LTE CULTIVATE Spring 2023
The Role of Radical Optimism in Changing Higher Ed. with Dr. Christina Katopodis.
Christina Katopodis, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and the Associate Director of Transformative Learning in the Humanities, a three-year initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY) supported by the Mellon Foundation. She is the winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored or co-authored articles published in ESQ, ISLE, Synapsis, MLA’s Profession, Hybrid Pedagogy, Inside Higher Ed, and Times Higher Ed. She is the co-founder of Better to Speak and Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities. With Cathy N. Davidson, Katopodis is author of The New College Classroom (Harvard University Press, 2022), a book that, in effect, draws from bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Paolo Freire to offer practical examples and extensive research on how to actually do active, equitable, inclusive teaching in any classroom, any discipline, at any kind of university, in both introductory and specialized classes.
When: THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, 2023, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm
Where: Student Union Ballroom, Storrs Campus
Rsvp by February 27th, 2023 https://forms.gle/kjNCiW2xDqvapom46
For more information, contact: Nisha Joshee Hardnett at nisha.hardnett@uconn.edu