Community Change Collaborative (CCC) Meetings are held most Thursdays at 11 a.m. in the Graduate Life Center, Room C.
The CCC is an interdisciplinary graduate student group hosted by the VT Institute for Policy and Governance (IPG). We explore the frameworks of scholars and practitioners working in community development through a Forum speaker series, community-based research projects, and the graduate student-run Community Change journal. For more information, please contact Heather Parrish, IPG Executive Assistant and Media Support (parrish1@vt.edu).
Community Change journal: Call for submissions focused on environmental topics: Issues feature scholarly refereed articles, book reviews, essays, and other work, including multimedia and artwork. Interdisciplinary scholarship is strongly encouraged. In addition to manuscripts relating to new developments, we welcome submissions that re-examine or challenge the questions and assumptions underpinning current theoretical and practical approaches to community development and change. Community Change will also feature shorter scholarly works that address guest speakers’ lectures, interviews, and roundtable events. The journal is currently looking for graduate students interested in editorial or peer review positions. Please contact communitychange@vt.edu for more information.
CCC Upcoming Events:
Friday, Nov. 9th: CCC Film Series, “Stranger With a Camera” (2000)
“In the coal-mining heart of Appalachia’s “poverty belt,” where residents have felt alternately aided and assaulted by media exposure, the 1967 murder of filmmaker Hugh O’Connor still stirs strong community feelings. O’Connor was in the area during the War on Poverty gathering images for a film and was killed by landowner Hobart Ison. Barret turns the story of this tragic confrontation into an interrogation of the media itself and its relationship to public knowledge and private dignity as well as a meditation on Appalachia’s place in the American imagination.”
4-6 p.m., GLC, Room A
Thursday, Nov. 15th: CCC Forum with Professor Emily Satterwhite, Dept. of Religion and Culture
Podcast interview and Q&A focused on race, identity, and environmental justice in Appalachia, as well as Prof. Satterwhite’s research in audience and horror studies.
11 a.m., GLC, Room C
SAVE THE DATE!
Thursday, Jan. 24th, 2019: CCC Forum with Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. City and Regional Planning, Executive Director of Catalytic Communities and RioOnWatch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Join us the first week of second semester for a documentary showing and roundtable discussion, podcast interview, and public lecture featuring Dr. Williamson’s work. Catalytic Communities and RioOnWatch raise awareness and improve quality of life in Rio’s favelas through community organizing and comprehensive reporting. Favelas are informal dwellings that arise due to a need for affordable housing, and though they often lack full public services, they are vibrant and adaptable urban spaces housing nearly 1.5 million people in Rio.
All events in the Graduate Life Center, Room F:
1:30 p.m., Documentary & Roundtable Discussion
2:30 p.m., Podcast Interview
4:30 p.m., Lecture: “Realizing Favelas As a Sustainable Model via Insurgent Planning: Rethinking Our Assumptions in Sustainable Development”
This event made possible with generous support from the Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and the Institute for Policy and Governance.
Award-winning Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein spent years getting to know Janesville, Wisconsin, where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in 2008, in the midst of the Great Recession. She wove the stories of the small city and its people together in Janesville: An American Story.
Amy Brooks is the Program Director and Dramaturg for Roadside Theater, the theater wing of Appalachian grassroots arts and media center Appalshop. A 5th-generation West Virginian who returned to Appalachia just before the 2016 election cycle, Amy investigates the confluence of dramatic narrative (“What is the story we choose to tell onstage?”) and public narrative (“What is the story we are called upon to tell about ourselves, our community, and our future?”) in intercultural rural-urban performance.