Agenda
- Advisory Board Meetings or Department/Program Meetings /facility tours – 8am to 10am – various locations (TBD by program)
- Networking – coffee/refreshments – 10:00 am to 10:15am (STUAC Theater/lobby)
- Keynote 10:15am to 11:00am
- Breakout sessions 11:15am to 12:15pm (STUAC/Crawford Hall rooms)
- Lunch – Mustang Alley
- Advisory Board Meetings/Facility Tour – 1pm to 3pm – various locations (Crawford Hall)
Keynote
Keynote Speaker and Topic: Brice Nordquist, PhD (he/him), Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric, A&S Dean's Professor of Community Engagement, Engaged Humanities Director, Narratio Fellowship Co-director
The Entangled Institution: Tracing the Roots of Sustainability
Modern educational institutions are often depicted as segmented, linear, and hierarchical, a structure that's shaped policies, curricula, and physical spaces for about 150 years in the U.S. While this model has brought significant social and economic benefits, it now seems increasingly misaligned with a world of permeable boundaries, precarious work, increasing automation, and institutional distrust. Facing these existential challenges, many assert that our traditional models cannot endure. This presentation explores a more hopeful view: educational institutions are never as bounded and static as we imagine them to be. Drawing lessons from Syracuse University's Engaged Humanities Network, Nordquist examines how teaching, learning, research, creative work, and collective action necessarily intertwine across and beyond our institutions. He argues that to create environmentally, socially, and economically responsive and sustainable institutions, we must articulate and strengthen these existing infrastructures of entanglement.
One of Several Breakout Topics
(other details will be provided on future agenda)
Tracing disciplinary and community relations across food systems
Bio of Keynote Presenter
Brice Nordquist is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies & Rhetoric and Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. He is a community-engaged literacy researcher and teacher who works through ethnographic and participatory research and public arts and humanities projects to study and support students’ movements across contexts of learning and stages of education. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Narratio Fellowship, a storytelling program for resettled refugee youth in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the founder and director of the SU’s Engaged Humanities Network, which develops and interconnects publicly engaged research, teaching, and creative work across communities in Syracuse and beyond.