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HUMANITIES FOR ALL TIMES MELLON GRANT Humanities for Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practices and Social Justice

Call for Proposals: Student Grants for Social Justice Projects

Call for Proposals: Student Grants for Social Justice Projects

HUMANITIES FOR ALL TIMES MELLON GRANT
Humanities for Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practices and Social Justice
 
Call for Proposals: Student Grants for Social Justice Projects
Are you interested in thinking critically and creatively about how humanities methods can be harnessed for social justice work, and then applying these methods to a social justice project in the United States? 
 
Colorado College was recently awarded a Mellon Foundation Humanities For All Times grant for our proposal, “Humanities For Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practice and Social Justice.” This grant is currently funding the development of 50 new Equity and Power and/or Creative Processes courses that center ways in which humanities methods—from archival research and critical analysis to artistic production and creative expression—can contribute to social justice work.
 
As part of this grant, all students who are taking or have recently taken one of these new courses (listed below) are eligible to apply for up to $1500 to deepen their engagement with the course material by engaging in a social justice project utilizing humanities methods. To apply, you must first discuss the idea with the professor of the class. Once the professor approves and agrees to oversee the project, you can fill out the application form here. You may apply individually or as a team, but please only submit one application form. We will review proposals on a rolling basis, but there will be grants available every block beginning Block 8, 2023 until Block 8, 2024. Check out these classes as you plan your schedule for next year!
 
List of eligible courses
CC100
Experimental Music
CC100
Film Manifestoes/Filmmaking
CC102
Practicing Togetherness: Building Community through the Arts and Creative Action
CO120
Equity and Power in the Mediterranean World
CO200/FR317
Topics in Francophone Culture: Exploring Cajun and Creole Cultures in the US
DA200
Afro-Asia, Performance, Media
EC285
Economics of Inequality
EC285
Economic Thought: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
EC385/ED350
Economics of Education Policy
ED200
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
ED210
Power of the Arts
ED250
Integrative STEM Education: Promoting Inclusion and Equity
ED250
Gender & Sexuality in US Public Schools
ED380
Curriculum Theories
EN280
Plantation Afterlives
EN280
Rhizomatic Storytelling
EN280
Shakespeare and Social Justice
EV360
Law for the Earth
FM200
Genre and Filmmaking: Realism
FM200
New York: Politics, Film, Culture
FM200
Politics and Comedy
FM200
Unworking Ableism: Access, Art, and Film
FM305
Third Cinema and Its Afterlives
FR308
Ousmane Sembene, Griot du peuple et père du cinéma africain  (Griot of the people and Father of African cinema)
FR319
Topics in French Culture: L’art et les artistes
GR220
Queer Germany
GR220
From Colonial Fantasies to Imperial Debris: The German Colonial Experience and its Legacies
GS261
The Idea of Latin America
HY111
Berlin, Capital of the Twentieth Century
HY200
Archives, History, and Power
HY200
Islamic Cities
HY300
The Craft of Writing History
HY304
Africa and the Second World War
IT320
Voice and the Nonhuman. Animals in the Visual Arts, Literature and Theory
JA250
Languages and Cultures of Japan
MS250
Museum Practicum
MU227
Performance and Performing
MU227
Puente del Mundo: The Musical Crossroads of Panama
MU227
Music and Gender in Jane Austen’s England
PA250
The Minority Question in Asia
RE200
“Jews, Christians, and Christian Anti-Judaism” (or alternatively, “Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism: A History”)
RM300
Race, Color, and Consciousness
RM300
Race and Capitalism
SO290
Emancipatory Sociology
SP312
Afroméxico
SP316
Queer Latinoamérica
 

 
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2023 Colorado College Commencement Ceremony

Around the Block – Commencement Season is Here!

Commencement is Right Around the Corner
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It’s hard to believe, but our seniors are in their final few weeks at Colorado College! Commencement is set for Sunday, May 28, at 8:30 a.m., in Ed Robson Arena.

Volunteers Needed

We’re in need of faculty, staff, and student volunteers to support Commencement events. Serving as a volunteer gets you access to Ed Robson Arena for the ceremony, even if you’re not a ticketed guest of a graduate (and for current students, volunteering allows you to stay on campus for a few more days). Email Brenda Soto at bsoto@coloradocollege.edu for more information and specific opportunities.

Baccalaureate Blessings

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to share their well wishes and words of celebration for graduates as part of this special Colorado College tradition. Together, these messages form a communal blessing, sharing both individual and collective love, blessing, and hope for the graduates as they journey forth from Colorado College. Submitted messages will be displayed during the Baccalaureate ceremony on May 27, as well as online. Click here for instructions and ideas for submitting a message!

Senior Spotlight 2023
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Over the next few weeks leading up to Commencement, we will be honoring the outstanding achievements of our senior students in Senior Spotlight 2023!
Sarah Senese ’23
she/her
Major: Organismal Biology & Ecology

Q: Tell us about your favorite extracurricular activity at CC.
A: Dance Workshop has been and will always be my favorite CC club/event. I’ve been in eight dance workshop performances, one per each semester, and this last one was a tough goodbye. There isn’t another campus event that brings so many people together quite like DW, and it’s been such an honor to show even my “never-danced-before” friends the joy of the stage.

Q: What are your plans for the future after graduation?
A: I will be going to the Headwaters of the Everglades to be a research fellow at the Archbold Biological Station for the next year!

The Senior Spotlight is open to all seniors in the Class of 2023. If you are a senior who would like to be featured, fill out this form.

Have a Sneak Peek at this Season’s Summer Music Festival
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On Thursday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m., the twice Grammy nominated Imani Winds, who have led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, and imaginative collaborations, will be concluding the Intermezzo Season with a concert at Packard Performance Hall.

The New York-based wind quintet formed in 1997 and has since released four CDs and earned two Grammy nominations while collaborating with numerous high-profile artists and touring across the world.

Tickets are free for students, staff, and faculty, with the Gold Card. Add this to your calendar.

CC’s Corey Hutchins Named Educator of the Year by Journalism Society
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The Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has named Colorado College’s Corey Hutchins as the 2023 Educator of the Year. 

Hutchins has been serving as co-director of the Colorado College Journalism Institute since the fall. Prior to that he was interim director, a visiting instructor, and the institute’s journalist in residence. He has been teaching at the college since 2017. 

“Corey is tireless in his devotion to the craft of journalism,” said Steve Hayward, professor of English, who nominated Hutchins for the honor. “And more so when it comes to teaching it to our students.”

Earlier this month, the Journalism Institute was featured as a case study in higher education by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont. Last week, CC journalism student Chloe Brooks-Kistler won the top journalism award from the Denver Press Club — the second time a CC student has won the top award since Colorado College became eligible for the scholarship in 2019. 

Student Seed Innovation Grant Winner Explores LGBTQ Communities in Europe
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After earning a Student Seed Innovation Grant (SSIG), Finn Mott ’24, was able to spend the last semester traveling around Europe and writing about the LGBTQ communities he found there. “This Student Seed Innovation Grant gave me the freedom to exist in the world that I have never existed in before and that is so very special,” said Mott.
Mott applied for a SSIG to backpack around Europe and explore the LGBTQ communities through the medium of poetry. He was already planning on studying abroad in Denmark, the first country to legalize same sex marriage, but wanted to connect more deeply with both the place and himself. Although the task of writing about such a large community across so many cultures was originally daunting for him, he realized that as a part of the LGBTQ community himself, all he had to do was tell his own story. 

Niyanta Khatri ’17 Finds Continued Success as a Sales Growth Leader in Tech
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By Megan Clancy ’07
If you’re looking for an example of a CC alum making big strides in the world of tech, while also working hard to improve the world, you’d be hard pressed to find a better one than Niyanta Khatri ’17. Khatri was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal and then moved to Pune, India before coming to CC to major in math and economics.
“The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about liberal arts education in the tech world is interdisciplinary thinking. The education I got at CC encouraged this kind of thinking,” Khatri says. “Individuals with this dynamic background are able to draw on multiple disciplines to be able to solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions.”
During her time at CC, Khatri was one of a trio of students who founded a QR code company called Ogugu for The Big Idea pitch competition. Ogugu is now part of Dar Teknohama Business Incubator, the fastest growing accelerator in Tanzania. Khatri has since gone on to become a sales growth leader, working for Logitech — a company she started with as an intern while still at CC — and being an advocate for women of color in the tech industry.
Khatri is now developing a business accelerator in Nepal that allows women entrepreneurs to apply for grants and then take them through a mentorship process focusing on their product and bringing it to market. The long-term goal? “It’s going to be a platform for women to women, that focuses on allyship and mentorship but also really helping women taking their businesses to the next level,” Khatri says. She notes that there are a lot of women out there who have amazing talent and an amazing product, but just no network and no resources. Her goal is to help that marginalized group.

What’s it like being Black in a newsroom?

Join Journalism Institute visiting instructor Venneikia Williams for a film screening and conversation about being Black in an American newsroom. Venneikia is currently leading a class with Media 2070 at CC called “Diagnosing the Media System: Lineages of Harm to Futures of Care.”
The 15-minute documentary “Black in the Newsroom” follows the journey of a talented young journalist who finds herself unfairly targeted and underpaid while fighting to tell Black stories in a major local newsroom. Come see this important film on Thursday, May 11, 6:30 p.m., in Cornerstone Arts Center screening room.
Following the film screening, the Colorado Association of Black Journalists will host a networking event at the Southern Colorado Public Media Center at 720 N. Tejon St. Refreshments served. Add this to your calendar. No RSVP required. 

Photo of the Week
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Graduating seniors receiving their Commencement stoles during the Honor Council end-of-the-year luncheon, held at Taste Restaurant in the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College on May 3.
Photo by Karen Obrzut, Faculty Employment Specialist/Office of the Dean of the Faculty
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