Humanities NY Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Presentations
Time: May 3, 2019, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: 304 Tolley Humanities Building
This year's New York Public Humanities Graduate Fellows discuss their experiences and challenges of developing public humanities research projects:
Black Women, Black Youth and the Struggle for Education as the Practice of Freedom
Camilla J. Bell (Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Foundations of Education)
In partnership with the Community Folk Art Center, Bell has developed a 2-day retreat for former participants of the 2018 Summer Arts and Culture Camp. Requesting feedback from former participants, their families, and a select group of facilitators, Bell hopes to amplify the voices not often engaged when it comes to program development. Furthermore, she aims to highlight the importance of community based organizations anchored by principles of social and educational justice. In so doing, this project acknowledges the (in)visible actors who facilitate education as the practice of freedom for Black youth within and beyond the formal school setting.
Deconstructing Structure: Creating Writing and Arts Programs in a Community Learning Center and Beyond
Gemma Cooper-Novack (Ph.D. Student, Literacy Education)
How can you both enter a space with a vision and connect to students' needs and wants? Cooper-Novack has collaborated this year with a local education center for refugees to develop writing and theater programs for adolescent students, and is in the process of fostering new connections between adolescent writing programs in the city of Syracuse to work towards a youth book festival.
All are welcome. Contact Aimee Germain for more information. Please send any accessibility accommodation requests by April 26.
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Aimee Germain, Central New York Humanities Corridor