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Subject: Tomorrow-Humanities Centers as Sites of Dissent: A Panel Discussion
Humanities Centers as Sites of Dissent: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, December 2nd,
4-5pm, on Zoom
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Our distinguished panelists:
Wendy S. Hesford
Faculty Director of Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of English, Ohio State University and
Ohio Eminent Scholar of Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy. She is also the Director of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme.
She has published seven books, including the award-winning Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, and Feminisms; and
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics forthcoming this spring.
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme has recommitted The Ohio State University to the importance of the cross-disciplinary research
and specifically the arts and humanities to addressing global concerns and to creating a diverse, engaged research and learning community. In addition to the $2.5 million commitment in one-time cash to support grants and programming for a five-year period
(2015-2020), GAHDT operates with an annual-rate funding of $2.5 million presently earmarked for postdoctoral researchers and development of programming to fund several new open grants competitions and fellowship opportunities for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate
students.
Sylvester Johnson
Founding director, Virginia Tech Center for Humanities; Professor of Religion and Culture; Assistant Vice Provost for the Humanities
Johnson is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of technology, race, religion, and national security. He
is also assistant vice provost for the humanities at Virginia Tech and executive director of the university’s
Tech for Humanity initiative. His scholarship advances new approaches to understanding the human condition and social institutions of power in an age of intelligent machines and other forms of technology innovation. He is
the author or The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity, a study of race and religious hatred that won the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book award; and
African American Religions, 1500-2000, an award-winning interpretation of five centuries of democracy, colonialism, and freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson has also co-edited
The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11. A founding co-editor of
the
Journal of Africana Religions, he has published more than 70 scholarly articles, essays, and reviews. Johnson is currently writing a book on human identity in the age of intelligent machines and human-machine symbiosis. He is also producing a digital
scholarly edition of an early English history of global religions.
https://liberalarts.vt.edu/research-centers/center-for-humanities.html
Susan Van Pelt Petry
Susan Van Pelt Petry, Professor and former chair in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, is a choreographer and performer
with an international career, recipient of numerous awards, and is on the Commission of the National Association of Schools of Dance. She is the Arts Faculty Fellow for the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme since 2019.
http://go.osu.edu/gahdt
Nicoletta Pireddu
Inaugural Director, Georgetown Humanities Initiative and Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
Pireddu works on interdisciplinary approaches to literature and the history of ideas (especially European, Mediterranean, and transnational
identities, borders, and migration). Among her most recent books are The Works of Claudio Magris.Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders (2015) as well as the edited volumes Reframing Critical, Literary and Cultural Theories: Thought on the Edge
(2018) and Migrating Minds. Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (forthcoming 2021).
The recently launched Georgetown Humanities Initiative aims to demonstrate the continuing value of the humanities and the arts for understanding
the challenges and opportunities of the human condition. The Initiative, conceived as the prelude to a future Humanities Center, supports the research and teaching of the University’s humanistic scholars and fosters collaborative interdisciplinary projects
across different departments and schools that can involve students' participation and also engage with the public sphere.
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Alison Landsberg
Director, Center for Humanities Research (CHR)
Professor of History and Cultural Studies
George Mason University
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