After a year-long process of collecting faculty and staff ideas, members of the Global Arts + Humanities leadership team and Advisory Committee have identified the 2023-24 Society of Fellows annual theme: Freedom Dreams.

About Freedom Dreams

“Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics but a process that can and must transform us.”

— Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination —

The Society of Fellows’ 2023-24 theme, Freedom Dreams, focuses on the transformative role of arts and humanities in imagining alternatives to oppressive carceral systems and envisioning more life-affirming and equitable futures.