Radiating Black ~ Puerto Rican ~ Feminist Studies from the City University of New York to the Americas and the Caribbean
Conor Tomás Reed in Residence
Activating June Jordan’s "Life Studies": Notes, Conversation, and Workshop / Activando los "Estudios de la Vida" de June Jordan: notas, conversación, y taller
Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed
June Jordan, ca.1969. Photo by Louise Bernikow. June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
About the event
This is an online event and will take place on Zoom.
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Throughout her lifetime, writer and educator June Jordan's creative practice bridged the labors of poetry, activism, and pedagogy, and constantly animated the question that she once asked of the university: "How do you provide for the Study of Human Life?" Conor Tomás Reed and Talia Shalev—editors of June Jordan’s “Life Studies,” 1966-1976—will share notes on her poetic and pedagogical life in New York across a selection of writings covering housing justice, youth literacy, and college access and curriculum demands. Their presentation will be followed by a conversation and workshop component, moderated by Maryam Parhizkar, in which participants will practice imagining their own “Life Studies” curricula.
This event is organized as part of Conor Tomás Reed's residency at Wendy's Subway, Radiating Black~Puerto Rican~Feminist Studies from the City University of New York to the Americas and the Caribbean, and as part of the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program at Yale University's course, "Ethnic Studies and the Social Imagination," taught by Maryam Ivette Parhizkar.
About the speakers
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a poet, teacher, and PhD candidate in the departments of American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. The daughter of Salvadoran and Iranian immigrants, she is a CantoMundo Fellow and a member of the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative.
Talia Shalev is a teacher, scholar, and poet. She is a co-editor (with Conor Tomás Reed) of June Jordan's "Life Studies," 1966-1976 and Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974, both published through Lost & Found: the CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Her writing appears in The Seattle Review, The Volta, Cream City Review, and Women's Studies: an inter-disciplinary journal. Talia teaches as a lecturer at the Stevens Institute of Technology and holds a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current research project is Some Inarticulate Major Premise: Poetry, the Will of the People, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sobre el evento
Este es un evento en línea y se llevará a cabo en Zoom.
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A lo largo de su vida, la escritora y educadora June Jordan unió las labores de la poesía, el activismo y la pedagogía, y animó constantemente la pregunta que una vez hizo a la universidad: "¿Cómo se proporciona por el Estudio de la Vida Humana?” Conor Tomás Reed y Talia Shalev, editores de Jordan’s “Life Studies," 1966-1976, compartirán notas sobre su vida poética y pedagógica en Nueva York a través de una selección de escritos que cubren la justicia en la vivienda, la alfabetización de los jóvenes, y demandas del acceso a la universidad y el plan de estudios. Su presentación será seguida por un componente de conversación y taller, moderado por Maryam Parhizkar, en el que los participantes practicarán imaginando sus propios planes de estudio de “Estudios de la vida.”
Este evento se organiza como parte de la residencia de Conor Tomás Reed en Wendy's Subway, Radiando Estudios Afro-descendientes~Puertorriqueñxs~Feministas de la Universidad Pública de Nueva York a las Américas y el Caribe, y como parte del curso ensañado por Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, "Estudios étnicos e imaginación social" del Programa de Etnia, Raza y Migación de la Universidad de Yale.
Sobre lxs ponentes
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar es poeta, profesora, y candidata doctoral en los departamentos de estudios americanos y estudios afroamericanos en Yale University. La hija de inmigrantes de El Salvador y Iran, Maryam es becaria de CantoMundo y miembro de Tierra Narrative, un colectivo de centroamericanes estadounidenses.