11 March 2022

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Student Matters

Summer 2022 courses open for registration on March 7th. All summer courses are online-only.

• CrCrTh 611, Seminar in Critical Thinking; May 31-July 14; twice-weekly meetings, Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:00-8:00pm, online only (#2222). Theme: Design for Living Complexities-Students explore the nature of emerging design challenges relevant to their current practices and ongoing life issues. The course supports students evolving as reflective practitioners by critically evaluating intervention design in a manner that attends to personal and professional development.
• CrCrTh 688, Reflective Practice; May 31-August 25; occasional meetings on Tuesdays (4:00-6:00pm), online only (#2224). Theme: Students engage with tools of reflective practitioners and develop a self-defined project in some professional, personal, or educational setting where they pilot new practices as an agent of change. Contact cct@umb.edu for additional details.

CCT Events

CCT Community Open House: Thinking Critically About Online Communities
Wednesday, March 23rd, 12:00-1:00pm ET
Dialogue event, online in Zoom, free and open to all.
RSVP here to receive Zoom login details.
Description: Many of us are leaning ever more heavily on online communities as sources of connection and sites for collaboration. In this dialogue event, we will gather to think about our own role in these communities, their role in our lives, and how we relate to one another within them. The session will include exploration of a research-based reflective framework for thinking about online communities as well as group dialogue. CCT alumna Kaylea Champion (MA ’16), now a PhD Candidate in Communication at the University of Washington, will facilitate.

Alum, Student, and CCT Associates Notables

CCT faculty Luanne Witkowski is one of the artists exhibiting her work at Boston’s Kingston Gallery in Boundaries/Borders: A Member’s Group Exhibition
March 2–27, 2022
Description: What does it mean to exist within a border? How do we define the hard lines or soft edges of boundaries and the liminal spaces around and between them? Exhibiting the work of Kingston Gallery members Ilona Anderson, Bonnie Donohue, Susan Greer Emmerson, Randy Garber, Meagan Hepp, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Luanne E Witkowski, Boundaries/Borders displays a multitude of interpretations of boundaries of all kinds; geopolitical, psychological, environmental, spatial, more…

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Events

Mellon Spring Seminar Series
See the series web site for information on virtual and in-person attendance options as well as materials circulated in advance of each session:

Wednesday, March 23rd, 12-1:30pm: Developing Ethical Collaborative Research Practices and Supporting Communities in Place-Based Struggles
Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program; Dr. Antonio Raciti, Urban Planning and Community Development, School for the Environment
Wednesday, April 27th, 12-1:30pm: Colonialism’s Cascading Disasters: Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in Puerto Rico
Dr. Marisol Negrón, American Studies, Latino Studies Program; Dr. Rosalyn Negrón, Anthropology

MassArt’s virtual Climate/Justice Teach-In event on Wednesday, March 30th, 6:30-9:40 pm,
to coincide with the Worldwide Teach-in: Climate/Justice being organized by Bard College and featuring concurrent events by 1,000 institutions around the globe. The one night event will be virtual through ZOOM. There will be three sessions (55 minutes each) on the themes of Sustainability in the Curriculum, Climate Action & Creative Practice (materials & processes) and Art, Climate and Justice followed by 20 minutes of Q&A with the audience. See https://calendar.massart.edu/calendar for more information and links to the event as we get closer.

2022 International Transformative Learning Conference: Transformative Learning: Telling, Evaluating, and Deepening Our Story
Co-hosted by Michican State University and Grand Rapids Community College
April 6 – 9, 2022, Kellogg Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
We invite proposals for pre-conferences, paper presentations, experiential sessions, symposia and roundtables. Submissions will be done electronically through the International Transformative Learning Association (ITLA) website at https://itlc2022.intertla.org (see website for specific details).
Call for proposals due Sept 15, 2021. Papers for those proposals accepted will be due Feb 1, 2022.

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival
June 2-5, 2022
Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, England
We are pleased to be partnering with the world’s biggest philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn in Hay-on-Wye, 2nd-5th June. With over 450 cutting-edge speakers and award-winning performers, it’s not one to miss. The headliners for the event include Richard Dawkins, Isy Suttie, Roger Penrose, Slavoj Žižek and Sally Phillips. For more information and registration details, see the web site.

6th International Undergraduate STMS conference (Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society)
Hosted by the University of Toronto
March 24th & 25th 2022
Virtual conference, free registration.
Registration is open for this event, entirely virtual. There will be talks by over 20 exceptional undergraduate students from around the world, a panel on science funding, and a keynote on “Public Trust in Science” by Dr. Maya Goldenberg.
Conference webpage: http://hpsus.sa.utoronto.ca/events/stms/program/
Attendee Registration: https://forms.gle/vDzcZFP3QAiM2QYGA