Sharon Stein on "The University and its Responsibility for Repair"

"The University and its Responsibility for Repair: Confronting Colonial Foundations and Enabling Different Futures" For the past 500 years, higher education has been entangled in the reproduction of social and ecological violence around the globe. This presentation asks how universities, and those of us who work and study within them, might meaningfully reckon with and enact repair for our complicity in historical and ongoing coloniality and unsustainability. It approaches reparations as a potentially regenerative process of enacting material redistribution and restitution, (re)building relationships grounded in respect and reciprocity, and repurposing our institutions to be more relevant and responsible in the context of the current polycrisis. The talk will also review several resources for navigating the complexities of confronting the colonial foundations of higher education and enabling different futures.

Video Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Acknowledging the Land and Its People
03:28 Reckoning with the Colonial Past & Present
06:38 An Invitation to Ongoing Inquiry
15:30 Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective
19:28 5 Propositions
30:06 Range of Responses
36:02 Move to Reparations in Practice
43:16 Challenges, Complexities, and Circularities of Change
51:22 Hyper-self-reflexivity Questions


About Sharon Stein:
Sharon Stein (Educational Studies, University of British Columbia) is the author of Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins, 2022), founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, and a co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective.

The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud co-sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center, Yasi Naraghi.

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