The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
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WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
January 12t
h\, 12-1 PM
All events are free and open to the publi c.
In this talk – a developing disciplinary intervention – I shift the lens of my own training from its longstanding focus on the so cio-cultural norms and conventions that underpinned British colonial rule i n India to consider the artefacts of colonial rule that shaped my own educa tion as a historian. Born to an Indian mother and German-Jewish father whos e lives were each indelibly marked by European conceptions of race\, yet ir reconcilably different in experience\, my curiosity coalesced early around cultural fault lines\, sites of hybridity\, pluralism\, and power. This tal k traces that emergent curiosity\, its intellectual and geographical meande rings through London\, Paris\, and India\, its distillation into questions and answers that found little resonance in the classrooms of my own higher education. Probing the often intimate\, personal\, reflective\, and emotion al pathways the lead us toward our research\, this talk invites listeners t o think with me about why we ask the questions we do and where our deepest learning takes place.
Dr. Tara Mayer is an Ass ociate Professor of Teaching in The Social Justice Institute at UBC. A hist orian of colonial South Asia\, her scholarship traces material and aestheti c exchanges between India\, Britain\, and France in ways that blur the boun daries of her discipline. She explores the deeply reciprocal processes of a ppropriation\, assimilation\, and influence that took place at the intersec tions of European and South Asian material culture and the role of racism a nd colonial power in shaping these exchanges. She has served as a research consultant for international exhibitions on Indian art\, Orientalism\, and European portraiture and has forged new collaborative partnerships between UBC and the Museum of Vancouver. Her teaching practice is centred on challe nging historical norms and values around objectivity\, neutrality\, and saf e-space. Her most recent project is an interview series entitled On Fee ling and Knowing: Radical Conversations About Teaching and Learning. URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/things-i-learned-but-wa s-not-taught-with-dr-tara-mayer/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/12/EK_TaraMayer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 DTSTART:20211107T090000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR