A member of the Collaboratory’s Documenting Criminalization and Confinement team appeared on NPR’s Stateside with Michigan Radio’s Lester Graham.

The National Humanities Alliance launches Humanities for All, showcasing the range of humanities work conducted with and for communities by scholars at universities, colleges, and societies across the United States.

Local online magazine features Cozine Welch, Jr., a team member on the Humanities Collaboratory’s Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project.

“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.

The task that “Humanities and the Climate Change Crisis” has set for itself is to “engage in conversations about the role that the humanities can play in addressing [climate change] challenges and the responsibilities that academia should undertake in dealing with the worst crisis humanity has ever faced.”