AIDS, Art, and the Horror of Institutional Abandonment: Lesbian Geographies of Care 🗓
What happens when the institutions meant to protect us fail?
October 14, 2026
Tag: Fall 2026
October 14, 2026
Making Monsters 🗓
Using found objects, odds and ends, and a healthy dose of playfulness, we build small creatures that give shape to whatever needs shaping (frustrations, fears, other feelings).
October 14, 2026
Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design Exhibition Visit and Discussion 🗓
Join us for a viewing of the new exhibition at the Center for Architecture, Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design (opens October 1, 2026). After the viewing, we’ll convene at Pratt Manhattan for a conversation about the exhibition. Transportation from the Center for Architecture to Pratt Manhattan takes about 10 minutes by car, 15 minutes by subway/bus, or 20 minutes by walking. Feel free to view the exhibition in advance and just join us for the conversation!
October 5, 2026
Faculty Spotlights 🗓
Join us for this online faculty-led series where colleagues highlight a certain classroom practice, use of a technological platform, pedagogical approach, or research on classroom/studio practice they’ve found invaluable and especially relevant for cross-departmental sharing. Each Spotlight takes place virtually and includes about 25-35 minutes of sharing with plenty of time for questions, answers, and conversation in the rest of our hour together.
September 16, 2026
Faculty Spotlight: Liz Knauer 🗓
Please join us as we hear from 2026 CTL Faculty Fellow Liz Knauer. For her CTL Fellows’ project, Liz embarked on ethnographic research that sought to provide spaces for faculty to learn from one another about their approaches to liberal arts reading, writing, researching and thinking skills in the context of widespread AI use.
September 10, 2026
Strategies and Practices for Student Success: Starfish and Beyond 🗓
This workshop will introduce faculty to best practices regarding the Starfish platform, as well as the resources available in the Student Success Center, Undergraduate Advising, and Student Support and Advocacy. In the first half of this workshop, you will learn how to best use Starfish to connect students who may be struggling to the appropriate campus support services and resources to help them succeed in your class. In the second half, we’ll discuss other strategies and practices for student success in relation to communication, difficult conversations, classroom management, and more.
September 8, 2026
Crafting Community / Making Meaning 🗓
Creative practices help us process uncertainty, build community, and find new perspectives on challenges. In this series, we’ll be engaging in various community building activities and creative exercises (e.g., collaging, origami, and more). We’ll meet in person in the East Reading Room (Library, 2nd Floor) on select Mondays from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
August 26, 2026
Beyond Accommodation: Disability and the Future of Higher Education Reading Group 🗓
In this fall semester book club, participants will read chapters from Jay Dolmage’s Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (2017), and come together bi-weekly to discuss the themes that emerged.
August 24, 2026
Time Care Retreat with KPrevallet 🗓
n this workshop, we’ll reflect, play, and experiment to help you build your own system of time care—one that helps you relate to time differently now that the semester has started, free up mental energy, and make room for your creative/personal work & life.
August 24, 2026