Creating “Unpracticed Conversations Assignments” for Our Courses

Front cover of the book "Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence" by Derald Wing Sue

by Laura Dumin, Ph.D., English — 

I am hoping to teach George Takei’s “They Calles Us Enemy” this spring. It’s a graphic novel about the Japanese internment camps in America. My hope is that by looking at this moment in time we might begin to discuss what it meant to look Asian/be Asian at that time. I’d like to talk about what it . . .  read more

Non-Binary Lives Book Reflection Reveals Challenges

Front cover of the book Non-binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

by Vanessa Bentley, Ph.D., Humanities and Philosophy — 

I attended two out of three sessions for the Non-Binary Lives reading group led by Ed Cunliff in Spring 2021. I joined the reading group for professional and personal reasons. Professionally, as a gender studies scholar, I’m interested in inclusionary and intersectional accounts of gender, . . .  read more

Reflecting on “practice retrieval” by a business faculty member

by Anonymous Business faculty — 

Something I am just now realizing, and appreciating, is that many of the speakers and books we are exposed to through 21CPI are saying the same things but in different words and examples, and methods. They are beginning to ‘transform’ me, so to speak, as they are incorporated into how I think about designing . . .  read more