The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) has circulated a call for late-breaking sessions and facilitated conversation topics on humanities work at the upcoming 2020 Virtual National Humanities Conference to be held on November 6, 10, 12, and 13.

Part of the Michigan Humanities Collaboratory’s mission is to build ties between programs and institutions with shared goals of advancing collaborative scholarship in the humanities. Read more about how the Collaboratory will build ties with Humanities for the Public Good.

The Black Opera Research Network (BORN) celebrated its launch with an inaugural panel discussion on Friday, August 21. BORN is an international research collaboration committed to exploring operatic activities, both historical and current, that complicate the perceived whiteness of opera as a genre.

“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.