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.
Jessica Tjiu – PhD student WGSS, The Ohio State University, Ohio Progressive Asian Women’s Leadership, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
Lyn Tjon Soei Len – Assistant Professor WGSS, The Ohio State University, Chair of the Board Bureau Clara Wichmann, Affiliated researcher Amsterdam Law School
Jenny Suchland – Associate Professor WGSS, The Ohio State University, Columbus + Cincinnati Ohio Justice and Policy Center, The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Kimberly Springer – MSI, PhD, Columbia University, Curator Oral History Archives
Namiko Kunimoto – Associate Professor Art History, The Ohio State University
Sponsored by: Center for Ethnic Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
