Building Publics: Humanities Combating Isolation on Wednesday, 17 June at 4:00pm (New York)
Building Publics: Humanities Combating Isolation is a series featuring the work of the SOF/Heyman 2019-2020 Public Humanities Graduate Student and Humanities New York Fellows. This week’s presentation, featuring Akua Banful, a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the last of the series.
Her Public Humanities project, "Climate Arts: Reading, Recycling, Making," is a mixed curriculum of climate-oriented fiction along with recycled and otherwise environmentally-engaged art aimed at high school students. Through reading and discussing literature, contemplating recycled art, and completing a project of their own—the students will gain a sense of the ways in which the arts can respond to our current climate predicament.
