November Newsletter: Education Program

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022

The Gottesman Libraries

The Gottesman Libraries Education Program informs students, faculty and staff about the latest thinking in education, in ways that engage members of the community with one another and with a broad range of educational experts. The program also provides understanding of work being done throughout the College.

Read more below about offerings in November.

Workshops

Regularly scheduled instructional offerings include workshops, tours, orientations, and course-specific instruction in coordination with staff and faculty of the College.

Systematic & Scoping Reviews, Thursday, 11/3, 4-5pm

This workshop introduces two types of literature reviews that are used in research. The scoping review, often done in the social sciences, provides an overview of the available research evidence, without producing a summary answer to a specific research question; a systematic review, often done in the health sciences, employs methods to collect data; critically evaluate research studies; and synthesize findings qualitatively, or quantitatively, to answer a discrete research question.

While research techniques may be similar, systematic reviews may take longer to complete, due to the need to extract data; interpret results; and be very precise in documenting techniques, strategies, and results which change over time, especially as the field of literature grows.

Persons interested in attending may rsvp no later than November 2nd and will receive an e-mail confirmation with Zoom link prior to the session.

Where: Online

Faculty Workshop: Research Roundtable, Friday, 11/4, 12-1pm

Join us for a chance to explore your current research topics, tactics, and opportunities with colleagues from the library and other TC departments. Discussion topics will include types of descriptive research, publication methods, utilizing research offices at TC, and more. Presenter: Becca Gates, Research and Instruction Librarian

This is the third workshop in the New Research Services for Faculty series. Teachers College faculty and instructors may rsvp with their interest and details to any or all of these sessions.

Where: 305 Russell

Cited Reference Searching, Wednesday, 11/9, 4-5pm

Tracking and analyzing citations is an important part of the research process that can lead to deeper understanding of the significance of published authors/works; impact factor of journals; and even faculty tenure decisions. Key citation analysis tools also may serve as a springboard in your pursuit of a research topic. In Cited Reference Searching, you will take a look at major citation tools that provide insight - notably, Reuter's Web of Science, Elsevier's Scopus, and, "standing on the shoulders of giants", Google Scholar.
Please rsvp by Tuesday, November 8th with your interest and details, and we'll follow up with a Zoom link.

Where: Online

Faculty Workshop: Managing Research Data, Friday, 11/11, 12-1pm

This workshop is an introduction to using a variety of research data management tools including reference managers, covidence for literature reviews, trophy and omeka for asset and photo management, Github for code sharing, and more. This is the fourth workshop in the New Research Services for Faculty series.

Presenter: Becca Gates, Research and Instruction Librarian in collaboration with Digital Futures Institute

Teachers College faculty and instructors may rsvp with their interest and details to any or all of these sessions.

Zotero, Monday, 11/14, 4-5pm

Managing bibliographic references is key to the research process, especially as you embark on a major, paper, thesis, or dissertation, or even as you organize readings for class. This workshop introduces you to Zotero, "your personal research assistant" -- a citation management tool that allows you to collect, organize, cite, and share research. You can even tag and write notes for your citations!

Please rsvp with your interest and details via online support, and we'll follow up with a Zoom link prior to the session.

Where: Online

Introduction to Course Resource Lists for Instructors, Thursday, 11/17, 3-4pm

Course Resource Lists (powered by Ex Libris Leganto) is the Gottesman Libraries’ new, permanent course reserves platform and collaborative tool for instructors and librarians to create and fulfill reading lists for degree-seeking students in courses taught each semester at Teachers College, Columbia University. Course Resource Lists are available to instructors of all active, credit-bearing courses and can be found on the left navigation menu of their courses in Canvas.

Please join us for our next session on November 17th held over Zoom, in which we will cover all you need to know to place a library course reserve request or create a Course Resource List yourself. Faculty, course assistants, and professional staff are all welcome to attend.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Digital Futures Institute. Interested persons may rsvp in advance and Zoom details will be shared.

Where: Online

Printmaking Workshop: Mixed Media Cities, with Lindsey Frances Jones, Friday, 11/18, 5:30-8pm

Join Lindsey Frances Jones in the Macy Printmaking Studio to learn about printmaking as part of her exhibition “I Was Made in Shapes.” She will introduce students to mixed media approaches to printmaking through mono-printing, contact paper silkscreen, stencils, collage, and linocut. The goal for the workshop is to create a collaged cityscape through our communal printmaking works. The work created will be kept by participants and also join the community aspect of the Gottesman Libraries commissioned art program “I Was Made in Shapes” which is due to launch in the Offit Gallery in early December.

Cap at 20 participants. No printmaking experience is required!

Please rsvp with your interest and details by Monday, November 14th.

Where: 56 Macy

The Narrative Lit Review, Revisited, Tuesday, 11/29, 4-5pm

This workshop focuses on the narrative literature review, which differs in methodology from scoping and system reviews, though all approaches are significant in the research journey.

A review of literature is an essential step in the process of writing a thesis or dissertation, or any paper for publication. It asks that you read and critique articles, books, and other sources that have already been written on your topic or related topics. In the process, you are required to find sources and evaluate the best way to focus your research so that you can contribute to a body of scholarly literature. We will focus on locating the sources you need to conduct your review of the literature, and offer a few pointers to the next steps.

Please rsvp with your interest and details, and we will follow up with a Zoom link prior to the session.

Where: Online

Talks

The Gottesman Libraries sponsors talks by leaders in education, psychology, and the applied health sciences to recognize and celebrate scholarly work of interest to the Teachers College community.

Special Celebration & Panel: Shalom-Salam: Love, Peace, Hope & Unity in Children's Art, Thursday, 11/3, 12-2pm

Please join us for a special celebration and panel discussion on love and peace, hope and unity shown in children's art, inspired by the newly launched exhibit, "Let Us Put Out the Fire of War", Part One of the Passow Collection of Israeli Children's Peace Art, on display for the first time in the Offit Gallery of Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University. This collection of artwork by 9-11 year old Arab and Jewish children, highlights long lasting-hope for peace, with shared symbols of our humanity and mutual respect for national identity, friendship, world heritage, and most importantly, education. The artwork was created in a school program sponsored by the International Cultural Center for Youth, in Jerusalem, shortly after the 1967 Six-Day War.

The panel will look at the important role of children and art expression in peace, conflict resolution, and peace-building efforts through informed lenses: government, civil society, accredited United Nations' organizations, and academia.

"Much research has shown that the bringing of children together from conflicting cultures can bridge divides and create harmony and peace,” says Dr. Judy Kuriansky, who has over many years conducted artistic expressions workshops for children all over the world, including in the Middle East. “Creating art together encourages friendship and mutual understanding which are critical for adults, and our conflict-compromised world today.”

In building awareness and engagement, the exhibit and discussion encourage deep conversation and reflection about the meaning and realization of peace, recognizing the qualities that bind us together, whatever our origins or beliefs, to bring about the peaceful world we want.

“We are honored at the Gottesman Libraries to curate this unique exhibit, which has rarely been seen, but is so timely today,” says Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian at Teachers College, Columbia University. “The children’s message is so important for our educational institution and also all our students from such diverse backgrounds.”

PRESENTERS:

H.E Ambassador Feda Abdelhady-Nasser is Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations. Ambassador Nasser has served in this role since 2013; prior, she was Special Political Adviser to the Minister Palestine Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2006), and First Secretary, Counselor, and First Counselor to the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations (1992-2005). She has an M.A. in Educational Leadership and Administration from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from New York University. Ambassador Nasser will speak on the cause of peace and justice for Palestine and her commitment to international peace, justice, cooperation and coexistence on the basis of respect for international law and human rights, particularly with regard to women.

Mr. Yoram Morad is Israel's Special Envoy for International Water Affairs. His mission is simple – helping as many people as possible to access decent water supplies. Easy to say, hard to accomplish. As a representative of MASHAV (Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation), he focuses primarily on enhancing cooperation between Israel and developing countries around the globe. Prior to his current position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yoram served in Israeli embassies/missions in Panama, Rome and New York. During his 30 years at the MFA, he's specialized in public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy and international organizations. A lover of all things water-related, his favorite sport/hobby is swimming.
-- "Be Water My Friends!"

Dr. Judy Kuriansky is an internationally known clinical psychologist, humanitarian, author, and United Nations NGO representative. Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University for 20 years, she taught The Psychology of Intimacy, and, now Psychology at the United Nations, a special seminar where students learn about psychologists’ role in global mental health; gain unique access to diplomats; and participate in major meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women, Commission for Social Development, World Interfaith Harmony Week, and International Day of Happiness. At the United Nations for two decades, she is the main NGO representative for the International Association of Applied Psychology and World Council for Psychotherapy, and co-founder of the UN Group of Friends of Mental Health and Well-being. An award-winning journalist well known on radio and TV, Dr. Kuriansky is the author of many books, including Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians (Praeger, 2007) and Terror in the Holy Land: Inside the Anguish of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Praeger, 2006), among many other writings. Dr. Kuriansky will speak on her scholarship and work in the Middle East, with relevance to ongoing world conflicts and her continuing involvement in global peace initiatives.

Ms. Yiming (Emily) Sang completed her bachelor's degree in Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a Master's student in Art and Art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Emily serves as the President of the Sino-American Youth Foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting international communication via art and culture. She also serves as the Youth Goodwill Ambassador to the Fashion for Development for United Nations SDGs goals. She was honored by Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of American International Group, as Outstanding Youth for promoting international cultural communication in 2019. Currently, Emily is working as Library Associate for Art and Design, in the Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University. Emily co-curated and designed the exhibit "Let Us Out Out the Fire of War" which incorporates her original drawings in the Offit Gallery’s banners. Emily will speak on the design and curation, and how artwork with children inspires change.

Moderating the discussion are Ms. Melanie Schneider, graduate student in Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Ms. Chantal Hover, Columbia University alumna (B.A., Political Science). Closing remarks are by Ms. Nida Ahmed, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Master’s student in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, with a concentration in Global Mental Health and Trauma. “Stand Up for Peace” and "Hope is Alive” will be sung by Teachers College alumnus Russell Daisey, international musician and composer.

The event includes light luncheon; welcome collaborative art making; and a gallery tour of the children’s artworks, introduced by Ms. Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian.

The event is held in-person. Be sure to RSVP by November 1 to assure a seat.

Where: 306 Russell / Offit Gallery

Live Stream: Defending the Color Line: White Supremacy, Hoarding & the Legacy of Brown: 2022 AERA Brown Lecture, with John B. Diamond, Thursday, 11/3, 6-7:30pm

Join us for this free livestream event, the 19th Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research. Building on W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of the color line, Diamond's lecture will highlight how white supremacy is deeply embedded in U.S. educational organizations and the ways that opportunity hoarding helps sustain it. In doing so, he will shift the intellectual gaze from the aspirational progress narratives often associated with Brown to the racial hierarchies and various forms of harm that schools (even integrated ones) continue to reproduce. Taking the recent attacks against critical race theory as a backdrop, Diamond will argue that schools not only contribute to educational inequity but are race-making institutions that socialize people into relations of racial domination and subordination through institutional practices and individual actions.

John B. Diamond is Professor of Sociology and Education Policy in Brown University's Department of Sociology and Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Before coming to Brown, he was the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Education at Wisconsin – Madison. A sociologist of race and education, he studies the relationship between social inequality and educational opportunity, examining how educational leadership, policies, and practices operate through school organizations to shape students’ educational opportunities and outcomes. Diamond earned his BA in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University.

This event is co-sponsored by the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program; Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education; and Office of Community and Diversity Affairs. Dr. Leslie Allen Williams, Teachers College alumna and Lecturer in the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program will welcome attendees to the free livestreamed AERA event, the 19th Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research, and be joined by colleagues at Teachers College.

Please rsvp with your interest and details by Wednesday, November 2nd.

Where: 306 Russell

Art Talk: Black Women as Subjects in Fine Art & Public Art Initiatives, Monben Mayon, Danielle Mastrion & Jalese Ayana, Monday, 11/7, 6-7pm

Join Monben Mayon, 2022 Myers Foundations' Art Awardee, for an art talk with multimedia artists Danielle Mastrion and Jalese Ayana. Danielle Mastrion is the NYC-based mural artist who created the colorful Shirley Chisholm mural for Shirley Chisholm State Park, located in southeastern Brooklyn. Jalese (Leesy) Ayana, owner and content creator of Nonchalance Studios, is a photographer whose work has been featured in Complex Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Together, the three artists will discuss the importance, difficulties, and joys of representing Black women as subjects in fine art and public art initiatives.

This art talk is the first of two for Peacing Shirley, a mixed media installation by Monben Mayon which is currently on display in the Kasser Family Exhibition Space at the Gottesman Libraries. The installation is accompanied by the Everett Cafe book display, Representations of Black Women in Twentieth Century United States and Beyond, also curated by Monben in collaboration with Trisha Barton, Lead Designer at Gottesman.

RSVP by Friday, November 4th, with your interest and details, and we will share a Zoom link to the talk.

Where: Online

Book Talk: Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood, with Chelsea Conaboy, Tuesday, 11/15, 4-5pm

FOR SO MANY OF US, maternal instinct doesn’t show up, at least not in the ways we expected it to. Caring for a newborn does not feel innate. There is no switch that flips when we become pregnant or when our baby arrives. Too often, we don’t question the narrative, the one that says we should know just what to do and how to feel. The one that discounts how parenting requires a whole set of practical skills that we may or may not already possess. The one that omits the facts and circumstances of our individual lives before pregnancy and afterward, that says we will transition seamlessly (but for a bit of sleep deprivation) from a person committed first and foremost to sustaining our own survival to one who is now also entirely responsible for a tiny, nonverbal creature that depends on us for their every need. Instead, we question ourselves.

-- CHAPTER 1, "At the Flip of a Switch"

Join us for a live on-campus TC Book Talk with veteran journalist Chelsea Conaboy about her new book, Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood (New York: Henry Holt, 2022), co-sponsored by The Reproductive Psychology Lab in collaboration with the Neuroscience & Education Program and Gottesman Libraries.

This special discussion with Conaboy will dive deep into narratives of parenthood revealed in her book, as well as expand the conversation further to explore the role matrescence has played in our understanding of how the maternal brain transforms. Dr. Aurélie Athan, a reproductive psychologist and Research Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at TC who specializes in the reproductive mind and the developmental transition to motherhood, will moderate.

"Conaboy expected things to change with the birth of her child. What she didn’t expect was how different she would feel. But she would soon discover what was behind this: her changing brain. Though Conaboy was prepared for the endless dirty diapers, the sleepless nights, and the joy of holding her newborn, she did not anticipate this shift in self, as deep as it was disorienting. Mother Brain is a groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities.
New parents undergo major structural and functional brain changes, driven by hormones and the deluge of stimuli a baby provides. These neurobiological changes help all parents―birthing or otherwise―adapt in those intense first days and prepare for a long period of learning how to meet their child’s needs. Pregnancy produces such significant changes in brain anatomy that researchers can easily sort those who have had one from those who haven't. And all highly involved parents, no matter their path to parenthood, develop similar caregiving circuitry. Yet this emerging science, which provides key insights into the wide-ranging experience of parenthood, from its larger role in shaping human nature to the intensity of our individual emotions, is mostly absent from the public conversation about parenthood.
The story that exists in the science today is far more meaningful than the idea that mothers spring into being by instinct. Weaving the latest neuroscience and social psychology together with new reporting, Conaboy reveals unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect, and a powerful new narrative of parenthood."

- publisher's description

Chelsea Conaboy is a journalist who writes about personal and public health. Her first book, Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood, was published by Henry Holt & Co. in September 2022. She was part of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, and her magazine writing has been published by Mother Jones, Politico, the Week, the Boston Globe Magazine, and others. She lives in Maine with her husband and their two children.

Dr. Athan is a co-founder of The Reproductive Psychology Lab in the Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology at TC that specializes in reviving, and disseminating comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education via graduate coursework and certification, and professional development trainings. Dr. Athan’s research, teaching, and practice center on the reproductive mind or people’s psychological relationship to their evolving reproductive wellbeing across the lifespan - with a special focus on Reproductive Identity, and Matrescence, the developmental transition to motherhood.

Please RSVP with your interest and details no later than Monday, November 14th and indicate if you will be in person or online. A Zoom link will be shared with those who wish to attend virtually.

Attendees who wish to have their book signed may purchase a copy of Mother Brain at the nearby Columbia University Bookstore (2922 Broadway), or other authorized retailers, prior to the talk.

Refreshments + light bites will be offered, courtesy of the Neuroscience and Education Program.

Where: 306 Russell / Online

Guest Talk: Your Song Sets Me Free: Literacy in the Groove and Off the Grid, with Emery Petchauer, Tuesday, 11/15, 4-5:30pm

This lecture traces the patterns of encounter that reroute expression, togetherness, and performance in intergenerational community spaces where people write songs, make beats, play instruments, and make a lot of noise. Specifically, I explore the form and formlessness of these encounters: critical connections that supersede critical mass, ephemera that inspire young writers toward liberation, and the abolitionist impulse to continually remake the formations through which study, expression, and performance take place. What new relations emerge between the living forms we think we know? This talk will be of interest to English education and literacy scholars/educators; music producers and music educators, community-based artists who work with youth, and everyday people who believe another world is possible.

Emery Petchauer is a professor in the Department of English and Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, where he coordinated the English education concentration from 2016 to 2022. He is interested in the ways educators, artists, and youth connect their assets to bring about the world they wish to experience, even for a short period of time. He is most at home in intergenerational art, expression, and learning spaces where people make things together — especially beats, sounds, songs, and lots of noise. Emery is the author or editor of four books and over 40 peer reviewed articles, chapters, and editorials. His scholarship and community work have been supported by the Spencer Foundation, the Office of Research and Innovation at MSU, and partnerships with Ableton and Koala Sampler.

This in-person event is co-sponsored by the Teachers College Racial Literacy Project / Lecture Series. Moderating discussion is Yolanda Sealey Ruiz, Program Director and Assocate Professor of English Education. Please rsvp by Monday, November 14th to assure a seat.

Where: 305 Russell

ARTIVISM

The vision of Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is to generate a movement with committed social artivists in response to historic global unrest. Artivism aims to generate community through multi-disciplinary teamwork for a more dignified and meaningful coexistence, however you define these terms. The goal of this initiative is to nurture confidence in taking continuous action from wherever you are by means of reciprocity.

Artivism: Embracing the Natural Art Around Us for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth, with Anne Warburton,Monday, 11/7, 4:30-5:30pm

Anne Warburton, fibre artist and artist-trained in the expressive arts, will showcase the art series she has been creating, based on the artistic side of timeworn and weathered objects around us, both in nature and manmade.

By noticing this beauty around us, its changes and growth, and through exploring these subjects using our own creative outlets, we find connections and create opportunities for self-reflection, growth and gratitude.

Anne Warburton is a fibre artist based in Canada. Her focus these past three years has been on the world around us – where we can find both manmade and nature’s lines: straight, twisted, imperfect, tattered, threadbare. There is beauty in these timeworn lines, and a need today for moments of awe and wonder, and self-reflection. Her fibre art interpretations begin with photographing these elements close-up to capture the artistic perspective of the affected areas: rust, corrosion, decay, weathered, crumbling, then assembling and altering layers of fabrics and other materials to symbolize the changing layers of her subjects. Anne is an active member of her local fibre arts community, as co-chair of the Out of the Box Fibre Artists, teacher, founder of Fibre 15 (a community fibre arts group), and artist-trained in the expressive arts.

Resources

Where: Online

Artivism: A Few of My Long-Term Feminist Art Projects (1978 -2022), with Mónica Mayer y Victor Lerma, Monday, 11/14, 4:30-5:30pm

In this talk, Mónica Mayer will present some of her long-term feminist art projects.

Some of these works include The Clothesline (2078-2022), Raya: art crit, chronicles and debates in the visual arts (1991-2016), Archiva: feminist master works of art (2012-2021), Abducter Motherhoods (2012-2019) and I Don’t Celebrate or Commemorate Wars (2008- 2019).

Mónica Mayer is interested in organizing long-term art projects in which art, activism and pedagogy intertwine. Mayer loves it when projects are collaborative in nature, horizontal and they include the voice of the audience. Since she is interested in long-term change, many projects also have to do with archives.

View the catalogue to one of these major exhibitions, which is in Spanish and English.

For those who speak Spanish, these are Mónica Mayer’s websites:

Pinto mi Raya
De Archivos y redes
Si tiene dudas… pregunte
El Tendedero

Where: Online

Artivism: Challenges to Social Transformation in Arts: Martial, with Andrej Sadej & Priscilla Gagné, Monday, 11/21, 4:30-5:30pm

The Artivism team and event participants will have the pleasure of hearing from Mr. Andrej Sadej and Priscilla Gagne on how they aim to transform the art of Judo by developing a program adaptable for the visually impaired.

Mr. Sadej will talk about his many years of practice, athletic achievements, instruction, coaching, the many projects he has developed, and the life-changing initiatives he has inspired. Priscilla Gagné will talk about how she overcame her challenges and discuss her achievements and career highlights.

Presenters:

Andrej Sadej is currently the Head Coach of the Canadian Visually Impaired Judo Team. He also serves as the Coaching and Education Director, and the Sport Director with Judo Canada. In cooperation with the Coaching Association of Canada, he is responsible for the development, delivery and management of the coach education programs for Judo in Canada; the development and update of the Long-Term Canadian Judoka Development model; and the Coaching of Canadian Paralympic Judoka. Mr. Sadej, a 7th dan black belt in judo, is a 7-time national Polish champion, 5-time European Championships’ medalist, and 3-time University World Championships medalist. Mr. Sadej’s bio is rich in achievements, both in his own award-winning athletic career, and that as a coach, creating programs, teaching, volunteering, and inspiring through his art, social transformation.

Priscilla Gagné Is now based in Montreal and trains at the Judo Canada National Centre at the INS Quebec. Priscilla was the flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony for Team Canada at Tokyo 2020 and won the Silver Medal at those Olympic Games. She was born with a genetic eye disorder called retinis pigmentosa. She has four degrees of peripheral vision, but with no central vision, is considered blind. Priscilla started judo in 2008 after practicing karate, moved to Sarnia at age three from Granby after her parents separated. She graduated from the evangelism program at Rhema Bible College in Oklahoma and graduated from Everest College’s addictions and community services worker program in Barrie, Ontario. Her awards include Silver at 2019 Parapan American Games, Crowned Pan Am champion in 2018 and 2020, Bronze Medal at 2018 World Championships. She competed at her first Paralympic Games in 2016 and won her first World Cup medal in February 2015, Silver at 2015 Parapan Am Games in Toronto, Silver in the 2016 IBSA World Cup in Germany, Bronze in the 2016 IBSA World Cup in Brazil, and Bronze in the 2016 IBSA World Cup in England.

Resources:

Where: Online

Artivism: Orchestrating Activism: Notes on Music, Audience, & History from 1930s Brazil, with Micah Oelze, Monday, 11/28, 4-5pm

In this talk, Micah Oelze shares his research on the profoundly musical politics of interwar Brazil.

In 1934, a scandal erupted in São Paulo. The city’s sole black political party (the Black Brazilian Front) denounced their bandleader for “traitorous” actions and “machiavellian strategies.” The public firing of the composer and activist Alfredo Pires was about more than musical taste; it was about fierce differences in ideology.

During this presentation, Micah Oelze uses the case of fired bandleader Alfredo Pires as an opportunity to see how musical work was not above the fray of polarized politics. Oelze then reflects on insights the case might offer those working toward social activism today.

Micah Oelze is a musician and a history professor at New York’s Adelphi University. As a historian, Oelze teaches on Latin America and offers special courses on Brazil and the Caribbean. He is currently finishing a book project on 1930s Brazil, zooming in on a series of collaborations between music composers and social psychologists who sought to use the concert hall as a site for social engineering and reform. As a musician, he plays the seven-string classical guitar, specializing in the style of instrumental music called chorinho, also from Brazil in the 1930s. Micah Oelze received his PhD from Miami’s Florida International University.

Where: Online

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Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation, grew out of Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene, (Dio Press, 2019), edited by Teachers College alumni Courtney Weida and Carolina Cambronero-Varela, and Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, of Adelphi University. "The concept for this book is inspired by the late Maxine Greene (2000), who described her enduring philosophical focus and legacy of social imagination as “the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficient society, on the streets where we live, in our schools” (p. 5). The purpose of this volume is to examine and illuminate the roles of community organizers and educators who are changing lives through public art and community arts projects. This research originally emerged from a well-attended 2018 conference presentation and exhibition at Teachers College, Columbia University, engaging with the local and international community of arts education and arts administration."

-- Publisher's Description

Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation is jointly sponsored by Adelphi University, Sing for Hope, and the Gottesman Libraries.

Live Music

The Everett Cafe Music Program sponsors performances by TC student and affiliated musicians. Come enjoy a variety of genres and styles! Please contact us if you are interested in playing! We welcome solos, duets, and trios.

Claremont Strings & Ensemble, Wednesday, 11/16, 4-5:30pm

Claremont Strings and Ensemble features music for classical strings, from the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, to well known arias from the operas of Puccini and Bizet. You may hear a selection of continental Viennese waltzes and French cabaret. Musicians of The Claremont Strings Ensemble have performed collectively at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and throughout the Northeast, playing a diverse range of symphonic and chamber music, eclectic jazz, and gypsy swing. Wadsworth Strings, emanating from the Washington Heights area, is a division of Claremont Strings, founded by Vivian Penham, a graduate of the Juilliard School and Columbia University.

Nicholas DiMaria Trio, Tuesday, 11/29, 4-5pm

Nicholas DiMaria is a trumpeter, teacher, and composer based in New York City. He draws inspiration from multiple genres and art forms in his compositions and is continuously inspired by expressing visual art in a musical medium. His music is described by audiences as introspective, passionate, and eclectic; influenced by jazz, hip-hop, and classical music.

Nicholas has lead groups at Carnegie Hall, The Northeast Wine and Jazz Festival, The Syracuse Jazz Festival, The Central New York Pride Festival, and restaurants and clubs across New York State. He has also performed at The Great New York State Fair, The CNY January Jazz Festival, the Disneyland All-American College Band, and opened for Grammy-Winner Lalah Hathaway. Nicholas is well-adapted to playing with jazz ensembles, wedding bands, and funk groups. He currently holds a weekly performance residency at Oliva Tapas, NYC (Thursdays and Fridays from 6-8pm). Nicholas is also a faculty member at Larchmont Music Academy, where he teaches trumpet and a jazz ensemble. In 2020, he received his Bachelor's in Jazz Arts from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Scott Wendholt, Ingrid Jensen, Jim McNeely, and Jon Faddis.

News Displays

Need to keep current, look to the past, teach a topic? The Everett Cafe features daily postings of news from around the world, and also promotes awareness of historical events from an educational context. Be sure to check the Cafe News postings on the library blog.

1 World Trade Center Opens, Thursday, 11/3

WW1 Ends, Friday, 11/11

Zuccotti Park Eviction, Tuesday, 11/15

Israel-Hamas Agree to Cease Fire, Monday, 11/21

Shirley Chisholm Is Born, Wednesday, 11/30

Book Displays

Everett Cafe: Indigenous America: Voices and Viewpoints

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
– Arapaho

Native American Indian Heritage month was officially recognized in 1990 by President of the United States George H. W. Bush, who declared November accordingly as a time to celebrate the rich histories, diverse cultures, and significant contributions of our nation's first people. Now, in a time of growing awareness and response to movements and needs of many marginalized groups, we must wonder at the complex history of our indigenous peoples and how their story requires special attention within the landscape of learning and realities of today.

Indigenous America: Voices and Viewpoints explores wide interpretations of history, religion, politics, psychology, and education, as expressed from numerous perspectives, native and non-native, hopeful of increasing awareness and engagement. In the month of November, a time of Thanksgiving, but also of mourning by indigenous Americans, acknowledgement is due to the researchers, scholars, teachers, and practitioners who address these critical issues and help us remember marginalized populations, which include over 500 federally recognized tribes living in the United States.

Looking at the involvement of Teachers College, we draw attention to contributions of Hazel Hertzberg, Professor of History and Education, whose scholarship focused on the Indigenous people of North America, and whose publications introduced seventh-grade anthropology curriculum for New York students as part of the Anthropology Curriculum Project. Decades earlier, Native American Indian art was incorporated into the practical work of the students of Arthur Wesley Dow, Professor of Fine Arts, while units on Native Americans were infused into the curriculum of the experimental and demonstration schools of Teachers College. Fall 2022 courses include: Indigenous Curriculum & Teaching: Sovereignty and Survivance in Theory and Practice; Multicultural Counseling and Psychology; Organizing Schools for Diversity; Climate Change, Society, and Education; Decolonial Theories in Comparative Education; and Education Across the Americas.

This book display is curated by Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian, and designed by Trisha Barton, Gottesman's Lead Designer.

Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.
- "Unknown Tribe"

At the Everett News Cafe, you'll find a new book collection every few weeks that relates to current events, education, or learning environments.

Staff Picks: Native Creations

"In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we present a collection of works celebrating the historical, contemporary, and continuing creativity of Native American communities. Fighting against a historically biased representation of Indigenous art as “primitive” or as irrelevant to the modern day, the authors and creators on display in this collection show that creativity is still a strong and vibrant part of Native cultures. From Joseph Bruchac’s tale of a girl quarantined at her grandparents’ in Rez Dogs to the “trickster discourse” in Allen J. Ryan’s The Trickster Shift, there’s bound to be something to pique your interest."

-- Ria Brumbaugh, she/her/hers, Library Associate, Gottesman Libraries

Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.

Where: Reading Room, Second Floor

New and Now: Award-Winning Children's Literature

Looking for a new read? Integrating exciting titles into your lesson plans? Building a curriculum for today's young learners? Blast off with the latest and greatest! Books on our "Rocketship" shelves are all award-winning and honoree titles for children's, middle grade, and young adult readers to bring into your orbit.

Where: Reading Room, Second Floor

Featured Databases: Peace Education

In November, we highlight research resources relevant to the field of peace education. Peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding are all strategies for achieving peace -- fundamental to human rights -- and with appreciation of our differing cultures and learning environments. Related topics include conflict resolution, cooperation, social justice, negotiation, mediation, and sustainability among all citizens so that we can live harmoniously through shared attitudes, competencies, values, and growth.