URBAN sessions at the All-In Conference

anaantunes — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:41:51 +0000

URBAN will be hosting the Plenary on Wednesday, Oct 27th from 3:30 PM to 5:OO PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence.

URBAN will also be hosting the Networking Breakfast on Thursday, Oct 28th from 8:OO AM to 9:00 AM at the Stevenson Event Center Courtyard

New Publication by former CCREC colleagues

anaantunes — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:14:16 +0000

London et al. “We are about life-changing research” in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement

Ron Glass & Rebecca London W.T. Grant Foundation blog post

NEW DATE: All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference October 26-28, 2022

anaantunes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:02:40 +0000

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice ConferenceOctober 26-28, 2022

Santa Cruz, California

Co-presented by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and
Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN)

We are excited to announce that the All-In Conference will take place in Santa Cruz, California, on October 26-28, 2022. The conference brings together university scholars, community-based practitioners and researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundation program officers, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for action.

The call for proposals is now open! Submission deadline is May 15, 2022.

To apply, please fill out an interest/proposal submission form, including a brief summary of how you or your team would like to participate and what you would like to present. The diverse programming will include invited sessions involving multiple presentations and stakeholders, interactive workshops, performances, and art exhibits. Sessions will be organized thematically, based on abstracts received. Please stay tuned for more information on the conference schedule, location, lodging, and other logistical details.

Students, Organizers, Scholars, Researchers, Foundations, Community Organizations and Research/Action Teams:
Submit your ideas for workshops, presentations, papers, posters, art work or performances addressing how we build truly equitable partnerships for critical collaborative research, action and social justice.

To learn more about the conference and participation, please visit our website!

New Special Issue of Social Sciences

anaantunes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:57:06 +0000

Edited by Dr. Steve McKey and Dr. Claudia Lopez the Special Issue “New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice” in the Social Sciences Journal is now out with many contributions from URBAN folks! All of the articles are open-access, check them out here

YOUTH ACTIVISM through a GLOBAL lens: Join organizers and scholars discussing youth formations in Cameroon, Mexico, the Philippines, and Kenya

anaantunes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:25:35 +0000

Wed., March 2, 16:30 GMT/11:30am ET.

Free zoom registration here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8bwk6a.

Panelists will be discussing the three NEW articles out today in the Forge: https://t.co/fKF4f0J2i2

The panel is open to all! If you’re interested in learning more about the work of the Democracy Moves International Scholars Network, please reach out to Ben Kirshner (kirshner@colorado.edu).

All-In All-Together

gary.stevens — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:48:41 +0000

All-In All-Together

Community based research navigating the turbulent time and places of political and biological pandemics

We know that the turbulence of our time and places can only be navigated safely when we are ‘all-in’ ‘all-together’ to find creative ways to deploy our resources, resist the ongoing assaults on vulnerable communities, and renew our bonds of connection that sustain us. We invite our growing network(s) of scholars, organizers, community leaders, funders, and students to join a series of virtual events that will provide time/space to deepen our conversations and support one another in our work to strengthen community and university responses to COVID and to racial justice movements.

We are determined to bring our postponed All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice conference to life in the virtual environment as we move toward an in-person gathering as soon as possible in the 2021-2022 academic year. We are launching this series of virtual events with the immediate publication of short ‘case’ videos that document our work (further releases will be ongoing) and a national dialogue on October 23rd, followed by an ongoing series of focused virtual gatherings that will be topical, methodological, and strategic.

Virtual Events

Session 1 – October 23, 2020, 11:00-1:00pm (Pacific time)Event Info

The October 23rd event is a “flipped” style gathering, and registrants are asked to asynchronously view the short video ‘case’ presentations and provide input to the gathering hosts in advance so that our synchronous time together is maximized for fruitful dialogue and engagement for all participants. Subsequent virtual events will enable in-depth explorations of each of the initial ‘cases’ as well as other topics and cases.

We launch our series with an initial set of ‘cases’ meant to help us understand how community-university collaborations are evolving, what community partners need from universities in these times/spaces, what role research can play in the current struggles, what barriers partnerships are facing and what successes have they discovered.

We will explore a collaboration led by formerly incarcerated women, a partnership documenting the impacts of COVID on educational opportunity, a model for integrating university students in strategic research around the sense of connection and belonging of immigrants, and a higher education living/learning community designed for impactful partnerships.Speakers

Ana Antunes, University of Utah

Timothy Eatman, Rutgers University/Newark

Michell Fine, City University of New York (CUNY)

Steve McKay, University of California Santa Cruz

Community partners and co-presenters coming soon.