BIPOC Speaker Series 2: Bringing Research to the Public and Community as a BIPOC Researcher

This workshop is created to serve as both a creative space and a BIPOC support group, inviting participants to bridge their academic work with community engagement. It encouraged reflection on personal and collective journeys asking not only “Where did you come from?” but also “Where are you going?”. Through dialogue and shared experiences, the session is created to think about belonging while exploring how scholarship can reflect on identity and purpose. Participants are invited to think outside the box by imagining communities that they have or intend on working with in the future. How can interventions challenge traditional academic boundaries and center lived experiences? 

The first section will have Professor Nirmal Puwar share her work on interventions that connect academic research with community engagement. Puwar’s research is in space and politics, with respect to bodies, race and gender. She engages in creative methods and curating space and  was the Co-Director of the Methods Lab at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has led innovative projects that challenge traditional research boundaries through creative and collaborative methodologies. 

The second section will involve reflective dialogue and creative exercises. Attendees are invited to share their past, present, and future collaborations and interventions. A sharing session of objects, books, curriculums or projects will allow participants to consider how their experience has shaped their roles as present and future BIPOC scholars. The session is intended as a means of building community and systems of support for current Phd. students as well as Early Career researchers.

To register for this session, please contact Carmem Saito.