Decolonising Disciplines; a conversation
11 June 2021, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Bethany Wells
This event is open to all UCL staff and students.
To round off this decolonisation week we bring you a relaxed and conversational dialogue to get ideas flowing in a safe yet engaging space. We have invited speakers who have created modules or curricula that attempt to decolonise their own disciplines, thereby providing a critical approach to their own academic fields. Come, listen and ask them questions as they discuss how they have done this, the challenges they have faced and where they are going next.
Speakers: Professor Eleanor Robson (UCL History), Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL Laws) and Dr Ludovic Coupaye (UCL Anthropology).
About the Speakers
Professor Eleanor Robson
Head of Department at UCL History

This year she has been teaching an undergraduate module on the history of ancient Babylon, while grappling with the question of how to decolonise the teaching of a subject that has systemically excluded and marginalised local expertise since its inception.
More about Professor Eleanor RobsonDr Ralph Wilde
Associate Professor at UCL Laws

More about Dr Ralph Wilde
Dr Ludovic Coupaye
at UCL Anthropology
Dr Ludovic Coupaye is a member of the Department of Anthropology. He has done fieldwork in Madagascar, Papua New Guinea Madagascar and France and his current research is on technology and technodiversity in relation to politics and the environment. He convened the first course on Decolonising Anthropology and is his co-editing, with Karen Schucan-Bird, a special issue of the London Review of Education on Decolonising the curriculum.
More about Dr Ludovic Coupaye