The Levitt Justice Lab S2026: Resilience through Creativity: Imagining New Futures

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Description In partnership with the Wellin Museum, the Levitt Center invites students to apply to this Spring 2026 Justice Lab. The Lab is a semester-long opportunity for students to take a set of parallel courses that combine mutually reinforcing academic and experiential learning around the broad theme of justice. All the instructors in the Lab work together to coordinate syllabi and assignments and to provide students in the Lab with an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of the topic. For this Justice Lab, Profs. Jaime Kucinskas, Charlotte Botha, and Vincent Odamtten will teach three connected courses in which students will study the relationship between creativity, community, justice and imagining new futures through different disciplines, media and arts. We will be in conversation with exhibiting artists from the Wellin Museum and others in the art community, musicians, authors, and community organizers. Creative expression, community engagement, and experiential learning are at the heart of the pedagogy for this justice lab. Botha will guide students through the transfer of music concepts from pre-colonial Western Africa to contemporary African-American culture as a...