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April 14, 1-2pm: Teaching as Social Justice

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    • March 31, 2016 at 11:16 am #1752
      Katina Rogers
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      Thursday, April 14 | 1 PM to 2 PM EDT | http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live | #fight4edu |#teach4justice | RSVP

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      WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, room 9204-9205
      WHEN: Thursday, April 14, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EDT
      CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu; (212) 817-7202
      MORE DETAILS: http://futures.gc.cuny.edu/blog/2016/03/23/apr-14-teaching-as-social-justice/

      Description
      How can teaching address the unequal distribution of resources, wealth, privilege, and opportunity along axes of race, gender, sexual orientation, and ability? Join us at the Graduate Center on Thursday, April 14 from 1-2pm EDT in room 9204-9205 for an open, livestreamed workshop on the relationship between teaching and social justice. Speakers include:

      • Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and Professor of Geography and Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. Gilmore’s work traverses a wide range of social justice topics, from racial and gender inequality to the environment and the criminal justice system.
      • Anne Balsamo, Dean of the School of Media Studies and Professor of Media Studies at the New School, and co-founder of FemTechNet. Dr. Balsamo’s work includes projects like The Aids Memorial Quilt, a memorial designed to foster healing, raise awareness, and inspire action around HIV/AIDS.
      • Prithi Kanakamedala, Assistant Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY. Prithi’s work as a Public Historian includes the major exhibit Brooklyn Abolitionists which examines anti-slavery activism in early Brooklyn. She has worked with the Brooklyn Historical Society, City Lore, Brooklyn Historical Society, Weeksville Heritage Center, and the Museum of the City of New York.

      This workshop is the seventh in the The University Worth Fighting For, a series of workshops that tie student-centered, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change, race, equality, gender, and social justice.

      The workshop will be livestreamed at http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live.

      Twitter Chat
      The live event will be preceded by a Twitter chat from 12-1pm EDT. The conversation will be moderated by Simone Browne, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, which examines surveillance with a focus on biometrics, airports and borders, slavery, black mobilities and creative texts. Use the hashtags #teach4justice and #fight4edu to join the discussion on ways that education can catalyze social activism and agency.

      Learn more about the series

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