Arrighi Center Fall 2016 General Seminar
(All sessions Friday 1-3 p.m. in 526 Mergenthaler unless otherwise noted.)
Friday, Sept. 16: Readings on the Capitalist University
Readings: Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class, Harvard University Press, 2008; and Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, editors, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, University of Minnesota Press, 2011. [Both books are available on reserve at the JHU Library; selections available on the seminar’s Blackboard site]
Friday, Sept. 30: Community Based Learning/Community Engaged Research
View the flier for the Sept. 30 session.
Robbie Shilliam, University of London Queen Mary
Daniel Pasciuti, Georgia State University
R. Tyler Derreth, Penn State University
Lester Spence, Gia Grier McGinnis, Johns Hopkins University
1-3 p.m., 526 Mergenthaler
Friday, Oct. 28: Poetry and Community-Based Learning
Mark Nowak and Dora Malech, Johns Hopkins University
1-3 p.m., 526 Mergenthaler
Poetry Reading: Mark Nowak
7:30 p.m., Red Emma’s Cafe & Books
Friday, Nov. 4: Policy Oriented Research
George Steinmetz, University of Michigan
1-3 p.m., 526 Mergenthaler
Reading: Historical Sociology, Ethics, Policy, and Politics, by George Steinmetz
Friday, Nov. 11: Hopkins as Landlord
Josh Garoon, University of Wisconsin
Aaron Begg, Johns Hopkins University
Toby Huttner, Johns Hopkins University
Chris Westcott, Johns Hopkins University
1-3 p.m., 526 Mergenthaler