The University Worth Fighting For
Once again in 2018-2019, the Futures Initiative will partner with HASTAC to offer events, webinars, and Twitter chats designed to tie student-centered, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change and social justice. We will pay special attention to race, gender, diversity, equity, and inequality—and to rethinking the higher education we so urgently need now. These events connect to a collection of team-taught courses to be offered at the Graduate Center in 2018-2019.
2018-2019 Events
| Classrooms and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy?
September 13, 2018 | 12-1pm | Segal Theater Speaker: Cathy N. Davidson, Racquel Gates, Christina Katopodis, and Siqi Tu |
Google Doc | Video |
| Equity, Health, and Learning: Social Determinants of Academic Success
November 1, 2018 | 12-1pm | 9204 |
Google Doc | Video |
| Fall Symposium: Who is Included? Restructuring Our Work and Our World
December 6, 2018 | 4-6pm | 9205-9206 |
Google Doc | Video |
| Hip-Hop Pedagogy
February 14, 2019 | 12-1pm | 9207 |
Google Doc | Video |
| Reinventing critical interculturalism: Cultures and languages in the classroom
March 7, 2019 | 12-1pm | 9207 |
Google Doc | Video |
| Spring Symposium: Race Studies Across the Curriculum
April 9, 2019 | 4-6pm | The Skylight Room |
Google Doc | Video |
2017-2018 Events
| September 7, 2017: Pedagogies of Dissent for Asian American Studies (September 7)
Speakers: Kandice Chuh, Frances Tran, Dorothy Wang |
Google Docs | Video |
| Queer Pedagogies and Pedagogy for LGBTQ Instructors (September 11)
Speakers: Stephanie Hsu, Jenn Polish, María R. Scharrón-del Río, Kalle Westerling |
Google Docs | Video |
| Mentors to Leaders (September 28)
Speakers: Lauren Melendez, Mike Rifino |
Google Docs | Video |
| Understanding the IRB, Part I (October 18)
Speakers: Marianna Azar, Jessica Murray |
Google Docs | Video |
| Revolutionizing the University: The New Education (November 6)
Speakers: Cathy Davidson, Anya Kamenetz |
Google Docs | Video |
| From Dissertation to First Book (November 27)
Speakers: Ken Wissoker, Kalle Westerling |
Google Docs | Video |
| Landing an Industry Job by Leveraging Your Academic Experience (December 7) | Google Docs | Video |
| Co-Creating Social Change (February 14)
Speakers: Eduardo Vianna, Mike Rifino, Francisco A. Medina, Sukhrob Abdushukurov, Courtney Cameron, Lucia Dikaczova, Marianna Fervenza, Thiago Lucena, Araminta Poole |
Google Docs | Video |
| Professionalizing your Online Identity (March 1)
Speaker: Christina Katopodis |
Google Docs | Video |
| Understanding the IRB, Part II (March 15)
Speakers: Marianna Azar,Kashema Hutchinson |
Google Docs | Video |
| Publics, Politics, and Pedagogy: Remaking Higher Education for Turbulent Times(Spring Forum; March 28) | Google Docs | Video |
| Writing for the Public: An Op-Ed Workshop (April 19)
Speaker: Tanya Domi |
Google Docs | Video |
| Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance (May 3)
Speakers: Inés Vañó García, Kahdeidra Monét Martin, Jenn Polish, Micheal Angelo Rumore, Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie, Alison Walls |
Google Docs | Video |
2016-2017 Events
| Racism, Xenophobia, Populism: The Miseducation of the Public September 20, 2016 | 3-5pm | Skylight Room Speakers: Jessie Daniels, Mary Phillips, Linda Sarsour |
Google Doc | Video |
| Enacting a Different STEM: Building Equitable Futures Beyond “Diversity” October 31, 2016 | 1-3pm | 9204-9205 Speakers: Jill Bargonetti, Gillian Bayne, Andrew Rosenberg, Sara Vogel |
Google Doc | Video |
| Media Blackness November 14, 2016 | 12-2pm | 9204-9205 Speakers: Cathy Davidson, Shelly Eversley, Racquel Gates, Michael Gillespie |
Google Doc | Video |
| Accessibility, Mobility, and Design February 8, 2017 | 2-4pm | Skylight Room Speakers: Sara Hendren, April Coughlin |
Google Doc | Video |
| Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education March 6, 2017 | 2-4pm | Skylight Room Speakers: Marianna Poyares, Zandi Radebe, Cleopatra Funzani Mtembu, Zee Dempster, Eve Tuck, Arianna Martinez |
Google Doc | Video |
| Spring Symposium April 3, 2017 | 10am-5pm | Skylight Room |
Google Doc | N/A |
Livestreamed at bit.ly/fight4edu-live
Details will be announced on the Futures Initiative and HASTAC websites
All are welcome to contribute to this conversation. Each month, we’ll tackle a different theme. Graduate and undergraduate students from CUNY, Duke, the community of HASTAC Scholars, and other partner institutions will host a Twitter chat one hour prior to each event to encourage debate and actions on these timely topics. We will share details on the Futures Initiative and HASTAC websites about how to participate in each event and conversation that we host.
Are you organizing an event that relates to any of the themes we’ll cover this year? Or something that addresses the spirit of the series as a whole? Tell us about it so that we can help publicize it and make it a part of the University Worth Fighting For. Higher Education is under attack on many fronts—and yet it also needs massive transformation. This series looks in both directions at once, renewing support for education as a civic good while also advocating educational reform.
We believe in higher education. Join us as we engage with and amplify these key issues in the classroom and beyond.
2015-2016 Events
Additional 2015-2016 events sponsored by the Futures Initiative:
- Tuesday and Wednesday, August 18-19: Peer Mentoring Workshop for select graduate and undergraduate students from across CUNY. Photo Essay of Day 1 and Day 2
- Friday, October 2: “Queering the Map” with Jen Jack Gieseking (2-4pm, 9204/livestreamed; rescheduled from Spring 2015)
- Wednesday, November 11: MLA Connected Academics Proseminar – Site Visit (by invitation)
- May 11-15: HASTAC 2016 Conference, Arizona State University