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CANCELED: Research Roundtables: How Can a Transformative Justice Impulse Inform Our Research?

Time: April 8, 2020, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Location: Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

UPDATE: This year's residency has been suspended in response to evolving COVID-19 precautions and advisoriesWe hope to reschedule some of these sessions in Fall '20.

Maisha T. Winn (UC Davis)
Lawrence (Torry) Winn (Co-Founder/Co-Director, Transformative Justice in Education Center, UC Davis)
Vanessa Segundo (PhD Candidate – Language, Literacy and Culture, TJE Researcher, UC Davis)
Adam D. Musser (PhD Candidate – Language, Literacy and Culture, TJE Researcher, UC Davis)

Members of the Transformative Justice in Education Center facilitate roundtable discussions focused on methods and theories for humanizing research. Topics include the California School Discipline Project, the Black Child Legacy Campaign, the Black Parent Survey Project, writing workshops in youth detention centers, and the role of campus student centers. Please contact Kristen Krause by March 25 with any accommodation requests.


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.

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