We are pleased to have Dr. Coplen Rose (currently an ECP instructor) as the speaker at our next ISTEP Engineering Education Research Roundtable (E2R2) session. He will bring in perspectives on decolonialization, policy analysis, and an international context for engineering education and practice; all these were barely covered in our previous E2R2 sessions.
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 2 | 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Location: Myhal RM857 (and online via zoom)
Speaker: Dr. Coplen Rose
Title: Toward Decolonialization in Engineering: Dismantling the Architecture of Apartheid through South African Drama
Description:
This talk will focus on two aspects of apartheid-era violence that continues to impact South Africa today, specifically gold mining and urban infrastructure, both situated in Johannesburg, South Africa. This talk will explore how apartheid-era civil infrastructure and mining policies continue to fragment present-day South Africans. As a postcolonial scholar, my work explores how drama is raising awareness of the violent legacy of apartheid on the spaces and places that people occupy. This includes fears of visual surveillance, lack of water and electricity, but also ongoing labour tensions in South African mines. Tracing this link, my work explores how drama can foreground crises carrying over from apartheid and help to generate conversations around decolonization, reconciliation, and reversing the embedded violence in Johannesburg’s mining and civil infrastructure. Such examples may help to serve as case studies around ethics, engineering, and strategies towards decolonization. Consequently, I posit playwrights are using theatre to pose serious questions to their audiences as a means of creating social and political change.
All are welcome. No registration is required to attend this session.
Zoom Meeting information:
Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/4733423257?omn=87042529698
Meeting ID: 473 342 3257
Passcode: 123321
The ISTEP Engineering Education Research Roundtable (E2R2) was launched in fall 2018. Over the past years, E2R2 has been a monthly / bimonthly venue for ISTEP colleagues, including faculty, staff, and graduate students, to exchange ideas and updates about engineering education research. The format of the E2R2 meetings includes presentations, workshops, panel discussions, and journal club discussions. The goal of E2R2 is to build a community for engineering education research among ISTEP colleagues and, more broadly, among FASE colleagues, and to inspire ideas and advance scholarship and practices in engineering education. These E2R2 meetings have been co-hosted by Professor Deb Tihanyi and Dr. Qin Liu. If you would like to be a speaker for a future session (which can be at any stage of your engineering education research), please reach out to deborah.tihanyi@utoronto.ca or qinql.liu@utoronto.ca.