Workshop participants taking a picture as a group performance. ** This essay was first posted at the Futures Initiative website: https://wp.me/pa8HxI-2RT.** Under the aggravated anti-immigration policies and politics of the Trump administration, we designed this workshop entitled Inclusive or Exclusive: Reimagining Classrooms as Transnational Spaces to work collaboratively on reimagining college and university classrooms as […]
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Humanities in the Reimagination of Higher Education: Reflections on the ASHE Conference
** This essay is also posted at the Futures Initiative website (https://futuresinitiative.org/blog/2019/12/12/humanities-in-the-reimagination-of-higher-education-reflections-on-the-ashe-conference/) ** It was such an invaluable opportunity for me to participate in the 2019 Association of the Study of Higher Education conference from November 14 to 16 in Portland, Oregon. It was my first time to participate in the conference, and I enjoyed […]
Shifting Directions: Recap of the “Cultures and Languages in the Class” Workshop
** This essay is originally posted on The Futures Initiative website: https://futuresinitiative.org/blog/2019/03/31/shifting/ The loss of one language, said Wade Davis, a University of British Columbia anthropology professor, is akin to clear-cutting an “old-growth forest of the mind.” The world’s complex web of myths, beliefs and ideas – which Mr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere” – is […]
Call for Participation: Humanities Alliance Collaborative Book (proposals due March 15)
The Humanities Alliance team at the Graduate Center, CUNY are so excited to share our plan for a collaborative book project. We hope you will be a part of it! As one of the final projects of the Humanities Alliance grant funded by Andrew Mellon Foundation, we’re planning to share insights from the CUNY Humanities […]
Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belongin...
I am pleased to share my research paper entitled, Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile to a US Community College, published by the journal, Higher Education. This ethnographic study examines the complicated interlink between the Korean state’s identity politics of citizenship and working-class and lower middle-class Korean students’ […]
Empowering Students & Creating Social Change through the Humanities
The Result of the Humanities Alliance Postconference Survey The Fall 2018 Humanities Alliance conference offered a unique opportunity to assess nationwide opinions about community college teaching and humanities education. The conference, “Community Colleges and the Future of Humanities,” was held by the LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York. […]
Classrooms as a Sphere of Possibility: Workshopping Pedagogy and Social Justice
On September 13, The Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a public event entitled, Classroom and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy. As an exit ticket, we asked the audience to briefly write about why they were interested in this topic. We received critical and impressive responses […]