Read, Engage, Act Conference in the Humanities
June 3, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Health and Life Sciences Building and Humanities Building 

REACH is the signature event of the Center for Liberal Arts Work, meant to be a celebration of our humanity (and the humanities!) in an age when we struggle sometimes to value human connection and human creation. We’re not interested in commodification; we’re interested in creativity for creativity’s sake.

Our guiding question this cycle is: What is power and what does it look like?

Register online for the conference. Please use this form to indicate interest in breakout sessions. Register by May 29 to secure your spot. 

Schedule

9 a.m.

• Insight Debate and Dialogue Keynote

10:30 a.m.

• Baking as a Form of Care for Self and Others
• Discussing Dehumanizing Language
• Having an IMPACT
• Insight Debate and Dialogue How To
• Jump In: Building a Culture of Joy Through Play
• Savvy Scaffolding for Seminar Instruction

11:30 a.m.

• In Conversation: A Hands-on Ekphrastic Workshop
• Learning from Discomfort
• Star Power: A Simulation Game
• Suspicious Minds: Building Trust in the Era of AI
• Teaching Social Action
• The Myth of Civility

Luncthime Table Sessions

• A Place to Park: Conservation as Career
• From Student to Provider: A Mission of Mercy Experience
• HIP Adjustments: Small Changes, High Impact on Learning
• Make an Impression!
• The BAC Cohort Model for Student Engagement and Success

1:30 p.m.

• Designing Collaborative Arts-Integrated Learning
• Fostering Relationships That Support LGBTQ+ Students
• Making Old Media New: Round Table on Analog Writing
• Spark Creativity Through Paper Weaving
• Tai Chi and Personal Balance
• Voting Isn’t Fair: The Math Behind Power, Choice and Democracy

2:30 p.m.

• Could Moons of Saturn Host Alien Life? Should You Care?
• Making and Giving: Fiber Arts at AACC
• Microexpressions
• Rubric Remix
• The Violence of Naming: Inclusion or Reinforcement?
• There’s Something Wrong with the Chickens!

3:30 p.m.

• Brown versus Board of Education: Discrimination in Education
• Inclusive by Design: Differentiation Strategies for Diverse Learners
• Reclaiming Histories