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What will the skillshares be about? What can I propose?
Skillshares can be anything that at least a small group of people want to do together. Co-facilitated workshops are very encouraged.
Past peer led STRC workshops and skillshares are known for supporting scholar activist practices and projects, generating strategic and creative ways to navigate disciplinary and neoliberal professionalization pressures, and for cultivating a culture of mutual aid, constructive criticism, and non-competitive attention to each other’s work and ideas, within and against the academy.
The upcoming series will very likely include some of the more beloved workshops we have done in the past, like pre-conference practice presentations and feedback sessions, grant writing, Sharing is Caring—informal presentation / discussion of in-process research and writing, organizing strategies and practical resources on adjuncting and the edu-factory conditions at CUNY, co-developing radical pedagogical materials and curriculum for teaching with them, social justice trainings like understanding and disarming class privilege, CV, resume, and job application help, practice job talks.
Other informally suggested topics: Study skills and tips, open source software of various purposes, collaborative mapping, learning more about collective, and militant research methods, working with sensitive, emotional, and traumatic research materials and topics, embodied research methods, doing visual research, learning from female professors with children, translating texts together, commoning our university, creating the STRC digital commons library of our dreams….
* More about STRC
STRC is an interdisciplinary Chartered Organization of the Doctoral Students Council. We began in 2007. Our primary purpose is to foster an intellectual and social community of scholars who engage various aspects of interdisciplinary and collaborative work. We make space for those working in various disciplines to come together and engage in non-competitive and non-monetized forms of creative production, to network, and consider various aspects of personal professional development for the future.
Each year chartered orgs have $600 to spend. Spending can include sponsoring student organized events and projects at the GC and throughout the city. Any GC student can ask any of the chartered orgs for sponsorship. STRC decisions about sponsorship are made by general consensus primarily on the STRC listserv.
The current co-chairs are Amanda Matles, Geography and Deshonay Dozier, Environmental Psychology. Read even more about STRC here.
** More about the STRC Listserv
Our online listserv is an network of generous, brilliant, and radical scholars with over 100 members. It’s the crucial part of the STRC social network. The list is limited to current and recently graduated GC students. No professors or undergraduates are on the list, and it generally doesn’t include students from other universities. Since some of what we discuss there involves the problems and promises of being CUNY students or very GC centric issues, it needs to be a safer space to talk about topics that arise from that. It is also an archival treasure trove of scholarly, political, and institutional knowledge.
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