Tag: Annapurna Menon

Building our critical community

Thank you to all of you who have spent time this year building the critical pedagogies project with us. We know the demands that the colonial capitalist university makes on your time and are so heartened by the fact that you push back by spending time with us!

Special thanks go to Caitlin Heppner, who gave this year’s annual lecture ‘Tethered to the grid and rendered intelligible’. If you missed Caitlin’s lecture, you can now listen to it through the website here. Remember that you can always catch up on past lectures, whether as a teaching or research resource, by listening to the online archive.

Thank you also to Annapurna Menon, who led us through a critical, joyous, and restorative afternoon of zine-making last week. Annapurna’s workshop brought our year to a hopeful and energetic end.

Over the summer Dale, Jennifer, and Mrinalini will be planning next year’s readings, lectures, and workshops. If you would like to suggest topics or readings for the reading group, speakers for the annual lecture, or facilitators for the summer workshop, please do let us know in the comments. Our aim is to educate ourselves about critical practices that help us build a different kind of university than the one we have now. If you know of practices, thinkers, texts, podcasts, art, or anything else you think we should be reflecting on, please do share!

Our zine-making workshop is back!

As regular readers of the blog and listserv members will know, we had to re-schedule our spring zine-making workshop to July 10th, 2024. The workshop will take place at the University of Westminster Cavendish campus from 1-4 pm.

You can now book your tickets to the workshop at https://buytickets.at/studentpartnershipuow/1223825

In the ongoing atmosphere of redundancies, restructuring, and cuts in higher education, it is more important than ever that we continue to come together and craft our vision of the university we want. Our theme for the afternoon is the creative destruction of the university. You can read more about how we came to be thinking about this in our previous post.

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr Annapurna Menon (she/her), who joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield in September 2022. Her doctoral research focused on the coloniality of postcolonial nation-states, specifically studying the Indian nation-state’s exercise of power in Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir. She has also published on topics relating to Hindutva, right-wing politics, decolonial theory militarisation and gender; activism and pedagogy as an activist tool. She enjoys learning with and from students, colleagues and friends, and believes that critical engagement in all academic and activist spaces is very important right now.

Spring Critical Pedagogies Workshop – Sign up!

Tickets are now available for our spring zine-making workshop at https://buytickets.at/studentpartnershipuow/1223825

We invite you to join us on May 8th, from 1-4 pm at the University of Westminster’s Cavendish campus, for an afternoon of thinking, playing, and making zines together. Our theme for the afternoon is the creative destruction of the university. You can read more about how we came to be thinking about this in our previous post.

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr Annapurna Menon (she/her), who joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield in September 2022. Her doctoral research focused on the coloniality of postcolonial nation-states, specifically studying the Indian nation-state’s exercise of power in Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir. She has also published on topics relating to Hindutva, right-wing politics, decolonial theory militarisation and gender; activism and pedagogy as an activist tool. She enjoys learning with and from students, colleagues and friends, and believes that critical engagement in all academic and activist spaces is very important right now.

If you aren’t already subscribed to our email list, now is also a good time to sign up for early announcements about our workshops, annual lectures, and reading group meetings. You can sign up for these at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CPG&A=1