Department Diversity and Inclusion Committee co-hosts virtual forum on race in early modernity
On November 19, the Department of English's Diversity and Inclusion Committee, along with the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, hosted a Zoom forum titled "Race in Early Modernity." Moderated by Associate Professor Jennifer Higginbotham, the forum featured a panel of scholars from universities across Ohio: Assistant Professor Amrita Dhar, Ohio State; Carol Mejia-LaPerle, Wright State; and Kirsten Mendoza, University of Dayton.
Each panelist delivered a lecture within the theme of race in modernity. First to speak was Mejia-LaPerle, who delivered a talk titled "How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Race and Affect in Early Modern Scholarship and Teaching." This was followed by Mendoza's lecture, "Anti-Racist Pedagogies of Remembrance," and Dhar's "Against Innocence: The Premodern English Literature Canon." The panelists' presentations were followed by a Q&A session, in which audience members were able to engage with the panelists.
The virtual forum was an extension of the workshops on Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Methodology and Mentoring that the English department's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme organized last year.
