Join the Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (Compare) and the Journal of International Cooperation in Education (JICE) for a two-day event featuring a book talk and a writers’ workshop. On the first day, we are excited to invite Dr. Peter Sutoris, Assistant Professor at University of Leeds, UK and the Editor of Compare. He will introduce his latest work, Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence. The second day will feature a writing workshop facilitated by Dr. Sutoris and the Editors of JICE, aimed at PhD students, early career researchers, and anyone interested in publishing papers in international journals.

Event Details:

-　Location: Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University,

Nishi-Waseda Bldg. 7F room 713, 1-21-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 169-0051, https://www.waseda.jp/fire/gsaps/en/access

-　Dates:

　・October 18 (Friday), 17:00-19:00

　- Day1: Book Talk: Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence

　・October 19 (Saturday), 9:00-14:30

　- Day2: Compare and JICE Writing for Publication Workshop

Participants may attend either or both event(s). Those attending the workshop are required to bring a draft abstract of their current research paper (no specific format required, but please keep it within 200-300 words).

All interested individuals are welcome!

To participate, please complete the registration using the form linked below by October 17.

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/eHFTHrvK75HVjoEPA

Event Content Details:

Day1: Book Talk: Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence

Education has never played as critical a role in determining humanity’s future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind’s unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, Peter Sutoris explores education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable practices. He exposes the depoliticizing effects of schooling and examines cross-generational knowledge transfer within and beyond formal education. Finally, he calls for the bridging of schooling and environmental activism, to find answers to the global environmental crisis.

The onset of the Anthropocene challenges the very definition of education and its fundamental goals, says Sutoris. Researchers must look outside conventional models and practices of education for inspiration if education is to live up to its responsibilities at this critical time. For decades, environmental activist movements in some countries have wrestled with questions of responsibility and action in the face of environmental destruction; they inhabited the mental world of the Anthropocene before much of the rest of the world. Sutoris highlights an innovative research methodology of participatory observational filmmaking, describing how films made by children in the Indian and South African communities provide a window into the ways that young people make sense of the future of the Anthropocene. It is through their capacity to imagine the world differently, Sutoris argues, that education can reinvent itself.

Bio: Peter Sutoris is Assistant Professor in Climate and Development at University of Leeds, UK. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is the author of monographs Visions of Development (Oxford University Press) and Educating for the Anthropocene (MIT Press) as well as the forthcoming book Reimagining Development (Hurst). He’s Editor of the journal Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Coordinating Editor of Degrowth Journal and Editorial Board member of Decolonial Subversions. His popular writing has also appeared in The Guardian, Scientific American, POLITICO, The Wire and Scroll. His current research focuses on imagination of alternative environmental futures and activist pedagogies of change. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto in Autumn 2024. 

Day2: Compare X JICE Writing for Publication Workshop

In this Writers’ workshop, we will learn ‘how’ of writing academic journal articles in English. Facilitated by the Editors of Compare and JICE, the workshop will demystify editorial and peer review decision processes, aiming at boosting participants’ chances of getting published.

Agenda (subject to change):

-　9:00-11:30 AM – Writing Strategies:

　・Focus on identifying research gaps and crafting compelling abstracts

-　11:30-12:30 PM – Lunch Break

-　12:30-14:30 PM – Group Work:

　・Participants will exchange abstracts and provide feedback in small groups.

　・An explanation about Compare and JICE, peer review processes, and a Q&A will follow.

Note: participants are required to bring a draft abstract of their current research paper. There is no specific format required, but please limit the abstract should be between 200 and 300 words.

Contact Information:

jice-au@hiroshima-u.ac.jp, Takamichi Asakura, Hiroshima University