Abstract:

In this presentation, we will explore together what pleasures and perils are involved in creating transdisciplinary (co)curricular projects for undergraduates, post-graduates, faculty and community members. Using Shanghai Jiao Tong's SDGs Summer Camp 2023, Critical Zones, the More-than-Human-City, Surrealism, and Earth Stories: Hong Kong as examples, we will lay out concepts, mappings, dispositions, structures, and chance occurrences that enable such projects to become pivotal points of encounter and pathways of discovery in teaching, learning, and research. 

Biography:

Speaker: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Recently retired as Professor and Director of the University of Hong Kong’s Common Core. Gray currently serves as an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at HKU, where he is just finishing teaching an MA course on Surrealism, as well as the Co-Founding Director of Wild Studios Consulting. The recipient of several teaching awards, he is working on a variety of tasks with colleagues at HKU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, at VinUniversity (Hanoi), at Amsterdam University College, and at Utrecht University. Recent essays include “After Magritte #5: Hegel at the Beach,” “Pintxos: Small Delicacies & Chance Encounters,” and “Kracauer, Kant, and the Detectives.” His most recent book is Urban Arabesques: Philosophy, Hong Kong, Transversality and he is currently completing The Event of Noir as well as co-editing Transdisciplinary Experiments: Teaching, Research, and Institutionality.

Time: May 25, 2023 9:00-10:00

Venue: Tencent Meeting (ID and password will be displayed immediately after submitting the registration)

Organizers: Center for Teaching and Learning Development

Register by 2pm on May 24, 2023.

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