[Pols-announce] Fwd: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Fri Nov 27 19:53:55 CST 2020

FYI, former KU faculty presentation...she is really impressive

Don Haider-Markel
Sent via airborne drone

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From: "Ferguson, Brent" <ferguson_music at ku.edu>
Date: November 27, 2020 at 2:13:05 PM CST
To: "Pickerel, Linda M." <lpicke at ku.edu>, "Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick" <dhmarkel at ku.edu>
Subject: RE: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Hello!

I hope you are doing well over this holiday break.

I am emailing for two reasons:

  1.  MMRC and MARC will have our last lunch lecture for the semester. It will be on 12/1 at 12 pm, and it will feature Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley presenting on her new book Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip Hop Performance. Here is the Zoom info: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/94455843671 Passcode: 386655. Please, pass on to PS students if you get a chance. We are still working out the process of advertising, and we hoping to get marketing material out sooner in the Spring.
  2.  I have attached an interest form for graduate student participation in the lunch lecture series. Please, pass it on to whomever you think would be best for this type of event. We are open to presentations on research, open discussions and roundtables, and records of personal experience.

Please, let me know if you have any questions about the lunch lecture series. We are hoping to get situated better in the Spring and will be holding these events twice a month.

Thank you, and please take care!

Best,

Brent Ferguson

From: Pickerel, Linda M. <lpicke at ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:55 AM
To: Ferguson, Brent <ferguson_music at ku.edu>; Sauerwein, Joel <JoelSauer at ku.edu>
Subject: Re: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Okay, thanks, this helps.  When I look up BBIP on KU search it says Blake Book Interactive Project   -Linda

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From: Ferguson, Brent <ferguson_music at ku.edu<mailto:ferguson_music at ku.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:50 AM
To: Pickerel, Linda M. <lpicke at ku.edu<mailto:lpicke at ku.edu>>; Sauerwein, Joel <JoelSauer at ku.edu<mailto:JoelSauer at ku.edu>>
Subject: RE: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

No problem!

BBIP stands for Black, Brown, and Indigenous People.

Please, let me know if you have any other questions and take care.

Best,

Brent

From: Pickerel, Linda M. <lpicke at ku.edu<mailto:lpicke at ku.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:45 AM
To: Sauerwein, Joel <JoelSauer at ku.edu<mailto:JoelSauer at ku.edu>>; Ferguson, Brent <ferguson_music at ku.edu<mailto:ferguson_music at ku.edu>>
Subject: Re: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Forgive me for not knowing my acronyms, but what does BBIP stand for?    Thanks, Linda

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From: Sauerwein, Joel <JoelSauer at ku.edu<mailto:JoelSauer at ku.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:37 AM
To: Pickerel, Linda M. <lpicke at ku.edu<mailto:lpicke at ku.edu>>
Subject: FW: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Hi Linda,

Can you send this around to the POLS graduate student distribution list? I don’t have access to send to this distribution list. Thanks!

Joel Sauerwein

Graduate Academic Advisor

Department of Physics & Astronomy

+1-785-864-1225

From: Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick <dhmarkel at ku.edu<mailto:dhmarkel at ku.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:25 AM
To: Sauerwein, Joel <JoelSauer at ku.edu<mailto:JoelSauer at ku.edu>>
Subject: FW: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Hi Joel, can you please share this with our graduate students?

Thanks

DHM

From: Ferguson, Brent <ferguson_music at ku.edu<mailto:ferguson_music at ku.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:22 AM
To: Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick <dhmarkel at ku.edu<mailto:dhmarkel at ku.edu>>
Cc: Honerman, Tanya Nicole <thoner at ku.edu<mailto:thoner at ku.edu>>; Hansen, Owen Everett <owen_e_hansen at ku.edu<mailto:owen_e_hansen at ku.edu>>
Subject: KU MMRC and MARC Student Organizations

Dear Professor Don Haider-Markel,

Hello! My name is Brent Ferguson, and I represent both the KU student organization Midwest Music Research Collective (MMRC) and the community action organization Musicians for an Anti-Racist College (MARC). Pleased to meet you!

I am emailing you today to ask if you would be interested in supporting a collaborative series between the two organizations: the Lunch Lecture Series. This bi-monthly virtual event will feature BBIP scholars and graduate students both in and out of KU sharing their research in a guest lecture environment during the lunch hour. This is an event for both graduate and undergraduate students to attend. While both of our organizations represent the music discipline, we want to give all graduate students that identify as BBIP to have this opportunity across the campus, and we are open for any subject. We hope you may have students from Political Science that might be interested in presenting at or attending this opportunity. Further, we are interested in bringing in BBIP scholars outside of KU to guest lecture at these events, but this usually requires a stipend. Our estimate is that guest lectures via Zoom will lie between $50-$200. Due to this, we are hoping for financial support for this endeavor. We of course understand if that is not possible, and we are happy to welcome participation and advertising through Political Science.

MMRC has produced several conferences now in the past three years (at least one a year). MARC and MMRC are also planning a collaborative Spring virtual conference in which we have successfully approached Dr. AD Carson for our keynote. We are encouraging marginalized students and research topics to be presented for this conference. Also, we are welcoming support of any kind for the conference as well.

If you have any questions about this collaboration or suggestions, please feel free to contact me. I would be glad to set up a Zoom meeting between you, myself, a representative of MMRC and a representative from MARC, if you would like. I have also copied the current MMRC president, Tanya Honerman, and the MMRC Treasurer, Owen Hansen.

Again, it is nice to meet you, and I hope you consider helping our graduate students start this project for KU. Please, take care!

Best,

Brent Ferguson

Founding Member and Former President, MMRC

Member, KU MARC

Ph.D. in Music Theory, ‘20

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