The Global Arts + Humanities 2020-21 Society of Fellows graduate workshop series 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.
Workshops will be capped at thirty participants; priority will be given to related graduate seminars, Society of Undergraduate Fellows and Graduate Team Fellows. RSVPs are required.
This event will not have live transcription, but participants can indicate if they will need transcription on the RSVP webform.
Please direct questions to Program Manager Puja Batra-Wells (.1).
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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.
