Surviving Academic Hyperproductivity: A conversation for instructors with Mimi Khúc

Hybrid: In-person at WLRC and on Zoom

Limited spots– please register at https://go.uic.edu/Surviving

Join us for a conversation with Mimi Khúc on un/wellness in the academy and pedagogies of unwellness. This smaller session has faculty and graduate instructors in mind: How do we hold our commitments to generating knowledge, transformative pedagogy, and our own un/wellness in environments centered on productivity rather than care? As Khúc asks: “What structures need to be in place to shift my relationship to work, to writing, to my needs, to my capacities?

Suggested Reading: Mimi Khúc, “Writing While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness,” from Crip Authorship, eds. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (Duke UP, 2023): 25-32.
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Mimi Khúc, PhD, is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is Co-Editor of The Asian American Literary Review and an adjunct lecturer in Disability Studies at Georgetown University. Her work includes Open in Emergency, a hybrid book-arts project decolonizing Asian American mental health; the Asian American Tarot, a reimagined deck of tarot cards; and the Open in Emergency Initiative, an ongoing national project developing mental health arts programming with universities and community spaces.

In case you missed it: We are hosting an additional event, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, A Book Event with Mimi Khúc" on Thursday, April 11 ! Read the details

Covid safety: We are still masking at our events as an accessibility measure for chronically ill / immunocompromised folks and those living interdependently with them. Please wear a mask! We’ll have extras on hand.

Access info:

• CART (live captions) will be provided. Please get in touch to request ASL or any other access measures at dcc@uic.edu or 312-355-7050!

• WLRC is in the Student Services Building, and is accessible by elevator. The building has all-gender restrooms and single-gender restrooms with ADA stalls. Check out WLRC’s accessibility page for more info! 
• UIC is not a fragrance-free campus. To maintain a low-fragrance environment, please refrain from wearing scents to this event.

This event is hosted by the UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center, the Disability Cultural Center, and the Department of Disability and Human Development.

We want to thank our co-sponsors: UIC’s Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, Global Asian Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence.

Flyer description: Event title in bold gray text above a deep plum rectangle. A pale aqua background has a wavy top that looks like water rising to the word "surviving" in the title. To the right is a photo of Mimi Khúc, and below the plum rectangle are icons for captioning and masking; a QR code to the event listing; and logos for the hosts and co-sponsors.