Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice - 10 May 2017 - Decolonising STEM

SpeakersProfessor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of Washington, Seattle) Undefining Black Women Scientists:Past, Present and Future Dr Arianne Shahvisi (University of Sussex) This panel will take the debate on decolonising the curriculum to STEM subjects, asking whether the basic axioms of scientific objectivity need rethinking when they are premised on the marginalisation of subaltern people from STEM. From this premise follows the axiom that the subaltern can be a subject of research, but it cannot itself research. Can science be objective when the language embedded in it works to 'unconstruct' Black and Indigenous women (and more broadly other minoritised peoples) as physicists? How might we develop a heuristic for disrupting problematic explanations and generalisations, and thereby refuse to be complicit in them? AbstractsProfessor Prescod-Weinstein Undefining Black Women Scientists: Past, Present and Future To constitute a concept of 'physics community',