The Abolitionist Curriculum
This session explores the possibilities of abolitionist approaches to education, questioning how colonial histories, racial hierarchies and institutional power shape what we teach and how we learn. Drawing on Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, we consider how education might challenge dominant ways of knowing, confront the enduring legacies of racial violence and imagine more just and transformative forms of learning.
Speaker: DR Jon Ward
Dr Jon Ward is Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London and founder of The Abolitionist Curriculum. His research explores race, coloniality and representations of the body across visual, literary and popular culture. His work examines the ways racialised histories are remembered, misrepresented and reproduced through contemporary media, with particular interests in whiteness, popular film and the legacies of colonialism.
