As universities are foregrounding and supporting engaged scholarship more than ever, it is crucial to take-up urgent questions about how to ethically go about such endeavors and related questions about knowledge production and its dissemination. Ethical engagements include practices that are multidirectional, going beyond simply extending the university into communities, or extractive models of outreach, engagement, and collaboration. Scholar-activists in fields such as Feminist Studies and Ethnic Studies have long wrestled with the politics of knowledge production, asymmetrical power relations, and the ethics of engaged scholarship. This roundtable will feature interdisciplinary perspectives and firsthand accounts about the ethics of engagement and the politics of knowledge production.
Moderator:
Namiko Kunimoto – Associate Professor History of Art/Director Center for Ethnic Center
Participants (in alpha order):
Kimberly Springer — MSI, PhD | Columbia University | Curator Oral History Archives
Jenny Suchland -- Associate Professor WGSS/Columbus + Cincinnati/Ohio Justice and Policy Center + The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Jessica Tjiu -- PhD student WGSS/Columbus/Ohio Progressive Asian Women’s Leadership + Ohio Justice and Policy Center
Lyn Tjon Soei Len -- Assistant Professor WGSS/ Chair of the Board Bureau Clara Wichmann/Affiliated researcher Amsterdam Law School
