In celebration of its inaugural Society of Fellows cohort, the Global Arts + Humanities is holding a series of roundtables led by our graduate student research grant recipients. For these events, graduate students will come together to discuss how cross-disciplinary collaborations and methodologies have shaped their research and creative practices in the area of human rights.
Roundtable description: Common definitions of the concept of collaborative- and community-engaged research is “the process of working collaboratively with groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interests, or similar situations with respect to issues affecting their well-being” (Balls-Berry, 2017). In this roundtable, panelists will aim to decolonize CE research methodologies by attending to the ways in which unequal power relations mediate them. The roundtable consists of four projects that examine the role of CE and collaborative methodologies in arts and humanities research and seek to decentralize authorship through collaboration. Student projects are informed by critical race theory, queer theory, the arts as social practice and the themes of home, memory, body and place.
Panelists
Jacob A. Kopcienski (Music), Lydia R. Smith (Art), Yildiz Guventurk (Dance), Miranda Holmes (Art) and Rolando Rubalcava (English)
Moderator
Postdoctoral Researcher Sona Hill Kazemi (English)
