Valuing Difference: Diversity, Inclusion, and the Future Direction of Slavic Studies

Session Submission Type: Lightning Round

Brief Description

ASEEES’s Committee for the Advocacy of Diversity and Inclusion (CADI) was created by a vote of the ASEEES Board in 2018 in response to the need for a standing committee within the organization that can coordinate and guide ASEEES’s efforts both to diversify and to make more inclusive its membership and the broader field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. This Lightning Round panel highlights efforts being made in the field to address these issues in curricula, courses, and conduct through engaged pedagogy in the classroom and beyond. Presenters will focus on curricular change, pedagogical/methodological change, and changes in administrative actions as part of the re-envisioning, development, and implementation process of effecting change in Slavic Studies towards increased inclusion and diversity. Recommendations for creating programs and policies in SEEES that challenge racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination against people with disabilities in society and within SEEES will be examined as part of a larger critical pedagogy.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development/Non-language Pedagogy/State-of-Field

Chair

• Thomas J. Garza, U of Texas at Austin

Papers

• Rethinking Slavic Studies for Students of the 21st Century - Choi Chatterjee, California State U, Los Angeles

• Inclusivity and Representation in Teaching Slavic Languages and Culture - Thomas J. Garza, U of Texas at Austin

• Inclusive Pedagogies in Russian Culture Courses: The Case of Non-Majors at a Large State University - Martha M. F. Kelly, U of Missouri

• Making the Russian Culture Classroom More Inclusive - Ani Kokobobo, U of Kansas

• Queering the Russian Novel - Devin Culley McFadden, U of Kansas

• Creating a Code of Conduct for ASEEES: Process and Design - Roman Utkin, Wesleyan U

• A Transgender Perspective on Slavic Studies - Cecil Leigh Wilson, U of Wisconsin-Madison