ONLINE SEMINAR – DEFY: The End of the Story? Lessons, Practices, and Questions from Three Years of Working with Difficult Knowledge and Discomfort

We invite you to join “DEFY: The End of the Story?” online seminar on 18 March, 12 – 13 Irish Time // 13 – 14 CET.

We’ll use the hour to share publications, learnings, and participant experiences that have emerged over the 3 years of DEFY. We’d appreciate your presence there immensely.

Over 3 years, DEFY has been creating rare spaces for educators working in or adjacent to Global Citizenship Education (GCE) to explore entanglement in cascading crises of poverty, inequality, genocide, and ecological collapse (‘difficult-knowledge’). A guiding question for the project has been how purposeful engagement with difficult-knowledge might deepen our practice and readiness to hold space for others.

The experiences and insights of those involved in the project have inspired no less than two zines and a handbook for educators on navigating difficult-knowledge and discomfort. We are excited to share these pieces in the online seminar.

DEFY is a pan-European collaboration between STAND, Comhlámh, finep (Germany) and Zavod Voluntariat (Slovenia). Since its inception in April 2023, and through seminars, conversation circles, and an extended programme called “Shifting Edges”, the project has engaged over 100 educators from across Ireland, Slovenia and Germany. DEFY is grateful for funding support from ERASMUS+.