The University of Glasgow, a member of the CIVIS Alliance, will host two half-day online workshops which aim to bring together academics, researchers, learning and educational developers, and students from a variety of disciplines looking towards decolonisation within their subject area.
Abstracts can be submitted using the following link by 5pm Monday 6th of March (GMT). The abstracts should have between 150 and 200 words outlining the project, or proposed project, including suggested discussion prompts as part of the submission.
The workshops will take place online on: Wednesday, 26th April 2023, 12:30pm-4:30pm (BST), and Thursday 4th May 2023, 12:30pm-4:30pm (BST).
Entitled “Building Institutional Networks in Response to Decolonising the Curriculum”, the workshops will cover a multiplicity of domains: STEM subjects, applied sciences and medicine, social sciences, arts, interdisciplinary, transnational education, extracurricular activities such as clubs or societies and the student perspective.
Decolonising the curriculum has gained global attention in recent years, but the degree of response to decolonisation varies across disciplines, with notable momentum in Arts and Social Sciences in comparison to STEM subjects.
The workshops will comprise of short lightning talks, of 5 minutes, where we invite presenters to showcase how they might begin decolonising the curriculum within their discipline. This may include completed projects, projects in progress or a project proposal with interest in feedback from workshop attendees or if you are looking to find collaborators.
CIVIS is a European University Alliance gathering 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Bucharest (Romania), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), University of Glasgow (UK), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 European Universities pilots, it brings together around half a million students and more than 70 000 staff members, including 37 400 academics and researchers.