Jordan Scott, English
February 5, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall
Converting to the Cult of the Sentence – Cancelled
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2023-2024 Brown Bag Talks
“Polvo de Gallina Negra and the Politics of Pregnant Performance in Mexico” - Erin L. McCutcheon - Department of Art & Art History- “Planetary Drift: Flotsam as Empathic Medium in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being” - Billy Bowden - Department of English
- “Women in the Italian Resistance: Stories of Partnership between Italian Partisans and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services” - Catherine Sama - Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
- “Hashi” - Adrián Montero Moya and Moé Takamatsu - Department of Music
- “Framing the Bettelheims: Finding a new approach to an extremely colorful but fairly unknown family of the American 19th century” - Jenny Elkus - Department of History
- “To Save Humankind Kill Off the Hero’s Journey” - Holly Dunsworth - Department of Sociology & Anthropology
‘Sorry to Bother You’ Screening
September 13, 3pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall
Sustaining Democracy
At a time of widespread concern about challenges to democracy, the Center for the Humanities is pleased to present “Sustaining Democracy: A Humanities Lecture Series.” This yearlong speaker series (which will run parallel to the Fall 2024 Honors Colloquium on “Democracy in Peril” and extend into Spring 2025) will demonstrate the critical role that the […]
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Due: July 1, 2024
Continue reading "2024-2025 Brown Bag Call for Proposals"Memorials Lecture Series
- A Conversation with Clint Smith: How the Word is Passed - Clint Smith
- Think Indigenous: Richard Oakes and the Red Power Movement - Kent Blansett
- Walking through Time: the 5,000-Year History of the URI Campus - Kristine Bovy, Catherine DeCesare, Roderick Mather, and Lorén Spears
- Before 1776–Time to Break the Silence - Jack (John Kwo Wei) Tchen
- The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between - James Young
- Recognizing the Legacy of Slavery in Rhode Island - Victoria Johnson, James DeWolf Perry, and Charles Roberts
- On Juneteenth: The Essential Story of “Freedom Day” and Its Importance to American History - Annette Gordon-Reed
Women’s Suffrage Lecture Series
- Suffrage Memorabilia and the Merchandising of the Movement - Kenneth Florey
Watch video - How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All - Martha Jones
Watch video - Suffrage and Sashes: American Pageantry and the Feminist Movement - Hilary Levey Friedman
Watch video - Transnational Suffrage Activism in Postrevolutionary Mexico - Kathleen McIntyre
Watch video - Current Trends in Voting Rights - Nellie Gorbea
Watch video - Felon Disenfranchisement and the History of Women’s Voting Rights - Pippa Holloway
Watch video - Historical Perspectives on Woman Suffrage: Rhode Island and Beyond - Elizabeth Stevens, Elisa Miller, and Emily Lynch
Watch video - The Queer History of the Suffrage Movement - Wendy Rouse
Watch video - Getting Out the Vote - Justine Caldwell, Kate Coyne McCoy, and Stella Rouse
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The Connection Between Broadway, Chamber Music, and the Humanities
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
Humanities Graduate Conference Travel Grants
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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