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February 16, 2023
Doctoral education in social science and the meanings of social justice
Dr. Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, director of the PhD in Education at the Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile) and Dr. Patrick Sachew, dean of the Bremen International Graduate School in Social Science (Germany) shared their experiences on how their specific context shaped their practices. Carolina explained that the deep inequalities of the Chilean higher education system, manifested in…
November 1, 2021
Webinar: The meanings of social justice in practice when one theorizes and teaches in social sciences
This webinar is part of the series “Committing ourselves to social justice: The role of doctoral education in complex times” When: Monday 29th of November Time: 1:00 pm Chile | 5:00 pm Germany | 8:00 am Pacific Time Register here Social sciences include a variety of disciplines and sub-discipline: Anthropology, communication studies, economics, sociology, psychology,…
December 5, 2020
Webinar: The Habitable City. Centering Climate Justice in Research-Based Education
When: January 26th 2020 Time: 9:30 am Pacific Time | 2:30 pm Brazil | 7:30 pm South Africa Register here The Habitable City. Centering Climate Justice in Research-Based Education With a few notable exceptions, researchers in the field of ecology and environmental sciences struggle with deeply engaging communities in research efforts. Nowhere are such struggles…
July 31, 2020
Beyond Theory: Practicing social justice in the design & implementation of doctoral programs in education
More than one hundred attendees participated in the last webinar “Beyond theory: Practicing social justice in the design & implementation of doctoral programs in education” last July 28th of 2020. This event is part of the series “Committing ourselves to social justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times”, organized by CIRGE and co-sponsored by the Center for…
June 24, 2020
Beyond Theory: Practicing social justice in the design & implementation of doctoral programs in education
Registration here When: (updated schedule) July 29th, 6:00 am, New Zealand July 28th, 8:00 pm, South Africa July 28th, 11:00 am, Pacific Time Duration: 90 minutes At times where the racial, class, and gender inequalities are deeply felt in many of our countries, doctoral education is not exempted from the public scrutiny, which is asking…
April 24, 2020
Practicing Social Justice in Engineering & Physical Science
CIRGE and the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) of UC Berkeley co-sponsored the second version of the series “Committing ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times” . Colette Patt, the Science Diversity Programs director at the UC Berkeley; and Khalid Kadir, lecturer in the college of engineering at the same institution, shared how…
March 19, 2020
Practicing social justice during doctoral education: Insights from physical sciences & engineering
Day: April 1st, 2020 Time: 9:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) Where: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/5665040916 Registration here Six months ago, when we were preparing the first talk of this series, we all agreed that doctorate education needed to prepare the new generation of scholars to address increasingly unpredictable futures. Yet, none of us anticipated that such unprecedented futures could…
November 21, 2019
CIRGE hosted the first Webinar of the Series “Committing ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times”
Dr. Amy Scott Metcalfe (University of British Columbia) invited us to question the possibilities of the promise of social justice in the current higher education scenario, rooted in colonial relationships. She explains “The title of my talk, “Viewing the landscape of doctoral education against the horizon of policy: Placing ourselves in the academic arboretum,” emphasizes…
September 4, 2019
Committing Ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times
A series of web-seminars organized by the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and co-sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education, Berkeley. In times of rising nationalist governments, environmental crisis, hate speech and acts against marginalized communities, the intellectual drivers and engaged community of doctoral education, have a responsibility to…
September 17, 2015
The American-type of Central Graduate Division: Would it be a good model for Japan
Dr. Maresi Nerad was invited to give a talk on the US model of Graduate School at the University of Tsukuba- Japan. In this presentation, she analyzes whether and how the American model of Graduate School could be suitable for Japanese Universities. See here the presentation.
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