Spring 2021
HAL’s Translocal Learning Studio (TLS) opened a virtual meeting space for developing and expanding accountable, transformative, and community-centered learning practices that activate history and memory for justice-centered movements and mutual aid in the current moment. This studio is “translocal,” a core tenet of HAL that honors the unique circumstances, autonomy, and tools of hyperlocal organizing and supported building reciprocal learning relationships between these localities across the world.
In the TLS, participants engaged as both teachers and learners to collaboratively experiment with exercises, workshops, readings/media, and other forms that challenge what teaching and practicing justice-centered public history can and should be. The “course” included structures for intentional, reciprocal mentoring to facilitate a lasting learning community. It generated community curated resources and model practices collaboratively designed by members.
Spring TLS Sessions:
TLS Session 1–Mutual Mentorship: April 1, 1:30-3pm EST
TLS Session 2–Mutual Aid Storytelling: April 8, 1:30-3pm EST
TLS Session 3–Transforming Learning Spaces: April 22, 1:30-3pm EST
Fall 2020
The Humanities Action Lab opened a virtual studio for developing and expanding anti-racist, decolonial, and community-centered learning practices that activate history and memory for justice-centered movements and mutual aid in the current moment. This studio is “translocal,” a core tenet of HAL that honors the unique circumstances, autonomy, and tools of hyperlocal organizing and supports building reciprocal learning relationships between these localities across the world. The pilot “course” for Fall 2020 consisted of 6-8 online modular sessions and included undergraduate/graduate students, members of community organizations, and faculty from HAL’s 20+ partner communities. Participants engaged as both teachers and learners, to collaboratively experiment with exercises, workshops, readings/media, and other forms that challenge what teaching and practicing justice-centered public history can and should be.
Fall TLS Sessions:
TLS Session 1: October 15, 2020
TLS Session 2: October 29, 2020
TLS Session 3: November 12, 2020
TLS Session 4: December 3, 2020
TLS Session 5: December 17, 2020
