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On Writing In This Moment, Susan Steinberg Mar 2021

On Writing In This Moment, Susan Steinberg

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In On Writing in this Moment, Susan Steinberg, novelist and professor from the Department of English, offers both provocation and perspective, celebrating those who are deep in a project, who have deadlines to be writing toward as this can be an opportunity to focus on something besides our overwhelming moment of COVID-19 and chaos. But she also opens the door to not writing, to allowing experience to stand without demanding a retelling right now.


A Reflection On Writing In The Time Of Covid-19, Lara Bazelon Mar 2021

A Reflection On Writing In The Time Of Covid-19, Lara Bazelon

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In her piece, A Reflection on Writing in the Time of COVID, Lara Bazelon, Phillip and Muriel C. Barnett Chair in Trail Advocacy in the School of Law, draws inspiration from working mothers who she is interviewing, “mothers with dreams and a determination to seek excellence.” Even in this moment with no “home office” besides the kitchen table, no school for children besides home school, it is not the personal words per day, but the core subjects that fuel commitment, the interpersonal that sustains engagement.


Coronavirus Notes: Stitching A New Garment, Rick Ayers Mar 2021

Coronavirus Notes: Stitching A New Garment, Rick Ayers

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Writer and professor Rick Ayers, from the Teacher Education Department, invites us to embrace contingent and incomplete writing, to “write into the contradiction”, into what we don’t know rather than waiting for certainty. In his piece, Coronavirus Notes: Stitching a New Garment, he discusses how he uses writing to figure things out, to perhaps build from the rupture that we are living toward our hopes to live differently.


Writing Of, Writing In An Introduction, An Invitation, Michael Rozendal Mar 2021

Writing Of, Writing In An Introduction, An Invitation, Michael Rozendal

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

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Art And Internet Infrastructure, Liat Berdugo Jan 2021

Art And Internet Infrastructure, Liat Berdugo

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In her essay Art and Internet Infrastructure, multimedia artist, curator, and professor Liat Berdugo contemplates and complicates our overreliance and relationship with networks and technology especially during shelter-in-place.


Making ​Activist Songbook​ Virtual, Byron Au Yong Jan 2021

Making ​Activist Songbook​ Virtual, Byron Au Yong

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In Making Activist Songbook Virtual, composer and professor Byron Au Yong, discusses the challenges and complexities of moving 53 new activist raps and songs to a virtual format. As the songbook was participatory in nature, the creative team also had to examine methods of fostering online civic engagement.


We Need New Myths: Art-Making In The Pandemic And What Follows, Laleh Khadivi Jan 2021

We Need New Myths: Art-Making In The Pandemic And What Follows, Laleh Khadivi

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Writer and professor Laleh Khadivi in We Need New Myths juxtaposes the stillness born from shelter-in-place orders with the constant motion of migrants around the world—seeking asylum, a new life, and survival.


Art As An Act Of Social Justice: Introduction To Art, Music, Poetry, In The Time Of Social Distance, Christine J. Yeh Jan 2021

Art As An Act Of Social Justice: Introduction To Art, Music, Poetry, In The Time Of Social Distance, Christine J. Yeh

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In this special issue in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship Art, Music, Poetry, in the Time of Social Distance, five contributors write about the impact of injustice and COVID-19 on their creative works and emergent challenges facing artists, composers, and writers. Providing a cultural and socio-political lens, the essays include images of video, poetry, and art to explore and expose our day to day lived experiences of the pandemic—from notions of isolation, normalcy, community, and distance to the larger impacts this has had on historically targeted groups.


Three Poems In Search Of Justice: A Postmortem, Dean Rader Jan 2021

Three Poems In Search Of Justice: A Postmortem, Dean Rader

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Writer, poet, and professor Dean Rader in Three Poems in Search of Justice: A Postmortem, explores the idea of poetry as a form of justice and shares three original socially-oriented poems as part of a poetic/political project or as he shares “outward” versus “inward” facing.


The Sanctuary City Project, Sergio De La Torre Jan 2021

The Sanctuary City Project, Sergio De La Torre

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Artist, curator, and professor Sergio De La Torre discusses his work with The Sanctuary City Project, which is an ongoing community-based participatory project that develops deeper conversations and awareness about immigration issues often times transforming oral history into visual representations.