Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University is leading the conversation on issues of humanity, unity, and justice.
These interdisciplinary conversations promote thoughtful dialogue; mindful reflection; social tolerance; awareness and respect; peace and kindness.
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Environment and Building Resilient Futures is a series that explores how natural, social, and political climates both shape and are changed by institutions and social structures. We engage with artists, educators, activists and authors to examine where we live and how we live in our surrounding environment and what it takes to build a resilient future.
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Gender and Sexuality is a series that explores how culture, power, institutions, and social structures shape our understandings of gender and sexuality.
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Health Equity is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America.
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies is a series of discussions about race, ethnicity, indigeneity, and the strategies used in historical movements for social transformation, resistance, and liberation.
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Environmental Justice is a series of informed, sustained, and enriching dialogues looking at how environmental toxicity and risk disproportionately impact populations based on race, ethnicity, nationality, and social standing.
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race is a series of conversations with scholars, artists, filmmakers, and activists about racial inequality, systemic racism, racial terrorism, and racial justice and reconciliation.
“Every farmer and operation has to figure out what's going to work for them and their operation, their geographical context, their cultural, I don't want to say constraints, but factors that influence how food might be produced or grown."
"...I realized that there's more to this story, and it is tied to questions of citizenship, it is tied to national identity, and it is also tied to a new form of activism that looks at the urban area as a space to redefine citizenship, as a space to redefine national identity."
Dr. Adwoa Opong and Dr. Justin de Leon Engaging the World, EP552
"So I think learning to listen to each other, learning to really respect each other, learning to recognize that every single body has its own lived experience and civil liberties, or should have, I hope, and that it's not up to anyone else to make decisions for those bodies.”
“Everyone is complicated. Everyone's multifaceted and you can't assume anyone's identity journey or experiences just based on how they look, talk, walk, whatever that be.”
"Recognizing generations of trauma, we can't ignore those because they really do shape our identities and also how we navigate the world and see the world and think about our own positionality in the world."
“I think one of the major changes that needs to happen is that America, mainstream America needs to understand that Native American history in this country is American history.”
