Deadline: 9/30/24
Contact: Jill Gatlin, New England Conservatory
Email: jill.gatlin@necmusic.edu
CFP: NeMLA (ASLE Session): Environmental Justice Pedagogy and (R)evolution in the Arts and Humanities
Deadline: 9/30/24
56th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Environmental Justice Pedagogy and (R)evolution in the Arts and Humanities,
Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Drawing on NeMLA’s 2025 theme, this session explores pedagogical approaches that enable students to engage in activism or “(r)evolution” in environmental justice (EJ)-themed arts and humanities courses. How might (r)evolution become more than subject matter in EJ courses, extending to teaching and learning practices and publicly engaged projects addressing real-world problems? Alongside this central question, participants might consider:
- What counts as (r)evolution/activism; methods for engaging students in this question.
- The arts/humanities as a space for understanding aesthetics, emotions, stories, voices, ideologies, audiences, and community considerations important to EJ (r)evolution/activism.
- Approaching (r)evolution/activism through integrative, performance-based, project-based, site-based, experiential, or service learning; related diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns.
- Challenges of integrating materials from the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
- Arts/humanities pedagogy as reinforcing or dismantling environmentally unjust power structures.
- The arts, humanities, and arts institutions in a world with ecological limits and unevenly distributed environmental resources and hazards.
- Assessment of (r)evolutionary pedagogy in relation to curricular requirements or limitations, institutional norms, etc.
Format: roundtable (5-10 participants) or traditional panel (3-4 participants).
Please submit a 200-300-word abstract on the NeMLA website by 9/30/24, outlining your intentions for (1) an EJ and (r)evolution/activism teaching resource you’ll share (e.g., reading list, syllabus, assignment, or activity) and (2) a short pedagogical statement (including theoretical approach and analysis of this resource and related teaching practices):
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21099
Posted on August 28, 2024
