Previous Events
Schooled on Poetry at the Lincoln Center
May 2, 7:00 p.m.
Free tickets are available for students and educators.
Students use code STUCOMP and educators use code EDCOMP for up to two free tickets per person. If you have a group of 9 or more, please reach out to Joe at jcalmer@capa.com to process your request.
We hope to showcase the power of poetry to the Columbus community in a diverse way so that writers of all ages and backgrounds can see poetry as a meaningful and accessible form of expression.
Educational Engagement in East Indonesia - All are invited to attend presentations by doctoral students and Visiting Scholars from Ambon and Papua.
April 20, 12 - 1 p.m.
SPECIAL LOCATION in 384 Arps Hall.
This 'Lunch and Learn' session sponsored by the MKCLL is an informal opportunity to learn more about the scholarship focusing on East Indonesia. This year is the first year ever that the College welcomes 5 scholars from this less traveled part of the archipelago.
Moving Across Differences: How Students Engage LGBTQ+ Themes in a High School Literature Class
Professor Mollie Blackburn
The Ohio State University
Friday, December 9
1 - 2 p.m.
269 Arps Hall
I’ll share my work on a project that drew on both ethnography (Bloomaert & Jie, 2010) and practitioner inquiry (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009, 1993) to study high school students in an LGBTQ-themed Literature course at an arts-based grass-roots charter high school in a mid-sized city in the Midwest between January of 2015 and June of 2016. Based on this project, I’ll argue that ideological movement among people, in this case students, regardless of the direction, interrupts the ossification of values, discourages rigidity, and encourages imagination in ways of being in relation to one another.
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Action: Imagining and Enacting New Educational Futures
Davron Rorie, Luz Gomez Marisa Keith, and Haia Haidari
Tuesday, December 2
5 - 6 p.m.
During this time of intense ideological constraints, student panelists share the ways they foreground and operationalize Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies as necessary frameworks for reimagining educational practice. Through their scholarship and community-based initiatives, they envision and enact educational futures that affirm, sustain, and are rooted in the epistemologies, histories, and lived experiences of their own communities.
Lessons from Children and Youth: Centering young people’s sense making on issues of justice in literacy research and practice
Dr. Francisco Torres
Kent State University
Thursday, October 20
12:30 -1:30 p.m.
269 Arps Hall
Dr. Torres’ scholarship is theoretically driven by decolonial approaches to education, languaging, and love. His work has appeared in Research in the Teaching of English, Language Arts, Journal of Literacy Research, and English Journal. He was awarded a Cultivating New Voices Fellowship (2020-2022) and the 2019 English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant.