Category: Environment & Sustainability

  • Tired Teachers: What’s for Dinner?

    Tired Teachers: What’s for Dinner?

    Glitch Dishes by Mrs. Gilly circa 2022 The pandemic. Forgive me for writing more about the pandemic, but as a teacher I want to write down some of my reflections as they surface. For a while, I was having writer’s block and lovely migraines. Now, it seems l like my writer’s block is gone, What would […]

  • Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase

    Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase

    “Otro Mundo es Posible”, by Beatriz Aurora, from her collection “Historias Pintadas: el color de la lucha zapatista”. Source: Araucanía Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase The Futures Initiative supported eight student projects with the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant this year. On November 11th, we came together to share […]

  • The Urban Space as Nature

    The Urban Space as Nature    The concept of nature and what is natural is socially constructed as much as any social or relational category. What is imagined when asked: ‘What is a natural space or nature to you?’ is reflective of what is considered the environment around us.  Being in a desolate forest, next […]

  • Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound

    Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound

                            Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound   As I walk around the current surroundings near my dorm located within Vodra Hall at New Jersey City University, I find myself rejoicing in my environment filled with life. I frequently hear the pleasant, almost […]

  • Mind Fuzz

    Mind Fuzz

    So my friend is worried about her husband who will need to have surgery this week. She is preparing the house so that when he returns from surgery it will be extra nice for his recovery. She is trying to get out of her head. In 10 days school will start. She is a teacher. […]

  • The Problem of Defining Civilization

        “Civilized” is often used as loaded ethical language.  Traditionally, whenever we praise human action, we call it “civilized,” whether it is table manners or peacemaking.  This use of the word civilized leads us to the assumption that civilization is good, and hunter-gatherer culture bad.     The view that civilization is bad and hunter-gatherer culture […]

  • Scholar Spotlight: Norah Elmagraby

    Scholar Spotlight: Norah Elmagraby

    Why did you apply to HASTAC? I learned about HASTAC during the third year of my Ph.D. while coming across an announcement from Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. During that time, I was considering adding a digital component to my dissertation research, and I didn’t know where to start. What attracted me to […]

  • Thinking through a pandemic: reflections & resources from humanities and social sciences

    Thinking through a pandemic: reflections & resources from humanities and social sciences

    Cihan: On March 10, when the Futures Initiative team was preparing to start working remotely, I started to write a few paragraphs reflecting on the resources I have as a scholar who is interested in our collective human heritage. From my previous, recent experience of collective uncertainty and fear accompanying large-scale political repression, I had […]