The Cultural Studies Praxis Collective (CSPC) is a multi-year collaboration of faculty and academic staff at UW Bothell (UWB), UW Seattle (UWS), Cascadia Community College (CCC), and Bellevue Community College (BCC). Its long-term goals are to generate and disseminate new research on the multiple locations of the humanities, to initiate and institutionalize curricular innovation across the four campuses, and to build and develop arts and cultural pathways for community-based research and teaching. Members of the CSPC pursue these goals by working with a wide variety of organizations and projects, including the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies at UWB and the Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students at UWS.

Download a full roster of CSPC activities here including a list of publications, public presentations, roundtables, lectures, courses, workshops, and other initiatives.

September 8-14, 2006 • UW Seattle
"Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students"
A week-long intensive seminar designed to introduce doctoral students to a variety of methods for public scholarship and collaborative practices for university-community engagement.

Friday, October 20, 2006 • UW Seattle
"Community- and Practice-based Course Design"
Ron Krabill (IAS, UW Bothell) and Becky Rosenberg (Teaching and Learning Center, UW Bothell)
Graduate student workshop: A workshop intended to develop and to assess various tools and resourcesfor community-based and praxis-oriented syllabus design and pedagogy. Download e-Flyer

Friday, November 17, 2006 • UW Seattle
"Arts- and Community-Based Project Development and Evaluation"
Pam Korza (Animating Democracy, Co-Director) Elizabeth Thomas (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell)
Graduate student workshop: A hands-on introduction to collaborative and participatory project development and assessment strategies. Download e-Flyer

Friday, February 2, 2007 • UW Seattle
"Cultural Policy, Advocacy, and Activism"
Randy Martin (Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU) and Diane Douglas (Center for the Liberal Arts, Bellevue Community College)
A cross-disciplinary discussion and assessment of the national policy landscape that has enabled and shaped the emergence of the Public Humanities as a field of inquiry.Download e-Flyer

Winter 2007 Course • UW Seattle
"Public Humanities and the Digital University"
Instructors: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren and Ron Krabill
An interdisciplinary graduate seminar designed to examine the relationship between the emergence of the Public Humanities and the Digital Humanities as complementary, praxis-oriented responses to pressing questions of knowledge production that address cultural workers at the onset of the 21st century.

Spring 2007 Course • UW Seattle
"Visual Documentation Praxis"
Instructors: Kari Lerum and Danny Hoffman
A seminar designed to encourage students to explore how diverse forms of visual production can expand their research interests and forge unexpected connections within and beyond the university.

Summer 2007 Course • UW Seattle
"New Directions in Cultural Research: Community Collaboration Practice"
Instructors: Craig Jeffrey, Ron Krabill, and Kari Lerum
The Sixth Annual Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities provides and intensive introduction to scholarly research for competitively selected undergraduate students.