as in response to these threats.
Submit abstracts here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21239
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21239
Joshua Gooch