THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
WORKSHOPS and EVENTS:
THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
April 11–14, 2018 | Fordham University
Professor Belausteguigoitia and Colectivo Las Penélopes, a UNAM-based feminist collective comprising Nictexa Ytza, Anaid Martínez, and Gisel Tovar, visited Fordham for the inaugural meeting of the Hacer Escuela/Inventing School workshop series. During their visit, Las Penélopes participated in a session on Philosophical Outreach, delivering a presentation entitled "The Formation of Collectives in a Critical University: Pedagogies of Resistance, Gender Perspectives, and Artistic Practices."
Colectivo Las Penélopes delivering their presentation "The Formation of Collectives in a Critical University." From left to right: Nictexa Ytza, Gisel Tovar, and Anaid Martínez (and in the background,
Northwestern and Fordham graduate students interviewing Marisa Belausteguigoitia and Las Penélopes concerning their pedagogical work at UNAM and in prisons in the Mexico City area. Clockwise from left: Jesús Luzardo (Fordham), Anaid Martínez, Nictexa Ytza, Gisel Tovar, Taylor Rogers, Regina Hurley (Northwestern), and Professor Belausteguigoitia.
September 2018 | Northwestern University
Carmen De Schryver, a doctoral student in Philosophy, researched and wrote the résumé of Marisa Belausteguigoitia's pedagogical concepts.
November 19-23, 2018 | UNAM University
Professor Parker traveled to UNAM to work with Professor Belausteguigoitia on their collaborative syllabus. In a workshop with graduate students from Rutgers and Northwestern the professors focused on critical and decolonial pedagogy while highlighting feminist and gender-oriented methodologies. Scholars studied pedagogies that acknowledge and respond to everyday violence in precarious contexts--such as the prison and public universities--during times of civil unrest (particularly in relation to the mass femicide in Mexico).
In the workshop, “Dissidence, the body, and critical thinking,” scholars explored movement and dance as a method of critical pedagogy. Other activities included the undergraduate symposium led by professor Belausteguigoitia for
students and a multi-participatory seminar.
By the end of the week, scholars have developed ideas for further collaboration, such as jointly generating syllabi, translation projects, and applying insights gained from the week into their own classrooms, and/or into non-academic contexts they might be involved with.
Participants visited the all women’s prison Santa Martha Catitla, where Professor Belausteguigoitia leads a project which prioritizes visual art as an ineliminable pedagogical method within precarious conditions titled, “Mujeres en Espiral: sistema de justiciar, perspectiva de género y pedagogías en resistencia” (Women in Spiral: The Justice System, Perspectives of Gender, and Pedagogies of Resistance).
October 18-20, 2019 | Northwestern
The weekend workshop titled "Errant Syllabi" took place on Northwestern University's Chicago campus; it included the participation of Professor Belausteguigoitia (UNAM), Professor Parker (Rutgers), Professor Deutscher (Northwestern), and graduate students from the respective institutions.
The weekend was structured around a series of meetings, in them, participants centered on developing collaborative and innovative critical maneuvers in academic syllabi under the rubrics of Latinx and Latin American Gender Theory.
A detailed precis of the workshop events and outcomes was written by Northwestern then Ph.D. candidate Carmen De Schryver (Philosophy). The workshop schedule can be found here.
Professor Belausteguigoitia (UNAM) with students during the weekend workshop "Errant Syllabi."
February 25, 2020 | Northwestern
The graduate students Zorimar Rivera Montes and Alicia Núñez led the third Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Grad Workshop, where they presented the research they had developed while participating in "University and Its Publics."
