MCLA Professor to Present 'Oral History Remix: Disrupting Notions of Difference'

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—MCLA Assistant Professor of Education Lisa Arrastia will present "Oral History Remix: Disrupting Notions of Difference" at 6 p.m. on March 10, via zoom, as part of The Mind's Eye Spring 2022 Works in Progress Lecture Series.  
 
This event is free and open to the public. To register, visit https://mindseye.mcla.edu/spring2022
 
This is the third iteration of The Mind's Eye's Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium series, in which MCLA faculty members share their current research or creative projects and benefit from questions and discussion. 
 
During her talk, Arrastia and attendants will try to bring into being "diverse, untidy social dreams" by listening to students engage a new genre of public art, one of duration, one with the intent of disorienting our notions of difference through a love pedagogy, a pedagogy of aesthetic love. 
 
About Dr. Lisa Arrastia  
 
Lisa is a school leader, teacher, and school founder in NYC, Chicago, and California, who studies pedagogies of culture, racial capitalism, masculinity, social class, place, and dystopias in education. She is co-editor of Starting Up (Teachers College Press) and author of "Love Pedagogy: Teaching to Disrupt" (The Crisis of Connection, NYU Press). 

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Spectrum Cable Hearing Set in North Adams

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A public hearing for the renewal of the cable television contract for four North Berkshire communities will be held on Wednesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. at City Hall. 
 
The 10-year contract with Spectrum/Charter Communications will cover the city of North Adams and the towns of Adams, Cheshire and Clarksburg. 
 
The hearing in Council Chambers is open to residents of all four communities. In-person attendance is encouraged but a remote option is available here via Zoom
 
Topics covered during the hearing will include the future of cable-related community needs and interests (community television) and performance of the operator under the cable license. It does not include internet or other provided services. 
 
The hearing is required under state law as part of the contract renewal process. Any documents or reports relating to the contract can be obtained through the governmental offices of each community.  
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