Academic Ontologies: Storytelling as Research Strategy
Channel: Asian Studies
Date: 28/06/2023

On June 15th, the Humanities Across Borders and Fellowship programs of IIAS hosted the first session of their online conversation series on Academic Ontologies, discussing storytelling as a research strategy. 

Reflecting on the close association between the English language and academic excellence and the colonial language politics that informs and shapes textual production, performance, transmission, and reception, speakers Tiffany Cone of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, Rohit Negi of the Center for Community Knowledge (CCK) at Ambedkar University Delhi, and Elena Burgos Martinez of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) at Leiden University discuss their individual approaches & experiences with storytelling as a research strategy, and converse about practices of storytelling, and the specific experience of non-English language use, in different academic contexts such as in the classroom, in community-based projects, or in the ethnographer’s field.

Humanities Across Borders (HAB) is an initiative of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) to invigorate the Humanities with innovative pedagogies grounded in local experience in different locations around the world. Its aim is to offer models of international collaboration that place higher education institutions in the global North and South on an equal and collaborative footing. 

To read more about the HAB and IIAS Fellowship programs, see https://wwww.humanitiesacrossborders.org and https://www.iias.asia/fellowships.