Attend QUAL Lab Speaker Series with Lorien Jordan on April 3

• Date: Wednesday, April 3
• Time: Noon-1 p.m.
• Location: Zoom (register today)
• Presenter: Lorien Jordan, assistant professor, University of South Florida

Join the UGA qualitative research program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series, “Culturally Disruptive Research: Troubling the Culture of Science in Qualitative Methodologies,” presented by Lorien Jordan.

In this talk, Jordan confronts cultural responsivity as a method that can lure researchers into justifying their work by focusing on essentialized, static, and damage-centered notions of culture. Merging insights from critical theories of whiteness and colonialism, she draws on her experiences working in New Zealand, Cambodia, and the United States to illustrate how a culturally disruptive framework might open possibilities for upsetting the cultural foundations of Westernized knowledge production and the reproduction of whiteness. She invites researchers to follow cultural disruption into spaces of dynamic dissonance, where epistemologies and ontologies meet at metaphysical, methodological, and physical borderlands to foreground creative, critical, and capacious knowledge generation.