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SUMMARY:Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice - Speaker to be
  confirmed
DTSTART:20170510T110000Z
DTEND:20170510T130000Z
UID:TALK72636@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Psychology Reception
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of Washington-Seatt
 le)\nTitle: ‘ Undefining Black women scientists: Past\, Present and Futu
 re’\nTo constitute a concept of “physics community\,” physicists ass
 ume two foundational axioms. First\, the laws of physics are independent o
 f cognitive inference/interference\, and\, second\, that they are unchangi
 ng or only evolving according to their own rules. This leads to the axion 
 that the subaltern can be a subject of research\, but it cannot itself res
 earch.  Can science be objective when the language embedded in it works to
  “unconstruct” Black and Indigenous women (and more broadly other mino
 ritized peoples) as physicists?\n\n\nDr. Arianne Shahvisi (University of S
 ussex)\nTitle: ‘Misunderstanding as a Form of Resistance’\n\nWhen we e
 xplain observed patterns in the world we sometimes draw on explanations wh
 ich may seem innocuous\, and even exemplify all the accepted heuristics fo
 r explanation\, but are heavily loaded in favour of particular problematic
  ways of (mis)understanding the world. In this talk I describe how we migh
 t develop a heuristic for disrupting those explanations and thereby refusi
 ng to be complicit in them. I explore a method of anti-racist and anti-mis
 ogynist resistance to knowledge production: the refusal to understand\, or
  the refusal to accept an explanation. Drawing on models of scientific exp
 lanation\, I demonstrate how oppressive regimes and knowledge paradigms de
 mand that people understand the racist or sexist assumptions which give ex
 clusionary actions their sense\, and ask what a refusal to understand look
 s like in practice.
LOCATION: Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambr
 idge
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