We have so many great BFS events in November 2021 offered by fellows, consultants, and partners… including our culminating event on November 30, 2021. See below:
Join us for a special edition of the lunchtime series, CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now, as we feature works in progress from fellows from the 2021 Baltimore Field School.
Shenita Denson
Ph.D. Student, Language, Literacy, and Culture
Retrospective Storytelling: Intergenerational Exchanges About Love
Shenita Denson’s research is centered on the stories we hear and tell – and those we wish we heard or told – around intimate topics and how they impact our identities, relationships, and our health/well-being. For her dissertation, Denson is focusing on the intergenerational stories, heard and told, among Millennials and Baby Boomers in the Black community around love, in particular self-love, familial love, romantic love, agape love. Utilizing concepts of time, space, place and generativity (the passing down of wisdom), her research challenges us to examine how the communities in which we belong, can be impacted either through the use of telling stories.
Sarah Fouts
Assistant Professor, American Studies, and Director of the Public Humanities Minor
Interrogating (Anti-) Extractive Storytelling Methods in Food Ethnography
Set within expanding tourism industries and post-disaster contexts, Sarah Fouts’ book project uses multiple frameworks of food—from taco trucks to single agricultural commodities—to bring to the surface the interrelated issues of power, exploitation, struggle, and multiracial solidarities that emerge from the transnational stories of Honduran immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans. Each core chapter is framed around a type of “extractivism” – land, labor, culture, and stories – and offers examples of resistance and “anti-extractive” approaches. Like a greedy developer extracts land and labor from poor and working class people, a researcher, too, can be culpable when using stories without collaboration, consent, and/or recompense. Applying extractivism as a conceptual framework to narrative and community-based work heeds a growing ethical call from scholars and journalists in regards to interviews and public engagement. For this presentation, Fouts will critically examine research case studies and draw from anti-extractivism scholarship that aims to build more collaborative methodological research approaches by “researching up.”
Curtis Eaddy is hosting the Beautiful Side Of UGLY Art Therapy and Cultural Arts Festival on Sat. Nov. 13 at Hollins Market from 12-8pm… this is a free and open public event. Some specific events have ticket prices. The #BeautifulSideofUGLY campaign celebrates urban communities impacted by trauma to inspire and enlighten the people, businesses, and institutions to unify and collaborate to make more altruistic and safer neighborhoods:
Nicole Fabricant, BFS consultant, has organized an important panel featuring BFS partner Eric Jackson + panelist Meleny Thomas (among others) called Right to the City: Baltimore Activists Talk Back to Anthropology… with the central question: How has anthropology failed Baltimore, and what can it do now? @ Red Emma’s 6:30- 8pm on Friday, Nov. 19
The culminating event for 2021 for BFS is Scholarly Reportage and the End of Extraction: Connecting People and Public information panel… the central question: How could scholars work with journalists and organizers to better serve the public and share access to public information without being extractive? @ Red Emma’s 6:30-8pm on Tuesday, Nov. 30.
