December 31, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism”
Special Issue for
Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies
Special Volume Edited By:
Kathryn Coffey, Ph.D.
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York
Kathryn.Coffey@cortland.edu
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D.
Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
anocella01@hamline.edu
December 7, 2011
December 4, 2011
December 3, 2011
The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power—what the editors refer to as “the power complex”—that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional relationships of the power complex combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production, While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex—a grand power complex of complexes—thus poses one of the most formidable challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this emerging educational and political project.
November 7, 2011
This Wednesday at Hamline University at 5:30PM in East Hall Room 8, in the basement via skype Annette Fuentes author of “Lockdown High: When the School House Becomes the Jail House” is speaking. After the meeting same room Twin Cities Save the Kids will have our meeting for an hour. Spread the word, everyone is invited.
November 7, 2011
October 20, 2011
The Future of Hip Hop Studies
6PM October 20, 2011
East Hall 106, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
STUDENT PERFORMANCES
… Sponsored by the School of Education and
the Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching
Priya Parmar
Priya an Assistant Professor at CUNY Brooklyn is a leading scholar in hip-hop pedagogy and author of two books including Lyrically Minded and Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Artist KRS-ONE. Her scholarly interests include critical, multiple literacies, multicultural education, youth culture.
Daniel Hodge
Daniel, a hip-hop scholar, focuses on race relations, film, cultural trends, and spirituality. He received his Ph.D. from Fuller Graduate School. His most recent book is The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology. A former music producer, Daniel helped mix Bone Thugs & Harmony’s first album E 1999 Eternal.
Hasan Stephens
Hasan Stephens, AKA DJ Maestro, born and raised in the Boogie Down BX, currently teaches hip-hop studies at Hillbrook Youth Detention Facility and SUNY Cortland. He has shared stages with such classic Hip hop groups such as Boogie Monsters, Bushbabees, Supernatural, Big Daddy Kane, and Mos Def. In 1999, Maestro landed a spot at Viacom’s MTV Networks.
Don C. Sawyer III
Don was born and raised in Harlem, NYC. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and teaches hip-hop in the Sociology Department at Syracuse University. He earned a M.A. in Sociology and M.S. in Education from Syracuse University and a B.A. in Psychology from Hartwick College. He is active in his local community finding alternative ways to educate youth of color and increase their access to higher education.
Toki Wright
Toki is the Program Coordinator for the first hip-hop diploma in the U.S. at McNally Smith College of Music. Toki is a Twin Cities based emcee, poet, and community organizer. He is the newest artist on Rhymesayers Entertainment. Wright has been featured on recordings by Atmosphere, C-Rayz Walz. P.O.S., and more. His performance credits include Scribble Jam, SXSW, Coachella, Bumbershoot, Sons d’Hiver, and Prairie Home Companion.
Martha Diaz
Martha is the founder and director of the Hip-Hop Education Center at New York University’s Metropolitan Center. As a community organizer, educator, media producer, archivist, and social entrepreneur, Diaz has been dedicated to innovating communities, advancing social justice, cultivating leaders and artists, and mentoring youth for nearly 20 years. She is co-Editor of the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook, Vol. I and an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School.
September 29, 2011
Help Increase the Peace Project
Mini-Experiential Educational Conflict Transformation Workshop
6PM to 9PM
East Hall 4 – Hamline University
Sponsored by Center for Excellence in Urban Education, Conflict Studies, and the Institute for Dispute Resolution at Hamline University
The Help Increase the Peace Project (HIPP) was developed by the Noble-Prize winning American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) staff in Syracuse, New York, in 1991 as a conflict transformation workshop to address the epidemic of violence in society. HIPP is based on the conviction that nonviolence and participation in our communities can better each of us and our world. HIPP is conducted worldwide in more than twelve countries and twenty-eight US states. HIPP is not therapy, but a therapeutic, experiential, engaging, collaborative, peace oriented group-building conflict transformation workshop promoting nonviolence, literacy, and social justice.
Facilitated by Anthony J. Nocella II Visiting Professor in the School of Education at Hamline University, board member of the American Friends Service Committee, and Director of Twin Cities Save the Kids. Anthony, who is working on his tenth book, has provided conflict transformation trainings, workshops, and courses for the last ten years throughout North and South America at universities, prisons, communities centers and for law enforcement, sports teams, and the military.
September 29, 2011
Academic Repression in the U.S. & How We Can Fight ItThursday – Sept 29, 7PM
MayDay Books
301 Cedar Avenue Minneapolis, MN
“This courageous and chilling book reminds us that the Academy is always a context for intellectual exchange and political struggle. Don’t miss it!”
Cornel West, Princeton University
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The extreme repressive attacks on Smith, Pellow, Finklstein, Fontan, Best, Massad, the “Dirty Thirty,” and many others represented in this book demonstrate the repressive logic of “US democracy,” whereby political elites, the mass media, and the education system establish and police the parameters of acceptable discourse. While there has been much research on political repression carried out by the Bush administration, FBI, and various law enforcement agencies, there has been little discussion on political repression in academia and how the shockwaves of 9/11 have reverberated throughout academia.
March 21, 2011
Book Talk – Call to Compassion with Anthony J. Nocella IICome join us at Brooklyn’s for some great vegan food and hear Anthony J. Nocella, co-editor of the book, talk about and expand upon its focus and intent.
