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Conference highlights humanities projects on the theme of “Crossing”

by : Julie McLean , Society for the Humanities

From an examination of gender and sexuality in medieval natural histories to a historical look at a borderland province in WWII Eastern Europe, this year’s Society for the Humanities fellows are working on projects that touch on the focal theme of “Crossing.” The Society’s upcoming fall conference on Friday, Oct. 27, will feature talks by seven of these multidisciplinary fellows. Free and open…

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Prof. to speak on Black print culture and democracy

by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

Though the Black Lives Matter movement has brought many aspects of systemic racism to the forefront of contemporary media, Black Americans have been circulating their ideas for more than 200 years. At this year’s Invitational Lecture for the Society for the Humanities, “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now,” associate professor of literatures in English…

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Disability advocate Eli Clare to speak on COVID-19

by : Staff , Society for the Humanities

Disability justice advocate Eli Clare has been chosen as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, and he will be hosted for two virtual talks by the Cornell Society for the Humanities in partnership with the Syracuse University Humanities Center. “Eli Clare is a writer, an activist and a traveling poet and storyteller. His critical work on disability,…

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Podcast episode explores resistance to slavery via newspaper ads

by : Tyler Lurie-Spicer , Society for the Humanities

A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, “Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist,” discusses the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of over 30,000 original documents depicting their escapes. “One of the things that we learn from these tens of thousands of ads, is that people were…

Noliwe Rooks, Professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies

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Rooks to give talk on ‘underside’ of cannabis legalization

by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.With cannabis legalization efforts spreading across the country, Noliwe Rooks, The W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature and a professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies, will be examining the negative underbelly of these efforts in a lecture entitled “Legalize it?; A Story of Cannabis, Race,…

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Anthropologists to speak on climate change

by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

How can we illustrate the gravity of climate change? Is it possible to grasp such a loss? Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, working to humanize the abstract concept of climate change and provide opportunities for dialogue, will deliver a free public lecture, “Of Flood and Ice,” on Wednesday Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House. The lecture, sponsored by the…

agriculture and clouds and a power plant

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Conference spotlights ‘Energy Humanities’

by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

On the brink of ecological collapse, how do we think, write and speak about the various forms of energy we encounter? The Society for the Humanities’ annual fall conference, Oct. 18 and 19, will examine the human relationship to energy in its myriad forms. The conference will serve as a kick-off for the 2019-20 Society for the Humanities year of Energy, the focal theme for the Society Fellows’…

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Alumna publishes book, teaches course on U.S./Mexico border art

by : Emily Parsons , Society for the Humanities

Society for the Humanities Fellow Amy Sara Carroll MFA ’95 is a poet, scholar, and visual artist whose work engages cultural production at the US/Mexico border. Her first critical monograph, "REMEX: Towards an Art History of the NAFTA Era," was released on Dec. 15 from the University of Texas Press. "REMEX" presents a comprehensive exploration of artistic work produced within the framework of the…