Engaged scholarship, epistemic justice and societal change

Seminar by prof. Halleh Ghorashi and Dr. Elena Ponzoni

In this seminar we will discuss various approach of engaged scholarship and present how our understanding of this concept has evolved throughout our academic journey. We will show the importance of critical theory and feminist epistemology in approaching engaged scholarship from a transformative angle. Then we will zoom in further in discussing the ingredients of what we call transformative engaged scholarship which has epistemic justice at its core and meaningful co-creation of various forms of knowledge as its methodology. The aim of such scholarship is then to co-generate societal change together with societal actors towards inclusion on meso and macro level. We will present some examples from our research within expertise lab: Refugee Academy at the VU to elaborate further on the importance of such form of engaged scholarship for academia, for society and for refugees. 

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