The center of the Mesoamerican universe lies twenty kilometers northeast of Mexico City in the ancient city of Teotihuacán. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, the site receives 4.5 million visitors annually. The Aztecs called it the place where the gods were created, and it remains Mesoamerica’s cosmological and spiritual heart. As…
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Nishnaabeg Team Celebrates Learning Opportunities
Two members of the From Revitalization to Reclamation: Reinforcing Nishnaabeg Language Pedagogy and Indigenous Epistemologies at the University and Beyond Proposal Development Grant team attended The Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) conference in early June. Kayla Gonyon (Lecturer in American Culture, Ojibwe Language) and Skyelar Raiti (Undergraduate Research Assistant) traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, where the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC)…
Do Androids Study Electric Humanities?
AI is everywhere you look these days. What used to only be a part of science fiction books and movies is now helping write papers, draft invitations, produce fanciful images, and even streamline our google searches. However, while AI has shown itself to be a helpful taskmaster, it is not without cause that many of us are ambivalent…
New Proposal Development Grant Teams
The Humanities Collaboratory welcomes four Proposal Development Grant teams for our current grant cycle! I Walk Under the Earth; Lightly, in a Cloud of 300,000 Points. A Portal to the Ancient City of Teotihuacán through LiDAR Surveys, Digital Preservation, and Immersive Storytelling is led by PI Robert Adams from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design. This project seeks to…
The Ambivalence Project Celebrates Launch of Guidelines
The Ambivalence Project, partnering with Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, has launched their messaging guide, “Ambivalence as an Opportunity for Social Change.” It can be downloaded for free at: http://goodwinsimon.com/ambivalence. The Ambivalence Project, led by P.I. Valerie Traub, was composed of 5 faculty, 2 graduate students, and 1 staff person located in LSA and the Medical…