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Towards a pedagogy for difficult histories: Insights from Holocaust education
This online event reflects upon teaching 'difficult histories' through the lens of Holocaust education. Andy Pearce is an Associate Professor in Holocaust & History Education at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. The session is hosted by Helen Knowler, academic lead for UCL's Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP).
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4/11/2024
Discovery at UCL - the Galton Collection
This powerful video shows our students reacting to objects in UCL's Galton collection that are linked to eugenics. Eugenics – the racist pseudo science of 'improving' human populations through selective breeding – had its roots at UCL. Please note, this video is published with permission by UCL's Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP), but we are not the creators of the content.
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4/9/2024
International Day of Persons with Disabilities Conference 2023
Recorded Dec 2023. This event has BSL interpretation and captions. Ahmad from UCL Student's Union's presentation will focus on expanding the student-led E&I work beyond the SU and developing societies' involvement in making our campus more inclusive. Helen and Tor from Eugenics Legacy Education Projects (ELEP) reflect on the role of higher education, especially UCL, in confronting and addressing eugenics ideologies. Tigmanshu from Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub focuses on innovation and disability, and explores how the GDI Hub are working towards elegant solutions to disability problems.
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12/13/2023
ELEP Research Seminar: Dr Bethsaida Nieves
Title: Determining Biological Citizenship: Creating and Effacing Difference in Puerto Rico’s Education. Speaker: Dr Bethsaida Nieves. Host: Helen Knowler, UCL's Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP). Abstract: Dr Nieves' work analyses the ways in which institutional practices gave legitimacy to conceptualisations of difference in Puerto Rico’s schooling and society. She examine the ways in which discourses of difference provided educators with information about whom the Puerto Rican child was or could become. These epistemological and ontological reference points shifted under the first years of civil colonial rule, which constructed a state of liminal governmentality in Puerto Rico’s education and society. For Puerto Rico’s case, sustained avoidance became a tactic for governing, which has kept Puerto Rico in a state of suspended sovereignty since the turn of the twentieth century.
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11/27/2023
Teaching difficult and/or sensitive topics: Three starting points
A 30-minute taster session from Helen Knowler (ELEP) exploring some of the challenges and opportunities for educators when planning to teach difficult and/or sensitive topics in higher education.
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11/23/2023
Curating content: tackling difficult topics in the age of activism (Prof Alice Stevenson)
The event is organised by UCL’s Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP), a programme of education activity to help address UCL's harmful historical links to eugenics. In this session, Alice Stevenson talks through her experience of teaching Museum Studies, the curriculum for which has had to radically change over the last six years to reflect a rapidly changing sector.
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10/26/2023
Teaching Difficult Knowledge: Exploring UCL’s Eugenics History and the Implications for Educational Development in Higher Education
A presentation by ELEP's Helen Knowler and Tor Wright about the Eugenics Legacy Education Project at UCL. Delivered to the British Educational Research Association's (BERA) conference, Birmingham 2023.
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9/26/2023
Eugenics: Know the past, protect the future (Dr Adam Rutherford)
A short introduction by UCL's Dr Adam Rutherford to the necessity of understanding our eugenics history to protect the future of areas such as genetics, statistics, and psychology.
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9/22/2023
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