Wolfe Annual Theme
Yearly themes provide cohesion to our programming and reinforce the Wolfe Institute's promotion of school- and campus-wide conversations grounded in the humanities. Establishing a broad theme each year creates a focus for collaborative events that span a variety of fields. Creating and cosponsoring programs around a relevant topic encourages curricular and extracurricular engagement.
All BC students, faculty, and staff are invited to suggest a theme for the 2021-2022 academic year. What theme embraces the moment? The deadline to submit a theme is Friday, April 30th.
The best themes are one to three words long, and are broad enough to include ideas from multiple disciplines. You can see descriptions of the previous themes: "transforming,""land,"and "the body," below.
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Past Themes
2020–21: Transforming
The 2020-2021 Wolfe them is transforming. Transforming acknowledges the evolving world around us, as well as a hope and possibility for our collective future, and each person's agency in contributing to that future. It recognizes the ways Brooklyn College faculty are transforming their individual disciplines through research, scholarship, and art, and how our students are transforming our communities with their work, ideas, and activism. Transforming also emphasizes the College's mission statement - to provide transformative education and help students transform their fields and professions.
2019–20: Land
This theme was suggested by students and approved by a faculty committee. It engages the idea of land broadly, including nations, indigenous studies, the earth and other planets, maps and mapping, digital territories, landscapes, soil, and the verb to land, as in to arrive at a conclusion as well as other manifestations.
2018–19: The Body
For the inaugural 2018–19 year, the theme for Wolfe Institute events is "The Body," a concept that encompasses the physical body and brain as well as the body politic, the student body, and bodies of literature, congress, or even water.
