Fall Course: HUM 595 Public Scholarship in a Post-Affirmative Action Era (2 CR)

AUTUMN 2014

HUM 595A

2 CR (C/NC)

Public Scholarship in a Post-Affirmative Action Era Chandan Reddy (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and English):

This micro-seminar asks students to consider the meaning and practice of “public scholarship” as universities become more racially and economically exclusionary than even a decade past.  In this context, does “public scholarship” function as an alibi for exclusion and minoritization?  Does it disturb or augment the division of knowledge within the university?  How might we rethink and redeploy the terms “public” and “scholarship” in ways that resist the reproduction of racial disparities and inequities across institutions of higher education?  Readings for the seminar will focus on “public,” “scholarship,” “diversity,” “affirmative action,” and “university.”

Students enrolled in the course will be required to attend Jodi Melamed’s IAS Distinguished Speaker lecture at UW Bothell, Thursday, November 20.

Course meetings:

Friday, October 10, 2:00-5:00 pm               CMU 202 (UW Seattle)

Friday, October 31, 2:00-5:00 pm               CMU 202 (UW Seattle)

Friday, November 14, 2:00-5:00 pm         CMU 202 (UW Seattle)

Thursday, November 20               , 6-7:30 pm          North Creek Events Center (UW Bothell)

Friday, November 21, 2:00-5:00 pm         CMU 202 (UW Seattle)

Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor in the Departments of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and English at the University of Washington, and author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State.

Jodi Melamed is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Africana Studies at Marquette University and author of Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the new Racial Capitalism. Her public lecture as Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Distinguished Speaker on Thursday evening, is entitled “What are the Stakes of What Diversity Means? Capitalism, Collective Existence, the University, and Beyond.”

Miriam Bartha

Director, Graduate Programs

School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington Bothell

UW2-134

Ph: 425-352-5427

Email: MBartha@uwb.edu

www.uwb.edu/ias/graduate

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