DEL Colloquium Series
SUMMER 2019
Antonio "Tony" Cabral
Educational Policy and Reform in Massachusetts
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
May 28, 2019
FALL 2018
Zeena Zakharia
Investing in the Crisis: Private Participation in the Education of Syrian Refugees
UMass - Boston
November 16, 2018
SUMMER 2018
Shakhnoza Kayumova
Sociopolitical Dimensions of Language Learning and Identity Development Among Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Students
UMass - Dartmouth
May 25, 2018
SPRING 2018
Christian Chun
The Common-Sense Discourses of Capitalism: Engaging with Everyday Economists
UMass - Boston
April 27, 2018
Mary Jo Hetzel
Creating the "Impossible" from the Bottom-Up: Transforming Urban Schools Into Powerful, Just and Loving Learning Communities
A lifelong educator and grassroots activist; Author of In a Silent Way: A Novel (2016); Founding Director of the Boston Campus-Springfield College School of Human Services
April 6, 2018
FALL 2017
William Ayers
DEMAND the IMPOSSIBLE! A Light in Dark Times
Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago
November 17, 2017
Curtis Acosta
Victory in Arizona: Defending the Rights and Education of Chicanx/Latinx Youth in the Era of Trump
Independent Scholar - Activist
October 20, 2017
SUMMER 2017
Bonny Norton
Identity, investment, and language learning across global sites: Implications for language planning in the USA
University of British Columbia
July 10, 2017
SPRING 2017
Carlos Wahnon Veiga
The Cape Verdean Educational System & Challenges and Opportunities of Migration
Cape Verdean Ambassador to the U.S.
April 7, 2017
Joel Spring
2016-2017 Republican and Democratic Education Agendas: Free Markets (Trump) vs. Human Capital (Democrats)
Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
March 31, 2017
Mark Warren
Transforming Public Education: Community Organizing and a New Educational Justice Movement
UMass - Boston
March 3, 2017
FALL 2016
Angolan writer Ondjacki
Educational System in Angola
UMass Dartmouth
November 2016
Fernando Naiditch
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Montclair State University
November 29, 2016
James Jupp
Beyond Statesian Multicultural Foundations on Race: Toward Cosmopolitan and Decolonizing Curriculum in Transnational Contexts
Georgia Southern University
November 14, 2016
SPRING 2016
Khalil Saucier
Necessary Black: Cape Verdean Culture and Identity Issues
Rhode Island College
March 31, 2016
Leigh Patel
Decolonizing Educational Research
Boston University
March 29, 2016
FALL 2015
Donaldo Macedo
The Hegemony of English Language.
UMass Boston
Lilia Bartolomé
Ideological Clarity as a Condition for Humane Pedagogy
UMass Boston
November 13, 2015
Vajra Watson
The Pedagogy of Our Lives: Teaching Tools for Social Resistance within and beyond the Walls of Schools
University of California-Davis
November 14, 2015
SUMMER 2015
Henry Giroux
Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism's Politics of Disposability
McMaster University
April 24, 2015
SPRING 2015
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Hip Hop/Hip Hope. The (R)evolution of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 10, 2015
Thomas Popkewitz
The Impracticality of Practical Research: OECD’S Pisa and Teacher Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 9, 2015
Alphonso Lingis
Passion & Educational Leadership
FALL 2014
Bernadette Baker
Braining the Mind or ‘Purely Spiritual Causation’? A Historico-Philosophical Analysis of Child Mind as a Scientific Object in the Trans-Atlantic North.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 10, 2014
Pauline Lipman
Austerity Politics, Coercive Neoliberal Urbanism, and the Challenge of Counter-Hegemonic Education Movements
University of Illinois at Chicago
Wayne Au
The Racist Impulse of Corporate Education Reform: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Privatization of Public Schools
University of Washington-Bothell
SUMMER 2014
Lilia Bartolomé
Critical Language Policy: Implications for Educator Preparation and Action
UMass Boston
June 12, 2014
SPRING 2014
Susan Searls Giroux
On the Role of Intellectuals in the Post-Civil Rights University: Some DuBoisian Reflections Henry Giroux
Where is the Outrage? Defending Higher Education in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
April 24, 2014
Richard Quantz
Rethinking Education Reform: Ritual and Nonrationality in Schooling
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
April 25, 2014
FALL 2013
Stanley Aronowitz
Education in a Jobless Economy
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
October 4, 2013
Lois Weiner
Understanding the Global Assault on Teaching and the Role of Teachers' Unions in Saving Public Education
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
October 18, 2013
Angela Valenzuela
Research, Advocacy, and Community in Public Policy Struggles in Education
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
November 22, 2013
SPRING 2013
Antonia Darder
Critical Transformative Leadership for Community Engagement and Empowerment
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
April 12, 2013
Vanessa Andreotti
Questions of Representation, Inequality, Relevance and Solidarity in Curriculum Theorizing
Colloquium Series
UMass Dartmouth
May 10, 2013
Fall 2012
Deborah Meier
Critical Transformative Leadership and Policy
Graduate Students Conference
UMass Dartmouth
November 16, 2012
Kenneth Saltman
Critical Transformative Leadership and Policy
Graduate Students Conference
UMass Dartmouth
November 17, 2012
Noam Chomsky
Special Lecture: On The State, Democracy, and Public Education
Colloquium Series Seminar
UMass Dartmouth
December 4, 2012
Spring 2012
Kenneth Zeichner
Two Visions of Teaching and Teacher Education for the Twenty-first Century
Colloquium II, educational leadership and policy studies EdD and PhD program
UMass Dartmouth
May 1, 2012
Kenneth Saltman
The Failure of Corporate School Reform: Towards a New Common School Movement
Colloquium Series Seminar
UMass Dartmouth
May 21, 2012
Fall 2011
Victor Borges
Understanding and Interrupting the Think Tanks Towards a Transformative Leadership in Africa.
Colloquium Series Seminar
UMass Dartmouth
October 4, 2011
Gary Anderson
Turn Around Leaders: Towards Authentic School Reform
Colloquium I, educational leadership and policy studies EdD and PhD program
UMass Dartmouth
October 14, 2011
David Hursh
Explaining Obama: The Continuation of Free Market Policies in Education and the Economy&n;
Colloquium Series Seminar
UMass Dartmouth
November 14, 2011