Roundtables
Session 1
Innovative Approaches to Decolonization in the Classroom
Moderator: Sabyn Javeri
Milena Tekeste Decolonizing Teaching Practices: A Reflexive Journey as a
Practitioner
Karen Karbiener I Create Myself: Recasting Student Consumers as Producers
Eve Grubin Decolonizing the Classroom: Student Grappling with Identities and
Self-Definitions
Gurnam Johal Understanding How NYU Students Can Act as ‘Pedagogical Agents of
Change’ through Their Lived Experiences and Raising Awareness of
Colonial Processes in the Global Health Policy Classroom
Farzad Mahootian The Potential of Digital Scholarship in Our Science Curriculum: A
Chemical Example
Authority, Indigeneity and Resistance in the Wake of Empire
Moderator: Peter C. Valenti
Katherine Connelly Decolonising: Reflections on Historical Practice
Serene Richards Dreamtime and the Law
& Jeremy Pilcher
James McBride Rereading Biblical Texts: John the Baptizer and Jesus of Nazareth as
Leaders of Anti-imperialist Movements
Talia Mota How Discrimination Contributes to AIDS Mortality among the
Indigenous People of Botswana
Session 2
New Perspectives on Teaching Film, Media, and Writing
Moderator: Taner Doğan
Jason Williamson The Citizen Journalism Project
Linnéa Hussein Teaching Global Media Studies: Challenging Neo-colonial Media
Structures beyond Content Analysis
Omega Douglas Postcolonial Journalistic Field Theory: A Toolkit for Unpacking
Colonial and Decolonial Practices in Journalism
Sean Eve Reinventing Citizen Journalism: A Curricular and Educationally
Adjacent Workshop Series Seeking to Foster More Inclusive and
Diverse Newsmaking
Juliana Roth A Place for Privacy: Journaling in Academic Writing
Emancipatory Theories of Knowledge and Emancipating Knowledge Production
Moderator: Manjeet Ramgotra
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir Decolonizing Eastern Europe
Michael Shenefelt How the Idea of Race Distorts the College Curriculum
Hasan Johnson Reflections on Inclusive and Emancipatory Practices, Social Justice,
and Repurposing Theory in the Global Classroom
Hana Qugana ‘Western Civ’ in the Postcolony: Reconfiguring Liberal Studies in the
United Kingdom
Josephine Harmon Multicultural Praxis in Perspective: Designing Seminar Discussions on
Foreign Relations
Session 3
Decolonial Identity Pedagogies: Contending with Power, Exclusion, and Belonging
Moderator: Dina M. Siddiqi
Nicky Busch Decolonizing the ‘Migrant’ and ‘Refugee’ in UK Education Discourses
Marina Chang Reflections of Teaching the Course of 'Food, Culture and Globalisation:
London': Coloniality, Decolonisation, and Pathways to Health and Healing
Ida Chavoshan How Global Practices Create Space for Diverse Identities in the Classroom
Ifeona Fulani Making Black Lives Matter: Decolonizing the Human
Mitra Rastegar Retheorizing the Nation: Indigenous and Migrant Perspectives
New Portals to the Past and Fresh Histories of the Future
Moderator: Jeannine Chandler
Alex Lee Diversifying the Medieval Curriculum: Being Comfortable Being
Uncomfortable
Afrodesia McCannon Contrapposto: Queen of Sheba Shifts to the Global South
David Larsen Confronting Precolonial Structures of Domination in Premodern Arts,
Texts, and Media
Heather Masri Global Science Fiction: Border Crossings
Jared Simard When Classics Meets 'classics': How One Case Study Illuminates a Path
forward for Decolonizing the Study of the Ancient World
Session 4
Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Moderator: Caroline Garaway
Panagiota (Joulie) Axelithioti Difficult Conversations in Higher Education Climate Courses
Gabrielle Corradino Inclusion and Progression in Aquaculture and Marine Resources
Erin S. Morrison Bird Name-a-thon: Categorizing Bird Names Using
Crowdsourcing
Genia Naro-Maciel Decolonizing STEM Higher Education through Ecocentric
Approaches
Kevin M. Bonney Decolonizing the Curriculum by Reimagining How Students Learn
about the Relationship between Humans and the Earth
Decolonizing Visions for the Arts: Aesthetics, Performance and the Senses
Moderator: Francesca Bacci
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh Saved by Medusa: Medici Saracen from the Bargello to the Met Breuer
Minu Tharoor Different Brushstrokes: Amending Colonial Cultural Legacies in Arts
& Literature
Nancy M. Reale Andalusian Musical Palimpsests, Pentimenti, and Inflections as
Pedagogical Metaphors
Khulood Alawadi The Road to Discovery Nose No Bounds
Susanna Horng Other Ways of Seeing: Engaging Creative Arts Inquiry, Methods, &
Production to Decolonize the Liberal Arts Curriculum