果冻影院

Thursday 14th March 2024, 14:00-15:00听(in-person)

Join us from 13:30 for tea, coffee and biscuits at the听果冻影院 Careers 4th Floor Seminar Room,听40 Bernard Street, London, WC1N 1LE.

For many years eugenics and its legacies have been niche subjects in the 鈥渟cience and society鈥� parts of our curriculum. We have seen recently a major expansion of awareness from students and a hunger to do more with their knowledge. We also have seen keen interest from colleagues who want to expand their attention to these 鈥渄ifficult subjects鈥�. 听

How best to fit them into a packed curriculum? How best to make them serve pedagogical and affective ends? This session will be part advisory, part provocation, and part dialogue. 听

We鈥檒l map some of the subject material. We鈥檒l highlight some useful pivot points. We鈥檒l give attendees some space to think aloud about wants and needs, ambitions and fears, potentials and restrictions. If nothing else, you鈥檒l walk away with some top tips for making a few more steps forward. If the session goes as hoped, you鈥檒l walk away with much more.听

Event background

The event is organised by 果冻影院鈥檚 Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP), a programme of education activity to help address 果冻影院's harmful historical links to eugenics.听
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ELEP is theoretically anchored within the field of difficult knowledge studies. Britzman (1998) developed the concept of 鈥榙ifficult knowledge鈥� to investigate the ways that experiences of education and learning can be problematic, uncomfortable, and even harmful when encountering complex curriculum areas. ELEP supports educational projects that encourage engagement with core issues in social justice-oriented approaches to education, such as difficult knowledge.