Questioning nuestras prácticas lingüísticas By Inés Vañó García Writing is a fundamental part of our academic life. As graduate students we write on a daily basis, in my case a veces en español, otras en English, and on some occasions using my entire linguistic repertoire, like I am doing ahora mismo. Sí, I am […]
Beyond Language I. On Eloquence and Proficiency By Luis Henao Uribe This is the first of two posts where I develop some of the ideas presented at the “Reinventing critical interculturalism: Cultures and languages in the classroom” event, as part of The Futures Initiative series The University Worth Fighting For. In the first half […]
** This essay is originally posted on The Futures Initiative website: https://futuresinitiative.org/blog/2019/03/31/shifting/ The loss of one language, said Wade Davis, a University of British Columbia anthropology professor, is akin to clear-cutting an “old-growth forest of the mind.” The world’s complex web of myths, beliefs and ideas – which Mr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere” – is […]
The Humanities Alliance team at the Graduate Center, CUNY are so excited to share our plan for a collaborative book project. We hope you will be a part of it! As one of the final projects of the Humanities Alliance grant funded by Andrew Mellon Foundation, we’re planning to share insights from the CUNY Humanities […]
My Journey Toward a Socially Conscious Pedagogy for Language Teaching By Inés Vañó García After my first post about how I integrated the CUNY Academic Commons into my SPA-114 Spanish Heritage course last Fall at Lehman College, I would like to share several teaching and learning practices inspired by Socially Conscious Pedagogy that I […]
The Humanities Alliance Conference was such an amazing event that I was able to be apart of. I was able to sit with professors from different parts of the states and have meaningful conversations on their strategies in pedagogy. I was able to attend the Faculty to Faculty: Building Pathways and Partnerships between the Community […]
It was such a pleasure to attend day 1 of the Humanities Alliance Conference. The day started with a very informative statistical study. Then with a panel of few fellows who teach at Community Colleges in NYC. It was an interesting feel when professors as fellows described their experiences specifically after the November 2016 elections. […]
This semester, as a Humanities Alliance Teaching Fellow, I was granted the wonderful opportunity to take a pause from teaching and to reflect on both my experiences as a student in LaGCC taking General Psychology and now having taught it several times in the same institution. Drawing from these experiences and observing Professor Vianna’s General […]
Teach Your Own Research (and Ultimately Teach Yourself) By Luis Henao Uribe Academics often conceive of research and teaching as two separate practices competing for time. On top of books that have to be read and papers that need to be done (or at least started!), you also have to deal with lesson plans […]
I am lucky enough to be trained in psychology from a critical perspective that centralizes the relationship between psychology and politics, or the ways in which power functions in our production of psychological knowledge. I am also a woman of color whose history is deeply entwined with colonialism, which has given me another form of […]
