Baltimore's Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools Baltimore is joining the efforts of more than 20 cities to bring a Black Lives Matter Week of Action into our schools Feb 5-11, 2018! http://www.teachingforchange.org/black-lives-matter-schools-nationwide

Celebrate and support Baltimore's Week of Action in Schools at the following community events: (Click on links for more info about each event)

MONDAY 2/5 - KICKOFF: ACTION AT BCPSS CURRICULUM AUDIT AT WESTERN HIGH SCHOOL 4600 FALLS RD, 4:00-5:30PM https://www.facebook.com/events/150970195694078/

TUESDAY 2/6 - LECTURE AT LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, 6:45PM https://www.loyola.edu/department/ciue/events/2018-bree-picower & LGBTQ POC CONCERT AT THE MOTOR HOUSE 120 W NORTH AVE, 7PM https://www.facebook.com/events/524571727902670/

WEDNESDAY 2/7 - WEST WEDNESDAY: PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY AT NORTHEAST DISTRICT POLICE STATION 1900 ARGONNE DR, 6:30PM https://www.facebook.com/justicefortyronewest/

THURSDAY 2/8 - BLACK TEACHERS MATTER: VIDEO AND PANEL AT LIBERTY ELEMENTARY LIBRARY 3901 MAINE AVE, 6-8PM https://www.facebook.com/events/1201119533353787/

FRIDAY 2/9 - YOUTH-RUN OPEN MIC NIGHT AT THE LIVING WELL CENTER 235 HOLLIDAY STREET, 8PM https://www.facebook.com/events/146325756076843/

SATURDAY 2/10 - BALTIMORE SOUP: CLOSING CELEBRATION AT 2640 ST PAUL ST, 6-8PM https://www.facebook.com/events/131485374327208/

ALL WEEK: EAT AT BLACK-OWNED RESTAURANTS http://www.blackrestaurantchallenge.com/

EDUCATORS, CLICK HERE FOR CURRICULUM, RESOURCES, AND WEEKLY CALENDAR...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10FKkMoAU8mJaEH37y-SJetHVWFPjXhjFhCw0opMpuGE/edit?usp=sharing

WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN BLACK LIVES WEEK OF ACTION IN SCHOOLS? SHOW YOUR SUPPORT BY SIGNING UP HERE... https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgGSRViCOFNugcCXuMn9E16YUYmb6tjfIQmfm8Nfl4SFtOSQ/viewform

FOR MORE INFO, GO TO: https://www.bmorecaucus.org/black-lives-matter-week-of-action-2

Baltimore Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools is part of the National Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools: https://www.facebook.com/The-National-Black-Lives-Matter-Week-of-Action-in-Our-Schools-192373061312325/




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The Critical Feminist Studies Working Group [CFSWG] of the Cultural Studies Association [www.culturalstudiesassociation.org] is pleased to invite submissions for one roundtable and one panel to be presented at the 2018 conference, which will take place at Carnegie Mellon University from May 31-June 2:

Roundtable on “Interventions” in Critical Feminist Theory

  • What are ways to conceptualize interventions? Can they be productive, energizing forces for theory and practice or problematic obstacles to feminist progress?
  • What cultural spaces/cultural products/case studies operate as a promotion and/or policing of interventional strategies? How does this limit or expand the intersectional lens of Critical Feminist Studies?
  • What are the cisgendering, racializing, and disabling effects of feminist interventions? How does neoliberalism and globalization play a part in these effects?
Panel on Critical Feminist Studies and the Possibilities for Social Justice Interventions

  • What is the future of social justice interventions under Trump’s administration? 
  • Should we continue to imagine ‘feminist utopias’ as a strategy of intervention, or are there other possible conceptions and strategies to develop and defend?
  • How might new or reframed Critical Feminist Pedagogy be developed as a form of social justice intervention(s)?
  • We encourage papers that draw from diverse fields including but not limited to: women's and gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political economy, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, media studies, critical disability studies, and/or cultural studies. 

You need to be a CSA member to submit. Please indicate which of the panels you would like to apply for with a brief abstract of your paper/presentation (500-700 words) and a short bio (in one document) to the EasyChair admission platform by February 16, 2018.

Questions about our CSA Working Group can be directed to Dara Persis Murray (dara.murray@mville.edu) and Jennifer Scuro (jscuro@cnr.edu).

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"A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as a Punishment for the Poor"
Alexes Harris
Professor of Sociology, University of Washington

Wednesday, March 7, 2018
4:30-5:30 pm
University Center Ballroom (3rd floor)
Book signing and reception to follow talk
Organized by the School of Public Policy


Harris will discuss her book, "A Bound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment of the Poor" where she presents her research about the contemporary relationship between the United States' systems of social control and inequality and specifically, the expansion of and use of monetary sanctions as a criminal sentencing tool. Monetary sanctions are a type of criminal sentence imposed by state superior courts nationally, and include fines, fees, costs, interest, surcharges, and restitution.

Organized by the School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology and Health  Administration and Policy, and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Reducing Harm via Participatory Theatre: A Two-Part Workshop

In LESS than TWO weeks, Koli Tengella and Brian Francoise will be leading a Participatory Theatre workshop at Everyman Theatre (FREE. Should be dope -- :0) Commitment to both sessions is required). Please take advantage of this unique workshop opportunity and/or pass along to a friend or professional who could benefit from skill building, finding a story, and maybe even a little healing. Designed for non-actors ...

Using theatre and social change techniques, participants will develop a “story” about your personal relationship to issues such as drug use, treatment, recovery and harm reduction. Sure to be fun and galvanizing, the workshop will empower participants with newfound community building and civic arts skills to be add to their toolkit for use in your work and life which can include behavioral health organizational work. The two part workshop is specifically designed for non-actors; people with little or no theater experience are encouraged to take advantage of this workshop. Must participate in both days!! Co-led by Koli Tengella and Brian Francoise. 

Reducing Harm via Participatory Theatre: A Two-Part Workshop
Everyman Theatre -- 315 West Fayette St. 
Sundays, Feb. 11, 18, 1:30 -- 5:00 pm, (Rehearsal Hall) 

HERE is the direct Google Form to REGISTER
HERE is the FB Event link for social media spreading

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A story circle event will take place tomorrow at the Arch Social Club from 3 to 6 pm. Dr. Bev Bickel, Sherella Cupid, Frank Anderson and others will be leading this conversation. 


The 2018 People's State of the Union will take place from January 25-February 4, 2018.

In January of most years, the President delivers a State of the Union Address highlighting the past year and suggesting priorities for the coming year. It’s a broadcast from one to many. But democracy is a conversation, not a monologue. Understanding the state of our union takes We the People reflecting in our own communities on our challenges and opportunities locally, nationally, and globally.
Since 2015, the USDAC has hosted the People’s State of the Union as an invitation to supplement the President’s stories by coming together in our own homes, schools, houses of worship, and community organizations to share our own take on the state of our union. Thousands of people in more than 350 communities have taken part over the last three years.

The People’s State of the Union has two main parts: Story Circles across the nation, and a collaboratively composed Poetic Address to the Nation. The USDAC offers toolkits and online trainings to support anyone hosting a Story Circle, bringing people together to share stories from their own experience. Stories are uploaded to an online story portal where they can be shared and browsed. Then—inspired by these stories—an invited group of writers collaboratively composes the Poetic Address to the Nation, performed and broadcast live. https://usdac.us/psotu/




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Dr. Moffitt discussed the #MeToo movement and the lack of diversity and due process.

You can listen to the show here: http://wypr.org/post/diversity-and-due-process-where-metoo-movement-stands


Congratulations, Dr. Moffitt!
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The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC invites you to celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass at a digital “transcribe-a-thon,” to be held on February 14th in the UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library, Room 259, from 12PM-2PM

Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14. In a spirit of radical love, we will commemorate his birthday and Black History Month by joining a national event that will simultaneously transcribeportions of the Freedmen’s Bureau Papers.

TheDouglass Day Transcribe-a-thon is the first Humanities Teaching Lab (HT Lab) of the Dresher Center’s new Inclusion Imperative Program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Through the Inclusion Imperative Program, partners UMBC, Bowie State University, Coppin State University, and Howard University are cultivating a regional network of scholars, who are committed to diversity and inclusion in the humanities.Over the next four years, a variety of HT Labs will introduce faculty and students to new media tools and methods for community-engaged humanities teaching and learning experiences.During this HT Lab, faculty will learn about using activities such as crowdsourced transcription projects in the classroom and will be provided with a list of resources.

Please join colleagues at UMBC for this special event. We'll also have food, a birthday cake, and a dramatic reading of Douglass' speech from the 1876 unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in Washington, DC.

Laptops will be provided; however, personal laptops will be permitted. If you will use your own laptop, please sign up on the Smithsonian Transcription Center https://transcription.si.edu

Space is limited. To register for the event:https://goo.gl/forms/ZyQvskaZEk01vnZ32


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Call for Papers: "Futures of Feminist Science Studies"

This special issue of Women's Studies: an interdisciplinary journal invites submissions that work at the intersections of science studies, feminism, and cultural studies. We are especially interested in work that explores the possibilities that emerge from feminist science studies, both as a critique science’s “culture of no culture” and as a pedagogical intervention relevant to the training of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies students. Submissions for this issue should fall into one of two broad categories: "Gender, Science, and the Practice of Culture" and "Feminist Science Studies in the University Classroom."

General topics of interest for the first category include: DIY and citizen science; toxicity and feminized labor; fat studies and the medical gaze; globalization and/or indigenous science; feminism and evolutionary psychology; reproductive justice; queer ecology; ecofeminism and the Anthropocene; WISE; Girls Who Code; and feminism and science writing.

Editorial review will prioritize submissions that analyze the production and application of scientific knowledge at the intersections of gender, race, class, ability, and difference. We are also interested in pedagogy and praxis pieces that attend to the goals, opportunities, and challenges of integrating feminist science studies into the gender and sexuality studies classroom—especially as they relate to student engagement with environmental justice, citizen science, and the medicalization of difference.

Interested parties should submit a 400-600-word proposal and C.V. To drivers@fullerton.edu by March 20th, 2018. Proposals should outline the article’s projected page length and framework of inquiry, as well as any novel archives, methods or analytical approaches. Notifications will be distributed by April 15 with articles due for review by June 30. ]]> Call for Papers: "Futures of Feminist Science Studies" This special issue of Women's Studies: an interdisciplinary journal invites submissions that work at the intersections of science studies,... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/73448/guest@my.umbc.edu/bed896440425bc13e818e6f79d8459a6/api/pixel Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/llc https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xsmall.png?1375383725 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/original.jpg?1375383725 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xxlarge.png?1375383725 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xlarge.png?1375383725 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/large.png?1375383725 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/medium.png?1375383725 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/small.png?1375383725 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xsmall.png?1375383725 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xxsmall.png?1375383725 Women's Studies: an interdisciplinary journal 0 0 false Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:42:30 -0500 Call for proposals: 2018 Race & Pedagogy National Conference
Call for proposals: 2018 Race & Pedagogy National Conference
Radically Re-Imagining the Project of Justice: Narratives of Rupture, Resilience, and Liberation

www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy

Conference dates:  September 27 – 29, 2018
Location:  University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Deadline for Call for Proposals Submissions:  Friday, March 9, 2018

OVERVIEW:

Every four years, the University of Puget Sound and the Race & Pedagogy Institute welcome more than 2,000 local, regional, national, and international participants to engage issues of race and to discuss the impact of race on education. Each conference builds on the success of the last and contributes new perspectives to the conversation.  Join us, September 27 - 29, 2018, to explore the theme Radically Re-Imagining the Project of Justice: Narratives of Rupture, Resilience, and Liberation.  Major sub-themes are: Rupturing the Logics of Domination: Urgencies in the Project of Justice; Undoing Miseducation: Reclaiming and Rewriting Narratives of Liberation; and Radical Transformations: New Publics, New Social Contracts.

The Conference will include Keynote, Spotlight, and Concurrent sessions.  Conversation Spaces will be built into the program to multiply opportunities for more informal interactions among attendees around selected topics drawn from the formal sessions. As part of the Institute’s commitment to understanding the arts as public pedagogy, the fine and performing arts will speak, in campus and community spaces, to the trauma and costly yields of entering the archives of painful histories of dehumanization and internment; to the similarly and differently turbulent and violent crossings through which migrations, genocide and enslavement have been wrought; to Tacoma’s own struggles for justice over the course of many years.  The Conference will also feature a Youth Summit for middle and high school students built on the Institute’s engagement with Washington State public schools.  In addition, a conference strand designed by PreK-12 educators will focus on Unlearning Racism an!
 d wrestling with issues of representation, curriculum, and pedagogy in public schools and teacher preparation.

Call for Proposals

We invite proposals for papers, panels, and other presentation formats, including, but not limited to, roundtables, posters, performances, visual arts, and interactive sessions, from a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, and diverse range of participants involved in a variety of educational, civic, artistic, and community-based organizations for the 2018 Race & Pedagogy National Conference.  We support innovative and creative presentation formats that address conference themes.

Submit your proposal online by Friday, March 9, 2018.  Please carefully read the Call for Proposals and proposal submission guidelines before beginning the online submission form. Race & Pedagogy Institute will notify you of your proposal status by May 18, 2018.  Race & Pedagogy Institute staff is eager to assist you with questions about the Conference and submission process. Send your questions via e-mail to raceandpedagogy@pugetsound.edu or telephone 253.879.2435.  www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy
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There are two types of grants offered through TIRF’s DDG program. Information about the two types of grants, as well as eligibility concerns, resource videos, answers to frequently asked questions, and much more can be found at: https://www.tirfonline.org/research-grants/doctoral-dissertation-grants/
 
TIRF and its Trustees are grateful to be working in partnership with Cambridge Assessment English and the British Council, as well as individual donors, in support of the 2018 DDG competition.

Please write to info@tirfonline.org if you have any questions about this announcement, or visit the link above.
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