Campus Currents

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

Saturday, April 22
2:00PM – 6:00PM

Science on State Street is Framingham State University’s annual science festival, a community-wide event organized by the Christa McAuliffe Center in collaboration with MetroWest STEM Education Network.

Science on State Street has a particular focus on themes relating to planet Earth. Explore science, technology, engineering, and math and the ways they support environmental justice and environmental sustainability!

This year, the feature performance is the Climate Hope Concert brought to us by Multiverse. Multiverse is leveraging its partnership with the McAuliffe Center to create an ambitious new concert that interweaves climate science with the emotive power of music in order to build community and spark action. Climate Hope Concert presents a vision of hope for our planet and a call to action for people in all fields.

“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.)

Join the Center for Inclusive Excellence in celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: K-pop & Culture ‘Just Dance’ Event
Center for Inclusive Excellence, O'Connor Hall
Wednesday, April 12
2 p.m.

Join the Center for Digital Humanities for a special event:

Play with DH, Timeline.JS with Dr. Luke Dietrich

Tuesday, April 4, 3:30 p.m.

Hybrid, Whittemore Library and Zoom

Learn how to make polished timelines. Students and faculty welcome, no experience necessary!

Friday, April 7, 10am
O’Connor Hall
2nd Floor, Room 220

Dr. Kristen Bennett, an Assistant Professor in FSU’s English Department, is the Project Founder and Director of the The Kit Marlowe Project, Assistant Director of Pedagogy for the Map of Early Modern London, and Project Co-Director of Rams Write. She obtained her BA from Syracuse University, her PhD from Tufts University, and has published an edited collection of essays entitled Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640), as well as numerous essays discussing classical, medieval, and early modern literature and complementary digital pedagogies. She serves on the Editorial Board of This Rough Magic: A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

This event is open to the entire FSU community. For more information, please contact Professor Carol Gray at cgray5@framingham.edu.