“Social Justice and Engaged Scholarship” Symposium

Schedule of Events

April 3-4, 2008

University of Louisville, Belknap Campus

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Thursday, April 3:  Chao Auditorium of Ekstrom Library

4:30: opening plenary: “Social Justice and the Engaged University,” Dr. Steven Rosenstone, Vice President for Scholarly and Cultural Affairs and Former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Minnesota. Reception to follow.  (Registration not required to attend April 3rd Plenary.)

Friday, April 4:  Brandeis School of Law

8:00-8:45 Registration; coffee available with light breakfast on sale through student bake sale

8:45-10:30 Concurrent sessions:

I.  Environmental Justice and Engaged Scholarship:

• Title TBA, David Wicks, JCPS

• “Access to Ecosystem Services in Urban Areas:  An Underappreciated Facet of Environmental Justice,”  Margaret Carreiro, UofL Biology

• “Community Participation in Urban Revitalization: Redefining Brownfields in Louisville, KY,” Lauren Heberle, UofL Urban and Public Affairs

II.  Meaningful Community Partnerships: 

• Steven Rosenstone, U of Minnesota, moderator and discussant

• Lessons We Are Learning: Latino Health Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati," Lisa Vaughn, Univ of Cinn, and Liliana Rojas-Guyler, CHES, Ph.D
  "Service Learning in Psychology: Case Study of a Community Partnership", Lora Haynes, UofL Psychological & Brain Sciences (PBS);  Judy Lippmann, Society for the Prevention of Aggressiveness and Violence Among Adolescents (SPAVA); and Andy Feldman, UofL student, SPAVA aide and mentor

III.  The Rise of Engaged Scholarship:  The Study of Race  

• “Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, and the Intellectual Legacies of the  Black Power Movement of the 1960s,” Peniel Joseph, Brandeis University

• "To Tell the Truth in an Acceptable Manner: Arthur Raper and the Promise and Peril of Engaged Scholarship in the 1940s South"  Cliff Kuhn, Georgia State University

• Chair, Tracy K’Meyer, UofL History

IV.  Strategies for Student Engagement:  Translation and Transformation:

• “African-American and Hispanic Children's Culture: Engaging Children,” Mary Makris, Karen Chandler, UofL Modern Languages/ English

• “Fostering the Success of Young African American Males via Faith-based University Partnerships,” Sharon Moore, UofL Kent School of Social Work

• “Teaching Community and Courage: Process and Outcomes,”  Adam Renner,  Bellarmine Univ.

• “The Kentucky Racing Health Services Center:  An Innovative Community Clinical Site for Students,”  Whitney Nash, UofL School of Nursing

I.  Contours of Community Engagement on and off Campus-- Defining Our Terms:  Patricia Payette, UofL Ideas to Action Program; Henry Cunningham, UofL Signature Partnership Initiative

II.  Voices of Student Researchers:  Taylor Ewing;  students from Women in Transition (WIT); students from Anu Sablok’s Qualitative Methods class

III.  Philanthropy and Social Justice Research: 

• “Student Philanthropy: Students Learn by Learning to Give,”  Gayle Hilleke, Kentucky Campus Compact

• “Donors and Do-Gooders:  Some Ethnographic Insights on the Politics of Diversity in Philanthropy—Both Sides,”  Ethel Hazard, University of Illinois—Champagne/Urbana

IV.  How to Succeed in the Academy as an Engaged Scholar, or  How to win Tenure and Influence People:  Participants Ricky Jones, chair, Pan-African Studies, UofL Cate Fosl, UofL Women's and Gender Studies; director, Anne Braden Institute 1 more TBA

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Box Lunch Plenary Panel, Cox Lounge: "Action Research as a Model for Engaged Scholarship: Case Studies from Cincinnati," panel of scholars from Action Research Center, College of Education at the University of Cincinnati. (View Details)

1:30-3:00 p.m.: Afternoon Panels and Roundtables

 I.  Fieldwork and Social Change:  Methods and Challenges of Engaged Scholarship

• “What’s Wrong with our Healthcare System and Why Can’t We see the Fix?—Practice-Based Research Networks, A Living Laboratory for Translation Research,”  Toni Miles, UofL Dept. of Family & Geriatric Medicine (also chair)

• “Social Justice Research in a Conflict  Zone:  The Case of Rwanda,”  Jennie Burnet, UofL Anthro

• “Political Ecology as a Framework for Social and Environmental Justice Research,”  Carol Hanchette, Uof L Geography

• “Stories from the Field: Whom do You Engage with in Conflict Situations?” Anu Sablok, UofL Geography

II.  Social Theory and Engaged Scholarship

• “Dismantling Hegemony through Empowerment:  Social Change Education from Habermas to Brookfield,”  Lisa Vaughn, Univ. of Cincinnati

• “Fanon & Engaged Scholarship,”  Sy Slavin, emeritus UofL social work

• “The Idea of Social Justice,”  David Owens, UofL Philosophy (also session chair)

III.  Community Initiatives for Food Justice (roundtable)

• Chair, Lisa Markowitz, UofL Anthropology

• Ivor Chodkowski, Past President, Community Farm Alliance; Proprietor of Field Day Family Farm

• Dorcilla Johnston, Board Member, Community Farm Alliance; Co-Chair CFA Jefferson County Chapter Farmers Market Committee

• Mark Williams. Executive Chef, Brown-Forman; Slow Food Bluegrass Convivium Leader

• Carol Gundersen, Director, Food Literacy Project

• Angelique Perez, MPH. N.O.W. Trainer Pennyrille Allied Community Services; Partnership for a Green City- Food Working Group Chair

IV.  The Arts and Social Change (roundtable)

• Chair and presenter Nefertiti Burton, Uof L Theatre

• “Mentoring and the Arts,” Sarah Hellmann, U of Cinn.

• “Cultural Policy and the Empowerment of Survivors of Domestic Violence,”  Insul Kim, Ohio State U

• Aukram Burton, JCPS and independent media producer

• TBA, Amy Steiger, UofL Theatre

3:15 p.m.: Closing Plenary:  Law School Courtroom; "Black Studies as Engaged Scholarship," Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University, and author of Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power

Following this lecture, UofL African American Theatre program will present a brief theatrical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on the 40^th anniversary of his death

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Friday, April 4, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Box Lunch Plenary Panel

Action Research as a Model for Engaged Scholarship

Mary Brydon-Miller, Director, University of Cincinnati Action Research Center

Action research is a collaborative process that combines aspects of popular education, community-based research, and action for social change. This presentation will provide a brief introduction to the history, basic priniciples and practices of action research as a framework for understanding the two case studies of projects our presenters have conducted in the city of Cincinnati.

Action Evaluation and Conflict Resolution: Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati

Jay Rothman, President, ARIA Group

In 2001 following what have been variously described as "riots" "disturbances" and even "rebellion" in Cincinnati, Ohio following the police shooting of Timothy Thomas, a young, unarmed African American male, my organization, The ARIA Group (see www.ariagroup.com), was appointed by a US Federal Judge to design and guide a participatory problem solving and visioning process about the future of Police-Community relations in the City. We undertook a year long "Action Evaluation" process (based on a synthesis of Participatory Action Research and Conflict Resolution) of gathering views, stories and visions (i.e. What, Why and How) by 3500 residents of the city. A subset of some 800 of these respondents engaged in deep conversation during this time, and eventually developed a list of five high level visions for the future of police community relations that were shared with the Federal court, resulting in a collaborative agreement sanctioned by the Court and US Department of Justice and representatives of The City, The ACLU, The Black United Front, the Police Department and Union. In this presentation, I will show a film about the process and discuss how it has unfolded over the past 6 years.

Harmony Garden: Developing Community Research Partnerships to Grown Healthy Girls

Lisa Mills, Executive Director &

Kathleen Burklow, Director of Research and Education

Harmony Garden (HG), launched in September of 2006, is an independent community research and education organization with 501(c)(3) status. The long-term goals of HG are [1] to create a collective community vision and action plan to achieve and sustain the physical, social, and emotional health of our region’s girls from birth through adolescence and [2] to eliminate disparities for urban and rural girls. HG currently shares a primary partnership with Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) and female residents of the City West housing development in the West End neighborhood of downtown Cincinnati.

For the purposes of this presentation, we will describe a pilot community project involving five women receiving public assistance and residing in the City West housing development of the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati. All were teen mothers, are single heads of households, and have a range of two to five children.

In this pilot program, these five female heads of households are being trained to assess the health status and needs of girls in their neighborhood as viewed by the West End community residents through Participatory Action Research (PAR). In so doing, the women are becoming poised to become self-sufficient and are contributing to efforts to improve the health and well-being of girls in their community through dissemination of findings from their health research projects.