Engaged Humanities Network Community Showcase

The Engaged Humanities Network hosts an open-house style celebration of community-engaged projects, courses and creative work generated by dozens of collaborative teams. Students, faculty and community members from more than 30 organizations across Syracuse, Central New York, and beyond partner on exhibits, presentations and screenings to browse as you enjoy food, activities and giveaways.

Presenters include:

• Project Mend (SU Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition with Center for Community Alternatives)
• Write Out (SU English & ESF Writing with the North Side Learning Center & YWCA)
• Indigenous Northern Landscapes (SU Geography & Women’s and Gender Studies with Indigenous communities in Japan (Ainu) and Alaska (Inupiat)
• Breedlove Readers (SU School of Education with SU Art Muesum)
• Narratio Fellowship (EHN with North Side Learning Center)
• Food Insecurity and Placemaking (SU School of Design with Food Bank of Central New York)
• Safeguarding Syracuse Communities (SU Earth and Environmental Studies and Engineering with Tomorrow’s Neighbors Today)
• Culturally Sensitive Excreta Infrastructure Systems (SU Religion & ESF Environmental Science with Salt City Harvest Farm)
• Data Warriors (SU Mathematics with Notthingham H.S.)
• Environmental Storytelling CNY (EHN & SUNY ESF)
• The Turning Lens Collective/Family Pictures Syracuse (SU English & History with PEACE, Inc.)
• Natural Science Explorers Program (SU Biology and Earth and Environmental Science with North Side Learning Center)
• CODA Educational Support Program (EHN with Deaf New Americans Advocacy, Inc.)
• Teens with a Movie Camera (SU Film and Media with Nottingham H.S. and North Side Learning Center)
• Food Sovereignty and Seed Rematriation (SU Religion and Native American and Indigenous Studies with Onondaga Nation Farm)
• Syracuse Futures: Southside Connections (EHN with Dunbar Center, Mercy Works, Southside Neighborhood Association, and more)

Engaged Courses:

• HUM/NAT 300 & 400: Stories of Indigenous Dispossession across the Americas (Prof. Miryam Nacimento and students)

• HUM/ENG 300: Poetry & Environmental Justice (Prof. Lauren Cooper and students)

• MAT 100: Social Justice Mathematics (Prof. Nicole Fonger and students)
• SPA 300: Our Community Voices (Prof. Emma Tico and students)
• NAT/REL 200: Indigenous Food Cosmologies (Prof. Mariaelena Huambachano and students)

• WRT 413: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Just Futures after Prison (Prof. Patrick Berry and students)

• CSD/HNR 400/600: Culturally Responsive Healthcare (Profs. Jamie Desjardins & Stephanie McMillen)