Register for this event here Mona Haydar is a young Syrian-American Muslim who spent her 20’s as a performance poet. In 2015 she gained national and international press for her and her husband’s “Ask A Muslim” project – a booth that invited dialogue and questions in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist […]
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Johns Hopkins University’s Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
Application Deadline: April 1, 2021 @ 11:59 pm; Apply here! Symposium: April 24-25, 2021 The Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium provides hundreds of students across all fields of the humanities the opportunity to share their work in the professional presentation style most common to their fields. Attendees also participate in professionalization and recruitment events […]
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March 16th, 2021 @ 4:30 pm Dr. Bakirathi Mani, Professor of English at Swarthmore College, will be discussing her new book, Unseeing Empire. Mani’s work explores how photography is central to cultural and social ties that bind the diaspora to South Asia as well as how historical documentation shape our contemporary engagements with ourselves. URI’s […]
Continue reading "Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America"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"Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award
Professor David Faflik (English) is the recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair award, to teach 19th-century American literature and research the field of literary diplomacy by exploring Benjamin Franklin’s relationship to Brazil, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. Public health restrictions permitting, Professor Faflik will be in Brazil during the summer of 2021.
Continue reading "Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award"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"Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Virtual Poetry Reading/2021 Rumowicz Lecture – April 15 @ 7pm
Register for this event here! Award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers will discuss and read selections from her latest collection of poetry and prose, The Age of Phillis (2020), in a virtual event on April 15, part of the culminating ceremonies for The Caged Bird Sings Poetry Festival. Based on 15 years of archival research, Jeffers imagines the […]
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