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The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

October 16, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Ajay Singh Chaudhary taught the first course of what would become the country-wide nonprofit interdisciplinary teaching and research institute, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York City in 2012. This single course about Plato and Aristotle, initiated by a recent Columbia University Comparative Literature PhD, has grown into a national organization with active […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: brooklyn institute, communism, continuing education, marxism, Philosophy, public history, Public Scholarship, school, Teaching

Mapping Slavery in Detroit

October 3, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg The history of slavery in Detroit was largely absent from public representations of the city’s history when Tiya Miles began the “Mapping Slavery in Detroit” website. As the Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Professor of History and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Miles collaborated […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: african american history, detroit, midwest, public history, slavery, tiya miles

Archaeology in the Community

September 27, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg Dr. Alexandra Jones started the Washington, D.C.-based project Archaeology in the Community in 2006 to make the study of archaeology something that members of her community could engage with outside the bounds of traditional academia. While completing her PhD in Archaeology from the University of California at Berkeley, Jones worked with local […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: alexandra jones, archaeology, community organizing, Education, public history, Public Scholarship, washington d.c.

Climate Stories Project

September 24, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg http://www.climatestoriesproject.org/ “Climate Stories Project” (CSP) is an educational and creative forum for discussing climate change and its effects on global communities. Its purpose is to collect oral histories about the experiential effects of climate change to establish curricula and workshops that introduce a personal approach to educating children, teenagers, adults, and teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: africa, anthropocene, Climate Change, Education, geography, Oral History, public history

Science on Screen

September 13, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg Still from Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945)   “Science on Screen” is a nation-wide film series that promotes scientific literacy through classic, cult, science fiction, and documentary film screenings accompanied by lively talks by scholars and scientific and medical practitioners. The films are used as fun and accessible jumping-off points for scientists and experts […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: afs, austin film society, film, Psychology, Public Scholarship, science, scientific literacy

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