[KS] CFP: Teaching East Asia in the Humanities

[Nicholas Constantino]

Dear All,

A colleague and I are organizing an online conference, which focuses on the
pedagogical goals and experiences of humanities teachers working in East
Asian fields. If anyone is interested, please see below:

*Call for Proposals: Teaching East Asia in the Humanities*
April 24-25, 2021 (via Zoom)

The past decade has produced a great corpus of literature which defends and
reimagines the value of the humanities—its potential to cultivate critical
reasoning and cultural literacy necessary for a healthy civil society
(Helen Small, 2013), ethically meaningful reading practices (Peter Brooks,
2014), and the character and judgement required to become “more human”
(James Hankins, 2017). For teachers of the humanities, maintaining the sort
of engaged pedagogy necessary to deliver on these promises means frequent
trial and error. This conference is designed to serve as a forum to discuss
both our challenges and successes in achieving our goals as humanities
teachers in East Asian fields.

We invite proposals that reflect on your own stories of challenging and
rewarding moments in your teaching, as well as common pedagogical
strategies within your fields. How do we grapple with tensions between
global and local perspectives? How do we account for particularities
(philosophical concepts, literary forms, and social institutions) in East
Asia while avoiding essentialisms, or introduce students to Western theory
without perpetuating discursive hegemony? How should we navigate or
challenge the boundaries imposed by the premodern/modern divide, or
disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, and religion? What
pedagogical hurdles and advantages accompany teaching translated sources?
Ultimately, how should we tailor our pedagogy to foster humanistic thinking?

Presentations should be *15-20 minutes* in length, and will be followed by
questions and answers. Proposals should be no longer than *300 words*, and
might include any of the following:

1. A brief description of a teaching experience that your presentation
might highlight
2. Reflections on new trends in teaching in your field or new digital
resources
3. How your presentation addresses questions of humanistic pedagogy in East
Asian fields, such as (but not limited to) those raised above

Please submit proposals to *proposals at teachinghumanities.com
<proposals at teachinghumanities.com>* by *January 31, 2021*.
Visit our website for updates: www.teachinghumanities.com


-- 
Nicholas Constantino
PhD Candidate
Department of History
University of California, Berkeley
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