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Unwellness in the Academy: Mental Health, Contingency & Care
Workshop with Dr. Mimi Khúc
March 16, 4:00-5:15 pm
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Things are not well. For graduate students and contingent faculty, the mental health crisis—worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic—is but one of many overlapping, longstanding “crises” in higher ed: a jobs crisis, a debt crisis, a crisis in the humanities, and so on. In the face of these structural crises, how might we tend to our unwellness? How can we bridge our personal unwellness with these structural problems? And how might we dream of new forms of care in the face of these adversities? Mimi Khúc, a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell, and the 2019-2021 Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies at Georgetown University, will guide us through these questions in an interactive workshop, followed by an open Q&A and discussion.
Bio: Mimi Khúc, PhD, is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the 2019-2021 Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies at Georgetown University and guest editor of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health, an arts and humanities intervention that works to rethink and decolonize Asian American un/wellness. She oversees the Open in Emergency Initiative, a multi-year national project developing mental health arts programming with universities and community spaces, and is very slowly working on several book projects including a manifesto on contingency in Asian American studies and essays on mental health, the arts, and the university. Mostly, she bakes, as access and care for herself and loved ones.
Note: Live transcription will be available. Please email any additional access needs to jaw2yc@virginia.edu
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