The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 2, 2pm
Virtual Forum
Where the Humanities Are Thriving
Category: Humanities News
URI Students, Faculty to attend Summer Institute in Public Humanities
Cherie Rowe, Rachel (Afua) Ansong, Karen Sweeting
English, Political Science
Nico Tracksdorf Receives Premiere National Award in Language Education
Nico Tracksdorf
Languages
Virtual Book Launch
Professor Mary Cappello (English) has published a new book titled LECTURE (Transit Books, 2020), a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Please consider joining Cappello for a virtual book launch on September 8 in conversation with Namwali Serpell at Community Bookstore (Brooklyn), and watching this Video Feature that Kirkus Reviews did in anticipation of the book’s publication.
Continue reading "Virtual Book Launch"CFH Launches 2020-21 Virtual Brown Bag Series
URI’s Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a virtual monthly brown bag series. Our goal is to bring faculty and students together for intellectual exchange on a regular basis, and to give our scholars an opportunity to share and workshop projects they are working on. Please click here for information […]
Continue reading "CFH Launches 2020-21 Virtual Brown Bag Series"2020 Visiting Scholar Grant Winners Announced
At the invitation of Professor Kathleen Davis, English, Honoree Jeffers (Professor of English, University of Oklahoma) will speak as part of URI’s annual “The Caged Bird Sing” Poetry Contest and Festival in Fall 2020. Professor Ignacio Perez-Ibanez, Languages, has arranged for Professor Miguel Zugasti (Professor of Literature, Universidad de Navarra) to speak at URI’s international conference on […]
Continue reading "2020 Visiting Scholar Grant Winners Announced"NEHC Extends Grant deadline
New England Humanities Consortium extends the deadline for submissions for seed grants up to $5,0000.00 until May 15. Applicants with research initiatives such as research projects, summer seminars, study or working groups, shared speakers across institutions, collaborative course design, or exhibitions in the humanities that seek to capitalize on the collaborative network of the consortium are welcome to apply and […]
Continue reading "NEHC Extends Grant deadline"Curiosity about history growing across generations
Norman Burns reporting in early 2020 for the American Alliances of Museum website on how Americans prefer to connect with the past. Survey participants most often mentioned museums, second only to their families, as the way they prefer to connect to history. Americans placed museums and historic sites first, ahead of grandparents, eyewitnesses, college professors, history books, […]
Continue reading "Curiosity about history growing across generations"Women’s Suffrage in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Historical Society and the Newport Historical Society have put out a call for submissions for their upcoming special joint journal edition on the history of woman suffrage in RI.
Continue reading "Women’s Suffrage in Rhode Island"Why We Need More Storytellers
Heather Long
The Washington Post