Campus Currents

Thursday, March 30, 2023
Hybrid Event, Heineman Ecumenical & Cultural Center at 4:30 PM
Register for Zoom Link Here

Author Whitney Scharer will read from her award-winning debut novel, The Age of Light (2019), based on the life of fashion-icon turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, who famously said “I’d rather take a photograph than be one.” Imagined through Scharer’s vivid prose, Lee's journey of self-discovery takes her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, where she was one of the first female war correspondents. Scharer will discuss the challenging constraints of writing historical fiction while celebrating its power to breathe new life into the past.

Monday, March 27
In front of May Hall
Stop by any time between 8:15PM - 9:00PM

Participants of all ages are welcome!

Use telescopes to observe a waxing crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, the Pleiades star cluster, and Orion Nebula! McAuliffe Center staff are available to answer your questions about telescopes and our Universe.

March 30th: Career & Internship Fair, McCarthy Center Forum
The end of Career Month! Come and learn about open roles from employers offering jobs and internships in a variety of industries. The Fair will take place from 4:30PM to 6:00PM in the Forum.

The Illusion of Safety: Understanding COVID and Undergraduate Students

Thursday, March 30, 6 p.m.
Center for Inclusive Excellence

Join the Center for Inclusive Excellence as alumna Eryca Carrier (Class of 2021) discusses how data on adverse childhood experiences and adolescent development can be extrapolated to see why students are struggling so much in college while navigating a world forever changed by COVID19.

Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Hybrid Event: In-person in the Dwight Hall Performing Arts Center at 4:30 PM
Register for the Virtual Webinar Here.

How can we work to make the outdoors a space that is welcoming for all people, particularly the BIPOC community? Join us to discuss this topic with James Edward Mills, a journalist, adventurer, and co-writer/co-producer of An American Ascent, a documentary film about the first African-American expedition to climb North America’s highest peak, Denali.

“Autism Goes to College” followed by a Q and A session by the Executive Producer, Jan Blacher

Tuesday, April 4, 7 p.m.

In-Person Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-autism-goes-to-college-in-person-tickets-528534118777

Zoom Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-autism-goes-to-college-virtual-tickets-526994032337

Autism Goes to College is a film with honest insights for students, parents and educators offering an eye-opening look at what a growing number of neurodiverse students are bringing to campus. After the screening, we will have Executive Producer and FSU alumni Jan Blacher with us to take questions from the audience. (Film trailer https://www.autismgoestocollege.org/see-the-film/#trailer-95.)

Promised on Paper, Pathetic in Practice: Race-Related Protections in the U.S. Constitution

ACLU Massachusetts Racial Justice Director Traci Griffith
Tuesday, April 4, at 12:30pm
McCarthy building Alumni Room (CC309)
Framingham State University

A lawyer, journalist, academic, and advocate, Traci most recently served as an Associate Professor in the Communications Department at Simmons University and previously was Chair of the Media Studies Department at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. Her areas of research focus have included First Amendment law and ethics, as well as Race and Gender representation in media. She is a former correspondent and national editor for the Associated Press and holds a JD from Notre Dame, M.S. in Journalism from Florida A&M, and BA in Political Science from DePaul. Her most recent work includes a well-received 4-part series with New England News Collaborative on racism in New England.

During the past 8 years Traci served on the Executive Committee of the National ACLU Board of Directors, and served as the National Board Secretary. Before joining the National ACLU Board as the Vermont representative in 2014, she served the Vermont board as its Vice-President and as a member of the Executive and Nominating Committee.

For question or more information, contact Professor Carol Gray, cgray5@framingham.edu, 413-297-1075.

Wednesday, April 5, 2023
4:30-5:30 p.m.

Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86403745106#success

Using her own digital project "The Brownies' Book Archive and Annotated Index" as a model,
in this talk Tieanna Graphenreed will suggest how new, unanticipated data findings can
alter the scope of a digital project. Taking a page from The Brownies' Book's primary
readership-that is, children-Tieanna will explain how an ethos of experimentation and
"play" with data and coding processes made possible interventions into continued "gaps" in
digital and physical archives with regard to who gets represented and acknowledged. As
this project advocates, more work needs to be done in recognizing the contributions of
children and youth as social agents and public intellectuals.

Brough to you by the NEH-Sponsored Invited Lecture Series on Race + DH

Sunday, April 2, 2023, 1-4 pm

Join us to explore the relationship between sound and vision. Some artists illustrate music in a picture, while others build artful instruments by hand. We’ll show you how to make an artful instrument, a lyre, which intertwines music and the visual arts.

Drop Into Art is completely free! Learn more at danforth.framingham.edu. 

Thursday, April 6, 2023 (rescheduled from February) 
McCarthy Center Alumni Room, at 4:30 PM

How can we sustain joy and connection in our modern, fast paced world? Through design elements, true stories, and reflective dialogue, this participatory event will discuss simple practices for sustaining happiness and be led by Daryl Christopher, a designer, educator, and founder of RE_KIN, a magazine focusing on communal wholeness through responsiveness.

Thursday, April 6, 2:30 p.m.
Alumni Room

In February, two big earthquakes hit Turkiye and Syria, killing 50,000 people, erasing cities, and leaving millions homeless. This huge catastrophe, much like other "natural disasters," is not "natural." In the modern world, political, economic and ideological decisions have a lot to do with why such catastrophes become tragedies. In this teach-in, together with FSU faculty, we will explore some of the recent disasters that took place in Turkiye, Puerto Rico, Pakistan, and other areas to shed light on the destructive ways in which we organize our world, and how capitalism, environmental racism, and power structures of often the main culprits. 

Speakers:

Dr. Zeynep Gonen, Sociology and Criminology 
Dr. Vandana Singh, Environment, Society, and Sustainability
Dr. Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz, Sociology and Criminology
Dr. Luis Rosero, Accounting, Economics and Finance 

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminology. 

Fulbright Info Table
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
McCarthy Center Lobby
Hope you can stop by our table to learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program! The U.S. Student Fulbright Program awards an academic year-long experience to eligible applicants. These awards allow grantees to travel abroad to conduct research, attend graduate school, complete an art project, or serve as an English teaching assistant. More information about the program be found here.

Monday, April 10, 2023
Dwight Hall at 7:00 PM

A college student aspires to leave Bhutan for Australia to pursue a singing career, but instead he gets assigned to teach children in a remote mountainous village isolated from modern life. The extraordinary 2019 film Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom was an Academy Award nominee for Best International Feature Film.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

"I know we have a lot to say about the situation...but, like, who has the time?" A window into the formation and research of the motherscholar collective
McCarthy Center Alumni Room, 6 to 8 PM (Hybrid Event)
Zoom Link Here

Members of the MotherScholar Collective, a multidisciplinary research group formed during the pandemic, discuss their research on the intersection of motherhood and academia, and collaborative possibilities of radical feminist flexibility. Panel participants: Maggie Campbell-Obaid, Ph.D, Katharina A. Azim, Ph.D., Kathryn Frazier, Ph.D, Helen Ho, Ph.D., Ivanna Richardson, M.A.

The second of our two Accepted Student Receptions is coming up this Saturday, April 1. These are extremely important yield events for the University. 

We hope to have faculty and staff on hand to help demonstrate to our accepted students why Framingham State University is their best option for continuing their education!

FSU Alumna Gledé Browne Kabongo 
“High Stakes and Ticking Clocks: Behind the Scenes with an Indie Thriller Author"

Monday, April 3, 1:30 p.m.
Alumni Room, McCarthy Center 

The Department of Communication, Media, and Performance welcomes back to campus Framingham State University alumna and novelist Gledé Browne Kabongo.

Gledé (pronounced Gleday) Browne Kabongo is a global marketing and communications professional with over fifteen years of experience helping organizations in the technology space maximize audience growth and brand impact. She is also a multi-award-winning author of unputdownable psychological thrillers—unflinching takes on deception, secrecy, family, and danger.

Gledé holds a M.S. in Communications from Clark University and a B.A in Communication Arts from
FSU. She has spoken at multiple industry events including the Boston Book Festival, Sisters in Crime (SinC) New England Crime Bake, and the Women in Publishing Summit. She lives outside Boston with her husband and two sons.