For this episode, we turn to the disciplines of fine arts, anthropology, and Africana studies to think about the importance of place and representation in order to build political empathy across cultural differences. Featuring guests, Kenneth Lum, the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania's Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He teaches the SNF Paideia-designed course the "Chinese Body and the Production of Space in Chinatown." Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of anthropology and the director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is core faculty in gender, sexuality, and women's studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education. She teaches the SNF Paideia course "Sighting Black Girlhood." And Grace Sanders Johnson, assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-teaches the SNF Paideia course "Sighting Black Girlhood." 

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