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As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the final episode in our beverage series, and it's all about coffee. We follow guests to Colombia, El Salvador, and Costa Rica to learn about the systems preventing coffee farmers from building climate resilience and possibilities for improvement.
In this episode:
James Harper of the Filter Stories podcast
Jessica Eise of the Purdue University Brian Lamb School of Communication
Thaleon Tremain of Pachamama Coffee Cooperative
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Summary:
Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-campus who care about the kinds of work that we do. By finding ways to connect with a broad range of publics, in a range of different registers, and in ways that allow for meaningful response, we can create the possibilities for far more substantial public participation in and engagement with the humanities, and with the academy more broadly. This workshop will focus on ways of envisioning the publics with whom we work and the questions that public engagement surfaces.
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities , Sylvia Fernandez
Summary:
Toxic discourses towards the Mexico-United States borderland and its communities have continuously altered history, social dynamics, culture, among other things that are part of this region. Meanwhile, by utilizing digital companions such as digital maps, it is possible to contest to these kind of narratives that invisibilized borderlands’ dynamics. According to Annita Lucchesi, “The power of mapping is that there is so much power in it. It doesn’t necessarily have to be oppressive…It can be liberating. It can be healing. It can be empowering, especially when it’s being used by people who have been historically oppressed” (“Mapping MMIWG” 2019). By taking into consideration Lucchesi’s argument, this workshop will work in a hands-on experience with archival material and public data to create maps that challenge toxic discourses and colonial cultural records. Taking into consideration projects such as Borderlands Archives Cartography and Torn Apart / Separados, this workshop will go over the creation process of activism projects through the use of mapping technology. Participants will work with archival material and public data, will gain ethical and critical skills to the incorporation of humanities studies with digital companions, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to create activism mapping resources.
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Sylvia Fernandez
Summary:
While cartography is a colonialist product when unrepresented individuals or communities utilize and recreate these tools they serve to contest a colonial cultural record. With respect to U.S.-Mexico borderlands, toxic discourses have continuously altered its history, social dynamics, culture, local and binational relationships. This presentation brings to the forefront initiatives that create alternative cartographies that challenge colonialist impositions such as: Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC), a transborderlands project dedicated to locate, map and facilitate access to nineteenth and mid-twentieth century U.S.-Mexico borderlands newspapers; and Torn Apart / Separados, a mobilized humanities project that intervenes in the United States’ immigration debates with data narratives illuminating the effects of the government’s policy of separating families and the infrastructure subtending immigration enforcement. These initiatives use GIS tools to interpret data and archival material in new ways, enabling to see patterns otherwise invisible in static maps. BAC and Torn Apart digital maps and visualizations pose new questions contest established narratives, creates alternative forms of mapping and activate a knowledge production shaped from the ground-up. With this in mind, these alternative cartographies function as a historical and cultural record of the present and become resources to resist impositions in the future.
This week: After disastrous flooding, officials in Goshen, Indiana embark on a journey of climate change resilience, and a new online tool seeks to help communities prepare for climate change before it's too late.
Developing good communication skills is increasingly hard in such a fast-paced and globalized world. Is it okay to put emojis in professional emails? How should we address bosses and professors? Is it better to call or email? This week, host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Tatiana Kolovou, Senior Lecturer in the Kelley School of Business, to discuss how we can communicate effectively and appropriately.
Brain, Matt, Hou, Yingkun, Pincus, Robert, García de Cortázar-Atauri, Iñaki, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the second episode in our beverage series, and it's all about wine. We start at a vineyard and winery in California, take a look at the growing wine industry in China, go back to 2003's Europe, and finally return to the present day with challenges and opportunities in resilience.
3:30 - Matt Brain of Chamisal Vineyards in San Luis Obispo, California
13:15 - Yingkun Hou of Southern Illinois University Carbondale
23:15 - Robert Pincus of University of Colorado Boulder
30:30 - Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri of the National Institute of Agronomic Research in Avignon, France
“Oh, my favorite thing was we got the opportunity to take two clients to Tennessee.” Lori Nei talks about a career highlight as a service manager in the disability field in Indiana. As part of her responsibilities, she provided support to two men who both spent over 30 years living in institutions. In her 2019 audio-recorded interview, Lori shared some of the challenges in helping both men transition to community life.
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, Mallory Melchi and Hudson sit down with us to talk about the work that they do with the Indiana Canine Assistance Network. Mallory does important work as both the president of the organization at IU and as one of its volunteer service dog trainers. Hudson is also doing important work-- becoming the best service dog he can be.
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, discusses how pollution affected the Little Calumet River and the surrounding area. He says, "As a young child, I could remember people, vaguely, fishing in the Calumet. By the time I was a teenager, that was gone. By the time I was an adult, it was a definite no-no." He then talks about cleanup projects he led in the Ambridge-Mann community in Gary.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Environmental Impacts for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, shares his experience doing community outreach for an Environmental Protection Agency remediation project in the Small Farms community. The project, which began in 1988, supplied public water lines to replace the private wells which were contaminated by the Lake Sandy Jo/M&M Landfill Superfund Site, located on 25th Ave. near the communities of Small Farms and Black Oak.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Environmental Impacts for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, describes a dispute between the Gary-Hobart Water Corporation and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that developed over an EPA-funded remediation project. In 1988, the EPA hired the Gary-Hobart Water Corporation to install public water lines to replace private wells which were contaminated by the Lake Sandy Jo/M&M Landfill Superfund Site, located on 25th Ave. near the communities of Small Farms and Black Oak. Due to the dispute, individuals in those neighborhoods waited until 1993 to gain access to a safe source of water.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Environmental Impacts for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Connie Standifer recalls the community use of the Chase Street Spring when she was growing up. She remembers that people traveled to Small Farms to collect water from the artesian well, sometimes drawn by its "miraculous healing" properties. She says, "And there were people from all over... All different types of license plates. From, Utah…Illinois, Nevada."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Kay Westhues interviews Terence and Connie Standifer at Macomb Community College in Macomb County, Michigan, on November 8, 2019. Reverend Standifer was the pastor at Pleasant Valley, Missionary Baptist Church in the Small Farms Community from 1981 to 1993. He participated in several environmental cleanup projects in the Ambridge-Mann community and conducted community outreach to help bring water lines into the Small Farms neighborhood. Reverend Standifer now lives in Michigan with his wife Connie. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
