CANCELED: Agitating, Educating, Organizing: Historicizing Transformative Justice in Education
Time: March 10, 2020, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Watson Theater
Maisha T. Winn (UC Davis)
Winn discusses how the Black Arts Movement and Independent Black Institutions (IBIs) cultivated and celebrated Black literate lives. She connects this history to contemporary transformative justice activism in schools and communities. CART provided.
UPDATE: Though this lecture was canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories, Winn recorded this presentation at the Tolley Humanities Bulding. View it online via Syracuse University Ensemble Video.
Biography: Maisha T. Winn is Professor, Chancellor's Leadership Professor, and Co-Director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center (TJE) at UC Davis. Winn’s research examines the intersectionality of language, literacy, and justice with attention to how to prepare teachers to “teach freedom” in both spaces of confinement and across the humanities. She considers the ways in which restorative justice practices have the potential to change languages, literacies, and social relations across our schools, institutions, and communities. Winn will draw from two of her books—Justice on Both sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice and Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom—as bases for discussion with TJE Center collaborators and other panelists during her residency.
Additional supporters:
- Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
- Community Folk Art Center
- David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
- Department of African American Studies
- Department of English
- Department of Religion
- Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
- Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
- Hendricks Chapel
- Incarceration and Decarceration/Revival Cultures Working Group of the CNY Humanities Corridor
- Office of Community Engagement
- PARCC (Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration)
- Reading and Language Arts
- School of Education
- Syracuse University Libraries
- The Center for Faculty Leadership and Professional Development
- The Lender Center for Social Justice
- The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- The Renée Crown University Honors Program
- VPA, Office of the Dean, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This event is part of the 2020 Watson Professor residency hosted by Patrick W. Berry, Associate Professor and Chair – Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition; Brice Nordquist, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies – Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition; and Marcelle Haddix, Dean’s Professor and Chair - Reading and Language Arts.
The Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities is a preeminent lectureship originally established by the Watson family to support on-campus residencies of prominent humanities scholars, writers, and artists.
Humanities Center, humcenter@syr.edu