Please join us on Wesleyan's campus to honor the civil rights legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at this year’s MLK Commemoration, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Bettina Love, award-winning author and Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. Dr. Love is one of the field’s most esteemed educational researchers in the area of Hip Hop education and is the author of the book We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Beacon Press).
Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education and intersectional social justice. Her work is also concerned with how teachers and schools working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in intersectional social justice for the goal of equitable classrooms. For her work in the field, in 2016, Dr. Love was named the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is also the creator of the Hip Hop civics curriculum GET FREE and in 2018, Georgia’s House of Representatives presented Dr. Love with a resolution for her impact on the field of education.
Dr. Love's talk is entitled “What Came Before & After King: Abolitionist Teaching & Life," and will focus on the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom, as opposed to reform, and moving beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. Abolitionist Teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness, ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists to demand and fight for an educational system where all students are thriving, not simply surviving.
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event details
Wednesday, January 2312:15-1:15 p.m. ~ Keynote in Crowell Concert Hall
Reception to follow in Beckham Hall
Wesleyan University (directions)
50 Wyllys Avenue
Middletown, CT 06459
Learn more here: https://www.wesleyan.edu/mlk/
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