Beyond Authorship: Crediting Contributors to Arts-Integrated Research with CRediT-FAIR
Friday, December 6 at 3:30 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/beyond-authorship-crediting-contributors-to-arts-integrated-research-with-credit-fair/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.

While most academic publications use an authorship model, an alternative approach is contributorship. Contributorship is more inclusive and recognizes the broader set of individuals that contribute to and enable knowledge production–a boon for arts-integrated and community-engaged research! The most widely adopted contributorship model, CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), offers a high-level taxonomy that recognizes fourteen contributor roles. However, these roles are designed with bench and lab science in mind and do not account for some of the work involved in other collaborative research. In response, Ground Works has collaboratively created a version of CRediT adapted for arts-integrated research: CRediT-FAIR. For CRediT-FAIR, we have both augmented the description of some of the original fourteen roles and added four new roles to the taxonomy so as to better include arts and arts-research practices. In this webinar, we will explore the taxonomy itself and the Ground Works pilot of it for our special edition “Creating Knowledge in Common,” which features academic/community partnerships that center the arts and design.

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Amit Kaushik
Friday, October 11 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

The Gond Art and the Tiger: A Dialogue on Conservation, Displacement, and Environmental Justice

This conversation centers on Amit Kaushik’s collaborative project with a renowned Indigenous artist, Bhajju Shyam, where they illustrate Gond paintings to critically engage with the environmental injustices faced by the Gond Adivasi community amidst biodiversity conservation efforts. Through two contrasting depictions of the tiger — as both a protector and a force of destruction — these artworks capture the community’s shifting relationship with nature following the establishment of the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India. Join us to explore how indigenous art becomes a compelling medium for expressing contradictory perspectives on conservation, displacement, and the more-than-human world.

Amit Kaushik is a PhD student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology. His research investigates how conservation practices influence and are influenced by the lived experiences of differently situated human and nonhuman actors within the tiger reintroduction program. Bhajju Shyam is a world-renowned Indigenous artist from Madhya Pradesh, India, and the author of Origins of Art: The Gond Village of Patangarh, The London Jungle Book, The Night Life of Trees, Alone in the Forest, and That’s How I See Things.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization. The Gond Art and the Tiger project was supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.