Letter from the faculty director On Possibility

This year, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) launched a collaborative book series with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press. Each volume in this cross-disciplinary series – On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities – will align with the annual theme of GAHDT’s signature Society of Fellows program

On Possibility seeks to harness the energy of cross-disciplinary collaborations by generating a space for productive alignments, intersections, contrasts and critiques across the arts and humanities. The first volume, Human Rights on the Move (forthcoming) features scholars, artists and practitioners whose work engages human rights themes, such as global migration, mass incarceration, environmental degradation and exclusive and violent claims to the category of the human. Contributors to this volume (re)envision the “human” in human rights discourse and turn to the integrated arts and humanities to imagine otherwise – to envision possibilities of well-being beyond just surviving.

Yet, the transformative power of the integrated arts and humanities is perpetually diminished by those who would censor the critical content of public and higher education. Recent legislative efforts coincide with attacks on advances in human rights