Recipients of the Humanities Collaboratory Proposal Development Grant–“Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive” and “Documenting Criminalization and Confinement”–were featured in the 4/3 online edition of the University Record.
Author: Audrey Becker
Documenting Criminalization and Confinement (2019)
The first comprehensive qualitative research initiative to study the impact of criminalizaton, confinement, and criminal justice control in the United States will involve team members “mobiliz[ing] faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, archivists, and community partners…”
Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive (2019)
The grant launches a new phase in which the team proposes to enhance GFP through new pedagogical and research collaboration among faculty at U-M and new domestic and international partnerships.
Trends in Premodern Media Studies
“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.
Chinese translation of Hyecho’s Journey
Social Sciences Academic Press has purchased the rights for a Chinese translation of Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism. The book was a signature outcome of one of the Humanities Collaboratory’s inaugural projects.
Humanities and the Climate Change Crisis
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.”
Thinking on a New Model of Mentorship and Advising
“Thinking on a New Model of Mentorship and Advising” formed to contend with “challenges posed by dominant models of student advising in doctoral education” and to “[begin] a collective reckoning with individual narratives—the underlying etiology of harassment and other forms of power abuse within graduate programs.”
The Politics of Blackface Then and Now: What’s in Your Yearbook?
March 11, 5:30-7:00 pm
in North Quad Space 2435
Join us for a conversation about ‘blackface—then and now.’ What is it? Why does it still matter? Why was it a thing in 1880 and 1980? And why is it all over the news now?
Nic Terrenato illustrates the multiple facets of Book Unbound
Humanities Collaboratory team Book Unbound was also represented at the Connecting Digital Scholarship event. Nic Terrenato, Ester B Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman Studies, illustrated the intersecting areas of the team’s three part project—”a multi-valent inquiry into the possibilities in enhanced digital publication”—and demonstrated how digital tools have shaped new scholarship in the humanities.
Collaboratory participants in January’s Connecting Digital Scholarship event
Cindy Lin discusses approaches to collaboration in the Precarity Lab “Everyone writes, and everyone is a collaborator,” explained Cindy Lin in her presentation at Connecting Digital Scholarship on January 23rd at UMMA. The event, focused on digital humanities and digital scholarship, offered lightning talks, panel discussions, and opportunities for networking. In her presention on the…
Active fall semester for Collaboratory team Making African Art
Since the start of their project in September 2018, the Making African Art team has been exploring the interplay of various historical events in the 1960s that influenced the transformation of the canon of African art and the establishment of African art history as an academic discipline. During the fall semester, they investigated the importance…
Callie Bartkowiak
FROM AFRICA TO PATAGONIA
Over the last 8 months I have spent much time collaborating with fellow speech lab members as we have analyzed the linguistics involved with both the Spanish and Afrikaans languages.
How Did We Become a Troll Nation and What Can Humanists Do About It?
October 24, 4:00-7:00 pm
in North Quad Space 2435
Are you tired of platforms that give trolls outsized influence? The digital is cultural and it has gotten ugly.
“This is America”: Who are We and What Can We Learn from Childish Gambino in the Twittersphere?
September 20, 2018, 5:30-7:00 pm
North Quad Space 2435
Join us for a conversation about Childish Gambino’s “This is America” and the sprawling, contentious conversation it sparked across the internet. What is he trying to say? How did the internet respond? How are our meaning making practices evolving?
The Carceral State
The Carceral State Project launched an initiative at the University of Michigan to encourage and increase collaboration among U-M scholars who are investigating the historical roots, contemporary manifestations, and legal and political debates surrounding mass incarceration, policing, and criminalization broadly defined.
The James Baldwin Archive and Interdiscipinary Digital Humanities
This 5×5 Incubator Grant team came together to discuss various implementations of widely-conceived humanities literacy, and specifically its intersections with social space, race, class, gender, queer sexuality, activism, and national identity.
Disability, Space, and Surveillance
Disability, Space, and Surveillance explores substantive connections, prepares future collaborations, and generates new insights for scholarly trajectories on a range of topics including technologies of surveillance, mental illness, psychiatric incarceration, reproductive injustice, and disability culture.
Museums, the City, Publics, and Research
How do publics participate in shaping the future of the city? How do museums, in particular, contribute to the possibility for this participation and re-envisioning? To what extent does the curation of established museums, often in the city center, contribute to the appearance of inaccessibility? How might other kinds of museums contribute to a re thinking?