Working collaboratively, we will discuss some of the possibilities and challenges associated with decolonization in art history classrooms in UK higher education. Topics include curriculum development, reading lists, online tools, and power in the classroom. This will be a discussion-based online workshop in which participants will be asked to read some material in advance and to participate in group conversation. Readings and relevant instructions will be circulated one week before the workshop.

As part of the workshop we will have informal group discussion of the following two readings, although you are not required to complete the readings to attend the workshop.

(1)

Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price, eds., ‘Decolonizing Art History’ survey responses, Art History 43 no. 1 (2020), 9-66.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12490

* please do not feel obligated to read the survey in its entirety; you are encouraged to read the introduction and focus your attention on responses of your choosing *

(2)

Anne Marie Butler and Christine Hahn, ‘Decolonise this art history: Imagining a decolonial art history programme at Kalamazoo’, London Review of Education 18 no. 1 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.19.1.22

For some critical reflections on decolonisation within UK universities more broadly, you may also find the following text interesting: Priyamvada Gopal, ‘On Decolonisation and the University,’ Textual Practice 35 no. 6 (2021), 873-899. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1929561

This event is organised by the Higher Education Committee of the Association for Art History. Event donations contribute to our bursaries for doctoral students and early career researchers.

Photo: Carrie Mae Weems, “The Tate Modern,” (2006)