Presenter: In this lecture Pavlo Lushyn (Educational Foundations) will make a case for the end of the “PTSD industry” (Stephen Joseph) and the emergence of a more generative view of trauma articulated by the Post-Traumatic Growth Movement.�� As a practitioner of both psychotherapy and teaching, Professor Lushyn’s lecture integrates theory with stories of post-traumatic growth, reflecting his decades of work in and out of the classroom, and his most immediate experiences supporting Ukrainians experiencing the trauma of war today. Professor Lushyn will draw on his experiences and expertise to suggest implications for teaching – relevant to all instructors as we continue to encounter a student population that exhibits mental health disturbances in response to traumatic experiences.

Respondent: Laura Quiros (Social Work and Child Advocacy) will provide an initial response to Professor Lushyn’s talk based on work using trauma-informed pedagogies to advance social justice by building social connection, inclusion, and empathetic accountability.

This session will be introduced by Pablo Tinio, Chairperson, Educational Foundations.

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TIME: 5:30PM EST, May 27, 2021

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Date: May 17, 2021 @ 7:00 PM

“This is what democracy looks like in my world” combines a student meme contest based on this prompt with a panel dedicated to the results, selected by public vote. Students will engage directly in the conversation about democracy, bringing into focus the need for participation and the responsibility of being an informed and active participant. The contest will focus on the importance and power of voice and representation in a democratic practice.����

Student prize winners Julie Henskens, Parham Mousa Elie, and Mari Zuniga will collectively contextualize and reflect on the process as a whole, along with faculty panelists Antoinette Pole, Political Science, and Pablo Tinio, Educational Foundations). Co-sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Research on Interdisciplinary Global Studies Program (RIGS). Moderated by , World Languages and Cultures, and , Art and Design.

Interviewers: Dr. Zsolt Nyiri, Associate Professor of Political Science and Law, ��Ʒ���˸������� University and Dr. Kate E. Temoney, Assistant Professor of Religion, ��Ʒ���˸������� University

Date: Thursday, May 13, 7:00pm-8:30pm

Sponsor(s): College of Humanities & Social Sciences and Research on Interdisciplinary Global Studies (RIGS): A Faculty Research Group

Panelists:��Arnaud Kurze, Department of Justice Studies, MSU;��Francesca Laguardia, Department of Justice Studies, MSU;��, Drew University;��, Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Date: May 11, 2021 at 8:15 pm to 9:45 EDT

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Date: May 6 at 6:00pm EDT

As an MSU student, you are invited to engage directly in the conversation about democracy through the creation of a meme. The contest focuses on the importance and power of voice, participation, and representation in a democratic practice. The panel will serve as an analytical space where student prize winners and MSU faculty and staff collectively contextualize and reflect on the process as a whole.

This contest, the three $100 student prizes, and forum are made possible by the generous support of the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Research on Interdisciplinary Global Studies group.

For process, rules, and regulations see the����(log on with MSU email). Upload your meme by May 3, 2021.

April 29, 2021

7:00pm EST

In this panel, faculty from the Computer Science department at ��Ʒ���˸������� University will discuss the state of cybersecurity with respect to democracy and elections, drawing on a data-informed perspective. For computing professionals, the animating questions focus on the capacity and availability of tools for interfering and protecting democracy. The emphasis is on uncovering and revealing challenges and opportunities with respect to technologies and democracy. Several brief case studies involving social media, electronic voting, or data mining, will be discussed.Panelists:��Constantine Coutras, chair and professor, conducts research in the areas of Computer Networking (performance evaluation of data communication protocols) and Digital Filter Design. He is also interested in Computer and Network Security.��Boxiang Dong, assistant professor, has research interests that fall into the intersection of cybersecurity and big data analytics.��Chris Leberknight, associate professor, specializes in Digital democracy (online censorship), Cyber Security, Modeling and Analysis of Technological and Social Networks.��Stefan Robila, professor and Director of the Computational Sensing Laboratory, has research interests in computational sensing, including development and implementation of computationally efficient feature extraction algorithms that use high performance computing. In addition he has also worked on greening the computing infrastructure and cybersecurity.��Bharath Kumar Samanthula, assistant professor, has research interests that span across Applied Cryptography, Information Security, Data Mining, and Big Data. His current work centers around privacy-enhanced techniques for various distributed data management and analysis tasks in the fields of Online Social Networks, Cloud Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Grids.��Omar Alkhalili, a MSU graduate student, has worked in application support and quality assurance testing at various tech companies in the New York metropolitan area. He is interested in automation, cyber security and social media misinformation.

April 20, 2021

7:00 pm EST

This event, sponsored by the Department of Religion, explores the role of non-violent mass action in a democracy increasingly beholden to corporate interests.��Half-Mile, Upwind, On Foot (2019; 57 min.) is a documentary film examining grassroots resistance against two fracked-gas pipeline projects in Pennsylvania. The event will give special attention to the role of religion & race in these predominantly white, Christian movements, particularly with respect to law enforcement’s response in contrast to pervasive police violence at Standing Rock and BLM protests.

Presenters:��Brian McDermott, Film Director/Producer (DeSales University),��Sister Bernice Klostermann, Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an international order of Catholic women; featured in the film for her role in an outdoor Chapel blockade, site of 29 arrests;��Rev. Malinda Harnish Clatterbuck, featured in the film as a co-founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines that organized 20 non-violent mass actions leading to more than 50 arrests;��Lee Smithey��(Swarthmore College). Moderated by��Mark Clatterbuck, Department of Religion.

April 7, 2021

11:30am EST

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The founders of American democracy believed it could not survive without an “informed citizenry”.�� What does an informed citizenry look like in today’s world? And what role do we have as educators and students to support it? First, we look at the significant challenges to institutional and media legitimacy that emerged in the second half of the 20th century, which rightfully called attention to the ways longstanding Western knowledge practices excluded marginalized communities and silenced important histories. We ask about the status of norms and mores in the aftermath of this challenge, in an era often called “post-truth.”Second, we consider the challenges of teaching information literacy.�� To the extent that we teach it at all, how have our instructions to “do the research” and “avoid fake news” failed?�� We invite instructors to interrogate their own information literacy practices (which are typically invisible); and to understand, empathize with, and value students’ information literacy practices.

Panelists:

Jeffery Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of English, teaches courses on 20th and 21st century American literature. His research and writing explore how literary forms and narratives relate to economic, political, and social concerns. He has published essays in the academic journals Critique, Mosaic,��and��College Literature,��among others.

Catherine Baird, Online and Outreach Librarian, teaches and studies information literacy, and her recent publications examine MSU faculty and students.�� She and collaborator Jonathan Howell, Associate Professor of Linguistics, have written and presented on librarian-faculty collaboration.�� Their current book project,��Teaching Information Literacy,��offers faculty an accessible and practical introduction to recent research in the learning and information sciences.