FORUM

LONG
TABLES

PASA hosts four official Long Table discussions, coinciding with ongoing reserach/reading groups, a year where researchers and scholars, artists, and organizers will discuss their joint participatory research and projects with cohorts of students, faculty, community partners, and others. Each Long Table will be organized around a reading and the presentation of that project so as to give ample opportunity for others to engage with the work and find connections across discipline and practice. Readings will come from the leader of the table or from research emerging from the Lillian Wald Humanities reading list and/or work in the Cooper Library and Archives. Table topics will be focused around a yearly theme coordinated between the PASA Advisory committee through the Civic Projects Lab at Cooper and Henry Street and Abrons Art Center. 


PASA accepts proposals for Cooper and Abrons/Henry Street faculty, students, staff, and community partners to facilitate and oversee discussions concerning research topics, sharing insights, and findings with the community and relevant stakeholders to foster collaboration and understanding. Long Table discussions will be organized along a Lois Weaver model.


Those who lead a long table will receive assistance towards the implementation of research geared to humanities oriented research and civic engagement after which time an invitation to join the advisory committee will be extended. 

To host a long table, please email PASA at: 

peoplesinstitute.cooper.edu

COMMUNITY
TABLING

The results of what was presented during long table discussions or the initiatives they represent will be the topic for a table at the tabling event and/or end-of-year festival for the institute.


To host a table, please consider presenting your work at a long table event prior to contacting PASA. 

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HUMANITY
AND SOCIETY
SYMPOSIUM

In honor of Lillian Wald and the intimate connection between The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and Henry Street Settlement, a themed yearly Humanities and Society Symposium will be held across both sites in collaboration with the Civic Projects Lab and Cooper Library that will engage students, researchers, and community partners to discuss pressing issues at the intersection of Art and Science. 


As a global city, New York provides a unique opportunity to engage exactly at the point where global concerns emerge within and through local affairs. Every year, the public historian at Henry Street will curate a book list with local partners that will be woven into the curriculum at Cooper through its library, reviving an effort that began at the inception of the People’s Institute. Books and other resources discussed at the symposium or through long table discussions will be added to the library stacks so that students, faculty, community partners, researchers, and artists can continue to build civically engaged, humanistically focused, curricula both institutionally and in the greater community. 

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