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Revolutionary Educations: Literary Responses to Colonial Education Around the World (NeMLA)

Philadephia
Event: NeMLA
Categories: Postcolonial, American, Hispanic & Latino, British, Pedagogy, World Literatures, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Medieval, Early Modern & Renaissance, Long 18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2025-03-06 to 2025-03-09 Abstract Due: 2024-10-01

From the Indian boarding schools of North America to the English curriculum mandate of the British empire, formal education, and the various guises it assumed, was an important instrument for colonial powers to exert dominance over its colonized subjects. The afterlives of such an education continue today through dominant knowledge systems that benefit the few at the expense of the many. This panel seeks papers that aim to disentangle and liberate education from colonial control, so that education can be a vehicle for vital knowledge production and empowerment. We invite papers that emphasize the revolutionary potential of all forms of education that have been historically excluded (and even feared) by colonial establishments—such as, indigenous education, environmental education, place-based education, anticolonial education, anti-racist pedagogy, critical pedagogy, etc etc! What forms does such revolutionary education take? How does it challenge/destabilize colonial power and help reestablish sovereignty? What do we have to learn from historical, literary, or present-day examples of revolutionary educations around the world?

goelg@bc.edu

Gayathri Goel