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
Accessibility: This venue is wheelchair accessible. If you require accommodations to participate fully in this event, please email globalartsandhumanities@osu.edu.
