Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The OSUN Working Group on Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Host Community Education presents a virtual lecture and panel discussion series on "Geographies and Temporalities of Higher Education for Displaced Students."

The next event in the series is “Gender and Psychological Experiences of the Refugees and Displaced Persons in their Pursuit for Higher Education: A Case Study of Higher Education Students in Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camps.” Rosemary Olendo and Pacificah Okemwa of Kenyatta University will present papers on this subject.

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Online Event  10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna

OSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative presents a panel that will critically evaluate the current conditions for the successful deployment of Job Guarantee program in Belgium.

Over the past five years, France has been experimenting with the idea of a Job Guarantee. The original approach aimed to create jobs for long-term unemployed individuals who were willing to get back to work. This led to the implementation of the "Zero Long-term Unemployment Territory" experiment, which was set in place by the central public national authority but is administered locally through a participatory method that gives aspiring workers a voice and involves all public and private stakeholders.

The program has now been expanded to more than 50 locations, providing an opportunity to assess how a Job Guarantee program could be grounded in the three principles of the #DemocratizingWork Manifesto. This program’s emancipatory potential for fighting involuntary unemployment has inspired regional authorities in Belgium to adopt a similar approach.

The panelists, Antonin Gregorio and Timothée Duverger, will provide their perspectives on the situation in France, with Gregorio focusing on the practical aspects and Duverger evaluating public policies. Law professor Auriane Lamine will assess the conditions necessary for a successful deployment of such a project in Belgium. 

Speakers: Auriane Lamine (Professor of law at the University of Louvain), Antonin Gregorio (Director, Territoires Zéro Chômeurs de Longue Durée, France), Timothée Duverger (Professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim. President of the TZCLD Observatory)

Chair: Pavlina Tcherneva (Bard College, OSUN-EDI)

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The OSUN Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) Collaborative welcomes Doug Haynes for a 90-minute, online discussion of his recent Times Higher Education article on "Liberal arts teaching should go interdisciplinary." Haynes argues for a post-disciplinary, experiential student experience as one that prepares graduates to competitively enter the labor market and be at the ready to address the biggest challenges facing humankind. To this end, he and colleagues at the University of Sussex have introduced “an interdisciplinary, even post-disciplinary, approach to study the fundamental challenges faced by society,” including:

Core “global humanities” modules [which] directly address big and complex issues uncontainable in a single discipline, bringing together colleagues from across the arts and social sciences to offer multiple perspectives on climate change, globalisation, automation, 'culture wars,' inequality, populism and migration. A parallel set of core modules teaches students complementary practice-based skills, via projects including video-making, critical art practice, acoustic ecology, psychogeography, interventions in museums, citizens’ assemblies, think tank policy-making and strategic communications campaigns – almost always in partnership with our multi-sector advisory board. The final year is a supported but independent project in the community.

Haynes will share his experiences as a reader in American literature and visual culture at the University of Sussex, noting the problems he observes with LAS education in the UK and what actions faculty at his institution are taking to address these. He will facilitate audience discussion of global perspectives around experience with and aspirations for interdisciplinary - or even post-disciplinary - teaching and learning in LAS education.

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Online Event  5:00 am EDT/GMT-4
5 AM New York l 11 AM Vienna

OSUN's Developing Teaching Professionals project at Central European University, together with IWT/CLASP, and the London School of Economics' Eden Centre for Educational Enhancement, invite OSUN colleagues to participate in an event exploring what an inclusive university in a global alliance looks like. This hybrid event will focus on the theme of decolonizing the university and exploring potential futures for a global alliance. The aim is to bring together diverse perspectives on teaching and learning from various universities across the network. The workshop is part of a series that considers a variety of approaches and roles within the university, ranging from leadership to students, paying close attention to different geographies.

Speakers:
Akile Ahmet (Head of Inclusive Education at the London School of Economics Eden Centre) 
Lee-Ann Sequeira (Academic Developer at the LSE Eden Centre) 
Muna Dajani (Research Officer at the LSE Middle East Centre) 
Pamela Nichols (Director of Wits Writing Centre at University of Witswaterstrand) 
Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III (Doctoral Candidate in Political Studies at CEU) 
Sanat Sogani (Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at CEU) 

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
11:30 PM New York l 5:30 PM Vienna

The OSUN Global Institute for Advanced Study (GIAS) at Central European University presents GIAS Fellow Olivier Roy (European University Institute) in conversation with Youssef Mnaili (Institute for Advanced Study, CEU) on the question of what does the increasing reference to "identity" in the political discourse mean? What is the phenomenon lying behind the increase of safe spaces?

The speakers will discuss how the extension of individual freedom (political and sexual) since the sixties led to a paradoxical extension of normative systems: inflation of laws and regulations concerning both the social life (workplace, garbage sorting, terms of address, health issues etc.) and the intimate life (explicit consent in sexual practices). This is the core puzzle raised Roy’s latest book, The Flattening of the World.

This call for a systematic explicitation of do's and don’ts is the consequence of a crisis of the 'implicit', that is of a supposedly shared culture. When there is no more a shared culture, everything has to be turned into an explicit code of how to speak and how to act. For Roy, the increasing reference to 'identity' in the political discourse, both on the left and on the right, is a failed answer to a deeper crisis of the very notion of culture. Identities are now defined by a limited set of traits (race, sexual preferences, eating habits) that don’t create a society but only sub-cultures that are looking for safe space, either on the left (campuses) or on the right (from gated communities to national border).  

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the next event in the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series.

This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world.

Daniela Ronco joins for  “Monitoring the safeguard of inmates’ rights: the role of a watchdog organization in the Italian context.” 

Ronco is member of Antigone NGO and a researcher in sociology of law, deviance and social change at the Law Department of the University of Turin (Italy). Her research interests include prison ethnography, the safeguard of health in prison and the alternatives to imprisonment. 

This session, like all in the series, will include simultaneous translations in English and Spanish. 

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Online Event  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
1 PM New York l 7 PM Vienna

Join the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative on May 5 to hear from students and faculty who have successfully created credentialed programs that focus explicitly on economic democracy. 

Featuring speakers from:  
- Economic Democracy Initiative, Bard College, Open Society University Network
- Next System Studies program, George Mason University
- Advanced Certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership, City University of New York

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Questions? Email [email protected]

Online Event  8:00 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

Bard College at Simon's Rock invites the network community to a virtual event hosted by students and faculty in Global Political Ecology. Presentations and discussions will be led by an international panel of experts on trans-disciplinary earth studies and nature conservation.
 
8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. | Introduction by Chris Coggins, Moderator
8:15 a.m. - 8:40 a.m. | Yifei Li, Militarized Metaphors in China's Environmental Governance
8:50 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. | Mukul Sharma, Climate Change, Caste, and Dalits in India
9:25 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Roan McNab, Guatemala's Laguna del Tigre Conundrum: Can "failed" conservation areas affected by organized crime be healed by advancing environmental and social priorities?
10:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. | Mareike Winchell, Political Theologies of Fire: Ontological multiplicity and climate in Bolivia
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Writing and Thinking Workshop & Open Discussion
 
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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

This lecture and discussion at Bard College Berlin, led by Turkish academic Ismet Akça, focuses on the Justice and Power Party (AKP) in Turkey. AKP was founded by current Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and has held the plurality of seats in Turkish Parliament since its first national election over twenty years ago.

The longstanding autonomous political power of the Turkish military has been curbed to an important extent under the AKP rule through legal reforms and political trials. Yet civilianization reforms were not accompanied by democratization of the political regime in the 2000s. The first sub-period (2002-2013) was marked by the existence of an inclusive hegemony and the relative pacification of the Kurdish question. The socio-political context of the second sub-period (post-2013) was determined by a deepening hegemony and state crisis and the remilitarization of the Kurdish question.

Ismet Akça was an Associated Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey, until his suspension in 2017 due to his signing of the Academics for Peace petition. He is a fellow at SOAS, Department of Politics and International Relations for the 2022-2023 academic year. He has published in different journals and books, both in English and Turkish, on Turkish military-industrial complex, the military and politics in Turkey, political sociology of Turkey, Justice and Development Party, neoliberal hegemony.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN and the Picker Center Digital Education Group are thrilled to host Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a more Inclusive and Connected University on May 4th-5th.

This two day hybrid conference will explore the use of digital education tools to address issues of equity and inclusion, both on campus and off. The event features thought leaders from the fields of educational technology, international development, and academia. 

Forty speakers, including CEOs and senior leaders from edX, Coursera, Google, YouTube, PBS Learning Media, the World Bank, and the national educational program of Israel, will address participants during the conference.

Jointly sponsored by OSUN, Columbia Online, the UNDP and the Teagle Foundation, this two-day conference will also include leaders from the digital education teams at Columbia, Stanford, UPenn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Washington, Michigan, Arizona State University, UC Irvine, and UC Berkeley.

Learn more about the conference.
Questions? Contact Elizabeth Coulter.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

Within labor studies, "feminization" is a contested term with multiple connotations – rarely with positive ones. In this talk sponsored by the Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice project, Aslı Vatansever will reflect on the experiences of adjunct advocacy groups and precarious researchers’ networks, asking if they can change the way we conceptualize "feminization," helping to reclaim any positive traits associated with the historical construct of the feminine.

Vatansever will introduce framings of the term in the context of academic employment. Drawing on two contemporary cases of academic labor activism, the adjunct advocacy group New Faculty Majority in the US and the precarious researchers’ Network for Decent Work in Academia in Germany, she will illustrate the turn away from performative activism in favor of movements based on relational groundwork.

Aslı Vatansever is a sociologist studying work and social stratification, with a focus on precarious labor and labor activism in academia. Currently, she is a research fellow at Bard College Berlin. Her work on academic labor activism has appeared in prominent outlets in the field of labor studies such as Work, Employment and Society. She has recently published a monograph At the Margins of Academia: Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity (Brill, 2020) and an edited volume Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North: Free as a Bird (co-edited with Aysuda Kölemen, Routledge, 2022).

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Questions? Email [email protected]

Online Event  The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN) presents "Video Games & Autoethnography,” an experimental research workshop that is a hybrid event, taking place in CEU Vienna and online on April 28th, May 5th, and May 12th. This workshop is free of charge.

This is a 3-day experimental workshop about using autoethnography to study video games. According to a recent special issue of a media studies journal, ‘the future of media studies is game studies’. Video games have matured into a sophisticated and diverse form of technology and art, one now prominent in global culture and playing an increasingly important role within it. Their economic market was valued in 2021 at approximately $198 billion, set to rise to $340 billion by 2027.

Over 3 billion people are estimated to play video games regularly, with an increase of 1 billion in just the past 7 years. This is more people than subscribe to Christianity - the world’s most popular religion - by over half a billion. Anything which engages this much of the global population and commands such economic power deserves to be thoroughly investigated. Accordingly, game studies has grown exponentially in the past two decades into a flourishing academic field for analysing games from a concertedly interdisciplinary perspective. There has never been a better or more appropriate time to be studying video games. 

Autoethnography is a qualitative research methodology that involves examining personal experiences and socio-cultural contexts in order to gain insights into societal phenomena. The workshop aims to familiarise the participants with some of the key issues in game studies and autoethnographic research, and to experiment with the practice of collective data generation. We will establish a communal area for playing chosen video games together, we use the gaming session to collect (auto)ethnographic data, and finally we will analyse them and discuss potential outcomes of the research. 

Learn more about each session and apply

Questions? Contact [email protected] or [email protected]

Deadline to apply is Friday, April 21

11:30 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
11:30 AM New York l 5:30 PM Vienna

OSUN's Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network at CEU and the CEU Center for Academic Writing invite the OSUN community to join "Love Poetry in the Age of Discontent," an event with Polish poet Jerzy Jarniewicz. 

Do love poems still have relevance? How has love poetry changed throughout the ages? Can it surpass and survive crippling binaries, patriarchy, colonialism, or AI? In conversation with Borbála Faragó, the poet will offer his views on these issues and will also read from his poems. 

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Online Event  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
4 PM New York l 10 PM Vienna

The Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA) is an online archive of independent media from 2000 until present. Spearheaded by Pen Institute and Bard College in collaboration with Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the project will eventually hold and preserve 20 years of Russian independent media.

OSUN invites the network community to a discussion with the team behind the RIMA to learn more about the project and to share feedback. Librarians, archivists, and scholars are especially encouraged to attend. RIMA aims to serve as a model for archiving and preserving independent media around the world and making it accessible for all. 

Speakers: 
Anna Nemzer, journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker, activist.
Ilia Venyavkin, historian of Soviet and post-Soviet culture, journalist, educational designer, activist.

This event is hosted by OSUN and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Questions? Contact the Slavic Reference Service

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l  12 PM Vienna

When teaching online, how do we best frame and present assignments and assessments so that students understand what is expected of them and are supported as they work towards completing these tasks? Through a discussion of best practices for online assignment design and delivery and strategies for offering formative feedback, this workshop invites faculty to share their own success stories (and materials), while also providing some helpful tips for ensuring that the feedback and grading practices are transparent and ascertain what students really learn.  
  
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9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The OSUN Working Group on Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Host Community Education presents a virtual lecture and panel discussion series on "Geographies and Temporalities of Higher Education for Displaced Students."

The first event in the series is a panel discussion on "How do we categorize crisis? Implications for higher education programs" 

Presenters:
Marion Detjen, Bard College Berlin
Marwan Safarjalani, International Rescue Committee

Moderator:
Jeff Champlin, Bard College Berlin

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

This 90-minute workshop for all OSUN university administrative staff in liberal arts and sciences (LAS) education highlights priorities and concerns around the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in higher education. First, we will consider the implications of AI and LLMs for society in general before focusing on three key questions around AI and LLMs in higher education:

What are the potential effects on university policy?
What are the potential effects on university administrative jobs?
How might we position LAS education given the increased presence of AI and LLMs?

This event targets university administrative staff (including deans, department chairs, admissions staff, academic support staff, etc.) who hold concerns and hopes around how AI and LLMs will affect higher education. 

This event is co-organized by LAS Collaborative and CLASP.

Deadline to register is Tuesday, April 25

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Online Event  Monday, April 24: 2 AM New York l 7 AM Vienna
Tuesday, April 25: 7 AM New York l 12 PM Vienna

The Developing Teaching Professionals program invites OSUN teachers, students, and staff to its third inclusive teaching workshop, “Student-Centered, Democratic, Engaged: Classroom Challenges and Practices." Co-facilitated by speakers from American University of Central Asia and Central European University, this hybrid workshop introduces participants to student-centered pedagogy, democratic practices in teaching, and engaged learning. 

This interdisciplinary event brings together OSUN faculty and students to critically examine current pedagogy and learning practices that prioritize student-centered and experiential approaches. Although terms such as democratic, engaged, and student-centered could seem similar and are often used interchangeably, the guest speakers will suggest how insights can be gained from each of these distinctive approaches and invite attendees to think through appropriate applications of these approaches in their respective fields. Participants will explore the newest elephant in the room –  Artificial Intelligence – and its implications for student engagement, critical thinking, and critical skills. 

The event aims for participants to take actionable takeaways; thus active involvement is highly encouraged.

Register


SCHEDULE
Day One: April 24th

Symposium Opening and Introductory Remarks
12 PM Bishkek l 8 AM Vienna

First Panel:
Modeling Democracy through Teaching: Approaches and Challenges by Tamara Kamatovic and Michael Kozakowski
12:20 PM Bishkek l 8: 20 AM Vienna

Workshop: Experiential and Community Engaged Education: Why does it matter? with Jarkyn Shadymanova
1:15 PM Bishkek l 9:15 AM Vienna

Day Two: Tuesday, April 25

First Panel
Student-centered teaching- overview: Mátyás Szabó
11 AM Bishkek l 7 AM Vienna

Student-centered classroom workshop with Gorkem Atsungur and Begaiym Esenkulova (in the legal context) 
11:45 AM Bishkek l 7:45 AM Vienna

Second Panel 
Critical thinking in the AI era: Michael Kozakowski and Anguelina Popova
2:30 PM Bishkek l 10:30 AM Vienna

Workshop: Critical thinking and AI at university and the workplace with Anguelina Popova, Sakhi Ataye, and Abdullah Nazari 
3:10 Bishkek l 11:10 AM Vienna

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Deadline to register is Sunday, April 23

Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

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Questions? Email [email protected]

Online Event  9:30 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9:30 AM New York l 3:30 PM Vienna

● What is generative AI, how does it work, and how do people use it? 
● How do we teach responsibly and critically with generative AI? 
● Why has generative AI become ubiquitous, and what future developments can we expect? 

The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network is offering an online workshop on Generative AI and Experimental Pedagogy, open to all teachers and administrators across the OSUN network. The goal of the workshop is to address the recent boom in generative AI tools and models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, and its implication for university pedagogy and research.

The workshop will focus on the ethical concerns and anxieties provoked by these new technologies, as well as explore what creative and learning potential these tools may have when used responsibly within the classroom. We will examine recent breakthroughs in both Large Language Models, such as GPT-3, and text to image generators, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. 

The event features an panel conversation followed by breakout groups focused on specific tools and problems, exploring topics such as: the implications of generative AI for academic writing and research; the impact of the technology on art and media teaching and practice; and what kinds of ethical policies and approaches may need to be instituted at universities in response.

The opening conversation features Bard College's Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Valerie Barr and Birkbeck College's Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Joel McKim. It will help contextualize the current wave of generative AI from both a technical and cultural perspective. The 3 to 4 breakout workshop sessions will be both discussion and practice-based and will be led by EHCN members.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

OSUN Online Course (OOC) Program manager Timand Bates and colleagues will be available for informal check-ins with OOC faculty and course assistants.  Feel free to drop in to ask questions, share concerns, let the team know how your course is progressing.
  
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Online Event  8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
In partnership with Bard College's MBA in Sustainabilty, OSUN is launching a new global certificate program focused on delivering worldwide education for enterprise solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. The virtual launch conference for the Global Certificate in Social Enterprise + Leading Change takes place on April 20 in conjunction with an in-person event in New York City. 

Since 2020, Bard’s MBA in Sustainability has been combining the scalability of an interactive, synchronous global classroom with high-touch engagement of local co-instructors. At the conference, faculty who are teaching in the program from Palestine, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, the US and other countries will focus on how to bring the power of the Global Certificate to local universities--- and to tens of thousands of students worldwide.

The Certificate adapts three key courses from the Bard MBA for a global audience, graduate or undergraduate: Principles of Sustainable Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; and Leading Change in Organizations. While these all began as MBA courses, the Certificate program now provides a minor in social enterprise for all majors—from art and design to zoology. All three courses are centered around project-based learning, supported by close interaction with co-instructor faculty at the participating universities.

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8:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Talloires Network of Engaged Universities invites OSUN community members to a workshop that provides a case study on using public art as a powerful tool for addressing gender issues in decision-making positions in the arts community and society in general.

Participants will discuss how to use artistic practices and policy briefs on gender equality in public art and collaborate with others who are passionate about promoting social justice and equality. The workshop will emphasize the importance of public art as a tool for social change and aim to address gender inequality in the arts community. Participants will strengthen their understanding and skills in creating policy briefs and have the opportunity to network with like-minded individuals to continue advocating for positive change in their communities.

This workshop is an opportunity for educators, artists, and activists to come together and reflect on engaged learning and the importance of a community of practice, and the power of public art to address gender issues in the context of Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia.

The workshop will be moderated by Engaged Research Fund recipient Ruslan M. Rahimov, an anthropologist at the American University of Central Asia, and include fellow Engaged Research Fund recipient Jarkyn Shadymanova, sociologist, and co-author of the research. The workshop will include community partners and AUCA students Udukenova Kymbat, Askarbekova Sezim, Almazbekova Aizada, Egemberdieva Aliia; and Diana Uhina, curator, artist, and activist at Bishkek Contemporary Art School and Synergy Lab.

This event will provide simultaneous interpretation in Spanish to English and English to Spanish.

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Online Event  10:15 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
10: 15 AM New York l 4:15 PM Vienna

Stabilizing the climate requires a rapid transition from the fossil fuel energy system to a new system based on renewable energy, storage and electrification of transportation, heating and cooling, and industrial power.

Rewiring the world with clean energy in three decades is the biggest collective human project ever attempted, and governments around the world, including at the state and federal level in the US are experimenting with a variety of industrial policy strategies to achieve the decarbonization goal.

In this #MakeClimateAClass Global Teach-In event, Eban Goodstein, director of the Solve Climate by 2030 project, discusses what strategies are now in play for transformation across the next decade.

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Online Event  10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna

The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative and #DemocratizingWork present the fifth event in its webinar series. “Deliberating with the Public about Democratizing Work: Reflecting on the Ontario Assembly on Workplace Democracy, Canada” will feature speakers providing the OSUN community with insights on the assembly which deliberated about possibilities for Democratizing Work in Ontario.

Speakers include:
        • Rafael Gomez (chair of the Ontario Assembly on Workplace Democracy)
        • Greta Whipple (UFCW)
        • Angelo DiCaro (Unifor)

The panel will be chaired by Simon Pek (University of Victoria).

7am San Francisco-Vancouver | 8am Mexico City | 9am Bogota | 10am Santiago-NYC-Montréal | 4pm Paris-Johannesburg | 7.30pm New Delhi | 9pm Jakarta | 12am Sydney

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

In this workshop facilitated by Nina Tecklenburg and Ramona Mosse (Digital Theaters Network Collaborative Course), participants will focus on integrating and mentoring creative collaborations and artistic practice to expand the pedagogical scope of cross-campus student interaction and joint assignments (Zoom games and interactive modules; “chain letter” projects; performance presentations).

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna

All are invited to attend a virtual workshop with OSUN student leader, Hephzibah Emereole on "Finding Your Mentor." Emereole is a recent graduate of Ashesi University in Ghana.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Developing Teaching Professionals program invites OSUN teachers, students, and staff to its workshop on Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education Around the World workshop (April 14, from 9 AM - 12 PM New York l 3-6 PM Vienna). Co-facilitated by speakers from Universidad de los Andes and Central European University, this blended online workshop introduces participants to a research-based framework for removing barriers to learning. 

Learn more and register

Deadline to register is Friday, April 14

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

In this workshop, Alejandro Juárez Crawford & Dalia Najjar, creators of OSUN's Certificate in Social Enterprise + Leading Change, will join colleagues from Bishkek to Bogotá to discuss methods they have developed for guiding aspiring change-makers as they design experiments to test out their ideas in the world.

Rooted in project-based learning for social innovators and entrepreneurs, this method has now been applied throughout OSUN, to courses ranging from sustainability to accounting, and from early college to the masters level. In this highly interactive session, Najjar and Crawford will focus on what they're learned by challenging students to test, rather than just talk about, their experiments. They'll draw from their experience, ranging from facilitating interfunctional, cross-cultural teams, to the use of fishbowl sessions in which students critique distinct modules that build into a final project. And they will discuss findings that show students thrill to the obstacles such experimentation forces them to encounter.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

The globally unequal distribution of health technologies is an issue of great concern and is high in the public and policy debate. Addressing that problem requires understanding the complex pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) ecosystem. However, information about countries from the Global South is limited.

To address this gap, OSUN launched a research collaboration between the Global Health Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), BRAC University (Bangladesh), and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Panelists will present findings from the three reports, which investigate pharmaceutical R&D capabilities and activities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), and more in-depth in Bangladesh and Colombia.

The reports will be made available a few days before the event.

SPEAKERS
Welcome
Suerie Moon | Co-Director, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute

Rising Pharmaceutical Innovation in the Global South: Painting with new colors
Marcela Vieira and Yiqi Liu | Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute

Comments
Carlos Correa | Executive Director, South Centre
Matthias Helble | Research for Health Department, World Health Organization

Pharmaceutical R&D in Bangladesh: Ground Realities and Prospects
Obaida Karim and Sanjida Ahmed Srishti | BRAC University (Virtual)

Comments
Mohammad Kamruzzaman | Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva

Colombian health innovation landscape: Building Bridges
Tatiana Andia | Universidad de los Andes

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Online Event  9:00 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The Bard Prison Initiative invites members of the OSUN community to the next session of the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series. 

Tomas Max Martin and Andrew Jefferson will discuss “Prisons in the Global South: Conceptual and Methodological Dilemmas.”

Martin is Senior Researcher at DIGNITY, the Danish Institute Against Torture, working on prison ethnography and the anthropology of the state.
Jefferson is a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY specializing in prisons and prison reform in the Global South and working to find new ways to inhibit torture and torturous violence.

The BPI Global Lecture Series is held in partnership with Incarceration Nations Network and OSUN.

This session, like all in the series, will include simultaneous translations in English and Spanish. Learn more about how to utilize the language interpretation feature.

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Online Event  7:00 am – 8:30 am EDT/GMT-4
7 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

OSUN's GeoHub project is invites the network community to an online discussion with representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which will introduce some of the projects that the FAO is implementing using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform.

Carolina Starr, Ingrid Teich and Cesar Garcia from FAO will present current activities of the organization in the field of application of geospatial data and technologies, the importance of this tool in the decision-making process, as well as for monitoring impacts. The session will also highlight potential opportunities for OSUN students to participate and support FAO’s work in this domain.

GEE is a cloud-based platform, which provides access to multiple repositories of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets allowing quick and accurate analysis and visualization of large datasets available in the cloud. The GEE platform provides an agile tool for data analysis as well as the data catalog. The data catalog consists of different free geospatial data, including satellite imageries (optical and radar), information about climate (temperature, precipitation, etc), relief (digital elevation models), land cover maps, and a variety of socio-economic variables.

Register here to attend this event

Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Online Event  9:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

OSUN is dedicated to creating meaningful learning experiences for its students, and opportunities for its faculty to explore new teaching techniques, and have their work and research reach new audiences.

An exciting initiative OSUN has supported over the past two years is the creation of faculty/student created digital case studies. These generally include a short 8-10 minute video documentary and a companion 8-10 pages written case, often created by student filmmakers working under OSUN faculty supervision. OSUN digital cases are used in classes to drive debate and discussion on key OSUN issues, including human rights, gender equity, sustainability, and civic engagement.

The OSUN Visual Storytelling for Civic Engagement team invites faculty and all members of the network community to join an online OSUN Case Symposium happening on April 4. Professors based at campuses across the globe will view and discuss videos selected from more than 70 OSUN student/faculty films and cases now available for inclusion in classes. These videos are innovative tools designed to connect student filmmakers and faculty so they can produce compelling documentaries and written cases about global issues.

Hear from faculty at Al-Quds Bard Collge, American University of Central Asia, Bard College Annandale, BRAC University, Central European University, Columbia University, and European Humanities University and see cases focused on Civic Engagement, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Climate, Human Rights, and Arts and Society.

Also hear about a brand new funding opportunity to support OSUN faculty and student filmmakers in the creation of new video or written case studies.

Details on the OSUN Case Symposium + In-Person Events

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

Dialectical notebooks, loop-writing, text-rendering, writing from images. Many tried and true practices from the Institute for Writing and Thinking/Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy translate to the connected teaching environment with minimal adjustment.  In this workshop practitioners will experiment with the online delivery of some favorite writing-rich strategies for promoting student engagement and collaboration.  Participants will experience what it is like to participate in these familiar writing practices online and what it is like to facilitate online classes that employ them.
  
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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

This panel organized by the OSUN Gender Equity Working Group features student and recent alumni/ae leaders discussing how we can work beyond International Women's Day and Women's History Month to advocate for gender equity going forward.

Panelists:

Emi Cooper, OSUN Global Engagement Fellow at Bard College Annandale

Patricia Nae, OSUN Civic Engagement Coordinator at Central European University

Dareen Alhajaref, OSUN Global Engagement Fellow at Al-Quds Bard

Yalda Negah, OSUN Global Engagement Fellow at American University of Beirut

Moderator:

Cammie Jones, OSUN Faculty and Senior Fellow, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Partners for Campus-Community Engagement 

This event is part of an OSUN series dedicated to Gender Equity Month. See the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Registration is now open for the online collaborative series Key Trends in University IT, designed for OSUN administrators and managers interested in how technology impacts our work. 

This two-part series will be held on two consecutive days:



Monday, April 3
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
Workshop led by Philip Fedchin (Bard College Berlin) exploring:
The Rise and Fall of Open Source LMS and the Growing Role of Open-Access/Creative Commons Materials in Libraries and 
The Impact of Video-Conferencing on University
Further details

Tuesday, April 4
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
A panel discussion around the ChatGPT technology and the challenges it brings in terms of academic values and processes. 

Panellists: 
Meem Manab Arafat (BRAC University)
Kaitlin Lukas (Central European University)
Ljubisa Bojic (University of Belgrade)

Moderator:
Irene Lubbe (Central European University)
Further details

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

OSUN invites the network community to a virtual screening of "Beverley Manley Uncensored," a documentary uncovering the life of an enigmatic Jamaican icon. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Beverley Manley Duncan, former First Lady of Jamaica, author, activist, and founder of the Jamaican women's movement, and documentary filmmaker, Joelle Simone Powe.

As the wife of Jamaica's former Prime Minister, Michael Manley, Beverley Manley Duncan conversed with global players such as Fidel Castro, Winnie Mandela, and Pierre Trudeau. In this no-stone-unturned documentary, Beverley forces herself to confront her complicated past. What was it like to be a Black woman seated at the table and lying in bed next to powerful political players? Does she play a pivotal or supporting role? As a Black nationalist, she wore large Afros and head turbans in corridors of power where they were typically not welcomed.  

Manley Duncan founded the Jamaican Women's Movement, mobilizing policy changes such as equal pay for women, establishing a minimum wage, and maternity leave. She advocated for the rights of sex workers. She is controversial in her outspoken views of women's sexuality, infidelity, and domestic abuse. She is a powerful voice with wisdom to teach the ages. She is a critical link to where we have come from and a seer of where we might be going. 

Join us for a riveting discussion with Beverley Manley, now 80 years old, and Bard College alumn turned documentary filmmaker, Joelle Simone Powe. The open conversation will explore feminism’s evolution in the developing world, fashion and hair choices as political statements, mental slavery, power, adultery, and sexual desire at any age.

This event is part of  the OSUN Gender Equity Working Group's series dedicated to Gender Equity Month.
View the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

The Central European University masters course in "Tensions and Dilemmas in Transitional Justice," in conjunction with OSUN CELAS (Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences project), presents a screening of "Archives of Truth" followed by an interactive discussion on transitional justice in post-dictatorship Spain.

No Justice Without Truth

The Truth Commission of Ecuador (TCE) was created in May 2007 to investigate multiple allegations of serious human rights violations in the country, particularly in the period of 1984 - 1988, and also including cases committed up to 2008. After nearly three years of inquiries, collecting more than 600 testimonies and other documentary evidence, the TCE presented its final report "No Truth Without Justice," in which it analyzed 118 cases of human rights abuses.

The 30-minute documentary uncovers unpublished images and testimonies about important findings and conclusions of the investigation, showing evidence of homicides, sexual violence, enforced disappearances and torture of citizens in the hands of state agents in Ecuador.

Truth, Justice and Reparation: Learning from Latin-American and Spanish Experiences

The screening will be introduced by Gina Donoso, former member of the psychosocial team of the TCE in charge of collecting and presenting victims’ testimonies before the Truth Commission, as well as writing the chapter on psychosocial impacts in the Commission´s final report.  Dr. Donoso is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Political Sciences, Central European University. She also works as a psychosocial and trauma consultant, and a transitional justice, gender, and reparations specialist.  Over the past 20 years, Dr. Donoso has also worked with the transitional justice mechanisms of Colombia, Uganda, Bolivia, the Gambia and several international organizations, including the International Criminal Court, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, and UN agencies.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Pau Pérez-Sales (Psychiatrist, Hospital La Paz, Madrid). He Has worked with the Guatemalan, Peruvian and Colombian Truth Comissions. He has worked in processes of exhumation of mass graves in Spain and elsewhere. As a forensic expert, he assessed victims of Spanish torturers for litigation in national and international courts.
 
Discussion moderator Leila Lawrence is a first-year student in the political science MA at CEU, specializing in social and political theory. She is editor of the CEU Student think tank project with Daddyhood Europe and is a featured panelist in discussions of misogyny and toxic masculinity in schools.

Gowri Niranjana, MA Human Rights will serve as discussant.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

This talk by the Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative centers on documentation and self-documentation following the brutal full-scale military Russian invasion of Ukraine. Queer feminist scholars, artists, and activists Ira Tantsiura, Marina Gaba, and Natalka Chezh explore the challenges of creating and preserving war memories and experiences from a decolonial perspective. Panelists make timely contributions to the discussion of the ethics and politics of war documentation through various examples: from planning a feminist film festival to the self-documentation of performance art in the streets to the autoethnographic changes that living in wartime brings to one's writing.

This event is sponsored by the Threatened Scholars Initiative of the Open Society University Network (TSI-OSUN) and open to the public. It is part of the series New Directions in Research and Art: Perspectives from Ukraine.

Natalka Chezh is a burned-out grassroots queer anarcho activist who now sporadically translates texts of her comrades and writes her own, most of which will never see the light of day.

Marina Gaba is an artist who works with performance, photo and video documentation, and zine-making. She grew up and established herself as an artist in Dnipro, where she still lives.

Ira Tantsiura is an independent researcher, queer feminist activist, and film festival programmer.

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Online Event  11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
11 AM New York l 5 PM Vienna

OSUN's Gender Equity Working Group is sponsoring an engaging and thought-provoking event that explores the intersections of gender, culture, and women's empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Hosted by Al-Quds Bard College and open to all OSUN institutions, this event will feature a screening of the acclaimed movie "Divar (The Wall)", followed by an open discussion.

The film delves into the struggles faced by women in the region, particularly those related to oppression and imposed restrictions. We will examine the cultural and societal factors that contribute to these challenges, and explore the ways in which women are breaking barriers and challenging gender norms in the region.

After the screening, we will open the floor for a discussion where participants can share their insights, ask questions, and engage in a constructive dialogue on the topic. This is an opportunity to learn from one another, gain a deeper understanding of gender, culture, and women's empowerment, and be part of a supportive community that values open-mindedness, diversity, and inclusion.

Don't miss out on this unique and enlightening event! 

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Online Event  10:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
10:30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna

The Economic Democracy Initiative Research-to-Action series brings scholars, policy makers, and activists into conversation with students to discuss pathways for meaningful social change. Lukas Lehner, of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford Martin School, will present the results from a study that evaluates a one-of a-kind job creation program in Marienthal, Austria. The pilot aims to eliminate long-term unemployment in the municipality and improve participants’ economic and social situation. The program was recently discussed in the New Yorker.

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

OSUN's Gender Equity Working Group presents a panel discussion featuring three student leaders who bring gender equity and access into action. 

From sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) in Bangladesh to better sex education resources in Central Asia, they will speak about process, resources, challenges, and next steps in their social action projects.

Project presenters include Alua Samat (Bard College Annandale) on "Not a Shame," which creates tools for overcoming stigma attached to sex ed in Central Asian countries and Halima Hasin and Labiba Rifah Nanjeeba (BRAC University) on "Paper Cranes of Venus," which educates ethnic minority women in Bangladesh on gender inequity and SRHR. Moderated by Eliza Edge (Bard College Annandale).

This event is part of a Gender Equity Month series.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

This Faculty Support Session is a workshop facilitated by Michelle Murray (Instructor for Global Citizenship course) that explores strategies for designing synchronous and asynchronous activities and engagement opportunities that promote collaborative learning in Network Collaborative Courses.
  
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Online Event  10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
10 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

OSUN's Spring 2023 Civic Engagement and Social Action Course welcomes community members to an exciting livestream roundtable discussion with young changemakers. Our keynote speakers are all young people who have come through extreme circumstances to be agents of change. They advocate, inspire, and teach others about engagement and their voices are essential to our social evolution.

Panelists were nominated by students and colleagues from our partner institutions for this roundtable discussion on civic engagement from a younger perspective. They are David Hogg, co-founder, March for Our Lives; Sana Mustafa, CEO Asylum Access; and Korvi Rakshand, Founder and CEO, JAAGO Foundation.

Thrust into the world of activism by the largest school shooting in US history, Parkland survivor David Hogg has become one of the most compelling voices of his generation. His call to “get over politics and get something done” challenges Americans to stand up, speak out and work to elect morally just leaders, regardless of party affiliation. Passionate in his advocacy to end gun violence, Hogg’s mission of increasing voter participation, civic engagement and activism embraces a range of issues.

Sana Ali Mustafa, CEO, Asylum Access Sana Ali Mustafa, is a movement leader in the forced displacement sector and a feminist human rights activist fighting against systems of oppression in Syria and around the world. Mustafa's work has been informed by her experiences as a brown, queer, Arab, and forcibly displaced woman. After being forcibly displaced by the Assad regime, Sana led the establishment of global efforts for the representation and inclusion of forcibly displaced persons, such as the Global Refugee-led Network. Sana is currently Chief Executive Officer of Asylum Access, where she leads the organization’s work to dismantle decades of colonialism, fight for self-representation, and build intersectional coalitions to demand human rights for all forcibly displaced people.

Korvi Rakshand Founder and CEO, JAAGO Foundation Korvi Rakshand is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, who founded the JAAGO Foundation together with a group of young students. JAAGO began as a small room consisting of 17 children and a vision - to eliminate poverty through education. Korvi’s journey with JAAGO was one of constant struggle and dedication. Today, JAAGO Foundation supports the education of 4500 children across its 11 branches all over Bangladesh.

Spring 2023 Civic Engagement and Social Action is a globally engaged course that unites 100+ students and a dozen faculty from many institutions, including: Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences in East Jerusalem, American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), Ashesi University in Ghana, American University of Beirut, American University of Bulgaria, American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan, Bard College Berlin, Brac University in Bangladesh, Central European University in Vienna, European Humanities University in Vilnius, Fulbright University of Vietnam, OSUN Refugee Learning Hubs in Kenya, Parami University in Myanmar, Tuskegee University, and UHelp/University of Quesquaya.

Join the livestream via OSUN's YouTube channel

6:30 am – 7:30 am EDT/GMT-4
6:30 AM New York l 12:30 PM Vienna

Despite its uniqueness and unpredictability, the current Jin Jiyan Azadi revolution in Iran is not born out of a void. The Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice lecture series continues with a talk by Firoozeh Farvardin, a feminist activist and scholar, who will address the historical contexts of political discontent and mobilizations against gender/sexual politics of the Islamic Republic in the past four decades. She will also discuss the meanings and implications of calling the revolutionary movement in Iran a feminist revolution. Participants will be invited to think about the implications and long-term impacts of the Jin Jiyan Azadi revolution on transnational feminist struggles.

Firoozeh Farvardin is a feminist activist/scholar based in Berlin. She is currently a postdoc fellow of IRGAC (International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-strategies), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, where she is working on gender/sexual (counter) strategies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Iran. She is also an affiliated researcher at MERGE (Middle East and Migration Research Network) and a former guest lecturer at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin.

This event is part of an OSUN series dedicated to Gender Equity Month. See the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

With this Faculty Support Session, OSUN faculty are invited to meet with team leads from other Network Collaborative Courses (NCCs) to share their experiences of leading courses.
  
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Online Event  11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
11 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna

The 4th webinar of the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative's #DemocratizingWork Global Workshop Series will focus on "Progress on Democratizing the Corporate Firm in Spain."

EDI and fellow organizers Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and European Trade Union Institute welcome OSUN community members to join online and hear from the following:

Speaker: Emma Rodríguez Rodríguez (Advisor to the State Secretary of Employment and Social Economy of the Spanish Labour Ministry and Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at Universidad de Vigo)

Discussants: Holm-Detlev Köhler (Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo), Mª Cruz Vicente (Confederal Secretary of Trade Union Action of Comisiones Obreras) and Bruno Estrada (President of Plataforma por la Democracia Económica).

Interpretation in Spanish / English will be provided, thanks to Université Catholique de Louvain.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

 

The OSUN Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative second gathering will be a talk by Samuel Abraham, Executive Director of the European Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences (ECOLAS). He will draw upon experiences as a co-founder of ECOLAS to discuss contemporary challenges facing LAS education: the de-emphasis of the bachelor’s degree and the preoccupation with international rankings. This 90-minute event will be conducted as an interactive talk, welcoming frequent audience participation.

Abraham is the rector of the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), a small liberal arts college in Bratislava, Slovakia. Alongside Hans Adriaansens and Laurent Boetsch, Samuel helped found the ECOLAS in 2007 with the stated mission to “foster and disseminate the good practices necessary to sustain the teaching of the ideals and skills necessary for life-long learning and good citizenship inherent in the tradition of liberal arts and sciences education.”

To this end, ECOLAS has supported the establishment of liberal arts and sciences programs at European universities, by providing advice, service, and partnership opportunities across liberal arts and sciences programs. Abraham is also a founder and editor of the Slovak-English journal Kritika and Kontext, whose most recent issue published the ECOLAS’ 2021 manifesto entitled ‘The Crisis of the Bachelor’s Degree in Europe.’ 

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Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna

Volodymyr Demkine, an OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative Fellow, will discuss his research on the environmental effects of military actions in Ukraine.

Wide-scale military activities not only directly damage different components of the environment and result in a loss of ecosystem services but also entail long-term impacts on achieving environmental and development goals.

Demkine will provide a brief overview of the prewar goals of environmental policy in Ukraine, both nationally and internationally, as well as insights on how achievement of these goals has been challenged by war. He will also discuss data sources for analysis of the current situation and developing an outlook for the future, as well as estimates of environmental damages and losses incurred by the war. The presentation will conclude with ideas on likely actions in future and recommendations.  

Volodymyr Demkine is a retired UN program management officer with expertise in environmental policy development and implementation, as well as integrated environmental assessment. For 30 years he has worked in various aspects of climate change, including scientific assessment, mitigation and adaptation policies, as well as development of national and international policy instruments. His current research interest focuses on methodological aspects of upcoming post-war environmental assessment in Ukraine.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

OSUN Online Course (OOC) Program manager Timand Bates and colleagues will be available for informal check-ins with OOC faculty and course assistants.  Feel free to drop in to ask questions, share concerns, let the team know how your course is progressing.
  
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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
Join via Zoom

Access a Global Time Converter here.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Online Event  8:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The inaugural event of the OSUN Developing Teaching Professionals project’s Inclusive Teaching Workshop Series will be held online and in-person at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). Workshop topics include understanding principal approaches to disability and inclusion in higher education, teaching strategies in neurodiverse classrooms, and case studies and student perspectives on teaching and diverse abilities. The event is open to all members of the OSUN community.

Speakers include:
Felix Diaz
Verónica Moreno Campos
Natalia Nagyné Nyikes
Miklos Zala

View the full event program here.

The Inclusive Teaching Workshop Series is a combination of workshops, trainings, and keynote talks focused on engagement with inclusive classroom techniques, open and democratic classrooms, disability, and decolonizing and diversifying teaching practices. Events are hosted by rotating OSUN universities and are designed for online participation by all OSUN members.

Upcoming events in the series include:

Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education Around the World
April 14, 2023: 8-11 AM New York l 3-6 PM Vienna

First Annual Elkana Symposium on Reimagining Teaching and Learning
June 12-14, CEU, Vienna

Further events TBD

Register to attend the inaugural event

Deadline to register is Thursday, March 16

Online Event  4:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
4 AM New York l 9 AM Vienna

What does it mean for education to be open?  Within the current discourse on open education, "openness” has been largely associated with open access to educational resources and open publishing—drawing on the opportunities provided by the Internet and digital technologies.

This workshop sponsored by the Open Society Research Platform seeks to explore the multiple, connected dimensions of openness in the context of educational practices. In particular, the workshop will ask how the concept of “open society” can be useful for expanding dominant approaches to openness in higher education. The event will specifically focus on the ways this more multifaceted understanding of openness can be translated into educational practices and pedagogical techniques.
 
The workshop will inquire about:
-What are the consequences of the currently dominant technology-centered approaches to open education for the envisaged forms and objectives of higher education, including its societal role? What are the relations between its democratizing and exclusionary effects? 
-How can open education arrive at a more agency-centered approach instead of the current implicitly passive paradigm in which its participants emerge as “users” rather than co-creators? 
-What are the ways of rethinking openness in education in order to augment its emancipatory potential? How should open education address existing power relations and hierarchies in educational institutions and practices? 
-How is open education associated with de-colonization in the learning process and knowledge production? 
-How can the notion of open society be translated into the curriculum and what are the implications for pedagogical approaches?

Workshop speakers include Meggan Houlihan (OSUN/Bard College), Samia Huq (BRAC University), Tamara Kamatovic (Central European University), Kaitlin Lucas (CEU), Pusa Nastase (CEU), S. M .Mahfuzur Rahman (BRAC University), and Matyas Szabo (CEU).

The workshop will be composed of two panels and a moderated roundtable discussion, which will be open to the audience. 
Check the event webpage for further updates.

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Online Event  OSUN is collaborating with Kyiv Mohyla Academy (KMA) to support What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine, which aims to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at KMA in Ukraine.

The forthcoming Centre will provide support for academic and civic institutions in Ukraine to counteract the destabilizing impact that Russia’s invasion has had on Ukrainian higher education and civilian life. By assisting Ukrainian students and scholars today, this Centre will also help pave the way for a vibrant and engaged post-war Ukraine.

The conference is designed to provide individual academics, members of the public, colleges and universities, professional associations, charitable foundations, and private companies with a way to support students, scholars, and civic institutions in Ukraine. 

Keynotes for What Good is Philosophy? will be delivered by world-renowned author, Margaret Atwood, one of the most celebrated scholars of Ukrainian history, Timothy Snyder, and two of Ukraine’s preeminent public intellectuals, Mychailo Wynnyckyj and Volodymyr Yermolenko. 

Lectures will also be given by some of the most influential philosophers writing today, including Peter Adamson, Elizabeth Anderson, Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Agnes Callard, Quassim Cassam, Tim Crane, Simon Critchley, David Enoch, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sally Haslanger, Angie Hobbs, Barry Lam, Melissa Lane, Dominic Lopes, Kate Manne, Jeff McMahan, Jennifer Nagel, Philip Pettit, Kieran Setiya, Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson, and Jonathan Wolff.

The conference is produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. See the full schedule here.

The conference will be broadcasted on the Munk School's YouTube channel on 17-19 March 2023, and also livestreamed here.
 
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8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8 AM New York l 1 PM Vienna

OSUN's Global Engagement Fellows at American University of Central Asia, Al-Quds Bard, and BRAC University invite network community members to attend an online screening of two documentaries in honor of Gender Equity Month.

Student filmmakers will be in attendance to discuss "Surviving the Taliban" and "Gender Stereotypes about Women in STEM"

This event is part of an OSUN series dedicated to Gender Equity Month. See the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Beginning March 14

On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the spring semester, the OSUN Remote Student Ambassador Program will host weekly English Conversation Tables for students to interact with their peers. All interested students are welcome to attend! Join Remote Student Ambassadors: Ahmad, Angela, Jon, Nana, Sofyia and hone your skills while you meet peers from all over the world!

The OSUN Conversation Tables are a virtual, one-hour gathering of OSUN students from across the globe to come together and interact casually with peers outside of the classroom setting. 

On Tuesdays from March 14th to April 11th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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On Fridays from from April 21st to May 12th 
(Times are in flux during March; please check your time zone)
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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna

The Bard Prison Initiative invites the OSUN community to the next session of its BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series, held in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network. Lucia Bracco Bruce will speak on “Co-governance, Feminism and Decoloniality: the Role of Delegate Women in Santa Mónica Prison.”

Lucía Bracco Bruce is a member of Grupo de Investigacion de Psicologia Forense y Penitenciaria (Forensic and Penitentiary Psychology Research Group) of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She holds a PhD in Women and Gender Studies (Warwick University - UK). Her research about governance in a women’s prison in Peru, Prison in Peru: Ethnographic, Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives, was published by Palgrave in 2022.

This session, like all in the BPI series, will include simultaneous translations in English and Spanish.
 
This event is also part of an OSUN series dedicated to Gender Equity Month. See the full calendar of events here.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 11:00 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The student-led Social Issues Club at Parami University in Myanmar invites OSUN community members to an online screening of a documentary about gender roles in Myanmar, titled "A Good Woman." Immediately after the screening, hosts will facilitate a discussion on the film and what it says about gender.

Organizers seek to identify gender stereotypes in day-to-day life and have a candid conversation about personal experiences.

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3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna via Livestream

The OSUN Liberal Arts Collaborative, Bard College, Central European University's Democracy Institute (CEU), and Defending Educational Freedom for Youth (DEFY) are sponsoring a livestreamed conversation between Michael Ignatieff, former Rector and President of CEU, and student leaders from New College of Florida representing the activist group DEFY.

The discussion is an important opportunity for Ignatieff to discuss with New College student leaders the lessons learned from Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s assault on academic freedom in Hungary, including the expulsion of CEU. New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college, has recently been targeted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: half of its Board of Trustees has been replaced, its president dismissed, and new board members are threatening major changes to teaching and curricula, especially on issues pertaining to race and gender. In this context, New College can be seen as a microcosm of wider challenges to academic freedom taking place in Florida and across the US.

The talk will be moderated by Kyaw Moe Tun, head of the Open Society University Network’s Liberal Arts Collaborative based at Bard College and President of Parami University in Myanmar (now in exile).

Participants:
Michael Ignatieff, former President and Rector of CEU, 2016-2021, current Rector Emeritus and University Professor of History, CEU 
Student leaders from DEFY

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Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
6 PM New York l 12 AM Vienna

The Bard Center for the Study of Hate invites members of the OSUN community to attend a discussion by Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University), author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution. It’s a fascinating tour of how the Jewish philanthropic world developed, the relationship between communal goals and legal structures, and changes to philanthropy over the decades.
 
In this talk Berman will discuss how, in its ideal form, American philanthropy in general (not just Jewish philanthropy) serves the public good, but in practice it has often bred social, economic, and political divisions, even creating opportunities for hate. She will explore the historical development of this tension and asks what role philanthropy might play in reinvigorating a broad and capacious vision of the public.

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Online Event  8:30 am – 11:00 am EST/GMT-5
March 9th and 16th
8:30 - 11 AM New York l 2:30 - 5 PM Vienna

Registration is open for the online collaborative workshop "Holistic Care in Times of Uncertainty for Higher Education Professionals" designed for OSUN administrators and managers interested in reflecting on the pandemic's emotional and professional impacts. The workshop leaders will also offer suggestions for fostering nourishing places of care, balance, and respect for one's needs inside the academy.

Cammie Jones (Bard College) and Erzsébet Strausz (CEU) will lead this event spanning two sessions. 

This workshop is sponsored by OSUN and CEU's Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education Research.

Workshop details

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Deadline to register is Friday, March 3

Online Event  8:30 am – 10:00 am EST/GMT-5
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) presents a Data Analysis Skills for OSUN Students Module session led by EDI Research Associate Jordan Ayala. Participants will learn to use ESRI ArcGIS Online mapping software and receive a formal introduction to the fundamentals of geographic information systems (GIS) and conducting spatial analysis. Students will learn how GIS can be used as a tool for assessing social, economic, and environmental justice issues at the local, regional, and global scale.

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Online Event  5:00 am – 7:00 am EST/GMT-5
5 AM New York l 11 AM Vienna

Egor Isaev, Egor Isaev, documentary filmmaker and  Blinken Open Society Archives Doctoral Fellow, will present his research on the topic of "Militarization of the Past in Russian Popular Historical Cinema." 

The research project explores the representations of the past in contemporary Russian popular cinema and TV series. It is set within the fields of media studies and public history, and aims to analyze images and narratives through which the Soviet and imperial pasts have been (re)constructed in Russian media culture.  

Currently, Russia is torn by chauvinism, separatism, nostalgia for empire, and an unexamined historical trauma. The country produces a large number of popular war films intended to reconcile society with its history and set a militaristic vector for the future. After experiencing dislocation during the 1980s and 1990s, post-Soviet society has tried to find a new identity, one that considers history as its foundation. This research sheds light on how Russian society is represented in the cinema of the late Putin era and how these representations are often rooted in the past. 

The study focuses on historical films made in 2008–2014 and 2014–2020 (known as the second and third parts of Putin’s era). Several types of sources are analyzed: popular films that rewrite the histories of World War Two, the Brezhnev era, and Admiral Kolchak and the White Army. 

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

Joanna Zylinska, writer, artist and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London, joins the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory's (University of Belgrade) lecture series on The Future of AI: Social and Cultural Aspects. The series is organized by the Digital Society Lab [DigLab] of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Drawing on her philosophical work and her art practice, Joanna Zylinska will interrogate whether we can actively mobilise nonhuman creativity as a way of opening up our all too human ways of thinking and acting. She will also explore whether AI, rooted as it is in the extractivitst logic of the tech industry, can overcome its own material conditions of existence. Could AI play the role of a philosopher-visionary that will show us a way out of the current socio-political impasse? Could it get beyond the limitations of our human frames of mind to imagine a different set of propositions and arrangements for us? Could it help us envisage a better future?

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Online Event  7:30 am – 8:30 am EST/GMT-5
7:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna l 7 PM Yangon

On International Women's Day, a research team led by Myo Thida (Parami University / CMU, Thailand) and Amanda Landi (Bard College at Simon’s Rock) will share findings from an important new survey on the challenges Myanmar women face in the tech sector.  

93 women were surveyed on their reasons for taking a career break, their career challenges, and their job search-related issues. One key finding from the research and data analytic project was that 74% of respondents cited "lack of mentorship" as a major challenge.

Individuals in the OSUN community are encouraged to attend and hear more about the survey findings.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:10 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

The Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice lecture series continues with Sara Salem, who will focus a trip Angela Davis made to Egypt in the early 1980s to explore questions of transnational feminist solidarity and feminist difference. The emphasis on Marxism and feminism enabled Egyptian feminists to forge solidarity with women across the globe, including Angela Davis, who located gender oppression within the same structures—namely, capitalism and imperialism. Salem will demonstrate how the encounters Davis had with feminists during this trip reveal much about the workings of transnational feminism as praxis, as well as the possibilities of feminist solidarity that sees difference as productive rather than divisive.

Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and global histories of anticolonialism. Her recently published book with Cambridge University Press is entitled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020). 

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Online Event  8:30 am EST/GMT-5
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna

This Thursday, OSUN faculty who are interested in learning more about OSUN Academic Certificates are invited to an information session. 

Join Certificate program leaders and faculty to learn more about the OSUN Academic Certificates currently available in:
Civic Engagement
Food Studies
Global Educational Development
Human Rights
Public Policy and Economic Analysis
Social Enterprise & Leading Change

Find out how to get your courses included in Certificate curricula.  Ask questions about how to become involved with or start a Certificate program. Meet faculty from other institutions who share your academic interests. 

Faculty who are currently teaching OSUN Courses, or who propose to teach OSUN Online or Network Collaborative Courses in 2023-2024 are especially encouraged to attend.

Questions? Contact David Shein

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Online Event  The OSUN Gender Equity Working Group is hosting a series of online events during March, Women's History Month, that have been developed with the intent of raising the profile of gender-oriented issues and topics. All events seek to raise awareness and initiate conversations on a broad range of topics relating to gender equity. 

The purpose of the collective calendar is to raise awareness about gender equity-related happenings across OSUN and allow us all to engage with experts and practitioners on topics of shared concern throughout the month (and hopefully spark connections for sustained collaboration!).

All events on the shared calendar are open to all OSUN members. In addition to the calendar, there is a shared Padlet to capture events and happenings taking place on each campus to raise the visibility of how we're all recognizing International Women's Day (March 8) and the rest of Gender Equity month.

Access the calendar for full event details.
Access the Padlet for events on each campus.

Online Event  5:30 am – 7:00 am EST/GMT-5
5:30 AM New York l 11:30 AM Vienna l 4:30 PM Bishkek

OSUN's GeoHub project welcomes Lorant Czaran, Scientific Affairs Officer at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), who will lecture on the application of Earth observation data and geospatial technologies for monitoring Global Agendas. 
 
The talk will discuss UNOOSA in the context of the United Nations and relevant treaties related to space utilization. Czaran will address the current focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and assess how some of those goals and related indicators are monitored and supported by space technologies. 

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a talk by artist Baha Hilo on the significance, history, and place of olive trees in Palestine, as well as the different methods used by the state of Israel to destroy this ancestral staple and tradition.

Olive trees have been a major part of Hilo’s practice as an educator and community organizer. Hilo will share his project Preserve, which is curated by Emily Jacir, and supported by CHRA. Preserve focuses on the preservation and repair of the olive terraces at Dar Jacir, an arts and education center in Bethlehem.

Baha Hilo is a native Palestinian and a graduate of Birzeit University with a degree in Sociology. He has worked with human rights, and advocacy groups including the United Nations, the Badil Centre for Residency and Refugee Rights, the National Council of the YMCA in Sri Lanka, and the Silver Bay Association in NY, amongst others. He is co-founder of The Citadel – 1865, a cultural space in Beit Sahour. As an educator, Baha runs “To Be There,” an initiative that offers educational programs about the history and culture of Palestine, including the annual Olive Harvest, Palestinian Land Day, Christmas in Palestine, and more.

Moderated by Fouad Asfour, University of the Witwatersrand

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The Bard Prison Initiative, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the sixth BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture with Manuel Iturralde on “The work of Grupo de Prisiones for the defense of prisoners’ rights.”

Manuel Iturralde is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the University of Los Andes (Colombia). He is a co-director of Grupo de Prisiones (Prison Group) at the same university. His current research interests are prisons, criminology, and the sociology of punishment. In January 2021, he published The Political Economy of Punishment and the Penal State in Latin America.

This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions. 

The BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series runs until June 2023.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA) presents a talk by Danielle Purifoy examining how the contemporary timber industry reproduces plantation power. It explores the “remote control” of land — such as absentee land ownership, Black family land grabs, new markets for energy, and legal regimes designed to “devalue” common property in favor of individual ownership and profit.

Multi-generation Black homeplaces and communities, rooted in alternative modes of land relations, sustain themselves despite the friction between the economic interests of racial capitalism and the ecological interests of long-standing forest interdependence. With the further concentration of forestland ownership and local divestment throughout the Alabama Black Belt and the US South, the reciprocal traditions of Black forest ecologies represent modes of land relation and intervention that are necessary for livable futures.

This event is moderated by Candace Clark (Tuskegee University)

Danielle Purifoy is an assistant professor of Geography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D in Environmental Policy and African American Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on the racial politics and law of development in Black towns and communities.

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Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna

The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) invites all OSUN community members to attend a discussion with Joseph Uscinski on “Conspiracy Theories and Hate.”

Given the prevalence of conspiracy theories today, and the role they play in promoting hatred, the center presents a thought leader who has been doing cutting edge research and thinking on the topic of hate for some time. Joseph Uscinski, Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, is the author Conspiracy Theories: A Primer.

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Online Event  During February, Tuskegee University recognizes Black History Month with its annual Black History Month Lecture Series. The four-week-long virtual series will spotlight African American heritage and issues relevant to the Black community. During the month, participants can expect to explore intersections of health and wealth and environmental justice and hear from Historically Black College and University (HBCU) presidents and mayors.

Individuals at OSUN partner institutions are welcome to view the sessions online. Click here to see all events.

Some sessions that may be of particular interest to OSUN's global audience include:

Tuesday, February 21, 2 PM New York l 8 PM Vienna
Community Advocacy and Environmental
Justice Youth Engagement and Circle
Elise Tolbert, Environmental Scientist
Joshua X. Lewis, Spiritual Advisor
Jamelle M. Hanna, Founder of The Movement 46
Moderator: Candace Clark, IPPD Ph.D. Student

Thursday, February 23, 12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
Voter Suppression
Fred McBride, Southern Poverty Law Center
Guy Trammell, Tuskegee Youth Safe Haven
Moderator: Monyai Chavers, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Thursday, February 23, 2 PM New York l 8 PM Vienna
Transforming Education in Haiti
Nesmy Manigat, Haiti’s Minister of Education
Program Participants: Mariline Hilaire and Charles Prospere

Tuesday, February 28, 3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna
Timeless Beats: From Africa to the Americas Lecture and Performance
Mausiki Scales and the Common Ground Collective
Tuskegee University Political Science Graduate

Join all events via the Zoom link below with Passcode: 705640

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Online Event  10:00 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna

The job guarantee proposal charts a concrete path to securing the second pillar of the Democratizing Work manifesto, namely to decommodify work. It is an economic policy that provides open-ended public employment opportunities to anyone seeking decent, living-wage work. It is a structural stabilization policy that alleviates the economic, social, and political costs of unemployment and precarious employment. It is equity-driven and draws on a long tradition of human rights and social justice.
 
The next seminar in the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative's #DemocratizingWork Global Workshop Series brings together experts and policymakers who are developing or already managing large-scale national employment policies informed by the principles of the job guarantee. There are multi-pronged strategies for securing the right to decent work for all and developing employment-centered economic policies. 

Panelists
Kate Philip, Programme Lead on the Presidential Employment Stimulus in South Africa
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Diego Guevara, General Vice Minister for Finance, Colombia
Daniel Rojas Medelin, Director, Special Assets Agency, Colombia
 
Discussants
Simon Azza (Advisor), Special Assets Agency, Colombia and Manuel Martinez (Advisor), Ministry of Finance, Colombia
 
Moderator
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College, US

The seminar is co-sponsored by OSUN-EDI and the Democratizing Work initiative and will take place online.
 
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9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

OSUN's Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative (LAS Collab) invites all OSUN faculty interested in adapting liberal arts and sciences education models to attend its first online public gathering.

The LAS Collab was formed to provide a unique environment where institutions attempting to adapt liberal arts and sciences educational models can consult with each other and access resources to assist them in developing rigorous education protocols. The LAS Collaborative leverages OSUN’s collaborative potential so administrators and faculty can share experiences on issues such as curricular development, teaching, and advising and identifies training tools that strengthen LAS teaching.

While the Working Group of the LAS Collab has developed a list of areas that the LAS Collab can focus on, we would love to hear from interested faculty members and welcome input to suggest other potential areas. This is an informal meeting, where any faculty interested in liberal arts and sciences education could share their experiences, challenges, and solutions in their local contexts. Faculty are also welcome to give a brief presentation on any topic they think might be of relevance to the LAS Collab. 

Please write to [email protected] to confirm attendance.

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Online Event  1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
7:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna

OSUN's GeoHub project invites network community members to a talk by Ed Parsons, tech evangelist at Google, who will explore how Google Maps uses Artificial intelligence (AI) to change the way people find their way around cities.

Maps are used today more than at any point in human history. AI is a critical part of what makes Google Maps helpful. Google uses AI not only to create geospatial data but also to gain real-time insights into the world around us.

AI allows mapping roads over 10 times faster than it was possible five years ago.  AI and navigation information are used to predict traffic and determine routes, as well as to identify hard-braking events and then suggest alternate routes when available. AI is driving a shift towards multi-model navigation and mobility solutions. It is also used to develop innovative user interfaces based on visual positioning.

Ed Parsons has spent more than 20 years working in the world of geographical information systems (GIS), both in universities and in industry with companies such as Google and Ordnance Survey. In 2006, he set up his own company, Open Geomatics, and, since 2007, has been Google's GeoSpatial Technologist, which includes developing and promoting products such as Google Maps, Google Map Maker, and Street View. 

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

The Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the fifth BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture with Sacha Darke on “Self-Governing Prison Communities: Radical Alternatives to Punitive Detention.”

Sacha Darke is Reader in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences of the University of Westminster (London). His main research areas are Brazilian prisons and convict criminology. He is author of Conviviality and Survival: Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order (Palgrave, 2018) and co-editor of Carceral Communities in Latin America. Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2021).

This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions. 

The BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series runs until June 2023.

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