🎓 Join us on June 13 at the Trippenhuis, Amsterdam for our Spring Symposium:
The Engaged University: Frameworks for Academic Activism
We’ll explore academic activism, its challenges, and the role of women scholars.
🎟️ Few tickets left: tinyurl.com/43yz8hkn
#AcademicActivism #WomenInAcademia
Trump & Musk Supporters in Higher Ed Face Backlash from Activist Professors - #WorldEye
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#TrumpSupporters #ElonMusk #CollegeProtests #AcademicActivism #HigherEducation
Academic research is only as good as its impact in the world.
#AcademicResearch #impact #Activism #AcademicActivism
Most academics are monotropic. We focus intensely on OUR research areas. Imagine what would happen if our research questions came directly from social need and were reported back to society in relevant language.
#AcademicActivism #impact #academia #research #autistic #ND #DoBetter
As scholars working at various intersections of English Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, and Library Science, we recognize a heightened need for cultural knowledge and heritage preservation as we collectively face the consequences and future of genocide, war, climate crisis, and ideological debates impacting the safety and autonomy of millions. And we recognize an equally dire need for new and extra-institutional modes of storytelling. We’ve witnessed archives of necessity emerging across the globe as forms of resistance against both violent narratives and violent actions, many of which are generated, preserved, and made accessible in real-time, serving as in-the-moment documentation of war, environmental devastation, attempted genocide, and dramatic losses of civil and bodily rights. And they often exist on web platforms, which are both highly accessible and inherently vulnerable. For this symposium, we invite contributions engaged in creating and managing, teaching with/about, responding to, interacting with, or thinking deeply about emergency archives and the conditions from which they emerge. We encourage collaborative and/or interdisciplinary projects that explore distinctions between “traditional” and grassroots archives, push the boundaries of academic and activist orientations to memory work, and challenge understandings of what an archive can mean, do, and require in worlds marked by crisis. Our team — comprising teachers, researchers, memory workers, community collaborators, and “traditional” librarians/archivists — recognizes that we do not have final answers to these pressing questions. Through this symposium, we are eager to invite and engage in collaborative, contingent, and perhaps open-ended and contradictory dialogues. We welcome projects and genres that resonate with the questions and anxieties that accompany our collective inquiry into the profound role of emergency archives in times of turmoil and injustice.
Submission Information: Please send roughly 300-word proposals to emergencyarchives24@gmail.com by Jan. 13, 2025. Final manuscripts, including references and footnotes, should not exceed 4,000 words. Final submissions are editorially reviewed, not peer reviewed. Proposed Timeline: Jan. 13: Proposals Due Feb. 10: Invitations Sent May 12: Article Drafts Due June 14: Feedback Returned Aug. 11: Revised Articles Due End of Sept. 2025: Full Manuscript Submitted Jan. 2026: Symposium Published
📢 CfP - #EmergencyArchives
"We welcome projects & genres that resonate with questions & anxieties that accompany our collective inquiry into the profound role of emergency archives in times of turmoil & injustice"
#RhetoricReview #AcWri #AcademicActivism #Libraries
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The three pillars of enacting #DesignJustice by #decolonising #assessment through #multimodality, #MultipleLiteracies, and multiple ways of doing are the
🟣 #PedagogyOfCare and discomfort
🟣 #StudentsAsPartners (SaP)
🟣 #ContributingStudentPedagogy (CSP)
#AcademicActivism
I’ve just discovered @sarah_lewis30’s podcast ‘Growth Uncut’—enjoying listening to @fergus_mcneill on #relationships, the #ecology of #personalgrowth, #academicactivism, so much more...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/growth-uncut/...
Important ideas, as always, from the Slow Academic @AgnesBosanquet
#neoliberalism in #highereducation
#academicactivism
- changes to scholarly work
#quantification of #academia
- entrenched #inequalities
- uncertain ed #futures
