This talk engages with the question of what it means to assess and grade college student writing for a more antiracist classroom. It focuses not on people behaving badly or racist, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; disciplines’ logics and ways with words; and most professions’ expectations of language use.

This workshop will challenge participants to bravely investigate their own classroom assessment practices, particularly their orientations toward student writing as embodied in their feedback to that writing. The workshop will consider habits of White language that inform assessment practices in our own classrooms as well as several “fast thinking” mind heuristics.

The first online Southeast German Studies workshop brings together 50 junior and senior American and German scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to discuss the latest research in German-Jewish and forced migration studies. The workshop includes a series of panels along with information meetings on how to fund research in Germany. Presented online via Zoom.

In cooperation with the Southeast German Studies Consortium, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies invites the public to an online lecture by Prof. S. Schueler-Springorum live from Germany. A prominent scholar of German-Jewish history, Prof. Schueler-Springorum heads the renowned Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin. Her talk is entitled "Gender, Sex and Violence: Race Defilement in Nazi Germany." Presented online via Zoom.

Nirmala Erevelles is a professor of social and cultural studies in education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education and postcolonial studies. Specifically, her research focuses on the unruly, messy, unpredictable and taboo body – a habitual outcast in educational (and social) contexts. Presented online.

The symposium is designed to raise awareness of the importance and critical role of children’s and young adult literature in the lives of children, adolescents and educators. Meg Medina is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult fiction.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.

The symposium is designed to raise awareness of the importance and critical role of children’s and young adult literature in the lives of children, adolescents and educators. Lauren Castillo is an award-winning author and illustrator of picture books and the newly illustrated chapter book series, Our Friend Hedgehog.

The 24th Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors will be held virtually. Both undergraduate and graduate students, along with their Faculty Mentors, are encouraged to submit abstracts of their current or completed work for virtual presentation at our 2021 event.

Retracing Audubon: Eco-Conversations is an exhibition and book project reexamining John James Audubon’s epic life journey and the production of his beloved tome, “The Birds of America.” This exhibition features contemporary photographs made by Krista Elrick of the American landscapes in which Audubon traveled 200 years ago. Also included are quotes from Audubon’s journals and entries Elrick made in her own travel notebooks two centuries later.