Associate Professor Lou Harvey from the University of Leeds will pay a visit in Jyväskylä on Wednesday 12 June and give a lecture and a workshop on the topic of neuroqueering understanding and postqualitative research.
Lecture: 10.00-11.30
Venue: Agora D211.1, Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Zoom
No preregistration. by 10 June.
'To be is to communicate': Neuroqueering understanding for communicative hospitality in research
I have been trained as a qualitative researcher in the field of Education. Qualitative researchers often claim an emancipatory orientation to their participants, seeking to 'give voice' to or 'make voices heard' for marginalised people - an invitation to speak which appears to be a hospitable act. However, in my research in intercultural and peace education, and as an autistic person, I have found this hospitality to operate largely within binary orientations to knowledge (e.g. self/other, host/guest) and within the communicative parameters of sayability, which culminate in representational understanding of the Other. However, as Mikhail Bakhtin knew, 'to be is to communicate' (1984). In this talk I therefore offer the concept of neuroqueering, an intentional creative estranging of our own bodyminds (following Walker 2021), as a tool for expanding communicative hospitality and enabling us to let go of the tyranny of understanding in our engagements with others. I posit that neuroqueering understanding offers a more hospitable approach to research which can enable us to engage with the unsayable, and which moves beyond binary relations towards the more complex and fluid positions of host, guest, and stranger to both others and ourselves (following Basil 2019).
Workshop: 12.30-14.00
Venue: Ag D211.1, Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ (only on-site)
Preregistration is required. Please, by 10 June.
Bring Up the Bodies: Listening in (post)qualitative research
Following the talk outlined above, this workshop offers an invitation to collectively consider:
- what happens when we do not have access to meaning in the ways we might expect
- how we might listen - as researchers, and fellow beings - to others' embodied being-as-communicating
- how we might better accept others' performances of their being, rather than trying to represent them.
Dr. Lou Harvey (she/they) is Associate Professor in Education at University of Leeds, UK. Lou's work in intercultural and peace education focuses on expanding the concept of voice to engage with the communication of the unsayable, using methods and approaches at the intersection of language and the arts and with a commitment to a collaborative and neuroqueer ethos. Lou is a reader and writer of fiction, a thwarted foodie, and a cheerful iconoclast with the eyeshadow of a much younger woman.
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