Welcome to the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI)
The Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI) draws faculty and students together, in graduate programs, courses, lectures, workshops and other interactive venues, to address Educational issues or topics of common concern from inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.
CCFI seeks to drive intellectual and social innovation through the nurturance of transdisciplinary scholarship in Education. CCFI thus serves as both an active academic unit that provides graduate programs and courses, and in so doing, contributes to the development of knowledge advances across multiple fields of inquiry in Education, as well as an incubator space for the development of cross-faculty initiatives and collaborative inquiry.
What's Hot
MAR
11
Professor Pheng Cheah, University of California at Berkeley will discuss cosmopolitanism and human rights on March 11, 2010, noon - 1:30 pm at Green College. More info
FEB
10
Dr. Lochlann Jain, Stanford University
is "Queer
Her most recent book is Injury (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Educational Insights new issue Academic Pathologies is available online. Explore the Educational Insights website to read about the paradoxical relationship between pathology and normalcy in the context of teaching, research, labour, and theory and writing within the Academy.
CCFI Noted Scholars Cosmo/Politics Lecture Series:
Cancer Queer: Towards an Elegiac Politics of Disease
Dr. Lochlann Jain, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
February 10, 2010, 12 – 1.30 pm | Coach House – Green College
Professor Lochlann Jain's (Department of Anthropology, Stanford University) research is primarily concerned with the ways in which stories get told about injuries, how they are thought to be caused, and how that matters. Figuring out the political and social significance of these stories has led to the study of law, product design, medical error, and histories of engineering, regulation, corporations, and advertising. Jain’s current work offers an analysis of the cause and treatment of cancer as a key modality through which American high-tech is experienced and explained. More details ....
Cancer Queer: Towards an Elegiac Politics of Disease
Cancer (as a disease and a culture) is a central trauma of Canadian and American culture. Yet, even with the daily barrage of probabilistic statistics, cancer is often taken to be exceptional. "Why me?" In this talk I examine cancer's disguises, specifically examining the gender and sexuality of such disguise. While disease identities and politics tend to be dismissed by scientists "merely cultural," I will discuss here how cancer culture and cancer science are intertwined. Cancer culture's tropes, such as hope, survivorship, and promises of "the cure," centrally inform not only how science is done, but which science is done, how it is justified, and which chemicals are pumped into patient bodies. Thus, an explanation of why cancer treatments and survival have barely improved in the last thirty years requires a better understanding of cancer culture.
