2024-25
About Care | Culture | Justice
Who provides care and for whom? Who and what do we care about? How do we cultivate more caring relations across differences? Across borders? Within ourselves? How might we envision a more caring and just politics? How might collective care offer strategies for enduring and thriving in precarious, disabling environments? How do we build agile infrastructures to resource wider forms of care to address global health disparities? What opportunities emerge if care is centralized at every scale of life — including non-human forms? How is care inherent to the arts and humanities? What role can the arts and humanities play in expanding our capacity to care?
With CARE | CULTURE | JUSTICE, the Society of Fellows is particularly interested in supporting projects that explore care in terms of lived experiences through the vitality of the arts, culture and history. Community-engaged research and creative projects that operationalize collective care are also welcome, including collaborative projects with non-profit organizations, clinics and mutual aid networks, projects that focus on public education and public policy and proposals invested in disability justice, transformative access and cross-movement organizing.
Faculty Fellows
- Marta Castilho da Silva (External Fellow)
- Janet Childerhose (College of Medicine-Internal Medicine)
- Namiko Kunimoto (History of Art)
- Ashley Hope-Pérez (Comparative Studies)
- Margaret Price (English)
- David Ruderman (English, Newark campus)
- Johanna Sellman (Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Lucille Toth (French and Italian)
- Amy Youngs (Art)
FACILITATORS
Stephanie Power-Carter
Christa B. Teston
Graduate Team Fellows
- Alyssa Bedrosian (PhD, Spanish and Portuguese)
- Yujie Chen (PhD, Dance)
- William Evans (MFA, Art)
- Ekundayo Igeleke (PhD, Comparative Studies)
- Jennifer Nunes (PhD, East Asian Languages and Literatures)
- Robin Raven Prichard (PhD, Dance)
- Justin Salgado (PhD, History)
MENTOR
Ashley Hope Pérez
Undergraduate Apprentices
- Code Beschler (Anthropology)
- Meredith Clay (History)
- Shelby Hanthorn (Psychology)
MENTOR
Johanna Sellman
Programming
Society of Fellows Symposium
December 6, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
WOSU Ross Community Studio
How do we cultivate more caring relations across differences? Across borders? Within ourselves? How might we envision a more caring and just politics? Join the Society of Fellows, members of city government, scholars, educators and practitioners for this wide-ranging conversation on the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme's 2024-25 Society of Fellows theme: CARE | CULTURE | JUSTICE. This event is free and open to the public
Program
- 10 a.m. ARRIVAL
- 10:30 a.m. WELCOME | Wendy S. Hesford, GAHDT Director
SPOKEN WORD | Black Girlhood: Care In/Justice - 11 a.m. ROUNDTABLE | Care and In/ Justice
(Moderator) Christa Teston Professor, Department of English • (Panelists) Akemi Nishida Associate Professor, University of Illinois • Mysheika W. Roberts Columbus City Public Health Commissioner • Tracie McCambridge Director of Art & Resilience, Wexner Center for the Arts • Priscilla R. Tyson City of Columbus Council Member - 12:30 p.m. KEYNOTE LUNCH
HARRIET A. WASHINGTON: "Equity by Design: Crafting Just Care Beyond Race and State"
Harriet A. Washington is an award-winning medical writer, author, educator and ethicist. The most recent of her many publications is Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent. Her book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation from Colonial Times to the Present, won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. Washington is a lecturer in Columbia University's Master's in Bioethics Program and co-chair of History and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. - (Moderator) Ange-Marie Hancock, Executive Director, Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- 2:15 p.m. ROUNDTABLE | Care As/Is Policy
(Moderator) Kedar Hiremath Associate Director, Chronic Brain Injury Program • (Panelists) Anne Trinh Director of Strategic Initiatives, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Evaluation Studies • Shameka Poetry Thomas Instructor, Center for Bioethics • Tasleem Padamsee Associate Professor, College of Public Health - 3:15 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS
DIGITAL DIALOGUE | Healing Justice Lineages, with Cara Page
February 7, 2025, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Zoom
Care Page is a cultural memory worker and organizer. She is founder of Changing Frequencies and co-founder of the Healing Histories Project, a network of healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians and cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt harmful systems of care.
Society of Fellows Gathering
April 16, 2025, from 3:30-5 p.m. on Zoom
This event was designed to provide fellows across the cohorts with the opportunity to reflect on the fellowship year and to share new and/or shifting perspectives on the thematic.
Program
Short presentations
- A Poetics of Intransitive Hope
Faculty Fellow David Ruderman and Newark poets - Researching Resistance: A Disability History of Care During Crisis
Undergraduate Fellow Code Beschler - Practicing Death Songs
Graduate Team Fellow Robin Raven Prichard - "But We Often Cry in Empty Corners: Care in the Ruins"
Graduate Team Fellow Jennifer Nunes