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This past Sunday, November 18, the East Side Institute held a Community Meeting and Fundraiser. We’ve been hosting these twice a year for the last ten years. We get to share developments, advances and challenges in the organizing work we do at the grassroots and in academia and invite people...
I've traveled to several cities recently, speaking with students and faculty at different universities and introducing performance and improv to them through workshops. It 's always provocative and eye-opening to challenge the knowing paradigm at a university (for obvious reasons). Inviting professional knowers and knowers-to-be to perform philosophy as a new...
I'm super excited about the upcoming (in September) Performing the World conference and so privileged to be chairing it again! I'm sharing the first of many newsletters because these people deserve to be known! Newsletter #1 July 3, 2018 Old Friends and New The 10th Performing the World 2018 (PTW) will take place in...
“Hope springs eternal” is an English proverb that originated in an 18thcentury poem by Alexander Pope. It doesn’t, though. We have to create hope through what we do. This is the message I and many others are taking out to people we meet—from talks we give (“Creating Communities of Hope”) to...
The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...
Lloyd International Honors College Julius I. Foust Building, Suite 205 Greensboro, NC 27412 May 15, 2018 Dear Dr. Holzman, Congratulations! This letter is to confirm that you have been appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance in Lloyd International Honors College at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a...
The Overweight Brain, which was put online here chapter by chapter, is now a book! It will be available from Amazon as both a paperback and an e-book. We live at a time when knowledge of the world is all right there on our smart phones. Yet we persist in going through life...
With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward. Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and...
Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar: Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research This past week I participated in a symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference held in NYC, along with two distinguished co-presenters, Kris Guitierrez and Anna Stetsenko. A diverse group of younger scholars served as interviewers, with many in the audience...