Teaching Disciplinary Histories Under Censorship (hybrid)

Lecture on Cultural Geography: Erasures & Re-connections - Teaching Disciplinary Histories Under Censorship

Like all histories, the history of Geography and other disciplines is marked by strategic and accidental erasures. Over the last decades, geographers have made efforts to improve their teaching by moving from a history of/through sanctioned icons to a more distributed version that includes the influence of movements, events, erased contributors and geographical interconnections. These efforts have been hindered by three constraining factors: difficulties in reconstructing histories (e.g., destroyed archives, theses or publications), limited time for pedagogical research, and censorship by conservative or far right national and regional governments (e.g., in USA, UK, Germany). For these reasons, geographers have started to network for the exchange of strategies. In this talk, I am presenting examples for further discussion.

This talk will take place hybrid (via Zoom).