On Discomfort: Feminist Pedagogy Workshop

Time: Nov. 4, 2025, noon - 2:30 p.m.

Location: Sim 319

Feminist pedagogy for our times requires discomfort. In this workshop hosted by Women's and Gender Studies, Miriam Ticktin (CUNY Graduate Center) encourages participants to think together about how to cultivate and work with discomfort in our research and our political lives. Sometimes discomfort is avoided by claiming innocence, and by not acknowledging our own forms of implication, interestedness, pleasure or power in our research sites. How might a feminist pedagogy and research practice lean into discomfort in a way that is responsible, even as it is difficult?

Related: Ticktin presents a public lecture on Nov. 3.

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