UConn Humanities Institute
Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1234
Storrs, CT, 06269
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Phone +1 (860) 486-9057
Email: uchi@uconn.edu
Upcoming Events
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Feb
26
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Andrea Celli4:00pm
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Andrea Celli
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor
Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Hagar the Outcast: Reappraisals of a Biblical Theme in the Context of Post-Tridentine Culture” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event. -
Feb
28
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue12:15am
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue
Friday, February 28th, 2020
12:15 AM - 12:45 AM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Learn to look with a critical eye
Friday, February 28th
12:15–12:45pm
Tap your powers of observation and
investigate a single work of art through
close looking and discussion with
Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/
Academic Liaison.
The focus of this month's subject is a sculpture "Mother and Child" (1945) by.Isabel Case Borgatta (American, 1921-2017), from the museum's collection.
Develop your critical thinking skills by learning to look at objects in detail. This skill is useful in navigating everyday life, your job or studies. -
Mar
3
Lukas Rieppel: "Assembling the Dinosaur"4:00pm
Lukas Rieppel: "Assembling the Dinosaur"
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus UCHI
Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of spectacular discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology during the late nineteenth century. Around the same time, the U.S. also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and spectacular creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops became powerful emblems of American capitalism. In this presentation, Lukas Rieppel reveals how these giant extinct reptiles became entwined with commercial culture, philanthropy, and the popular imagination during America’s Long Gilded Age.
Lukas Rieppel is the David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. He works at the intersection of the history of science and the history of capitalism, focusing especially on the life sciences in 19th and 20th century America. He is especially interested in evolution and development, as well as geology and paleontology, in addition to the history of museums, the organism, and the corporation. -
Mar
10
Jay Rubenstein: "Babylon and the Crusades: Where Did Western Civilization Begin?"4:30pm
Jay Rubenstein: "Babylon and the Crusades: Where Did Western Civilization Begin?"
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Storrs Campus Konover Auditorium
This lecture is part of the History Department's annual Fusco Distinguished Lecture Series.
Jay Rubenstein is a Professor of History and the Riggsby Director at the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee.
Professor Rubenstein is an internationally recognized scholar of medieval history and has been awarded several prestigious grants and awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His research focuses on 12th-century texts that grapple with the meaning of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and its profound consequences for the future of Europe.
Rubenstein's publications include: "Guibert of Nogent, Portrait of a Medieval Mind" (2002), "Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse," (2011), and "The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents" (2015).
Lecture begins at 4:30 pm, reception to follow. -
Mar
11
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Patricia Morgne Cramer4:00pm
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Patricia Morgne Cramer
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor
Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “What Are the Wild Waves Saying: Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and the Public Schools” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.
