![]() One class was held in the Palais de la Porte Dorée, an art deco building erected for the 1931 Colonial Exposition that was decorated with stereotypical images of colonized subjects. This past Winter Quarter, Auslander taught an Urban Studies course in Paris. There's no reason to assume that when students walk into a classroom, they have any idea how to actually learn from each other.” ![]() ![]() “Part of my job is to teach people how to do that. “How do you create a classroom community where everybody exchanges their points of view and learns from each other?” Auslander asked. This awareness manifests in her teaching style, one that makes sure differences are respected and that listening, as well as speaking, is taken seriously. She shows how the smallest differences-in style, in food, in manners-can lead to inclusion, exclusion and sometimes violence. Leora Auslander works on how abstractions like “nationality,” “class,” “gender,” and “race,” are made and transformed in the things and spaces we use every day. ![]()
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