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[Brown] What History Looks Like - Alumni Stories: Brown History PhDs and Tenure-track Faculty Careers at Public Universities
[Brown] What History Looks Like - Alumni Stories: Brown History PhDs and Tenure-track Faculty Careers at Public Universities
March 2, 2021 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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11:00am - 12:30pm EST
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The Department of History with the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown and Cogut Institute 21st-Century PhD Series
Alumni Stories: Brown History PhDs and Tenure-track Faculty Careers at Public Universities
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Sara Fingal, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Alicia Maggard, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Auburn University
Tshombe Miles, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College, City University of New York
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What is the What History Looks Like series?
Established in 2016, the Brown History Department’s What History Looks Like series continues for its fifth consecutive year with the same enduring purpose: to foster a space where Brown History Department faculty, students, and historians in other departments can share the versatility of their skills and experiences, and learn more about the diverse settings where historical work takes place.
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[NH-Humanities] The Middle East | Mohamed Defaa
[NH-Humanities] The Middle East | Mohamed Defaa
March 2, 2021 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Presenter: Mohamed Defaa
The term "Middle East" is a changing geopolitical concept. Throughout recent history, this term referred to a political, a cultural, and a geographical region with no clear boundaries. Moreover, this concept serves to generate stereotypes and misunderstanding. This multimedia presentation by Mohamed Defaa provides an analytical framework to understand the histories, social identities, and cultures behind this complex concept of "Middle East."
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[NH-humanities] The Middle East | Mohamed Defaa
[NH-humanities] The Middle East | Mohamed Defaa
March 2, 2021 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Presenter: Mohamed Defaa
The term "Middle East" is a changing geopolitical concept. Throughout recent history, this term referred to a political, a cultural, and a geographical region with no clear boundaries. Moreover, this concept serves to generate stereotypes and misunderstanding. This multimedia presentation by Mohamed Defaa provides an analytical framework to understand the histories, social identities, and cultures behind this complex concept of "Middle East."
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[NH-Humanities] Flight of Remembrance: World War II from the Losing Side and the Dream that Led to Aerospace Engineering | Marina Dutzmann Kirsch
[NH-Humanities] Flight of Remembrance: World War II from the Losing Side and the Dream that Led to Aerospace Engineering | Marina Dutzmann Kirsch
March 2, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenter: Marina Dutzmann Kirsch
Flight of Remembrance is the true story of the speaker's family before, during, and after World War II in Latvia, occupied Poland, and Germany. None were members of the Nazi Party or Hitler supporters, but Marina Kirsch's father and grandfather, both technically skilled, were forced to serve in the German military after fleeing from Latvia to Germany before the first Soviet takeover of the Baltic States. By giving a face and name to "the enemy," this presentation offers a seldom-shared perspective on the most devastating world conflict of all time, and sheds light on what life was like for a German family during the war. Centering on the speaker's parents, Rolf and Lilo, Flight of Remembrance is a love story, a story of survival, and the story of Rolf's lifelong dream of a career in aeronautical engineering that expanded, after he immigrated to the United States, to a leadership role in the emerging U.S. space program.
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[NH-humanities] Flight of Remembrance: World War II from the Losing Side and the Dream that Led to Aerospace Engineering | Marina Dutzmann Kirsch
[NH-humanities] Flight of Remembrance: World War II from the Losing Side and the Dream that Led to Aerospace Engineering | Marina Dutzmann Kirsch
March 2, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenter: Marina Dutzmann Kirsch
Flight of Remembrance is the true story of the speaker's family before, during, and after World War II in Latvia, occupied Poland, and Germany. None were members of the Nazi Party or Hitler supporters, but Marina Kirsch's father and grandfather, both technically skilled, were forced to serve in the German military after fleeing from Latvia to Germany before the first Soviet takeover of the Baltic States. By giving a face and name to "the enemy," this presentation offers a seldom-shared perspective on the most devastating world conflict of all time, and sheds light on what life was like for a German family during the war. Centering on the speaker's parents, Rolf and Lilo, Flight of Remembrance is a love story, a story of survival, and the story of Rolf's lifelong dream of a career in aeronautical engineering that expanded, after he immigrated to the United States, to a leadership role in the emerging U.S. space program.
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[Amherst] CHI Salon: From Student to Explainer: The Public Facing Work of Students in the Arts and Sciences
[Amherst] CHI Salon: From Student to Explainer: The Public Facing Work of Students in the Arts and Sciences
March 3, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Writing museum labels or web content for a public audience requires a mastery of the ideas that permit the author to be both brief and dense, specific but jargon free. So what about teaching students to do it? What does it look like to teach students to communicate complex topics in art and science to a broad public audience? In this panel discussion Mead Art Museum’s Head of Education Emily Potter-Ndiaye will moderate a conversation with Professors Chris Durr (Chemistry) and Dwight Carey (Architectural Studies and Art History) to hear more about their recent student projects in public facing writing and the pedagogies that support it. What does this look like for topics that normally require a deep base of background knowledge? What is specific to the discipline, universal across the curriculum? Where did their best efforts fall flat? And what do they take from the process as educators and scholars? Participants are welcome and encouraged to come with notes from their own practice to add to the discussion.
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[NH-Humanities] In the Evil Day: Individual Rights, Town Government, and the Crime that Stunned the Nation | Richard Adams Carey
[NH-Humanities] In the Evil Day: Individual Rights, Town Government, and the Crime that Stunned the Nation | Richard Adams Carey
March 3, 2021 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Presenter: Richard Adams Carey
On August 19, 1997, in little Colebrook, New Hampshire, a 62-year-old carpenter named Carl Drega, a man with long-simmering property rights grievances, murdered state troopers Scott Phillips and Les Lord at a traffic stop in a supermarket parking lot. Then Drega stole Phillips's cruiser and drove downtown to settle some old scores. By the end of the day three more were dead, Drega among them, and four wounded. Occurring on the eve of America's current plague of gun violence, this tragic event made headlines all over the world and shocked New Hampshire out of a previous innocence. Touching on facets of North Country history, local governance, law enforcement, gun violence, and the human spirit, Richard Adams Carey describes a community that was never a passive victim but rather a brave and resilient survivor.
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[NH-Humanities] Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Fateful Memory, Indelible Legacy | Mary Kelly
[NH-Humanities] Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Fateful Memory, Indelible Legacy | Mary Kelly
March 3, 2021 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Presenter: Mary Kelly
Drawing on material from her book Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History, Dr. Kelly will discuss the role of the Famine in shaping Irish-American ethnic identity. Focusing on the long-term impact of the episode between the 1840s and 1990s, she explores the shadowed landscape of Famine legacy and its status in Irish-American culture today. Referencing contemporary press accounts and the writings of Famine survivors and their descendants, Dr. Kelly shows how interrogating Famine memory enables the Irish on both sides of the Atlantic to deal with the material and emotional inheritance of this tragic experience.
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[NH-Humanities] All Eyes Are Upon Us: Racial Struggles in the Northeast, from Jackie Robinson to Deval Patrick | Jason Sokol
[NH-Humanities] All Eyes Are Upon Us: Racial Struggles in the Northeast, from Jackie Robinson to Deval Patrick | Jason Sokol
March 3, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenter: Jason Sokol
From Brooklyn to Boston, from World War II to the present, Jason Sokol traces the modern history of race and politics in the Northeast. Why did white fans come out to support Jackie Robinson as he broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 even as Brooklyn's blacks were shunted into segregated neighborhoods? How was African-American politician Ed Brooke of Massachusetts, who won a Senate seat in 1966, undone by the resistance to desegregation busing in Boston? Is the Northeast's history a microcosm of America as a whole: outwardly democratic, but inwardly conflicted over race? Registration information will be posted soon.
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[NH-Humanities] Votes for Women: A History of the Suffrage Movement | Liz Tentarelli
[NH-Humanities] Votes for Women: A History of the Suffrage Movement | Liz Tentarelli
March 3, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenter: Liz Tentarelli
The campaign for women's right to vote was a long one, from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York to ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920. Who were the key players in New Hampshire and the nation? What issues and obstacles did they face? How did suffragists benefit from World War I in the final push for passage of the women's suffrage amendment? Who was left out when women got the right to vote? Using historic photos and documents, Liz Tentarelli will guide us on the journey. Liz is president of the League of Women Voters NH, a non-partisan organization that is the direct descendant of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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[VT-humanities] *DIGITAL* Libraries in the Time of Covid
[VT-humanities] *DIGITAL* Libraries in the Time of Covid
March 3, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Vermont Humanities Digital Channels, Online
[Libraries have a central role in their communities, often being the only place to access free internet and other technology necessary for life in 2021. In the wake of the pandemic, libraries have had to both evaluate and rapidly respond to the changing world. Librarian Jessamyn West helps us to understand the role of the library in these unusual times.
Please note: this free event will be held on the Digital Programs portion of our website, our Facebook page, and our YouTube channel. Pre-registration is not required for this event.
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[CT-Humanities] Oystering in Norwalk, CT - A Virtual Chat with Photographer Bill Whitbeck
[CT-Humanities] Oystering in Norwalk, CT - A Virtual Chat with Photographer Bill Whitbeck
March 4, 2021 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Calling all oyster lovers! The Norwalk Historical Society is hosting a virtual chat with photographer, Bill Whitbeck about his new book, “Oystering in Norwalk, Connecticut”.
The free virtual event takes place on Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) via Zoom.
Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oystering-in-norwalk-ct-a-virtual-chat-with-photographer-bill-whitbeck-tickets-139963278935
This illustrated talk will highlight photographs from Mr. Whitbeck’s book as well as rarely-seen images from his personal collection. Join us as we explore a brief history of oystering in and around Norwalk and learn of Mr. Whitbeck’s reminiscences about growing up in East Norwalk and his love of oystering, his relationship with the Bloom family, and stories about his old photography business that was housed in the Radel oyster building. Learn how his waterfront studio allowed him to photograph every aspect of oyster and clam harvesting in the waters surrounding the Norwalk Islands. Q & A will follow the lecture.
The Norwalk Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Support the Norwalk Historical Society’s community programming with a donation today. Donate here:https://norwalkhistoricalsociety.org/join-donate/
About Bill Whitbeck: ‘Oyster Bill’ Whitbeck is a Seattle based photographer and writer. Originally from Norwalk, Connecticut, he became interested in shellfish farming while operating a photography studio in an old oyster house on Long Island Sound. It was during the 1970s and early 1980s that he photographed every aspect of oystering in Connecticut. After moving to the Seattle area in 1977, he found himself becoming more and more involved with the Northwest shellfish scene, and co-authored “The Joy Of Oysters- A cookbook and guidebook for shucking, slurping, and savoring nature’s most perfect food”, which was published in 2001. In October 2017, Bill retired from Taylor Shellfish Farms as their Seattle area sales manager, where he coordinated the sales and deliveries of fresh shellfish to roughly 200 restaurants. His direct contact with Seattle area’s best chefs and restaurateurs made for a very enjoyable job! In addition to his involvement with Seattle’s bustling food community, Bill continues living life to the fullest as a photographer, writer, and musician, having performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2006. He is also a seasoned mariner, holding a US Coast Guard 100-ton Captain’s License. Bill received a BS in Photo-Illustration and Journalism from Kent State University in Ohio.
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[NH-Humanities] Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England | Jo Radner
[NH-Humanities] Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England | Jo Radner
March 4, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenter: Jo Radner
Whatever did New Englanders do on long winter evenings before cable, satellite and the internet? In the decades before and after the Civil War, our rural ancestors used to create neighborhood events to improve their minds. Community members male and female would compose and read aloud homegrown, handwritten literary "newspapers" full of keen verbal wit. Sometimes serious, sometimes sentimental but mostly very funny, these "newspapers" were common in villages across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and revealed the hopes, fears, humor and surprisingly daring behavior of our forebears. Jo Radner shares excerpts from her forthcoming book about hundreds of these "newspapers" and provides examples from villages in your region.
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[Amherst] The Ins and Outs of Publishing Your Book
[Amherst] The Ins and Outs of Publishing Your Book
March 5, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Editors from Amherst College Press, Cornell University Press, and New York University Press will present on key aspects of the book publishing process in order to give faculty the best opportunities to successfully publish their manuscripts in ways that they find fulfilling. This is designed for first-time and seasoned authors. Much time will be devoted to answering your questions.
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[NH-Humanities] Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music | Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
[NH-Humanities] Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music | Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
March 5, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
Through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus is on songs about leaving Ireland, sometimes focusing on the reasons for leaving (a man who is driven from his land by English persecution), sometimes revealing what happened upon arrival (an immigrant drafted into the Union army during the Civil War), and sometimes exploring the universal feeling of homesickness of a stranger in a strange land (a factory worker in London missing his home in County Clare). The presenter discusses the historical context of these songs, interspersing their stories with tunes from Ireland that made their way into New England's musical repertoire, played on his fiddle or guitar.
Please email: library@frostfree.org or call the library with questions 603 876 4479.
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[NH-Humanities] Plague: Stories of Epidemics | Kate Gaudet
[NH-Humanities] Plague: Stories of Epidemics | Kate Gaudet
March 5, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Presenter: Kate Gaudet
Dr. Katherine Gaudet (UNH) explores stories of epidemics in our next HTG Online event. Are we living through a Biblical plague? Or are we feeling the wrath of the gods on our society, like Thebes in the time of Oedipus? This talk considers what stories, histories, and legends of epidemics have to tell us about how to understand our own time.
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[NH-Humanities] The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking? | Richard Hesse
[NH-Humanities] The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking? | Richard Hesse
March 7, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Presenter: Richard Hesse
In 1787 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to address a wide variety of crises facing the young United States of America and produced a charter for a new government. In modern times, competing political and legal claims are frequently based on what those delegates intended. Mythology about the founders and their work at the 1787 Convention has obscured both fact and legitimate analysis of the events leading to the agreement called the Constitution. Richard Hesse explores the cast of characters called "founders," the problems they faced, and the solutions they fashioned.
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[NH-Humanities] The Power of Place: Marthaâs Vineyard and the Growth of the Black Elite
[NH-Humanities] The Power of Place: Marthaâs Vineyard and the Growth of the Black Elite
March 7, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
For Black Americans traveling in the era of segregation presented serious dangers from hotels and restaurants that refused to accommodate them to hostile âsundown towns,â where posted signs warned people of color that they were banned after nightfall. Out of necessity, Black travelers would flock to towns like Oak Bluffs where they would be welcomed. Initially established by freed slaves who sought shelter there after slavery was abolished. Then, in the 1930s and 1940s, as African Americans in urban centers like New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston began to establish themselves as part of the middle and upper-middle class, they flocked to the East Coast shoreline in summer to take in the beach and the bonfires.
For this conversation, panelists will share the history and personal stories of the growth of the Black Elite on the Vineyard and how this upwardly mobile Black community recast the borders of white spaces.
Panelists: Gretchen Sorin, author, Driving While Black; African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights; Joanne Dowdell, Senior Vice President Global Government Affairs at News Corp; Loren Van Allen, member of the Shearer Family, owners of Shearer Cottage.
Moderator: Bithiah Carter, President & CEO, New England Blacks in Philanthropy
The winter Tea Talk series, presented by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) and sponsored in part by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, is a series of participatory lectures related to New Hampshireâs Black history and African American culture. These events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.blackheritagetrailnh.org/tea-talks.
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[NH-Humanities] Votes for Women: A History of the Suffrage Movement | Liz Tentarelli
[NH-Humanities] Votes for Women: A History of the Suffrage Movement | Liz Tentarelli
March 8, 2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Presenter: Liz Tentarelli
The campaign for women's right to vote was a long one, from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York to ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920. Who were the key players in New Hampshire and the nation? What issues and obstacles did they face? How did suffragists benefit from World War I in the final push for passage of the women's suffrage amendment? Who was left out when women got the right to vote? Using historic photos and documents, Liz Tentarelli will guide us on the journey. Liz is president of the League of Women Voters NH, a non-partisan organization that is the direct descendant of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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[NH-humanities] Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England | Jo Radner
[NH-humanities] Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England | Jo Radner
March 8, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenter: Jo Radner
Whatever did New Englanders do on long winter evenings before cable, satellite and the internet? In the decades before and after the Civil War, our rural ancestors used to create neighborhood events to improve their minds. Community members male and female would compose and read aloud homegrown, handwritten literary "newspapers" full of keen verbal wit. Sometimes serious, sometimes sentimental but mostly very funny, these "newspapers" were common in villages across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and revealed the hopes, fears, humor and surprisingly daring behavior of our forebears. Jo Radner shares excerpts from her forthcoming book about hundreds of these "newspapers" and provides examples from villages in your region.
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[Rhode Island] Brown Bag Series | Giacomo Leoni (Honors and Philosophy) | “Of course I am right! Or a discussion of how being open to being wrong requires a paradoxical approach.”
[Rhode Island] Brown Bag Series | Giacomo Leoni (Honors and Philosophy) | “Of course I am right! Or a discussion of how being open to being wrong requires a paradoxical approach.”
March 10, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The intention of this presentation is to discuss the teleological and ethical dimension of our judgment upon our judgment, literally an “auto-meta-judgment”, a moment of thought in which we evaluate our own thinking according to both ethical and logical considerations. The aim of this paper is to determine the characteristics of such an act of self-awareness and to demonstrate how, despite many possible levels of self-reflection, we can avoid an infinite regress and come to a level of derivative reflection where the entire corpus of transcendental statements would be reduced to goodness and logical correctness.
If, then, thinking one right is not only common but epistemologically inevitable, only a dedicated and paradoxical ethical approach stemming from compassion and a sense of human fellowship can take us past the threshold of openness to others’ ideas and views. In a time of political fragmentation and tension, however, we must question whether we even want to do so in the first place.
Drawing from philosophical tradition ranging from Aristotle to Merleau-Ponty in the first part and pivoting towards more mundane yet crucial political debates in the second, we will try to ask ourselves: how can I talk to someone who holds different ideas from mine, without renouncing my critical thinking? Can I overcome the innate and inevitable notion that I am always right in thinking what I think?
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[Amherst] CHI Salon: Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures"
[Amherst] CHI Salon: Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures"
March 10, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
This salon features a presentation by five students selected this past fall as Folger Undergraduate Fellows. The Fellows took part in an intensive seminar during January-term to work in close collaboration with Folger staff and with a group of postdoctoral researchers to engage in a 360-degree investigation of an 18th-century manuscript recipe book from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection. Students examined how the book was put together; investigated its users, contributors, and sources; identified seasonal ingredients, preservation methods, and ingredients made available through trade routes and institutionalized slavery. They transcribed, edited, and adapted recipes, uncovered implicit knowledge and hidden labor encoded in the recipes, and even recreated selected recipes. Student presenters: Sarah Edelson '23, Hildi Gabel '21, Maddie Hahm '23, Kate Lester '22, and Anna Smith '22. Folger Shakespeare Library staff: Dr. Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts; Dr. Amanda Herbert, Associate Director of Fellowships.
The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the world’s premier research libraries. Its founder, Henry Clay Folger, graduated from Amherst in 1879 and bequeathed the Library to Amherst upon his death in 1930.
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[NH-humanities] Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music | Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
[NH-humanities] Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music | Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
March 10, 2021 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
Through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus is on songs about leaving Ireland, sometimes focusing on the reasons for leaving (a man who is driven from his land by English persecution), sometimes revealing what happened upon arrival (an immigrant drafted into the Union army during the Civil War), and sometimes exploring the universal feeling of homesickness of a stranger in a strange land (a factory worker in London missing his home in County Clare). The presenter discusses the historical context of these songs, interspersing their stories with tunes from Ireland that made their way into New England's musical repertoire, played on his fiddle or guitar.
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[Colby] Gary Vikan | The Holy Shroud: A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
[Colby] Gary Vikan | The Holy Shroud: A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
March 11, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Former director of the Walters Art Museum, Mr. Vikan will be talking about his recent book, The Holy Shroud: A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death (Pegasus Books, 2020) in which he shows that the world’s most controversial relic, the Shroud of Turin is not the burial cloth of Jesus, but rather a photograph-like body print of a medieval Frenchman created by a brilliant artist serving the royal court in the time of the Black Death. While other scholars, and even the Catholic Church itself, have never confirmed the authenticity of the Shroud, the question always remained—how did that image get there? Combining copious research and decades of art world experience with an accessible, wry voice, Gary Vikan shows how one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of Christian relics came into being.
The talk is sponsored by the Art Department, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Colby College Museum of Art, and the Department of Religious Studies.
Meeting ID: 981 9433 4633; click here to join.
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[NH-humanities] Imperial Russian Fabergé Eggs | Marina Forbes
[NH-humanities] Imperial Russian Fabergé Eggs | Marina Forbes
March 17, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Presenter: Marina Forbes
This illustrated presentation by Marina Forbes focuses on the life and remarkable work of Russian master jeweler and artist, Peter Carl Fabergé. The program features a photo-tour of Fabergé collections at the Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg and from major museums and private collectors around the world. Explore the important role of egg painting in Russian culture and the development of this major Russian art form from a traditional craft to the level of exquisite fine art under the patronage of the tsars. Forbes also discusses the fascinating history of these eggs, their role in the dramatic events of the last decades of Romanov rule in Russia, and in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution.
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[Amherst] CHI Salon: Hidden Drives: The Scene and Unseen of Home
[Amherst] CHI Salon: Hidden Drives: The Scene and Unseen of Home
March 17, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Hidden drives are invisible driveways to dwellings also unseen. Rarely pursued by passerby, hidden drives are passages to homes that remain obscure, to residents whose histories are so too unknown. Hidden drives can also be invisible because they are internal. Repressed desires, inculcated ideas, secret aspirations: these hidden drives influence how we navigate our world, how we see ourselves, how we stage our story. Hidden Drives: The Scene and Unseen of Home explores why certain stories of home are shared while others are concealed, and how this comes to be. Through this virtual exhibit, visitors will be able to listen to the silences and observe the erasures that shape our understandings of home. Hidden Drives seeks to help visitors recognize the blind spots in their own worldview.
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[Colby] Laura Wides-Muñoz
[Colby] Laura Wides-Muñoz
March 17, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Laura Wides-Muñoz is a journalist and author. She currently serves as an Executive Editor for News Practices at ABC News in Washington DC. Her debut book, “The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What it Means to be American” (Harper Books: 2018), was named a semifinalist for the 2018 PEN America/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction literature. Previously, she was based in Miami as VP for Special Projects at Fusion Network, overseeing work by the investigative and digital teams. Laura began her career covering the end of the civil war in Guatemala and has reported throughout Central America and Cuba. She worked for more than a decade at The Associated Press and was a 2013 Nieman Foundation for Journalism fellow at Harvard University. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, among other outlets.
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[NH-humanities] Songs of Old New Hampshire | Jeff Warner
[NH-humanities] Songs of Old New Hampshire | Jeff Warner
March 19, 2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Presenter: Jeff Warner Drawing heavily on the repertoire of traditional singer Lena Bourne Fish (1873-1945) of Jaffrey and Temple, New Hampshire, Jeff Warner offers the songs and stories that, in the words of Carl Sandburg, tell us "where we came from and what brought us along." These ballads, love songs and comic pieces, reveal the experiences and emotions of daily life in the days before movies, sound recordings and, for some, books. Songs from the lumber camps, the decks of sailing ships, the textile mills, and the war between the sexes offer views of pre-industrial New England and a chance to hear living artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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[NH-humanities] Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire's State Dog, the Chinook | Bob Cottrell
[NH-humanities] Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire's State Dog, the Chinook | Bob Cottrell
March 20, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Bob Cottrell This program looks at how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a major role in this story. Explaining how man and his relationship with dogs won out over machines on several famous polar expeditions, Bob Cottrell covers the history of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks, the State Dog of New Hampshire.
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[Brown] What History Looks Like - Live from the Field: History and Humanities PhDs in University Administration
[Brown] What History Looks Like - Live from the Field: History and Humanities PhDs in University Administration
March 22, 2021 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Sponsor:
The Department of History with the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown and Cogut Institute 21st-Century PhD Series
Live from the Field: History and Humanities PhDs in University Administration
Featuring
Ferentz LaFargue, Dean of the College, Saybrook College, Yale University
Laura Perille, Associate Director, Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Resources, Georgetown University
Joel Revill, Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Brown University
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What is the What History Looks Like series?
Established in 2016, the Brown History Department’s What History Looks Like series continues for its fifth consecutive year with the same enduring purpose: to foster a space where Brown History Department faculty, students, and historians in other departments can share the versatility of their skills and experiences, and learn more about the diverse settings where historical work takes place.
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[CT-Humanities] Trouble Begins at 5:30: Genus Americanus
[CT-Humanities] Trouble Begins at 5:30: Genus Americanus
March 22, 2021 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Virtual – Crowdcast
TROUBLE BEGINS, Monday, March 22nd, 2021, 5:30 p.m: Genus Americanus: Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity by Loren Ghiglione with Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham
For the first Trouble Begins lecture of the spring 2021 season, The Mark Twain House & Museum is thrilled host Lorne Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, and Dan Tham as they talk about their new book and their journey to follow in Mark Twain’s footsteps across the United States.
This is a FREE event hosted virtually on Crowdcast. Donations encouraged. Visit marktwainhouse.org/events for more information and event registration.
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What unites and what divides us? What is the essence of American identity?
“Loren Ghiglione’s passion for journalism and education informs every page of Genus Americanus, as he and his two students crisscross the country, giving voice to our collective psyche on matters of race, class, and other critical issues.” —Norman Pearlstine, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times
A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a three-month, twenty-eight state, 14,063-mile road trip in search of America’s identity. After interviewing one hundred and fifty Americans about contemporary identity issues, they wrote this book, which is part oral history, part shoe-leather reporting, part search for America’s future, part memoir, and part travel journal.
On their journey they retraced Mark Twain’s travels across America—from Hannibal, Missouri, to Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle. They hoped Twain’s insights into the late nineteenth-century soul of America would help them understand the America of today and the ways that our cultural fabric has shifted.
Their interviews focused on issues of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. The timely trip occurred as the United States was poised to replace president Barack Obama, an icon of multiculturalism and inclusion, with Donald Trump, whose white-identity agenda promoted exclusion and division. What they learned along the way paints an engaging portrait of the country during this crucial moment of ideological and political upheaval.
LOREN GHIGLIONE is a veteran of a half century in journalism and journalism education and professor emeritus of journalism at Northwestern University. He owned and edited the Southbridge Evening News and ran its parent company, Worcester County Newspapers, for twenty-six years. He also served as a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror, guest curator of a 1990 Library of Congress exhibit and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The author or editor of nine books, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
ALYSSA KARAS has served as digital producer for Glamour and as senior digital producer and special projects editor for Vanity Fair.
DAN THAM has served as production assistant, associate producer, and producer at CNN.
The Trouble at Home and Trouble Begins series are made possible with the support of Connecticut Humanities. Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, supports cultural and historic organizations that tell the state’s stories, build community and enrich lives. https://cthumanities.org/
The Trouble Begins lecture series is presented in part with support from The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, Elmira, New York. http://www.marktwainstudies.org
For more information about the program, call 860-247-0998 or visit marktwainhouse.org/
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[Amherst] CHI Salon: Laure Thompson | "A Symbiotic Future for Machine Learning and the Humanities"
[Amherst] CHI Salon: Laure Thompson | "A Symbiotic Future for Machine Learning and the Humanities"
March 24, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Computational methods can help the humanities by making massive cultural heritage collections more explorable and analyzable. Machine learning and statistical methods provide an opportunity to view collections from alien, defamiliarized perspectives that can call into question the boundaries between established categories. But the converse is also true; the humanities have much to offer machine learning. The use of computational methods within humanities scholarship often tests and expands the affordances of these methods. The complexities and idiosyncrasies of humanities collections can improve our understanding of what models learn and how we might direct what they learn. In this talk, Laure Thompson will discuss how machine learning and the humanities help each other. She will demonstrate how convolutional neural networks can be used as an exploratory tool to ask "What is Dada?" Then, she will show how science fiction novels highlight the way topic models tend to learn author- and series-oriented discourses, and how they have inspired a method for directing these models towards more cross-cutting themes. Finally, Thompson will briefly describe how these two lines of work are being combined to enable the study of magical gems, an art historic category of engraved gemstones from the Greco-Roman world.
Laure Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information & Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. This talk will be introduced and facilitated by Lee Spector, Visiting Professor of Computer Science.
Co-sponsored and funded by the Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts Initiative.
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[New Hampshire] Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Communication | Entrepreneurial China: The Entrepreneurial Labor of Reinvention in China’s New Economy
[New Hampshire] Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Communication | Entrepreneurial China: The Entrepreneurial Labor of Reinvention in China’s New Economy
March 25, 2021 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
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[Amherst] CHI Salon: Ashlie Sandoval | "Engaging with the Failures of Racial Empathy"
[Amherst] CHI Salon: Ashlie Sandoval | "Engaging with the Failures of Racial Empathy"
March 31, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual, Zoom
In this talk, CHI Fellow Ashlie Sandoval examines the limitations of empathy to think through its role in struggles for racial justice. Scholars, tech entrepreneurs, and media pundits are calling for an increase in empathy, in the face of media attention that has recently spotlighted police brutality, racialized COVID-19 deaths, and the renewed visibility of white supremacy groups. To develop non-Black individuals’ capacity to undo racial injustice, specifically the daily violence experienced by Black people, some have turned to virtual reality to instill empathy, claiming that it may move viewers beyond feelings of pity to feeling accountable to dismantle racism. However, is racial empathy possible? And what can we expect from it? Examining philosophical critiques of empathy’s capabilities in the context of anti-Black racism, Sandoval focuses on what empathy’s limitations might tell us about the emotional and material structures that prevent empathy from achieving the results its advocates often hope for.
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[Middlebury] "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" | Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
[Middlebury] "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" | Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
March 31, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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