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Society of Fellows Graduate Workshops

August 27, 2020

Society of Fellows Graduate Workshops

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The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the lineup for our 2020-21 Society of Fellows graduate workshop series, which brings together artists, scholars and activists working in a broad range of disciplines aligning with our 2020-21 theme of Human Rights: Pasts and Futures. Areas of expertise include studies in art, performance and activism; critical human rights; disability; environmental justice; incarceration; Indigeneity; intersectional rhetorics; migrant and refugee rights; race and citizenship; and sexuality, among others. 

Workshops will be capped at thirty participants; priority will be given to related graduate seminars, Society of Undergraduate Fellows and Graduate Team Fellows. To RSVP, visit the event pages, linked below.

Do you require an accommodation to participate in an event? If so, select yes on the RSVP webform(s) and email us at globalartsandhumanities@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Please direct questions to Program Manager Puja Batra-Wells (.1). 


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COVID-19: VIRAL RACISM
September 22, 10:30 a.m. to noon

Workshop leader: Iyko Day (Associate Professor, Department of English and Critical Social Thought—Mount Holyoke College)
Moderator: Jian Chen (Associate professor, Departments of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

This workshop will explore the ways COVID-19 has fueled anti-Asian sentiment and reignited fears of disease-carrying foreigners. Drawing on her research on Asian racialization and settler colonial capitalism, Iyko Day will review the historical depictions of Asians as untrustworthy, sneaky and diseased, which are linked to longstanding associations of Asians with a destructive economism. Like the virus, the insidious character of this racialized economism turns on its invisibility and abstract character.

TRANSNATIONALIZING PANDEMIC RHETORICS
September 24, 10-11:30 a.m.

Workshop leader: Shui-yin Sharon Yam (Associate Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies—University of Kentucky)
Moderator: Wendy S. Hesford (Professor, Department of English—Ohio State, and faculty director of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme—Ohio State)

The pandemic has amplified existing global inequities. Grassroots protests have sprung up transnationally to challenge inequities and oppressive state regimes suppression of dissent and weaponization of pandemic control policies to persecute protesters. This workshop introduces the rhetorical framework of "deliberative empathy," and invites participants to examine the pandemic and the coinciding wave of global uprising as a coalitional moment. We will explore how we can mobilize transnational rhetoric to foster grassroots solidarity across nation-states. 

DECOLONIZATION AND ABOLITION IN THE NOW
October 1, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Workshop leader: Tiffany Lethabo King (Assistant professor, Departments of African-American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies—Georgia State University)
Moderator: Shannon Winnubst (Professor and chair, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies—Ohio State)
This workshop will explore methods, questions, theoretical frames and sites of analysis that facilitate bringing Black studies and Native studies into conversation. Participants should be prepared to share their own approaches to and experiences with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods and practice, and participants will also be asked to have an object or text from your own research in mind to discuss. 

DISABILITY AND STATE VIOLENCE
October 20, 10-11:30 a.m.

Workshop leaders: Sona Hill Kazemi (Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow—Mills College) and Rachel Lewis (Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Program—George Mason University)
Moderator: Margaret Price (Associate Professor, Department of English—Ohio State)
People with disabilities face multiple human rights violations, and yet their precarity is often more recognized metaphorically — as general vulnerability — than in terms of the material conditions that produce inaccessibility and persecution and render them invisible. The two presenters for this session work on global dimensions of disability and human rights. Rachel Lewis’ work focuses on the precarity of people with disabilities in the political asylum process and in refugee narratives more generally. Sona Hill Kazemi will works with narratives told by survivors of the Iran Iraq war. The workshop will consider the multiple global intersections of disability and state violence.

MIGRANT CROSSINGS: RESEARCH AS PRAXIS
April 6, 3:30-5 p.m.

Workshop leader: Annie Isabel Fukushima (Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies Division—The University of Utah)
Moderator: Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese—Ohio State)
Our final workshop incorporates research as praxis, where central to answering how one crosses into visibility — in particular, migrants cross into visibility as "victims" / "criminals" and trafficking subjects — requires the bridging of theory and practice. This workshop is informed by Fukushima’s own commitment to praxis, having worked at all levels of organizations — from volunteer to leadership roles, case worker, programs coordinator and as an expert witness for civil, criminal and immigration cases. This workshop will offer insights into local, national and transnational collaborations.