Meeting: Every other Monday starting Jan 30th

Location: Broad 204

Time: 1230-2pm

Description:

Scholars Moten and Harney describe entering the space of the undercommons as a ‘ruptural and enraptured disclosure of the commons … where the commons give refuge, where the refuge gives commons.’ (Moten and Harney, 2004) As contingent faculty (part-time, visiting, and adjunct) how do we make use of the liminal space we occupy to engender community? How do we convert these liminal spaces and ways of being in them as sites of refuge and care to inform a liberatory pedagogy? Guided by the notion of the undercommons, this Faculty Learning Community invites BIPoC contingent faculty and early scholars to come together to think through the ways in which our experiential, ancestral and lived knowledges can define our pedagogy and other aspects of our work in academe.

We want to start with No Study Without Struggle by Leigh Patel. We are also thinking about What Makes an Assembly anthology. I already ordered Assembly through Huntley so we may just go through them if I do not end up using the book for my class.