{"id":284,"date":"2020-10-20T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:45:04","slug":"previous-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/span>Community Engagement in the Wake of Pandemics: Lessons Learned from George Floyd Square,\u201d a virtual lecture by Prof. Tania D. Mitchell<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

Nov 12, 11:00 a.m. EST.<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Tania D. Mitchell is an associate professor of higher education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Her teaching emphasizes college students and their development, issues of equity and access, leadership, and policy and practice in the functional areas of student-facing units in institutions of higher education. Her research focuses on the experiences of minoritized students in higher education and service-learning as a critical pedagogy to explore civic identity, social justice, student learning and development, race and racism, and community practice. She interrogates practices in higher education that aim to contribute to a more just world. Dr. Mitchell is a recipient of the Early Career Research Award (2011) and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award (2019) from the International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) as well as the American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. Her scholarship has been published in numerous books and journals and she is the editor (with Krista Soria) of <\/span>Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities <\/span><\/i>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and<\/span> Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities: Engaging Undergraduates for Social Justice, Social Change, and Responsible Citizenship<\/span><\/i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also the editor (with Corey Dolgon and Tim Eatman) of the <\/span>Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement <\/span><\/i>(Cambridge University Press, 2017) and (with Stephanie Y. Evans and Andrea D. Domingue) <\/span>Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons<\/span><\/i> (SUNY Press, 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof. Mitchell\u2019s talk is the first in a series of events on the theme of <\/span>Transformative Partnerships and Our Shared Futures: Campus-Community Learning Ecologies<\/span><\/i> sponsored by the <\/span>Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities initiative<\/span><\/a>. This initiative is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<\/span> and supported by the Office of Community-Engaged Learning, Vassar College.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Thank you Jean and Lisa for helping me get to the recording.\u00a0 I just watched it successfully. It was excellent.\u00a0 I have a lot to think about going into this week of visioning for Eleanor Roosevelt and Val Kill and this hit several of the amorphous topics I am mulling in my own head in the most positive light.\u00a0 They can feel heavy and hard.\u00a0 She was inspiring.”<\/em>\u00a0Anna DeCordova, Horticulturist, Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Parks Service.<\/p>\n

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“A Concert & Conversation with Peter Buffett”, March 3, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

On March 3, 2020, Vassar invited the renowned philanthropist Peter Buffett to speak with the students in the CEIH-funded intensive “Fundamentals of Grant Writing”. In addition to speaking with the class, Mr. Buffett gave a performance of his show “A Concert & Conversation” with the Vassar Community. Mr. Buffett met with Professor Rebecca Edwards and her students for a reception before the performance.<\/p>\n

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Stills from the student reception with Mr. Buffett:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Karl Rabe<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo Credit: Karl Rabe<\/p><\/div>\n

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Press Release:<\/h3>\n

\u201cConcert & Conversation\u201d with Peter Buffett on piano, accompanied by Michael Kott on cello<\/p>\n

Mar 3, 5:30pm
\nLocation: Main Building, Villard Room<\/p>\n

\u201cConcert & Conversation\u201d is a performance with Peter Buffett on piano accompanied by the one and only Michael Kott on cello. The duo has performed the show at colleges and community foundations around the world for the better part of a decade. The performance features clips from Peter\u2019s film, television, and philanthropic work as it traces the evolution of his life and career. \u201cConversation\u201d is in the title because Peter takes questions from the audience throughout the show, which keeps the show continuously relevant as the world around us continues to change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Peter Buffett first began his professional musical career in the early 1980s in San Francisco, recording and producing albums for local talent and composing
\nfor commercials. In 1987, he released his first album, The Waiting with Narada Productions. Over the next several years, Peter released three more records with Narada and composed the score for the Fire Dance scene in the film Dances With Wolves. After that, Peter scored the CBS eight-hour mini-series 500 Nations, which led to albums on Epic and Hollywood Records. In 2004, Peter\u2019s theatrical show, Spirit\u2014The Seventh<\/p>\n

Fire premiered on the National Mall as part of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. After writing about \u201cThe Charitable-Industrial Complex\u201d in the New York Times, Peter began to find his voice through essays as well as songs. Peter\u2019s childhood memories of growing up in the Civil Rights era were rekindled when he and his wife, Jennifer, were given the responsibility of guiding the work of the NoVo Foundation. In 2010, Peter published his book, Life Is What You Make It, which was so successful that it was translated into 15 languages and even quoted on a packet of sugar in South Africa! To promote his new book, Peter took his \u201cConcert & Conversation\u201d show on the road with cellist Michael Kott.<\/p>\n

This event is open to the public. For free tickets, go to https:\/\/vassarpresents.tix.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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