Are Trigger/Content Warnings Impacting Learning? A Reading/Pedagogy Conversation with Sylvanna Falcón

Educators are being encouraged to provide students with trigger or content warnings in which difficult topics are going to be covered, giving students agency on whether or not they want to learn about the subject. When did this turn towards forewarning take place in higher education? How have these content/trigger warnings created new challenges for educators seeking to engage their students on pressing social issues? Could we be losing the power of emotion/affect when it comes to learning and consciousness-raising through all the content warnings? Links to several short articles will be available in advance for discussion.

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This event is organised by SPAIS and SML, supported by MMB.

Sylvanna Falcón is a feminist and decolonial scholar visiting the University of Bristol from October to November, hosted by MMB. She is currently working on human rights witnessing and how publicly available digital information has shifted the terrain of human rights accountability for activists, advocates, lawyers and journalists searching for truth. She is an Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the founder/director of the Human Rights Investigations Lab at UC Santa Cruz.