JustPublics@365 Summits: Create. Connect. Transform.

A key component of the JustPublics@365 are Summits. Each of these high-profile events is intended to engage academics in creating new kinds of knowledge streams (podcasts, videos, data visualizations). Connecting scholars, activists, policy makers, and media to wider publics. Focusing on specific areas and ways that, working together, we can transform the world in ways that promote social justice.

Leading the Way: Toward a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy in New York (May 2-3, 2013) in partnership with Drug Policy Alliance. Hashtag: #BluePrint

Summit: Resisting Criminalization through Academic-Media-Activist Partnerships (April 22, 2013)

• Invited Round Tables 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Registration closed.)
• Visualizing Big Data, Resisting Criminalization 2pm– 4:30pm FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
• THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (documentary) Screening, 5pm
  Panel Discussion & Reception (register here)  6pm 
• Reception, FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 7pm
  
• Hashtag: #resist13

Summit: Reimagining Scholarly Communication for the 21st Century (March, 2013)

• #OccupyData Hackathon
  3/1 12p-3:30p and 3/2 12p-6p The James Gallery
• Theorizing the Web 2013 (#TtW13)
  3/1 4p-6p Alice Marwick, The James Gallery, 6:30-7:30 “Free Speech for Whom?” Adrian Chen, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Zeynup Tufekci, and Jessie Daniels, Prochansky Auditoirum;  3/2 10a-6p Concourse Level, David Lyons, keynote.
• Poverty, YouTube, and Representation
  3/5 6:30p-8p The James Gallery
  Natalie Bookchin and Alex Juhasz
• Hands-On Workshops in Digital and Social Media
  3/6 9a-1p Rooms 9204, 9205, and 9206
  CUNY GC students will offer free 45 minute workshops for graduate students and faculty on how to use WordPress, Twitter, video, and visuals in your research and to get your research out to the public
• #AltMetrics: Changing Measures of Scholarly Impact
  3/6 2p-4p Elebash Hall
  Panel: David Harvey, Chris Caruso, and Robert Hilliker, Moderated by: Matthew K. Gold
• Closing Reception and Plenary
  3/6 Reception: 6p-7p Lobby of Elebash Hall; Plenary: 7p-8p Elebash Hall
  Professor Anthea Butler (UPenn) in Conversation with Provost Chase Robinson
• Hashtag: #DigitalGC

Our Social Justice Topic Series extend and deepen the work of the JustPublics@365 Summits. Following on the Summits, we’ve covered similar topics such as stop and frisk, from punishment to public health; and scholarly communication in the digital era. In each series, we curate original content from scholars, journalists and activists around that subject. Then, we compile those contributions into a free eBook, for use in teaching, research, reporting and activism.