CESJ's First Webinar: Navigating and Thriving in the Academy as a Critical Scholar

​Dear CESJ SIG Members and Friends
 
CESJ's first webinar "Navigating and Thriving in the Academy as a Critical Scholar" was a huge success.  We'd also like to extend our deepest thanks and gratitude to Dean Kinloch and Dr. Patel who provided incredible wisdom, candor, and affirmation. We received an overwhelming response from participants expressing their feelings of inspiration and solidarity to continue this work together. Many also expressed a desire to continue the conversation. We'd like to suggest the hashtag #criticaleducatorsolidarity to use on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and our other social media outlets to connect and support each other.
 
In you were unable to attend the taped webinar can be viewed at the following link:
http://ctesiu.adobeconnect.com/pczav5nm5mwq/ .  You can also review a transcript of the session here.
In addition to the webinar, Dean Kinloch and Dr. Patel have provided a list of sources referred to in the webinar for further reading:

• Sylvia Wynter - everything she's written, seriously
• Robin Kelley, Freedom Dreams
• Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
• Joyce E. King, specifically on the attenuation of humanity that happens through domination
• Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - this book contains her definition of racism 

We hope that the conversation that Dean Kinloch and Dr. Patel started will be one we can continue in our SIG's work. Please be on the look out for other upcoming CESJ events. If you have not yet joined our SIG through your AERA membership, we encourage you to do so to join our listserv to receive information about our events, such as the AERA pre-session Graduate Student Forum, the Early Career Scholars Forum, and the AERA CESJ business meeting and social. We look forward to seeing you at the business meeting at AERA (we are awaiting the program announcement from AERA for the date/time.) 
http://www.cesjsig.org/ 
In solidarity,
Kari & Sosanya