Seminar

Convened by Robert Sember and Jennifer Kabat, both Eugene Lang College, The New School part-time faculty, and both currently not teaching—these integrated presentations and shared group activities explore the protocols for education outside the neoliberal university to prioritize care, fugitivity, and shared learning.

Artist Shani Peters presents The Black School’s Process Deck, a tarot-style procedure to spark creativity within activism. Tsige Tafesse of the collective BUFU (By Us For Us) builds on their work with their alternative school WYFY (With You, For You), leading participants through meditation and other activities that decenter hierarchical education models to focus on collective care. Artist Caitlin Cherry, founder and co-director of Dark Study, an experimental program centered on art, discusses the protocols and processes behind founding a new “school” dedicated to serving those locked out of higher education and the MFA system.

Participants:
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Caitlin Cherry, founder and co-director, Dark Study
Shani Peters, co-founder, The Black School
Tsige Tafesse, co-founder, BUFU (By Us For Us)
Convened by Jennifer Kabat and Robert Sember, Eugene Lang College, The New School

Accessibility
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. As part of that commitment, this event will feature close captioning subtitles and ASL interpretation. Please let us know when registering if you need any additional accommodation.

As for Protocols Seminar Series
Led by The New School and Vera List Center faculty and staff, each monthly seminar in this year-long series will examine a particular aspect of protocols, among them those relating to language and communication; protocols for equitable networks, computer interfaces, and algorithms; global health and development; data aggregation and narrative systems; culturally-specific community agreements; or protocols undergirding scientific research. Building on the conversations started in previous sessions, each seminar is centered by an art project and accompanied by readings.