Faculty Coordinator Kristin Hass participated in Humanities Advocacy Day on March 10 meeting with a number of senators and staffers including Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), staff in the office of Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and staff in the office of U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12).

Ashley E. Lucas—co-PI and member of the Collaboratory’s Documenting Criminalization and Confinement Project Grant team—will speak on Tuesday, March 10th at the Institute for the Humanities’ FellowSpeak: “Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration” from 12:30-1:30 pm in the Osterman Common Room, #1022, in 202 S. Thayer. 

Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive, one of the Collaboratory’s current Project Grant teams, hosted Luciane Ramos Silva and Nabor Jr. in connection with the launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine “O Menelick 2⁰ Ato” and of its curated edition in English. 

“Translating Anti-Racism” brings together scholars…navigating anti-racist discourses in various geopolitical contexts and observing anti-racist movements’ complex relationship with critical race theory.

“Making Sense of Diasporas: Pedagogy and Public Engagement” formed to “[tackle] the question of how to combine teaching, research, and public engagement in a collaborative environment.” Shared interests led the team to consider ways to conceptualize diasporas, diasporic identities, and issues of migration.

“Trends in Premodern Media Studies” has formed to explore an emerging field which addresses questions about how scribalism, oral transmission, visual culture, and embodied performance interacted in the formation of traditions in the premodern period.