This workshop seeks to address the following questions:
How to do we encounter power, privilege, vulnerabilities, and anxieties in classrooms? How do we maintain an engaged, sensible, and open conversation on sensitive topics (of for example sexuality, religion, gendering, racialisation, migration precarity, or any intersection of these) without triggering injury or resigning to sterile silence?

This workshop considers how we experience personal and political matters in scholarship, in daily life and in classroom encounters. The workshop is for doctoral students and university teachers.

Schedule:

10.00–10.15: Introduction by organizers, Ali Ali, Salla Aldrin Salskov & Karla Schröter
10.15–12.00: Talk by Dr. Ali Ali, (ÅA) Chronic Pain in Classrooms on Recovery
12.00–12.15: Pause for Recovery
12.15–13.30:  Lecture by Isa Hukka: Cripping the Safe Space
13.30–14.45: LUNCH for Healing and Nourishment (Café Arken)
14.45–16.00: Panel:
Speaking Bodyminds: Tackling Collective and Personal Traumas in Classrooms.
Chair: Ali Ali. Participants: Nia Sullivan, Åbo Akademi University, Isa Hukka, Derek Ruez, University of Tampere, Zoë Jay, University of Helsinki
16.00 – 17.00: Q&A and wrap up for new and gentle beginnings