Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Kirk Savage, Jennifer Josten, Chris Nygren, Alison Langmead
202 Frick Fine Arts
HAA Faculty will share thoughts and ideas regarding a new grant from the Mellon Foundation titled "Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge". The call for applications reads: Scholarly fields and disciplines are never merely “academic,” in that they aim to illuminate aspects of the world at large, well beyond the academy itself.... We seek ideas for projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with issues of social justice, given the particular investigative and analytical methods they deploy. While we welcome submissions from across the humanities, we are especially interested in applications grounded in long-standing fields such as art history, classics, history, languages and literatures, musicology, philosophy, and religious studies. Preference will be given to projects that reflect explicitly on the relevant discipline’s or inter-discipline’s particular capacity for social justice analysis as well as its limits in this regard, and that propose concrete pedagogical, research, and/or community engaged efforts that have transformative potential for the institution and the wider field.