K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour Newsletter #7 Survivance Stories #1 April 6, 2020 There can be no business (or busyness) as usual. We cannot carry on Our Unlearning Hour regardless. These newsletters are no longer the fruits of an intimate group discussion in the Wexner Café (our last meeting on March 6th, when four […]
Last Friday (February 28th), we had our sixth meeting of the K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour. (We meet every Friday, 9:30-10:30am, at the Heirloom Café in the Wexner Center for the Arts – come and join us!). During our meeting, we focused our discussion on a very specific topic: the potential commission by OSU of […]
This week Our Unlearning Hour met at the Thompson Library for 30 minutes in order to allow participants to attend “The Americas before 1620: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures, Colonialism and Slavery” Symposium. Alanna Radlo Dzur, our K’acha Willaykuna GRA in 2019, delivered a talk on Imagining the Marietta Earthworks. This week our conversation turned […]
Last Friday (February 14th) at Our Unlearning Hour, our regular attendees (Tania Espinales Correa, Anna Freeman, Guillermo Paredes Orozco, Richard Fletcher – for only the first half hour – so thanks to Anna and Tania for the notes on which this newsletter is based) were joined by several new faces (Eric Johnson, Moon Kim, Andrew […]
In this week’s Our Unlearning Hour, we discussed methods of unlearning. The question transformed from what have we learned, and what is unlearning, to how can we unlearn. Dana Luciano, a new addition to our group, shared that she believed that it had to do with a more conscious awareness of the world around us, […]
Last Friday (January 31st), we had our second meeting of the K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour. (We meet every Friday, 9:30-10:30am, at the Heirloom Café in the Wexner Center for the Arts – come and join us!). During our meeting, we welcomed new members (Alex Adcock & Kat Arndt) and reflected on the past week, […]
Last Friday (January 24th) we had our first meeting of the K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour. During our hour together, as we took this moment to pause amid the business (and busyness) of the new semester, we took our time to introduce ourselves. Amid sips of coffee and the noise and bustle of the Wexner […]
Last Friday (January 10th) was the unofficial start to Our Unlearning Hour, an offshoot of This Decoloniality?, last semester’s K’acha Willaykuna Reading Group. Our Unlearning Hour is a weekly gathering every Friday at 9:30-10:30am (officially starting January 24th), at Heirloom Café at The Wexner Center for the Arts for developing exercises of unlearning grounded in […]