Webinar: Decolonization in the Everyday Life of the Academy: Perspectives from Southeast Asia and Its Diaspora

Date and Time: Sept 16, 2022 | 4:00pm HST

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Protest movements from 2020 to 2022, including resistance against the Myanmar military coup, nationwide demonstrations in Thailand, as well as the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, have created new spaces of discourse and opportunities for action around what has been broadly termed “decolonization.” This panel seeks to explore efforts to decolonize as it pertains to the everyday functioning of academic departments, research institutions, and the daily lives of students and scholars from Southeast Asia and its diaspora. The impetus of the panel is to move away from abstract ponderings of decolonization and ground them in the personal experiences of academics from the Global South. We will focus in particular on the more concrete manifestations of power, inclusion/exclusion, and opportunity structures that are either enabled or constrained in departments, universities, and within the academy more broadly. Through a round-table format, panelists will seek to unpack the following: admissions and access to doctoral programs; attrition and matriculation rates; long-term career trajectories of minority scholars; promotion and tenure; redistribution of funding; decentering the research and publication infrastructure; the work of mentoring and leadership; the role of White academics in the decolonization project; collaboration and communication across fractured communities.