Leeds UCU Teach Out programme December 2021
Posted on by Alan Smith
Wednesday 1 December
Sometimes students ask whether there is a different between Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism.
As a medievalist art historian with one foot in the present, there isn’t a short answer.
Together let’s explore this murky area by looking at some art works and possibly a few sources together.
Zoom link Meeting ID: 850 3587 5754 Pass code: c3Qb%F
For staff and students – join in to ask anything about the strike, why we’re on strike, how you can support etc.
Zoom link Meeting ID: 733 3019 0853 Passcode f9Tzmk
An approx 40 min seminar (+ q&a/discussion) on the expected impacts of climate change, and the risks, depending on future greenhouse gas emissions, plus some information on the action needed, plus how we as individuals can help create the change required.
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Learn to speak Icelandic for an hour. You can get further in an hour than you might think!
Zoom link Meeting ID: 868 7036 0625 Passcode: qx90W*
This workshop will utilise recent developments in collaborative poetry methodology to generate a poem that responds to the words ‘casual’ and ‘insecure’. All are welcome, you do not need to have written poetry before.
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Thursday 2 December
In this session we’ll go over some of the main feminist critiques of common ideals associated with scientific knowledge such as “objectivity”, and how power structures can shape what we commonly think od science. This will mostly be based on Patricia Hill Collins’ influential piece: “Learning from the Outsider Within: the Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought” https://www.jstor.org/stable/800672 and later interpretations of this work by philosophers of science, such as Sandra Harding and Alison Wylie.
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Things aren’t looking good. Trans healthcare has virtually ground to a halt. The press put out anti-transgender articles on an almost daily basis. Hate crimes have spiked massively. Trans people face high rates of unemployment and homelessness. In this session we’ll think through this contemporary crisis in trans politics, looking at the particular nature of the oppression of trans people in the UK. Drawing on recent work in queer and trans Marxisms, we’ll think about whether explanations of the contemporary backlash against trans people is best characterised in terms of a reactionary moral panic, or in terms of the enforcement of bourgeois sexual and gender ‘hegemony’.
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Terms like “the Northern Ireland Protocol”, the “Irish Backstop”, “negotiations with Ireland over the border” have been a constant of the last five years in British newspapers. From the very beginning of the Brexit process, Ireland and the border on the island have been crucial, but little-understood and often-ignored part of it. The issue of the border in Ireland is fundamental, not just in terms of the Brexit negotiations, but also and most importantly in terms of the human and political cost in a region which suffered from conflict over that border in very recent memory, and whose peace process at the end of the “Troubles” (c.1969-c.2005) has now been imperilled, with riots in Belfast in April and more recently. This session will offer a short introduction to the history and the issues of the border in Ireland, the importance of the European Union in negotiating a solution, the political and economic impact of Brexit in the region, and the politics of “ignoring” which continue to characterise the British government’s response to the situation.
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No teach out on Friday 3 December
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