We’re excited to be hosting a Marsico Visiting Scholar and Artist, Dr. Amber Johnson of St. Louis University. With additional support from across the university (thanks to GWST, CLIE, ODI, IRISE, and Chancellor’s Office), Dr. Johnson’s remarkable project—the Justice Fleet—will also be on campus from March 5-7. Please share these events widely with your network, attend yourself (with students, staff, and friends, too). Learn more!
- “Radical Forgiveness, Imagination, and Justice in our Teaching” – Tuesday, March 5, 12-1:45pm SIE 1020. A panel of DU faculty reflecting on the art of teaching, especially toward justice, and as integrating radical forgiveness and imagination. Dr. Johnson will be our guest respondent, and lunch will be provided. Panelists include:
- Ramona Beltran, GSSW
- Valentina Itubre-LaGrave, OTL
- Scott Leutenegger, RSECS
- Taisha McMickens, CAHSS
- Robin Walker Sterling, SCOL
- Erika Trigoso, NSM,
- Nancy Wadsworth, CAHSS
- “Humanizing Equity in the Capitalist Race for Diversity and Inclusion” – Dr. Johnson’s keynote address, which will be preceded by the Research Project Showcase for our Identities in Dialogue (COMN 2000) sections (led by Cassidy Ellis, Neda Kikhia, Taisha McMickens, and Carina Weadock). Check out the interactive projects that our students have created, and enjoy some snacks, beginning at 5pm Wednesday, March 6 in the southeast lobby of Sturm Hall (floor 2). Dr. Johnson’s talk in Lindsey Auditorium will run from 6:30-8:00pm.
- Radical Forgiveness centers on the premise that “in a socially unjust world, we experience moments that require small and large acts of repair” in order for folks to overcome “the tears, rips, and gaping wounds that impede us from being better versions of ourselves and bettering our world” (www.justicefleet.org). Participants engage materials to contribute to a forgiveness quilt, and can drop by for any duration of time that suits their schedules. Please consider integrating a visit to Radical Forgiveness into your class schedule, as an activity, assignment, or extra credit opportunity.
- ***Radical Forgiveness will be open Tuesday 8:30-11:45am, 3-6pm Chambers Center 120; Wednesday 8:30-10am, 1:30-2:45pm Chambers Center 120; Thursday 8:30-10am, 4-6pm at the Hub on Driscoll***
- Radical Imagination offers a “deeper dive” into creating a new “just world where freedom and liberation from oppression are possible” (www.justicefleet.org). Participants may use materials at hand (e.g., Legos, figures, art supplies) in order to work through scenarios, including “wrench” cards, that allow them to build collaborative skills toward justice.
- ***Graduate seminars, faculty colleagues in departments, and administrative teams can sign up for a 90-minute session with Dr. Johnson or/and trained facilitators, as a professional development opportunity. [hours available for sign up, Tuesday 8:30-11:45am, 3-6pm; Wednesday 8:30-10am, 1:30-4pm; Thursday, 8:30-10am, 4-6pm. Please Reserve Space ***
About Dr. Johnson: Dr. Johnson is an award-winning scholar and teacher whose work merges qualitative, rhetorical, critical, and arts-based methods, theories, and contexts. Their numerous projects advance our understandings of identity, protest, social justice, performance and aesthetics, through deep and creative engagements with communities within and off campus. As an artist, Amber works with metals, paint, photography, recycled and reclaimed goods, and music. Dr. Johnson’s forthcoming book, A Great Inheritance, follows five children who have chosen to dismantle the gender binary and emancipate humans from the genetic economy.
Dr. Johnson created the Justice Fleet to promote dialogue, tactile exercises, and real-life experience in critically engaging each other during a process that would promote healing and envisioning a more just world. The Justice Fleet blends mobile museums and social justice inquiry, ethnography, and art activism to address social injustice and urban engagement.
Questions? Please email cfoust@du.edu.
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