Since its inception in 2006, the Network Winter program has featured innovative seminars that mirror the Network’s efforts to remain abreast of developments in scholarship and pedagogy across all academic disciplines.
“A Pedagogy of Liberation”: Building Abolitionist Sanctuaries in Education
Nikia Robert, Pomona College
Knowledge: A Critical Reflection on Modernity and its Certainties
Marie Cruz Soto, New York University
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Somatic Practices, Discussion Guidelines, and Community Dynamics
Hannah R. Bacon, Marymount Manhattan College
Catherine Cabeen, Marymount Manhattan College
Network Winter 2022
Postponed due to COVID-19
Network Winter 2021
Postponed due to COVID-19
Network Winter 2020
Identities in Motion: The Lived Experience and Theoretical Journeys of Caribbean Diasporas
Aisha Khan, New York University
Journeys are Stories: Plots, Mobility, and Life Writing
Thomas Augst, New York University
The Entrepreneur’s Journey — CANCELED
Jeffrey A. Carr, New York University
Network Winter 2019
Performance as the Embodied Text Of Caribbean Resistance
Lowell Fiet, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
The Power of One – A Political Perspective
Jorge Benítez-Nazario, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
Women’s Activism in the Americas
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Network Winter 2018
Postponed due to Hurricane Maria
Network Winter 2017
Global Climate Change: Science, Economics, Migration
Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Refugees and Migrants in the 21st Century
Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University
Uprooted and Displaced: Refugees, (Im)Migrants, and Exiles in World Literature
Adrianne Kalfopoulou and Hariclea Zengos, DEREE – The American College of Greece
Network Winter 2016
Critical Reading and Critical Thinking
Robert DiYanni, New York University
Evolution, Health, and Disease
Todd Disotell, New York University
Race and Color in the Caribbean
Aisha Khan, New York University
Network Winter 2015
The City in Contemporary World Literature
Bryan Waterman, New York University
The City as Teaching Canvas
Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, The American College of Greece
The City and the Environment
Mary Killelea, New York University
Network Winter 2014
Democracy and Its Critics
Phillip Mitsis, New York University
Reacting to the Past
Gretchen Kreahling McKay, McDaniel College
Understanding the New Europe: Politics
Sophia Kalantzakos, New York University
Network Winter 2013
Pacific Biodiversity
Eleanor Sterling and Ana Luz Porzecanski, American Museum of Natural History
Pacific Literature and Film
Vilsoni Hereniko and Jeannette Paulson Hereniko, University of Hawaii and Asia Pacific Films
Pacific Peoples and Places
Jerry Finin, East West Center
Network Winter 2012
Literatures of the Atlantic
Bryan Waterman, New York University
Climate and the Atlantic
Brian Mapes, University of Miami
Women of the Atlantic
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Network Winter 2011
The Global Economy
Joseph Foudy, New York University
Tuberculosis, a Global Epidemic
Barry Kreiswirth, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
World Literature
Paulo Lemos Horta, NYU Abu Dhabi
Network Winter 2010
Energy and the Environment
Daniel Ciolkosz, The Pennsylvania State University
Literature and the Environment
McKay Jenkins, University of Delaware
Society and the Environment
Dana Fisher, Columbia University
Network Winter 2009
Climate and Carbon: The Mechanics of Warming
Tyler Volk, New York University
Neville Kallenbach, New York University (Coordinator)
Political Cultures of the Middle East
Ali Banuazizi, Boston College
Writing from Experience: The Theory and Practice of Narrative
Mayra Santos Febres, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Network Winter 2008
Puerto Rican Culture at the Borderlands
Ruben Rios Avila, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Successful Online Course Development
Ian David Aronson, New York University
War and Morality
Robert Gurland, New York University
Network Winter 2007
Global Climate Change: Science, Policy, Curriculum
Neville Kallenbach, New York University
Trace Jordan, New York University
Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
New Trends in Teaching English as a Second Language
Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, New York University
The Puerto Rican Dilemma: National Identity within the Borders of the American Nation
Cesar Rey, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Network Winter 2006
America’s Paradise: Re-imagining Hawai’i
John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University
Bio2010: From Sequence to Systematics
Trace Jordan, New York University
Neville Kallenbach, New York University