Event announcements
ENGAGING LOCAL COMMUNITIES: June 2020
Cammie Jones, associate dean of experiential learning and civic engagement, and Peter Klein, assistant professor of sociology and environmental and urban studies, speak about institutional and educational collaborations with local communities in Kingston, New York, and how they are rethinking community engagement in light of the current moment.
Black Talks: Organizing across 3 fields, july 2020
Black Talks is a speaker and discussion based initiative that caters to all Black people across the country. Black Talks aims to provide a space for Black folx to congregate, decompress, network, and share resources within their respective communities. This initiative was started by 3 black womxn Bernadette Benjamin, Talaya Robinson-Dancy, and Sage Swaby who saw a need for Black folx to have a space to discuss ways in which we can help each other.
Follow Friday: Overview of Women and Covid-19 Class
For the third week, the spotlight is on the Women & Covid-19 course’s professors; Cammie Jones and Elmira Bayrasli! To hear a clip from this course’s Q&A with their professors, head to @BardCCE on Instagram! And check out the sources below to connect with Cammie and Elmira and their work.
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Speaker, Black body experience, march 2020
The Black Body Experience Conference is in its 5th annual year and was created by alum, Tayler Butler in 2014. It was initially created as a conference under the umbrella of Colored Womxn United, a club at Bard created as a safe space for womxn of color. The first conference was created within a week and consisted of student-facilitated workshops. 2017 was the first year that we had all outside speakers who were professionals in their backgrounds. In 2018, the Black Body Experience Council was created in order to ensure that the conference would be sustained for years to come. Although the theme of the conference varies annually, themes typically focus on various issues affecting womxn within communities of color. Such topics include the following: mental health, reproductive rights, social justice, academics, and politics.
Episode 4: Civically engaged universities and the pandemic — issues of engaged teaching, learning, and mentorship, july 13, 2019
Elvis Akomoneh, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Meridian Global University (Cameroon)
Kwame Holmes, Faculty Advisor, Bard Prison Initiative and Scholar-in-Residence, Human Rights Program, Bard College (U.S.)
Claudia Lucia Mora Motta, FORJA Director, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
Angela Owusu-Ansah, Provost, Ashesi University (Ghana)
Cammie Jones, Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement, Bard College (moderator)
