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Grey Wall
 
Department of Anthropology
Purdue University
Decolonize and Decanonize Hackathon - Graduate Program
Hosted by the Graduate Committee, November 23, 2020
Synchronous 9:30-11:30 am eastern
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WHO CAN PARTICIPATE & WHAT WILL HAPPEN DURING THE HACKATHON?

This hackathon is for anyone interested in brainstorming about ways to decolonizing and decanonize the graduate program. During this hackathon we hope to generate ideas, suggestions, and insporation that will guide future work in the graduate program. For the synchronous event, the graduate committee will kick off and explain the event. The next hour will be devoted to facilitated discussions to work on the challenge areas, and the final hour will be for sharing, co-creating, and generating new ideas across all challenge areas. If you can’t participate in person – the shared documents and brainstormed materials will be live for the 24-hour challenge.

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SIGN-UP HERE

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ANTHROPOLOGIES OF TOMMOROW (AOT)

The Anthropologies of Tomorrow is a commitment to impactful, convergent anthropological inquiry, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship and public engagement. We value excellence in discovery that relies on our responsibilities to foster diverse and inclusive scholarship and learning in a collegial and collaborative department climate. We prioritize integrative and decolonizing approaches, social justice, mentoring, community engagement, and maintaining a supportive environment for our faculty, students and staff. We value the essential contributions of our staff and student assistants to our success and maintain that fair and just treatment is ce,ntral to our department. We are committed to providing high quality experiential learning opportunities for our students that harness the transformative potential of anthropology to prepare them for excellence through diversity. We value the importance of providing research opportunities, field schools, learning communities, internships, workshops and other programs to engage and share anthropological perspectives with a variety of community partners and public audiences on topics of pressing concern

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DESIRED OUTCOMES

  • To starting a working AOT glossary

  • To initiate the creation of resources and concepts to decanonize and decolonize syllabi

  • To generate a working document of inclusive classroom practices that focus on student-centered approaches for social justice

 

AGENDA

Synchronous

9:30-9:45 Welcome and Organization of Event – Challenge Launch! Shared Brainstorm Digital Spaces Open

9:45-10:45 Challenge Groups – Challenge 1 AOT Glossary, Challenge 2 Decolonize/Decanonize , and Challenge 3 Classroom Practices

10:45-11:15 Challenge Group Report Out

11:15-11:30 Close of synchronous event – Jamboards live for the next 24 hours

 

Asynchronous

Nov 23 9:30 am posted- Hackathon instructions and introduction live

Nov 23 9:30 am – Nov 24 9:30 am eastern Challenge Digital Spaces Live and Open for 24 hr challenge

 

Post-Event

Nov 23-Dec 15 – Digital spaces remain open for comments/updates

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CHALLENGE AREAS
 

Challenge 1: Develop an AOT Glossary

Inspiration

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Challenge 2: Teaching Resources for Grad Courses - Decolonize and Decanonize

Inspiration

 

Challenge 3: Social Justice in the Classroom – Pedagogical Strategies + Supports

Inspiration

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