{"id":1328,"date":"2021-05-25T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/hum-595a\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:14","slug":"hum-595a","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/hum-595a\/","title":{"rendered":"HUM 595A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Scholarship in a Post-Affirmative Action Era<br \/>\nChandan Reddy (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and English)<br \/>\nThis micro-seminar asks students to consider the meaning and practice of &#8220;public scholarship&#8221; as universities become more racially and economically exclusionary than even a decade past.\u00a0 In this context, does &#8220;public scholarship&#8221; function as an alibi for exclusion and minoritization?\u00a0 Does it disturb or augment the division of knowledge within the university?\u00a0 How might we rethink and redeploy the terms &#8220;public&#8221; and &#8220;scholarship&#8221; in ways that resist the reproduction of racial disparities and inequities across institutions of higher education?\u00a0 Readings for the seminar will focus on &#8220;public,&#8221; &#8220;scholarship,&#8221; &#8220;diversity,&#8221; &#8220;affirmative action,&#8221; and &#8220;university.&#8221;<br \/>\nStudents enrolled in the course will be required to attend Jodi Melamed&#8217;s IAS Distinguished Speaker lecture at UW Bothell, Thursday, November 20.<br \/>\nCourse meetings:Friday, October 10, 2:00-5:00 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CMU 202 (UW Seattle)Friday, October 31, 2:00-5:00 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CMU 202 (UW Seattle)Friday, November 14, 2:00-5:00 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0CMU 202 (UW Seattle)<br \/>\nThursday, November 20, 6-7:30 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0North Creek Events Center (UW Bothell)Friday, November 21, 2:00-5:00 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0CMU 202 (UW Seattle)<br \/>\nChandan 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.<br \/>\nJodi 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 &#8220;What are the Stakes of What Diversity Means? Capitalism, Collective Existence, the University, and Beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1328","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 12:44:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}