Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Peter Sloterdijk, this paper concerns bubbles: time-bound, communities of breath, or atmospheres, pneumatic pacts of shared air. If, in the near future, explicit climate policy will become the foundation of community formation against (or with) increasingly hostile environs, then what do texts past, written from within an immediate and knowable precarity, offer us as we seek to imagine successive bubbles today? The “bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble” of Macbeth’s, extra-terrestrial witches, outside, beyond, or within the infrastructures of the world of the play, provides one place to think in these terms.
“The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between.”
WHAT: Lecture by James E. Young, “The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between.”
WHO: Dr. James Young is the Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, UMass Amherst, and jury member for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial.
WHEN: Monday, April 24th, 4-6pm
WHERE: UConn Humanities Institute, 4th floor, Babbidge Library
INFO: Robin Greeley (robin.greeley@uconn.edu)
Get to Know Our Fellows: Four Questions with Mark Healey
-What is your academic background and what is your current position at UConn?
I have a doctorate in Latin American history from Duke University, and taught at NYU, the University of Mississippi, and the University of California, Berkeley before coming to UConn in 2011. I teach on the urban, environmental, and political history of modern Latin America. My strongest areas of interest are Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil, but I have the pleasure of teaching broadly about the region for both undergraduates and graduate students. There’s a lively community of Latin Americanists here, in Humanities and Social Sciences, which has made UConn an engaging place to teach.
April 6th. UCONN Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research on Women and Girls of Color Symposium
A research symposium at which Collaborative faculty and student fellows will present their research conducted this year, will be held in the Student Union (SU) Auditorium on April 6th, from 10am to 5pm. Please feel free to distribute it as widely as possible and encourage your colleagues and students to attend
UCONN Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research on Women and Girls of Color Symposium
“Building Knowledge about Women and Girls of Color: Issues in the Environment, Public Health, and STEM”
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Student Union Theater
10:00AM – 5:00PM
Researching Women and Girls of Color in the U.S.: The Significance of the UCONN Collaborative.
CLAS BOOK FUND IN ACTION
Victor Zatsepine, Assistant Professor in History received a CLAS book fund award. Here are his thoughts on the award:
” CLAS book award allowed me not only to cover the partial cost of my book, Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930 (Vancouver, UBC Press: 2017), but also to raise matching funds from other institutes and organizations. Publishing one’s own first book is an unpredictable process. First-time authors face the challenge of raising money in a tight and competitive environment. UConn’s Department of History and the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute timely alerted me about this funding opportunity. As a result of careful financial planning, the publisher produced high quality images, maps and index, making this book’s format appealing not only for specialists, but also for the general reader. I would highly recommend UConn tenure-track faculty to apply for this award, which, subject to successful outcome, is distributed directly to the publisher.” (Victor Zatsepine)
For more information and how to apply to the CLAS Book Support fund, please visit our page.
Resistance, Play, and Memory
Resistance, Play, and Memory
Artist Joseph DeLappe engages the intersections of art, technology, social engagement/activism and interventionist strategies exploring geo-political contexts. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation has been shown internationally. His creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in popular media—his most familiar work is a performative and memorializing intervention into the US Army video game recruitment website, “America’s Army.”
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Center
Sponsored by
School of Fine Arts’ Art & Art History and Digital Media & Design Departments
Humanities Institute’s Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Human Rights Institute
ADDITIONAL ARTIST INFO
Talk by Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Taking Pierre Nora to the Bombsite: Memory, Death and Capital
Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Warwick University UK
Thursday April 6, 4-5:30
Humanities Institute Seminar Room, 4th floor of Babbidge Library
Pierre Nora has argued that: ‘we speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left’. For Nora, industrialisation and capitalist acceleration were the destroyers of traditional societal structures. Memory industries emerged as methods by which societies could then imagine continuity and identity in response to social dislocation. This talk takes Pierre Nora, and other scholars of memory’s political economy, to the terrorist bombsite. Building upon their historical sociologies of memorialisation, and using her fieldwork from the reconstruction efforts which followed the 9/11 attacks and European bombings, I explore the sublimation of the memorial (and the dead human) to economic agendas and broader rationales of ‘regeneration’ and urban renewal. In post-terrorist reconstruction, the human subject is profoundly displaced by governance which triages economic injury and blight. Economy thereby emerges as the terrain upon which counterterrorism is fought.
Heath-Kelly’s research focuses on critical analysis of terrorism. Among her publications is Death and Security: Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite (Manchester University Press: 2017) and “The Foundational Masquerade: Security as Sociology of Death,” in Masquerades of War, Christine Sylvester, ed. (Routledge: 2015). She is currently principal investigator on two funded research projects: “Resilience at the Bombsite: Reconstructing Post-Terrorist Space” and “Counterterrorism in the NHS: Prevent Duty Safeguarding and the New ‘Pathology’ of Radicalisation.”
Ssponsored by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Political Science
Re-Reading, Re-Thinking, and Re-Seeing Comics: Language, Cognition, and Culture
March 23th Opening Reception new exhibitions 4:30pm
Thursday, March 23 @ 7:30 pm SANAM MARVI
VOCAL WARRIOR SANAM MARVI IS THE NEXT, GREAT DIVINER OF SOUTH ASIA’S HUMANIST, FOLK, AND SUFI TEXTS
With compelling interpretations that draw deeply from one of the world’s great music traditions, Sanam Marvi is Pakistan’s next, inspiring diviner of South Asia’s humanist, folk and Sufi texts. A vocal warrior for tolerance, spirituality and peace, this contemporary daughter of interior Sindh can urge sweeping clarion calls or disarm with nuance. “Deeply resonant. Sublime. Transporting.” (The International News/Pakistan)
Whether singing in Urdu, Sindhi, or Saraiki, Marvi finds comfort in the wisdom of Sufis, and in the couplets on divine love and devotion of the great poets. Reaching across generations and cultures with her sultry voice, she creates an inspiring experience … meditative and trance-inducing one moment, and thrillingly ecstatic the next.
The presentation of Sanam Marvi is part of Center Stage, a public diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts in cooperation with the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations, with support from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Center Stage Pakistan is made possible by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. General management is provided by Lisa Booth Management, Inc.
This is Sanam Marvi’s only stop in Connecticut! New York is the next closest location where she will appear.
Watch Sanam Marvi here:
Video 3 Documentary trailer Marvi: The Mystic Muse
JORGENSEN
Center for the Performing Arts
On the UConn campus in Storrs
