Humanities and Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute This week-long summer program provides a critical thinking forum for rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors matriculated in Columbus schools to explore the big questions at the intersection of the humanities and cognitive sciences. At the Summer Institute, students will learn more about the correlation of brain sciences and the humanities. For example, new research in brain sciences can help us understand how we create and consume culture such as film, comic books, TV, poetry, short stories, and video games. Combining
this knowledge with new research in the humanities can help us better understand critical processes such as thought, feeling, and action in our scientific world. Against this backdrop, an interdisciplinary collaboration of professors has launched the Summer Institute, developing its activities in partnership with OSU’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. For one week, students will spend 9am-3pm on the beautiful OSU
campus. They will share the mornings with world-renowned professors in daily lectures and intensively studying and discussing these topics. They will participate in group discussions and activities in the afternoon. Students will be introduced to research methods as well as to library and online resources. At the end of the week, they will have learned central aspects of how the humanities and cognitive sciences can work together to help us understand how we imagine, artistically create, and materially transform the world.
Brena Yu-Chen Tai
2013-14 LASER/Humanites Fellow (W)holistic Feminism: Theorizing Feminist Healing Deeply informed by women of color feminist writing, my dissertation aims to propose a (w)holistic feminism that
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locates women’s oppression in the brokenness, fragmentation and alienation caused by multiple structures of oppression. My project will theorize a porous body paradigm hinted at in women of color writing as an alternative feminist ontology more conducive to healing. I suggest that to heal requires a process of creating a dynamic and ongoing wholeness to achieve M. Jacqui Alexander’s notion of radical intersubjectivity characterized by interdependence, interrelation and yearning for others’
existence through a politics of love in the state of suffering. Chicana feminism in particular, women of color feminism in general, and indigenous healing concepts will serve as the main theoretical frameworks in my dissertation to theorize the porous body paradigm. This project attempts to contribute to women of color feminist theory, subjectivity studies, and body politics.