SPRING 2011 EVENTS AT CHE
Cross-National Think Tank on Grief and Loss
February 11, 2011 at CUNY Graduate Center / Room 6304.01
Agenda topics include: Grief and Resilience; Grief and Community Organizing; Mourning; and a 9/11 Panel Discussion: “Grieving Families Ten Years After.”
Sponsors: Public Science Project at the Center for Human Environments; the Clinical Psychology Program at CUNY Graduate Center; MA in Mental Health Counseling at College of State Island, CUNY; and York University Psychology Clinic, Toronto, Canada.
NOTE: Registration for this conference is closed as of 1/3/2011.
Taking Public Participation in Research Seriously
February 24 at 6pm at CUNY Graduate Center / Room 6304.01
A roundtable discussion about when and why public participation in research is the right way to go. Panel discussants include: Brett Stoudt, Joan Greenbaum, Kim Sabo, Maria Torre, Michelle Fine, Roger Hart.
Sponsor: Center for Human Environments.
The Culture of Climate Change: 10th Annual Nature Ecology Society Colloquium.
March 10-11, 2011 at the CUNY Graduate Center
Sustainability, Environmentalism, Ecology, Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Green Everything! The terms swirl interchangeably around one another to challenge and cope with “Climate Change”. Specialists try to be more disciplined in using these and other such terms, cordoning them off from popular meanings but also separating disciplines and discourses in ways that prevent effective communication. This year’s Nature Ecology Society Colloquium is intended to open up the conversation around climate change and engage its many representations and registers. Our two-day colloquium brings together CUNY and allied Students, Artists, Activists, Designers, Journalists, Musicians, Performers, Film and Video Makers, Humanities Scholars, and Life, Natural, Physical and Social Scientists to exchange their ideas about climate change.
Hosted by: Environmental Psychology PhD Program; Center for Human Environments
For more information: http://www.nature.cuny.edu/
Researching Children, Global Childhoods & Education
March 24-25, 2011 at CUNY Graduate Center / Room 9100
This international conference brings together experts in Critical Childhood and Educational Studies, with the aim of advancing theories and methodological practices that cultivate children’s agency in the research and educational process. The conference is interdisciplinary, drawing on state of the art knowledge regarding children and changing childhoods from sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, cultural geography and education. Central themes include issues related to power, generation, identities and subjectivities (e.g. gender, ethnicity/race, class, sexualities), children’s language, and cultural and social brokering, as these are influenced by broader processes of globalization, economic inequalities, migration, political violence, exclusion/inclusion, consumption, commercialization and children/youth activism.
This conference is a joint initiative of the CUNY Graduate Center and the School of Education, University College Dublin. CUNY co-sponsors: Urban Education; Social/Personality Subprogram in Psychology; Center for Human Environments; Public Science Project.
For more information: https://globalchildhoods.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Summer Institute on “Critical Participatory Action Research”
June 6-10, 2011 at CUNY Graduate Center / Room 6304.01
A 5-day intensive training designed to introduce the theory, methods, and ethics of critical participatory action research (PAR) to graduate students, faculty, and members of community-based organizations. Through seminars, roundtables, and hands-on workshops with experienced PAR researchers, participants will gain the necessary skills and knowledge to integrate a critical PAR approach into their scholarship, research, and/or organizing.
Sponsored by the Public Science Project at the Center for Human Environments.
For more information: http://www.publicscienceproject.org/
