Event overview
An audio-visual exploration of feminist “pensive-creative praxis” in the classroom
The Centre for Language, Culture and Learning presents Dr Judith Rifeser.
What does it mean to touch? How is touch linked to breath? What does it mean to love? How are these ideas connected to the questions: Who are you? Who am I?
In this interactive seminar, I invite participants to explore these questions with me through a film-philosophical engagement with what I call my feminist “pensive-creative praxis” (Rifeser, 2020a). Throughout the seminar, excerpts of my audio-visual work are shown to explore how film practice can be used as a vehicle to take students on an audio-visual learning journey, exploring social, linguistic and philosophical debates through praxis. The short films aim to support them in developing their critical thinking, empathy and creativity and serve as a call to action to engage them in key contemporary questions and issues in and beyond the classroom.
In this project, Luce Irigaray’s theory of the “philosophy of the caress” offered the starting point for discussion to envision a peaceful and respectful living together. But the engagement with praxis also brought to the fore the theoretical underbelly and contradictions. They underpin the need for critical engagement with and a (re-) negotiation of the (in)visible borders of the (inter)national, (inter/intra) personal and sens-ous space(s) and horizon(s) of being of and in this world. My research aims to challenge phallogocentric Western thought and scholarship by interrogating the ethical, poetical and political potential of feminist “pensive-creative praxis” for the classroom.
*A zoom link will be sent out nearer the time to registered atendees.
Dr Judith Rifeser (FHEA, PGCE) is a lecturer and the Joint Coordinator of the Secondary PGCE Languages Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a member of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning. Judith is also the Deputy Membership Officer of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and a long-standing ALL London Committee Member. A quadrilingual scholar in languages, cultural studies and feminist creative praxis, she is particularly interested in teaching with and through film(making), intercultural understanding and in women’s studies in relation to identity and diversity. Her audio-visual essays have been screened to date at film festivals and cinemas/exhibition spaces in the UK and abroad.
Dates & times
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| 18 Nov 2020 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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