{"id":17882,"date":"2025-01-13T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&p=17882"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:13","slug":"reading-the-room","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/reading-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: Reading the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Join us on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at 6:30 P.M., for the Ottawa launch of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom<\/em><\/a> (Concordia University Press, 2024<\/em>). This groundbreaking collection, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe, brings together first-hand experiences from gender and sexuality studies classrooms, offering profound insights into the transformative power of pedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event will be hosted at FSS 4004 (120 University Private<\/a>) and will feature conversations with contributors and a panel discussion that delves into the book\u2019s key themes: navigating power dynamics in the classroom, addressing debates around \u201ctrigger warnings\u201d and \u201ccancel culture,\u201d and creating equitable and inclusive learning environments. Panelists include: Natalie Kouri-Towe<\/a>, Gulzar R. Charania<\/a>, Kelly Fritsch<\/a>, Dan Irving<\/a>, and Megan Rivers-Moore<\/a>. Please note that this event will be held in English.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Light snacks will be provided and copies of the book will be available for purchase! Please RSVP below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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First-hand experiences from gender and sexuality studies classrooms that add depth to a topic often distorted by the media<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contemporary post-secondary classroom has become a flashpoint in public debate on gender and sexuality, giving rise to controversies over gender-inclusive policies, \u201ctrigger warnings,\u201d and \u201ccancel culture\u201d that have been misrepresented by opportunistic and divisive voices within and outside of the education sector. However, gender and sexuality studies scholars have long engaged in these debates over pedagogy, and closer study of gender and sexuality classroom practices reveals constructive and transformative ways of learning that grapple with power, conflict, discomfort, and safety in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading the Room<\/i><\/a> collects candid discussions on classroom experiences from instructors and students throughout Canada to provide guidance to educators on often-fraught issues relating to gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, and decolonization. Working from a place of coalition building, this volume is a frank, insightful, and pragmatic invitation to share different pedagogical practices with educators in a range of academic disciplines. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributors to this volume discuss an array of topics including asymmetrical power relations between students and teachers, how students and professors learn from each other, how to negotiate conflict in a classroom, and how to be self-reflective about methods of teaching and learning. They also consider debates around trigger warnings and students\u2019 expectations, discuss methods for curriculum selection and pedagogical practices, reflect on what it is like to embody a subject one teaches, and show how university equity, diversity, and inclusion work is often offloaded to overburdened racialized students and precariously employed staff. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thoughtful and generous work, Reading the Room<\/i><\/a> shows how teachers and students can navigate the difficulty and discomfort of contentious topics and learn more from each other. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[62,69],"cu_event_audience":[20],"class_list":["post-17882","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-co-sponorship","cu_event_type-joint-chair-co-sponsorships","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2025-01-21T18:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2025-01-21T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17918,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17882\/revisions\/17918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=17882"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=17882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}