Seizing the Pandemic Portal: Transforming Universities for Community Engaged Scholarship

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As Arundhati Roy so powerfully articulated early on in the crisis, pandemics provide us an opportunity to imagine the world anew.  What does this mean for universities?  

As we try to navigate the opportunities for ‘building back better’, how can we help expand the space for community engaged scholarship? How can we more effectively deploy our resources, to strengthen truly equitable community partnerships across all aspects of the research process?  What does this mean for graduate students and early career faculty? For individual research centers?  For university administrators, and cross-university networks? 

Join us for a discussion on how we can seize the moment to help transform universities in the post-pandemic world, to be truly powerful partners in co-creating knowledge for justice.

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Plenary Panelists include: 

  • Kal Alston, Professor Cultural Foundations of Education and in Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University; Chair of National Advisory Board for Imagining America
  • RJ Taggueg Jr., Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology; Director of Research at the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies; Mellon Public Scholar, UC Davis
  • Anibel Ferus-Comelo, Director of Student Programming, UC Berkeley Labor Center 
  • Claudia Lopez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, CSU Long Beach 

Co-organizers include (and others): 

  • Chris Benner, Professor and Director, Institute for Social Transformation, UCSC
  • Steven McKay, Professor and Director, Center for Labor Studies, UCSC
  • Ana Antunes, Co-Chair, Urban Based Research Action Network and Assistant Professor, University of Utah
  • Paige Bray, Co-Chair, Urban Based Research Action Network and Associate Professor, University of Hartford
  • Robin DeLugan, Associate Professor, UC Merced
  • Kim Tabari, Development Director, Equity Research Institute, USC
  • Ron Glass, Professor of Philosophy of Education, UC Santa Cruz
  • Stephanie Maroney, Mellon Public Scholars Program Manager, UC Davis
  • Michael Rios, Vice Provost of Public Scholarship, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Design, UC Davis