On Jan. 20, the next session in a monthly virtual colloquium series presented by 91亚色鈥檚 Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies will explore teaching in dangerous times by examining the life of American author, playwright, poet and activist James Baldwin.
鈥淐onsidering James Baldwin鈥檚 Extracurriculars: Notes on Teaching in Dangerous Times鈥 will explore a particularly relevant topic given current events. 91亚色 Associate Professors Warren Crichlow and Mario Di Paolantonio will lead the event, which will start at 9:30 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. EAT online via Zoom.
For Baldwin, the purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to ask questions of the society and undertake responsibility to change it 鈥渘o matter what risk.鈥 In this event, Crichlow considers Baldwin鈥檚 鈥渆xtracurricular life鈥 in public school as the experiential starting place for his thinking on the tasks of education. Crichlow considers Baldwin鈥檚 peripatetic extracurricular life in Harlem, both in school environments and beyond in the Pentecostal pulpit, as the formative autobiographical ground he mined to address the paradoxes of education as a writer, activist and teacher. He argues that Baldwin鈥檚 striking demands remain relevant signposts for the practice of teaching in today鈥檚 dangerous times.
Crichlow is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education in 91亚色, where he teaches cultural studies and education. He is most recently a co-editor of Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization (Peter Lang, 2020). His most recent article (with Kass Banning) is 鈥淎 Grand Panorama: Isaac Julien, Frederick Douglass, and Lessons of the Hour,鈥 in Film Quarterly, Summer 2020.
Di Paolantonio is an associate professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education. Drawing on ethical philosophy and employing innovative methodologies, his international award-winning research explores how different memorial-artistic practices are employed to pedagogically reckon with historical wrongs.
This event will be the fourth in the colloquium series, which explores the intersections of refugee education, anti-Black racism and COVID-19 in Canada and East Africa, with the theme "Reciprocal Learning in Times of Crisis."
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