Wednesday, March 28 | GC Skylight Room (9100) | 9:00am – 6:00pm | RSVP
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The Futures Initiative is pleased to invite you to attend our spring forum on “Publics, Politics, and Pedagogy: Remaking Higher Education for Turbulent Times.” Part of our “University Worth Fighting For” series, this event is an opportunity to think through the unique intersections between interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, equity, and institutional change. We hope that you will join us for a series of roundtables and interactive workshops featuring faculty and students involved in our team-taught courses, the CUNY Undergraduate Leadership Program, and Humanities Alliance to address topics ranging from the current states and stakes of higher education to the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and citizenship.
Featured speakers include: Gilda Barabino, Claire Bishop, David Caicedo, Katherine Chen, Colette Daiute, Cathy N. Davidson, Shelly Eversley, Ofelia García, Amita Gupta, Wendy Luttrell, Ruth Milkman, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Rosario Torres-Guevara, and many more, including graduate and undergraduate students across CUNY. There will be a reception to follow.
Program Schedule:
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00AM | Breakfast |
| 9:30AM | Opening Remarks, Provost Joy Connolly |
| 9:45AM | Higher Education at a Crossroads (Faculty Roundtable)
Respondents: Sylvia Beltran and Michelle Gabay, graduate students from Ann Kirschner and Gilda Barabino’s “Rethinking Higher Education for the Knowledge Economy” course. |
| 11:00AM | Rethinking the Future of Learning, Knowledge, & Career Pathways (Student-led Session)
Facilitators: Christina Katopodis, Michelle Morales, Mike Rifino Participants: Sylvia Beltran, Michelle Gabay, Oriana Elisa Gonzales, Khanh Le, Megan Moskop, Samina Shahidi, Larry Ling-Hsuan Tung |
| 12:00PM | Public Art in the City + Lunch (Student-led Session)
Participants: Jessi Li, Liz Naiden, Julian Phillips, Nathan Sinai Rayman, Cory Tamler, Pedro Felipe Vintmilla |
| 1:30PM | Student-Centered Leadership and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Student-led Session)
Facilitators: Kaysi Holman, Lauren Melendez Participants: Jenny Bruno, Amina Cunningham, Alexis Edwards, Sandep Kaur, Kahdeidra Monét Martin, Alison Walls |
| 2:30PM | Break |
| 2:45PM | Pedagogies of Citizenship (Faculty Roundtable)
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| 4:00PM | Belonging and Exclusion (Student-led Session)
Facilitators: Allison Guess, Kashema Hutchinson, Jessica Murray Participants: Francine Almash, Daniel A. Carlson, Damele E. Collier, Dahlia Constantine, Regina Crotser, Flora de Tournay, Aminata Diop, Sudhashree Girmohanta, Jyoti Gupta, Kayla F. Morse, Charlene Obernauer, Doris Porto, Ben Raphael, Luis Zambrano |
| 5:00PM | Reception, Room 3317 |
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Frances Tran, Postdoctoral Fellow and Interim Associate Director of the Futures Initiative, at ftran@gc.cuny.edu.
