2020 was a year of struggle, grief, crisis--a year when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice were joined by economic instability, environmental destruction, and political trauma.
Responding to the Twin Pandemics of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice: Arts and Humanities in a Time of Crisis
The CAH blog has expanded to include responses to the racial injustice, police brutality, and white supremacy that are being challenged through uprisings and protests within our communities, across our nation, and around the world. Racism is itself a pandemic, one with a long history and a complicated inter-relationship to the medical pandemic of COVID-19.
In a time of extraordinary upheaval like the one we are in now, the arts and humanities help us to better understand our world and our connections to each other. How have the humanities helped you to contextualize current events, reevaluate human relations, or reimagine the future? How have the arts helped to sustain or connect you as we both take to the streets and shelter in place?
The Center for the Arts & Humanities invites faculty to contribute to our updated blog devoted to sharing short reflections, stories, poems, music, short films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, dances, and other forms of expression and inquiry that highlight the importance of the arts and humanities in this time of multiple crises.
Submit one-paragraph proposals or completed blog entries of 250-750 words to Michelle Burnham or Amy Randall. We encourage the inclusion of visual or audio components as well as hyperlinks.