{"id":10822,"date":"2023-07-06T18:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?page_id=10822"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T16:38:21","slug":"innovations-in-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/innovations-in-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations in Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>Innovations in Storytelling<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/time-gc6f0d7e0b_1280.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control cl-accessibility-control-hidden\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-contrast-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Increase text contrast\">Increase text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Standard<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Reset text contrast\">Reset text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">High<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-system-setting\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle\" title=\"Apply my preferences site-wide\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle-label\">Apply site-wide<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p>As the Center for the Humanities prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2024, it devotes this year&#8217;s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. Our yearlong series envisions storytelling expansively and brings a variety of practitioners &#8212; historians and novelists, cartoonists and artists, musicians and musicologists, anthropologists and quilters &#8212; to campus to discuss the innovative ways in which they tell stories.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All events in the series are free and open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous Series Events<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/ruth-ozeki\/\">A Conversation with Novelist Ruth Ozeki<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Ruth Ozeki<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/the-way-forward\/\">The Way Forward<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Camille W. Dance &amp; Co.<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/dr-chawne-kimber\/\">Textiles and Social Justice<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Dr. Chawne Kimber<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/dr-karen-cook\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/image-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/image-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/image-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/image-e1701284191296.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/dr-karen-cook\/\">Hearing the Renaissance in Video Games<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Dr. Karen Cook<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/seeing-providence-chinatown-relational-reconstruction-of-erased-histories\/\">Seeing Providence Chinatown: Relational Reconstruction of Erased Histories<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Jeffrey Yoo Warren<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/music-and-storytelling-on-broadway\/\">Music and Storytelling on Broadway<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Jesse-Ray Leich and Nick Jemo<\/strong><br><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/telling-stories-about-the-ocean\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/46068160342_b6ce7c1de4_o-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/46068160342_b6ce7c1de4_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/46068160342_b6ce7c1de4_o-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/telling-stories-about-the-ocean\/\">Telling Stories About the Ocean<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Akeia de Barros Gomes and Jason Mancini<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/a-poetry-reading-by-kwame-dawes\/\">A Poetry Reading by Kwame Dawes<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Kwame Dawes<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/b-erin-cole\/\">Cute Drawings of Terrible Things: Graphic History and Visual Storytelling as a Historian and a Cartoonist<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><strong>B. Erin Cole<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Center for the Humanities is grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Rhode Island Sea Grant, the Office of Research and Economic Development, and the Kingston Chamber Music Festival for generously co-sponsoring this series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Center for the Humanities prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2024, it devotes this year&#8217;s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. 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