Activating June Jordan’s “Life Studies”: Notes, Conversation, and Workshop with Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
3:30 PM–5:30 PM
This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below.
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Throughout
her lifetime, writer and educator June Jordan’s creative practice
bridged the labors of poetry, activism, and pedagogy, and constantly
animated the question that she once asked of the university: “How do you
provide for the Study of Human Life?” Conor Tomás Reed and Talia
Shalev—editors of June Jordan’s “Life Studies,” 1966-1976—will
share notes on her poetic and pedagogical life in New York across a
selection of writings covering housing justice, youth literacy, and
college access and curriculum demands. Their presentation will be
followed by a conversation and workshop component, moderated by Maryam
Parhizkar, in which participants will practice imagining their own “Life
Studies” curricula.
This event is organized as part of Conor Tomás Reed’s residency at Wendy’s Subway, Radiating Black~Puerto Rican~Feminist Studies from the City University of New York to the Americas and the Caribbean,
and as part of the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program at Yale
University’s course, “Ethnic Studies and the Social Imagination.” This event and series is also co-sponsored by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Activando los “Estudios de la Vida” de June Jordan: notas, conversación, y taller Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed
Sobre el evento
Este es un evento en línea y se llevará a cabo en Zoom.
Regístrese aquí para asistir.
A
lo largo de su vida, la escritora y educadora June Jordan unió las
labores de la poesía, el activismo y la pedagogía, y animó
constantemente la pregunta que una vez hizo a la universidad: “¿Cómo se
proporciona por el Estudio de la Vida Humana?” Conor Tomás Reed y Talia
Shalev, editores de Jordan’s “Life Studies,” 1966-1976,
compartirán notas sobre su vida poética y pedagógica en Nueva York a
través de una selección de escritos que cubren la justicia en la
vivienda, la alfabetización de los jóvenes, y demandas del acceso a la
universidad y el plan de estudios. Su presentación será seguida por un
componente de conversación y taller, moderado por Maryam Parhizkar, en
el que los participantes practicarán imaginando sus propios planes de
estudio de “Estudios de la vida.”
Este evento se organiza como parte de la residencia de Conor Tomás Reed en Wendy’s Subway, Radiando
Estudios Afro-descendientes~Puertorriqueñxs~Feministas de la
Universidad Pública de Nueva York a las Américas y el Caribe, y
como parte del curso “Estudios étnicos e imaginación social” del
Programa de Etnia, Raza y Migación de la Universidad de Yale.
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