Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and the Park Center for Independent Media present
Pedagogy as Encounter: Beyond the Teaching Imperative
International Book Launch on Zoom
Wed October 19, 2022
7-8:15 p.m.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-6gqjktGtaNUKFmWp-WJksYnyblNAcy
Pedagogy of Encounter asks: What is the role of politics in the classroom? How does the desire of the teacher shape the pedagogical process? Is teaching possible? Is learning possible? The majority of discussions, workshops, conference panels, articles, and books avoid meta-pedagogical issues by focusing on technique. Such “technique talk” examines schemes, methods, and procedures that do and do not work in the classroom. It answers the “how” question at the cost of ignoring these bigger queries.
Pedagogy as Encounter consists of 120 vignettes arranged in eight chapters. Most of these are first person autobiographical stories that describe encounters with students and colleagues. They portray a teacher whose classroom disappointments lead him to radical experimentation. But there are also a few theoretical sections, as well as segments that are epigrammatic in nature. All of it is grounded in a Lacanian political psychology and in a critical global political economy, but free of jargon and presented in a conversational voice.
“Pedagogy as Encounter"is a personal quest for a deeper pedagogy rendered as an act of witnessing. An honest, erudite, and profoundly student-centered work, Inayatullah embraces the range of human behavior in the classroom, including emotions, paradox, discomfort, and spirituality. His innovative method rejects all kinds of political correctness in favor of the openness of each student's encounter with professor, text, and group.”
-- Joel Dinerstein, Tulane University
Welcome by Claire Gleitman, Dean of School of Humanities and Sciences, Ithaca College
Salute to the book by Joel Dinerstein, Professor of English, Tulane University
Naeem Inayatullah is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He is the author and editor of eight books, including Pedagogy as Encounter (2022); Within, Against,, and Beyond Liberalism: A Critique of Liberal IPE and Global Capitalism (2021); Narrative Global Politics (2016); Autobiographical International Relations (2011); Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010); Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations of Gender, Race and War (2006); International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004); and The Global Economy as Political Space (1994). He is also associate editor of the Journal of Narrative Politics.
Aida A. Hozic is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. Her research is situated at the intersection of political economy, cultural studies, and international security. Her current research projects focus on crime and state in Southeastern Europe, visual representations of race in international politics, and the diffusion of global arts markets in the 21st century. She is the author of Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy (2002), co-editor (with Jacqui True) of Scandalous Economics: Gender and Politics of Financial Crises (2016). She has written dozens of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in journals. Her work has been supported by the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, IREX, Institute for Turkish Studies, Open Society Institute, University of Florida Humanities Fund and many other fellowships.
This international book launch is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College.