Team members Ashley Lucas (Documenting Criminalization and Confinement); and Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya and Sean Lang (From Africa to Patagonia) share recent publications.
Author: Tracy Payovich
Team publishes “Collaboration Transcending Crisis” in Inside Higher Ed
Members of the From Africa to Patagonia Collaboratory team recently published “Collaboration Transcending Crisis” in Inside Higher Ed, a leading higher education news source.
Student Spotlight: Katie Hall
Katie Hall, a member of the From Africa to Patagonia project grant team, will be headed to Eastern Michigan University’s MA program in Communication Sciences & Disorders, starting in fall 2020.
Call for Papers – High Stakes Humanities: Being Human During Covid-19
The Michigan Humanities Collaboratory seeks submissions for High Stakes Humanities: Being Human During COVID-19, an ambitious humanities response to the COVID-19 pandemic to be published by University of Michigan Press.
Collaboratory Teamwork Leads Undergraduate to New Academic Path
Meet Abigail Nighswonger, member of the Project Grant team Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive.
Abigail Nighswonger became involved with the Expanding Global Feminisms project through UROP (the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program). As an undergraduate research assistant on the Expanding Global Feminisms project, she has been actively engaged in annotating and transcribing interviews of women’s movement activists from Russia, India, and Nigeria.
Spotlight: Jiseung Kim to Start Postdoc in Prosody and Psycholinguistics
Jiseung Kim, team member on the From Africa to Patagonia project, says “My experience in the Collaboratory helped me tremendously as I navigated the job market learning to reposition myself as a new postdoctoral researcher.”
Expanding Global Feminisms Team Members Interview Feminist Scholars and Activists in Nigeria
Elisha Renne and Ronke Olawale were in Nigeria earlier this year meeting with a number of feminist scholars and activists. Hear about the research activities of Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive a few months prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Nora Krinitsky Advocates for Awareness of How COVID-19 Affects People in Prison
Nora Krinitsky, Project Director of the Collaboratory’s Documenting Criminalization and Confinement Project Grant team, has become an important voice in raising urgent awareness of how the COVID-19 virus impacts incarcerated individuals.
Collaboratory Members Share Perspectives on COVID-19
With no access to our physical space, members of Humanities Collaboratory grant teams have demonstrated remarkable adaptability during challenging times. How have teams responded? “We gathered, we broke digital bread, we checked in…balancing financial need, emotional energy, and extreme changes to availability.”
Faculty Coordinator Kristin Hass Participates in National Humanities Advocacy Day
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 Lucas to Give “FellowSpeak” Talk on “Prison Theatre”
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.
Collaboratory Team Hosts Editors of Afro-Brazilian Magazine
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.
From Africa to Patagonia team announces new publication
Members of the Collaboratory team “From Africa to Patagonia” have announced the publication of “Language contact in Patagonia: Durational control in the acquisition of Spanish and Afrikaans phonology” in the Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology.
Research Group Explores the Arts in American Civic Discourse
The notion that art can convene community, focus attention, dramatize conflict, highlight identity, and recruit emotion in the service of argument and influence will form the connective thread of the research effort.
Translating Anti-Racism
“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.
Ana Silva Campo Discusses Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration
“From Africa to Patagonia” team discusses how altering the traditional educational structure while encouraging agency and creativity yields new forms of learning for all involved.
Proposal Development Grant Applications Due on Wednesday, February 3
The Collaboratory values the process of how innovative projects develop; we encourage applications that emphasize deep engagement with evolving research questions.
Second Annual Connecting Digital Scholarship to be held Wednesday, February 5
Save the date – Wednesday, February 5, 2020 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm – for a second annual Connecting Digital Scholarship event to be held in the Library Gallery in the Hatcher Graduate Library.
Group Explores “Literatures of Partition”
Professors Youngju Ryu, Christi Merrill, and others have been engaging in a series of conversations on the topic of “Literatures of Partition” at the Collaboratory.