Lunchtime Showcase of Community Education and Public Learning Projects
Thu, Dec 9, 2021
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
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Join the Center for the Humanities for a showcase of creative and innovative community-based projects and research developed from several different public humanities initiatives by students and scholars at CUNY.
Over two lunchtime sessions, Fellows from Humanities New York, the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research, and recipients of the CUNY Adjunct Incubator will present their unique projects that combine digital and community engagement with artistic and academic methodologies. Join us Thu, Dec 9th at 12:30 for the second showcase focusing on community education and public learning projects.
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Read about each student fellow or scholar, their public humanities projects, and the initiatives they stem from in detail below:
- Tania Avilés Vergara (CUNY Adjunct Incubator recipient, is a PhD candidate in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, Hispanic Sociolinguistics track, at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and adjunct professor at Lehman College)
Project: Teaching and Learning Spanish at CUNY: Public Language Education Through Archival Resources advocates for the use of archives as open educational resources in the Spanish language class, in order to ground second language learning within the historical, social and linguistic experiences of CUNY students, and partners with CUNY archival institutions such as the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the Dominican Studies Institute and the Mexican Studies, promoting their collections and educational programs in the classroom.
- Mariposa Fernandez (CUNY Adjunct Incubator recipient, teaches at the Herbert H. Lehman College in the Women and Gender Studies Program and the Africana Studies Department, as well as the Black Studies Program at The City College of New York)
Mariposa Fernandez
Project: The Be A Buddy (BaB) Multimedia Project: Stories of Strength from the South Bronx aims to document community and neighborhood resilience by gathering stories of strength in the South Bronx (using photography and digital technology to document oral interviews, and offering free creative writing workshops) and explore the impact and effectiveness of THE POINT CDC’s mutual aid projects and the community building efforts of neighbors taking care of each other from 2018 to the present pandemic.
- Kendra Krueger (CUNY Adjunct Incubator recipient, Advanced Science Research Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Project: The Community Sensor Labis a space for DIY community science and advocacy which seeks to equip youth and community members with research tools and STEAM skills to better advocate for local policy change on public health and environmental justice.
Kendra Krueger (left) and Ricardo Toledo-Crow (right), co-founders of The Community Sensor Lab, work with CUNY students Samaiyah Morgan (Laguardia Community College) and Peter Christakos (City College of New York) as part of the ASRC’s Community Sensor Lab. - Luke Elliott-Negri (Humanities NY Fellow and a PhD student in the Sociology Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Luke Elliott-Negri
Project: Human Politics seeks to humanize and demystify politics, politicians, and political decision-making through short interviews (typically just 10 minutes) with individuals who are, broadly defined, politically active.
- Michelle Gaspari (CUNY Adjunct Incubator recipient, PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY, an Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Women and Gender Studies at Baruch College, and a Co-Organizer at The CUNY Adjunct Project)
Michelle Gaspari
Project: The Adjunctification of Higher Education: A Guided Syllabusis a multimedia digital pedagogical toolkit for faculty to teach about adjunct welfare and precarity at CUNY.
- Nga Than (Digital Publics Fellow for the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research and doctoral candidate in the Sociology Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Project: Voices of the Gig Economy is a podcast created and curated by students of the Sociology of the Gig Economy course at Hunter College, Fall 2020. Students interviewed gig economy workers and asked them about their lived experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Through the lens of the workers, students were able to explore complex relationships between work, technology, and society.
About These Initiatives:
Cuny Adjunct Incubator: is a framework for supporting the significant scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work of adjuncts teaching in the humanities and humanistic social sciences across CUNY. Providing social, logistical, financial, and professional support for the creation and circulation of knowledge by CUNY adjuncts, this platform promotes the crucial work of part-time faculty across the CUNY community and senior college campuses. Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research: is an interdisciplinary platform for creative, activist, and scholarly collaboration that supports humanistic research, teaching, and activities with social justice aims. Working with a cohort of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and community partners, the project opens up and democratizes knowledge production, supports civic and community engagement, and connects classrooms, CUNY campuses, and the city of New York.
Public Humanities Fellowship with Humanities New York: offers advanced humanities graduate students a chance to explore the public application of their scholarly interests, including training in the methods of the public humanities, networking, and professional development. Each Fellow in the cohort of 18 designs and implements a public humanities project in collaboration with a community-based partner.
Click here for more information on public humanities practices.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the
Gittell Urban Studies Collective at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and
Humanities NY.
Participants
Nga Than
Digital Publics Fellow
Nga Than is a PhD student in sociology at City University of New York – The Graduate Center. Her research interests are in social media, computational social science, international migration, and sociology. As a mixed-methods scholar, she has conducted qualitative research using interviewing, as well as employing machine learning to analyze text data, and administrative data. Her research has received support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Taiwan’s Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, CUNY – Pre-dissertation Fellowship, and CUNY – Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant.
Luke Elliott-Negri
Public Humanities Fellow
Luke Elliott-Negri is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of several articles about industrial unionism and social movements and co-author of a policy report on Connecticut’s paid sick days law. His dissertation analyzes the prospects of a contemporary left-wing political party (the Working Families Party) against the backdrop of the literature on American exceptionalism with respect to party formation. His co-authored book about social movement success and failure is under review at Oxford University Press.
Kendra Krueger
Kendra Krueger is an intersectional scientist, educator, artist and woman of color on many edges. Raised by artists, educated as an electrical engineer (BS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS CU Boulder) and trained in anti-oppression facilitation, theater, mindfulness and permaculture. Her work and research is a convergence of these many waters. Fueled by divine curiosity she seeks to inspire deeper exploration of ourselves and our universe. Her pedagogy advocates that science can be a transformative tool for our external and internal world if analytical and intuitive skills are combined. She founded 4LoveandScience in 2014 as a platform to teach transformative science at universities, in k12 schools and in community spaces/gardens throughout the country. She has also developed performative and installation-based projects in collaboration with other artists. She currently works as a science educator at CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center where she has founded The Community Sensor Lab as a space for DIY community science and advocacy.
Michelle Gaspari
Michelle Gaspari is a third year PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, an Adjunct Lecturer in sociology, anthropology, and women and gender studies at Baruch College, and a Co-Organizer at The CUNY Adjunct Project. Her dissertation research focuses on the intersection between histories of ethnic violence and management and care for incoming migrants in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Beginning in 2018, she has organized around issues of inequity in graduate worker funding and health insurance at CUNY with the CUNY Adjunct Project. She is heavily influenced in her work and advocacy by the conviction that when producing knowledge we face the choice to either reproduce or reallocatepower. Her commitment to a not-for-profit and antiracist university informs this project on the adjunctification of the university and its inequitable effects.
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