A Workshop organized by the Babbidge Library and hosted by DHMS/UCHI
April 14, 2017
8:30-2pm
UCHI Conference Room, Babbidge 4th floor
News
Congratulations to Associate Prof. Micki McElya, core faculty for the project, whose book was a finalist for the PulitzerPrize
For a luminous investigation of how policies and practices at Arlington National Cemetery have mirrored the nation’s fierce battles over race, politics, honor and loyalty.
Nominated Work
UConn Humanities Institute announces 2017-18 Fellowship Awards
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute is pleased to announce its UConn Residential Faculty and Dissertation Fellowship awards for 2017-18
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
JILL LEPORE
Visiting Scholars:
- Deirdre Bair (English & Comparative Literature) – “Bio/Memoir: The Accidental Biographer”
- Rebecca Gould (Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies) – “Narrating Catastrophe: Forced Migration from Colonialism to Postcoloniality in the Caucasus”
UConn Faculty Scholars
- Eleni Coundouriotis (English) – “The Hospital and the State: Readings in Anglophone Fiction”
- Ruth Glasser (Urban Studies/History) – “Brass City, Grass Roots: The Persistence of Farming in Industrial Waterbury, CT, 1870-1980”
- Kenneth Gouwens (History) – “A Translation of Paolo Giovio’s Elogia of Literati”
- Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar (History) – “Becoming Atlanta; Political Power, Progress in the Capital of the New South”
- Nancy Shoemaker (History) – “A History of Soap: Oils, Chemistry, and the Rise of the Global Composite”
- Harry van der Hulst (Linguistics) – “It Means What you See (But You Have to Look for It)”
UConn Dissertation Scholars:
- Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (History) – “The Lettered Barriada: Puerto Rican Workers’ Intellectual Community, 1897-1933”
- Sarah Berry (English – Draper Fellowship) – “The Politics of Voice in Twentieth-Century Poetic Drama”
- Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (Philosophy) – “Action-Guidance in Complicated Cases of Suffering”
- Laura Wright (English – Draper Fellowship) – “Prizing Difference: PEN Awards and Multiculturalist Politics in American Fiction”
April 20, 4:00 pm. Julian Yates ‘Macbeth’s Bubbles and Shakespeare’s Cosmopolitics’
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)
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
