Anna Vaccaro Gray ’12 M.S. ’16 Communications Coordinator for the Kingston Chamber Music Festival All good things begin with an idea. And most good ideas take off with collaboration. On October 15, URI’s Center for the Humanities will join the Kingston Chamber Music Festival (KCMF) in co-sponsoring “Music as Storytelling on Broadway,” an event spotlighting […]

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• “The Aroma of Legitimacy in the Late Middle Ages” - Joëlle Rollo-Koster - Department of History
• “Humor in ‘Jane the Virgin,’ the New Telenovela” - Susana de los Heros - Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Spanish
• “The Cultural and Social Weight of Holding a Helmet in Early Modern Portraiture” - Lisa Tom - Department of Art and Art History
• “Every Quilt Tells a Story” - Linda Welters, Susan J. Jerome, and Rebecca Kelly - Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
• “Plus Minas: Profiles in Brazil’s Beautiful Game” - David Faflik - Department of English
• “Creative Storytelling and Critical Inquiry: Transnational Asian American Representation” - Sue Yon Kim - Department of English

2021-2022 Brown bag talks

Graduate students in the humanities may apply for funding of up to $500 to attend a conference at which they are presenting their research, or an academic workshop related to their research. The primary criteria upon which the grants will be awarded include Not sure if your project is a humanities project? Please see our homepage for […]

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Memorial Student Union Ballroom
November 10, 2022, 11am

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• “Intimate Distances: A Singles Studies Approach to Literary Studies and Creative Practice” - Elizabeth Foulke - Department of English
• “Humanities as/and/of Crises” - Vincent Colapietro - Department of Philosophy
• “Where Empires End: The Spanish-Portuguese Frontier and Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance” - Ximena Sevilla - Department of History
• “Bermuda Prize” - Catherine DeCesare - Department of History
• “Challenging Feminist Stereotypes: Nawal El Saadawi’s Creation of Transnational Solidarity at the UN’s Mid-Decade Conference” - Jessica M. Frazier - Departments of History and Gender and Women's Studies
• “‘No unseated crowd is liable to be orderly’: The Technological Control of Cultural Audiences” - Scott Kushner - Harrington School of Communication and Media