Call for Participation: The Caribbean People Project
The Caribbean People is a multimedia oral history project that aims to archive the ways that knowledge about the Caribbean is preserved, democratized and shared. Using a community storytelling approach, the project aims to collect stories from people and groups working in the areas of history and culture, environmental health, environmentalism and climate justice, anti-poverty community development, decolonial education and literacy, and information freedom, among others.
We are calling for participants in this oral history project. If you or someone you know is interested in being interviewed under any of the aforementioned topics, please fill out this form.
Call for Submission: Journal of Folklore and Education
The 2024 Journal of Folklore and Education seeks submissions that explore “disruption” and “migration” in relation to the process of reimagining home and tradition. They are interested in contributions that situate creativity and cultural production in moments and landscapes of flux and transformation, and how those affected by these forces forge strategies that disrupt established paradigms. Thus, topics such as identity, inclusion and exclusion, memory, transformation, and community also inform this issue.
They are interested in contributions that address, for example:
People’s experiences during and in response to migrations and/or displacements of different sorts (domestic, international, rural-urban, voluntary and forced, in response to climate, for economic reasons, etc.)
Cultural realignment (coalition building, mutual aid, rethinking/rebuilding communities);
Stories or examples of how people disrupt narratives of harm and pathology related to migration with cultural production that represents resilience, agency, transformation, generative practices
Praxis—the work we do—examples of how the work of educators, folklorists, or culture bearers/artists directly intervene in or disrupt conventions, persistent issues, or chronic conditions.
The Journal of Folklore and Education welcomes contributions in many formats, including interviews, multimedia, photo essays, notes (a shorter format report), and lesson plans. Submissions are due March 15, 2024. For more information, go to their website.
Reading, Power and Freedom: A Virtual Discussion
Across the United States, book bans are barring access to the robust exchange of ideas in the classroom, library holdings, knowledge about our collective history, and the lessons of our complex American Story. Teachers, professors, and librarians face increasing restrictions, and our society faces diminishing opportunities to be fully informed, functional, and mutually respectful.
What are the fears driving these bans? What vibrant knowledge and broader freedoms do we all stand to lose? Join Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander for a conversation about the power of unfettered reading, and how we might mitigate efforts to undermine it throughout the United States.
For the conversation, Dr. Alexander connects with Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association and associate professor, Queens College, Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher for Pantheon & Schocken Books at Penguin Random House, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor, UNC Chapel Hill and columnist, New York Times.
Register here for the free, virtual discussion on Tuesday, September 26 at 4:00 PM EDT.
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