RESCHEDULED to March 31st: Touring the Abyss with dear elia: Unwellness and Care in the University
Join Dr. Mimi Khúc as she shares her work on unwellness and the university from her new book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Applying her framework of a “pedagogy of unwellness,” Dr. Khúc explores the contours of student and faculty unwellness and locates it within the racialized ableism of meritocracy that undergirds university life (and beyond).
RESCHEDULED to April 1st: Tarot for the Apocalypse: Collective Care in Times of Unwellness (i.e. All the Fucking Time)
What do we need in times of unwellness? What kinds of care can we imagine and build for ourselves if we engage our unwellness in new ways? Facilitated by Dr. Mimi Khúc, this interactive workshop will use the Asian American Tarot to explore mental health and the social, cultural, and structural forces that shape it, engaging critical arts approaches that provide new vocabularies for both what hurts and how we might care for what hurts, together.
Past Events:
Queering Science Communication with Dr. Alice Motion
To thrive as students, researchers and STEMM professionals, the LGBTQIA+ community needs greater representation in science and more inclusive environments in which to work. Similarly, efforts to communicate science need to be more representative and inclusive of queer people and embrace opportunities to challenge traditional formats for sharing science.
Live From The Lab: Sharing Science Through Music and Sound with Dr. Alice Motion
Sound and music are powerful forces for human connection, emotional exploration, communication and artistic expression. Over the past five years, our interdisciplinary team has investigated some of the ways in which sound and music can be used in public contexts to build connection with, and understanding of, science.