The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series The Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Memorial Fund Lecture Despite growing concerns in recent years over the plight of queer students in American schools, efforts to make schools more responsive to the needs of queer youth continue to fall short of queer-inclusive sexual health education. For Black queer youth in particular, the limited access to sex education in public schools persists as the stakes surrounding their sexual health have intensified.…

The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series The internet, computer games, social networking, mobile communications. Young people today are growing up in a digital world that presents both opportunities and problems for educators. Yet amid excited claims about digital creativity and panics about online safety, there has been very little attention to the need for critical thinking about media and technology. In this talk, leading British media educator Professor David Buckingham will challenge some of the received wisdom…

The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series Grounded in her work with teen girls in Atlanta, Georgia, Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Ph.D., E-RYT, shares the findings of her qualitative research focused on yoga, literature, and the ways in which embodied practices support critical literacy development. Committed to understanding both the individual and collective benefits of yoga, this lecture will focus on how yoga can be used as a tool to resist oppression experienced by marginalized and vulnerable communities, how…

The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series The Lynn D. and John L. Kreischer TELL Scholars Lecture Urban schools are experiencing increasing numbers of students from immigrant & refugee backgrounds. Students of color, those with disabilities, and English language learners are all at an increased risk in relation to the school-to-prison pipeline. Academically these students are also at a disadvantage because of low teacher expectations, ability tracking, educational barriers, segregated educational placements, and anti-immigrant bias. This panel presentation…

The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series Keiko Ogura is the official a-bomb storyteller for the city of Hiroshima and has spent decades traveling Japan and the world telling others about her experience and promoting nuclear nonproliferation. She was 8 years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and she is one of the few survivors old enough at the time of explosion to remember the events clearly. Since 1984, Ogura has led Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace…

Presented by the Syracuse University Humanities Center A Syracuse Symposium Event, 2017-2018 Theme: Belonging The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series The Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Lecture Series Lambda Award winning queer disabled Sri Lankan/Irish femme writer and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will share new work and performance pieces from her work with disability justice collective Sins Invalid and her most recent books, Bodymap and Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way…

Presented by the Syracuse University Humanities Center A Syracuse Symposium Event, 2017-2018 Theme: Belonging The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series Come learn about disability justice--a movement building framework centering the leadership of Black and brown, queer and trans and other disabled folks marginalized within mainstream movements. We'll talk about disability and accessibility in our communities and movements, view and discuss performance and writing by disabled queer and/or people of color artists, and share and build concrete tools…

The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series Co-Sponsored by the University Lectures In this talk, Bettina Love will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom and intersectional justice, so we all can move beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. Abolitionist Teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness, ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists to demand and fight for an educational system and world where…