Lecture: “Educating for the Anthropocene: How Activism in India and South Africa Might Inform Environmental Learning”

by Peter Sutoris, Lecturer, University of York

Time: Feb 17, 2022 12:15 PM EST

Zoom meeting link: https://dartgo.org/educatingforanthropocene

Meeting ID: 955 5754 4435

Passcode: 343057

Sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures and and Languages Program and the History Department

Description: The lecture will examine how attention to the attitudes and practices of Asian and African environmental activists might inform the approach school systems take to environmental education in the Anthropocene.  I will discuss how school systems treat the future as closed and predetermined and contrast it with the way activists in India and South Africa imagine the future as open and malleable. We will explore how these environmental activists encourage political imagination among the young and reconcile different imagined futures through democratic deliberation into shared political goals.  The talk will particularly draw upon the technique of participatory observational film and look at clips from films made by students in the course of my research.