Conversation & Lecture

Teaching the #Syllabus with Yarimar Bonilla and Zakiya Collier: NYPL Doc Chat Episode 16

Thu, Feb 18, 2021

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below.

Join NYPL for Doc Chat Episode 16: “Teaching the #Syllabus” featuring the Schomburg Center’s Zakiya Collierand our Mellon Seminar Faculty Leader Dr. Yarimar Bonilla of The Puerto Rico Syllabus project and Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY who will explore the Schomburg’s #Syllabi web archive collection and the Puerto Rico Syllabus / #PRSyllabus, and discuss erasure and underrepresentation in academia, digital protest, and ways of deploying Hashtag Syllabi in the classroom.

Doc Chat is a program series that digs deep into the stories behind the New York Public Library’s most interesting collections and highlights ways that teachers can incorporate them into the classroom.

Educators, scholars, students, and all primary source lovers are welcome to join this lively conversation. Each 30-minute episode takes place online.

Register HERE for Doc Chat Episode 16: “Teaching the #Syllabus, and explore all upcoming Doc Chat episodes HERE.

Co-sponsored by the Puerto Rico Syllabus project led by Dr. Yarimar Bonilla as part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.