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Decolonising Disciplines; a conversation

11 June 2021, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

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This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

UCL staff | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

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

Eleanor Robson
Professor Eleanor Robson is a historian of ancient and modern Iraq and the Head of the History Department. She also runs the Nahrein Network, which aims to put Iraqi researchers and heritage professionals at the heart of the production of knowledge about the country’s past, after decades of conflict, isolation and neglect. 

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 Robson

Dr Ralph Wilde

Associate Professor at UCL Laws

Ralph
Dr Ralph Wilde is a member of the Faculty of Laws.  He works in the field of international law, and his research and teaching has focused on imperialism, colonialism/post-colonialism/anti-colonialism, human rights, war, international organizations, as general subjects, and in particular contexts and situations. Two years ago he created a new course on the law Master’s programme, ‘decolonizing law’, which is the first course dedicated to this subject in a law school in the English-speaking world.

 

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