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Occupying the Narrative Space: Activism and Political Change
September 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the Andrea Mitchell Center for its first Graduate Student Workshop of the 2024-2025 academic year, featuring Celia Eckert (Harvard School of Government) and Kalahan Brown (Penn Annenberg).
Celia Eckert: “Shifting Grounds: Protest Occupations as Worldmaking“
Kalahan Brown: “Watermelon Fights: Narrative Wars in the US over the Palestine Conflict“
Papers will be sent directly to those who register. Hybrid event, Zoom link will be sent out after registration.
Celia Eckert is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard’s Department of Government studying political theory and contemporary American politics. Her research examines the intersections between urban design, institutional change, democracy, and protest. Drawing from critical theory, sociology and urban studies, her dissertation examines how urban spaces shape social paradigms and how participants in these spaces work within and against them to craft political change. Before coming to Harvard, Celia was an English-language educator in France. She received her B.A. in Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago, where she was an Odyssey Scholar. At Harvard, she worked as a curriculum lead at the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, developing a civics education curriculum for 8th graders. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Celia is a Media and Design Fellow at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
Kallahan V. Brown is a first-year doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communication and member of the Fontaine society. He recently graduated with a B.A. in psychology and minors in cognitive neuroscience and political science from Temple University. His time at Temple inspired him to investigate means of communication as an avenue for change, especially when disseminating information to the public and presenting platforms favorably. Brown has lived in both Charlotte, North Carolina and Philadelphia, informing his ability to recognize the differences in how the same messaging can be perceived differently and reinforcing his passion for finding a better way to create these messages.