The ReConnect/ReCollect Project Grant team welcomes all to a public event on May 20 as they host visitors from the Cordillera region of the northern Philippines. Visiting artists and culture bearers Cathy Ekid-Domigyay, Johnny Bangao, Jr., and Ammin Achaur will present an afternoon celebrating Cordillera weaving, basket-weaving, and tattooing arts. Artifacts from the U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA) will be featured.
Author: Tracy Payovich
EXHIBIT PLANNED BY PROJECT GRANT TEAM, LOCAL PARTNERS
Leveraging findings from its 2021-23 Project Grant from the Humanities Collaboratory, the Black Washtenaw County team is now preparing to connect with local public audiences. The team is developing a traveling exhibition in partnership with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County and other partners, to be titled “Four Black Families of Washtenaw County.”
SINGING JUSTICE TEAM SHINES AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
At the 2023 Society for American Music Conference in Minneapolis, the Singing Justice Project Grant team presented their research. Musicology PhD Candidate Cody Jones shares highlights from the conference.
SNAPSHOTS: NUBIA TEAM SHARES PROGRESS ON EL-KURRU HERITAGE CENTER
The Narrating Nubia Project Grant supported development of exhibit materials and educational programs for a new Community Heritage Center in El-Kurru, Sudan. Additional funding for the center’s physical construction is coming from the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, the team shared in a new blog post highlighting progress on the project.
U-M COLLABORATORS HOLD WORKSHOP WITH DETROIT TEACHERS
On February 11, educators gathered for a workshop focused on developing resources for youth in Detroit to learn about the intersectional history of racism and police violence. Supported in part by a Collaboratory Dissemination Grant, the workshop asked Detroit Public School teachers to explore and give feedback on curricular materials and digital resources created by the Carceral State Project through its Collaboratory Project Grant.
SINGING JUSTICE CONFERENCE: VIDEO HIGHLIGHT
The Singing Justice Project Grant team held a hybrid symposium in Stuttgart, Germany in Nov. 2022. Watch a 5 min conference trailer video and access other resources compiled by project partners at the Hampsong Foundation.
‘NARRATING NUBIA’ TEAM BLOG SHARES COLLABORATIVE WORK
The Narrating Nubia Project Grant team blog this month shared stories from their co-presenters at the Archaeological Institute of America meeting, and about their Nubia Odyssey learning activity for 6th grade classrooms. Subscribe for more updates on the team’s field work in El-Kurru, Sudan.
RECORDING: “REFORMING THE ACADEMIC REWARD SYSTEM”
The National Humanities Center (NHC) shared the recording of its Feb. 13 webinar, “Reforming the Academic Reward System,” where panelists Karida L. Brown (Emory University), Jeffrey Cohen (Arizona State University), and Elizabeth (Elee) Wood (The Huntington Library) provided their perspectives.
HASS AUTHORS GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING RACIST CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Humanities Collaboratory Faculty Coordinator and U-M Professor of American Culture Kristin Hass is the author of a new book, “Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices,” published in January 2023.
PUNZALAN APPOINTED TO AMERICAN FOLKLIFE BOARD
Ricky Punzalan, Associate Professor of Information and co-director of the ReConnect/ReCollect Project Grant, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
LINGUIST’S POPULAR TED-ED LESSON INSPIRED BY COLLABORATIVE WORK
Lorenzo García-Amaya was the script writer for an engaging TED-Ed Lesson that has surpassed more than two million views. The lesson was partly inspired by teamwork initiated in a Humanities Collaboratory Project Grant.
GLOBAL FEMINISMS PROJECT LAUNCHES NEWSLETTER
With a Dissemination Grant from the Humanities Collaboratory, the Global Feminisms Project has joined Twitter and introduced a new quarterly email newsletter. View the inaugural issue and subscribe to their newsletter mailing list!
STUDENT REFLECTS ON CONNECTIONS TO COMMUNITY
The ReConnect/ReCollect Project Grant team published a blog post authored by undergraduate student team member Alyssa Caldito. She reflects on Filipinx-American perspectives in relation to the project and her work on a website for the U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.
COLLABORATORY TEAM CONDUCTS FIELDWORK IN MONGOLIA
In summer 2022, team members from our “Centering the Northern Realms” Project Grant team traveled to northern Mongolia for fieldwork. Year 1 PI Alicia Ventresca-Miller shares some of her stunning photos and details from the fieldwork.
RECONNECT/RECOLLECT PROJECT IN THE NEWS
The ReConnect/ReCollect Project Grant team has cultivated recent coverage by campus and community news outlets. Read or listen to the features online.
PROJECT ROLES BUILD SKILLS & EXPERIENCE FOR MSI STUDENT
Chad Kamen, a student in the School of Information pursuing his Master of Science in Information, has supported two Collaboratory projects. Kamen shares insights on his work with the Black Washtenaw County and ReConnect/ReCollect Project Grants.
COLLABORATORS PRESENT AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR NUBIAN STUDIES
The Collaboratory’s Narrating Nubia Project Grant team was represented at the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies held in Warsaw, Poland. Co-PI Geoff Emberling and Sudanese project partners Anwar Ali and archaeologist Sami Elamin presented a paper to the conference.
SINGING JUSTICE PREPARES FOR EUROPEAN TOUR
In early November, the Humanities Collaboratory’s Singing Justice Project Grant team will connect with international scholars and audiences in Germany and Austria. Their work towards recovering the African American voice in Song will reach new dimensions with a tour co-organized by project partners at the Hampsong Foundation.
HIGH STAKES CULTURE, OCT 12: ABORTION, CONTROL, AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
On October 12, join in a conversation between scholars and students about the cultural logics that are driving the rapidly transforming landscape of access to abortion and birth control in the United States.
COLLABORATORY AWARDS DISSEMINATION GRANTS
The Humanities Collaboratory is pleased to announce Dissemination Grants to two project teams: “Documenting Criminalization and Confinement” and “Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive.” Both teams launched Collaboratory Project Grants in 2019 informed by earlier phases of development. Project Grant teams are eligible to apply for up to $25K to disseminate research outcomes during the final year of their Project Grant.