The Baldy Center invites all faculty, law, and graduate
students to attend a workshop on Participatory
Research and Urban Racial Justice, organized by the Buffalo
Seminar on Racial Justice, a research group of the Baldy Center for
Law and Social Policy at UB.
Description
This daylong workshop explores the potential and pitfalls of exploring
racial inequalities in cities through participatory research. Participatory
researchers define their methods in many ways, but they share a commitment
to building lasting collaborative connections with the communities
that are the source of their knowledge, and are open to the idea
that community members themselves can generate the central questions
of research projects. In addition, participatory researchers sometimes
seek to disseminate the knowledge they create not only through standard
academic media, but through channels that are more adapted to the
community’s own goals for itself.
Program
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- 8:15 am Coffee and muffins
- 8:45 am Welcome and Introductions
- Lynn Mather, Director, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy;
Carl Nightingale, UB Department of American Studies
- 9:00 am Keynote Presentation
- Melissa Gilbert, UB Department of Geography,
Temple University, on "Urban Racial Justice
Scholarship: Critical Issues in Social Action Research"
- 10:00 am Session One: Participatory Research at UB
- Chair: Teri Miller, UB Law School
Greg Dimitriadis, UB Graduate
School of Education “’Working the Hyphens’ in Participatory Research”
Meghan Cope, UB Department of Geography, “The Challenges of Participatory Research:
Insights From Working with Children on Buffalo’s West Side”
- 11:15 am Documentary Film
- Babak Mohassel, JD/Ph.D. candidate in the UB
Law School and the UB Department of Sociology, will present and
comment on his 20-minute documentary film: “Displaced Lives:
The Social Impact of Law on
the Refugee Identity”
- 12:00 Lunch
- RSVP required; contact Ellen Kausner in the Baldy Center at ekausner@buffalo.edu
- 1:00 pm Session Two: Critical Ethnography and Racial Identity:
Methodological Issues
- Chair: Greg Dimitriadis, UB Graduate School of Education
David Cantaffa, Ph.D. candidate, UB Graduate School
of Education, "Considering
Race in an Ethnographic Study of Youth Participating in a Gay and Lesbian
Community Youth Center,”
Carrie Freie, Ph.D. candidate, UB Graduate School of Education, “Class
Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium”
Michelle Meyers, Ph.D. candidate, UB Graduate School of Education, “Suburbia
in Black and White: Methodological Issues and Tensions”
- 2:15 pm Session Three: Participatory Geographies of Racial Inequalities
in Buffalo
- Chair: Meghan Cope, UB Department of Geography
Coauthors: Meghan Cope, UB Dept. of Geography, Jin
Kyu Jung,
La Donna Knigge, Ph.D Candidates, and Frank
Latcham, M.A.
Student, Dept. of Geography, “Redundant Spaces or Lots of
Opportunity? Children’s
Perspectives on Neighborhood Spaces on the West Side of Buffalo”
Jacquie Housel, Ph.D. candidate, UB Dept. of Geography, “The
Ubiquitous Gaze: Policing Race, Maneuvering Place in Buffalo, N.Y.”
La Dona Knigge and Meghan Cope, “Grounded Visualization: Integrating Ethnography
and GIS Through a Case Study of Community Gardens in Buffalo”
Khalil Nieves, UB Dept. of African American Studies, “Creating
a Democratic Participatory Program with the Educational Opoortunity Center
and Community Centers on Buffalo's East Side”
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm Wrap-Up Session
- Carl Nightingale, Chair, with panelists Meghan
Cope, Teri Miller,
Melissa Gilbert, and Greg Dimitriadis
Workshop Organizers
Contact Meghan Cope at mcope@buffalo.edu or
Carl Nightingale at cn6@buffalo.edu with
any questions about the substance of the workshop. For questions
about logistics, including travel, accommodation, or local transportation
contact Ellen Kausner in the Baldy Center at ekausner@buffalo.edu .
Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice
This workshop is the first public event
of the Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice. A multidisciplinary group
of UB faculty members began planning this seminar series in spring
2005 in order to provide a forum for scholars across UB and other
Buffalo-area universities and colleges interested in racial justice
and to help foster connections between researchers and communities
across the Buffalo area. The Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice
is a research group of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, meeting
twice a semester in 2005-06. Its meetings will be announced on
the Baldy Center events calendar. People interested in attending
Seminar meetings or presenting work at the Seminar should contact
Carl Nightingale, Associate Professor of American Studies at
cn6@buffalo.edu.
Registration
Faculty, law and graduate students are welcome to attend. There
will be no fee for this workshop; however, space is limited so
registration is recommended. Please e-mail your name and affiliation
to Ellen Kausner, Events Coordinator, at the Baldy Center at ekausner@buffalo.edu.
Driving Directions & Parking
Driving directions and information about parking on UB's North Campus
can be found here.
Baldy Center For Law & Social Policy
511 O'Brian Hall, University at Buffalo Law School
Buffalo, NY 14260
716.645.2102
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