Groups

Promoted and fostered visual culture research-creation at UC by creating regular spaces for Taft and DAAP faculty and students to share, present, and workshop-research in progress, as well as experiment with different modes of research–creation together.

Scholars, writers, physicians, artists, educators, storytellers, and community builders came together to use narrative and the arts to promote health, equity, critical compassion, and healing and to advance related research and activism.

This group organized and hosted numerous conversations around themes of food production and reproduction as social, cultural and environmental imperatives for our world today and in the foreseeable future.

Dedicated to student and faculty engagement in the context of COVID-19, faculty from the humanities, sciences, and discipline based education research, alongside CET&L and FEC staff asked: What do we miss as teachers and researchers when we apply pre-pandemic definitions of engagement to a post-pandemic world?

Responding to the societal challenges stemming from the sizeable percentage of Ohio’s population encountering one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the group documented and promulgated “best practices” aimed at increasing trauma-informed interaction capacity for members of the general public.

Drawing on expertise across many different disciplines, including communication, arts, philosophy, media, cultural studies, information technology, gender and sexuality, and others, the group sought to understand and enhance public awareness of inequities in digital media and systems.

The group contextualized the movement of humans within a framework of multiple mobilities, and questioned how these various transitions are conceived by people, and differentially represented in scholarship, law, policy, film, literature, and other mediatic and cultural products.

The Center for Public Engagement with Science expands and enriches the interface between science and the public to benefit all stakeholders.

Supported the development of long-term collaboration focused on multi-lingual projects in creative writing and translation across English, AEGS, RALL, and beyond.

Dedicated to the understanding the media, infrastructure, culture, and emergent systems of our modern digital ecosystems, as well as non-digital appropriations and responses to those ecosystems, through the lens of humanities and social science.

Emphasizing nimble, transnational comparisons over “global studies” perspectives that gloss over important distinctions between countries and world regions, this group sought to overcome the disciplinary compartmentalization that keeps faculty and students from talking and learning across fields.

An interdisciplinary group that promoted collaborative research and grant seeking in the field of Health Humanities, organized events on and off campus to showcase this research, and built connections to other research groups and centers on campus, and engaged community partners.

Composed of scholars whose research, teaching, and community activism prioritizes equity and inclusion and protection of our natural environment, the group was invested in identifying and dismantling structural and systemic apparatuses that oppress, restrict, contain, demean, degrade, and deny the dignity of individuals’ humanity.