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Past Humanities Events
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Research Collaborative Proposal Deadline 2019
4
"In Her Feelings"? (Mis)Understandings of the Experiences of Black Female Athletes
7
Truth, Lies, and True Lies
7
Student Coffee Hour with Eula Biss
11
Social Media and the News: The Russians Might be the Least of Our Problems
11
The Personal is Political: Examining Black Sportswomen's contemporary Activist's Efforts
13
Sharing Silence: History and the Ends of Trauma in Balzac’s "Adieu"
14
Publishing in the Humanities
19
Research and Graduate School for Humanities Students
19
Violent Animals: Frederick Douglass and Racial Science at the Limits of the Human
19
American Cultires Seminar with Cristin Ellis
20
Fiction Reading: Paul Skenazy
21
Is History a Myth? The Meaning of 'The Family of Man'
21
Exhibition Talk: Robert Indiana and the Selfie: Image, Text, Place
22
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium
25
For Whom the Bot Tolls: Theorizing, Finding, and Analyzing Russian Political Twitter Bots
25
Making America Great Again: Inhibiting the Conversion of Athletic Capital into Political Capital
27
Russian Politics and the Strategy of the Russian Opposition
27
More Than An Object: Capstone Reception and Student Gallery Talks
27
The World of Contemporary Israeli Music for Piano
3
Altman Graduate Fellow Deadline 2019
3
Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2019
4
Russian Media Abroad: RT News Online and Russia’s Foreign Policy
4
The Tigers Who Taught Us Something About Justice
6
The Revolutionists
6
Reflections on Tigerland: An Evening with Wil Haygood ‘76 and Special Guests
7
Belarus and the Black Market: Illicit Smuggling into the EU and Russia
7
Exhibition Talk: Ellen Price on Thom Shaw
8
Travels without Charlie: John Steinbeck in the U.S.S.R.
8
Riot-ization and Social Control in the Trump Era - Work in Progress Talk
11
My Life as a Spy
11
The NCAA Collegiate Model of Athletics: Institutional Racism in an Amateur Disguise
12
Humanities Careers Talk with the Miami University Career Center
12
Exhibition Talk: The Many Ways to See One Hundred Children at Play
13
Art Forms in Nature: Karl Blossfeldt and the Photographic Vision of Plants
13
Speaking to the Enemy: The Making of ‘The Caliphate’ Podcast
13
The Red Army Storms into Europe: Combat, Hatred, and Vengeance on the Eastern Front
14
Truth, Power, and the Art of Resistance
18
The College Athlete Employment Movement: Why "Pay for Play" Misses the Point
21
War, Fiction, and the Ethics of Memory
1
The Plantation, Oscillating Migrant Labor Camp, Brothel and "Pimpin": An Examination of the Eficacy of Predominately White NCAA Institutions
1
The Controversy Surrounding 'E': Inclusions and Exclusions in the Struggle for Gender Neutrality in Spanish
3
Precarious Humanitarianism: Geoeconomic Hope and Geopolitical Fear in Myanmar’s Borderlands
3
Conservation Talk: Conservation Up Close: Woman at Window
4
Annual Young Researchers Conference: Keynote with Christine Evans
5
Annual Young Researchers Conference: Keynote with Monica Eppinger
5
Annual Young Researchers Conference: Technologies and Narratives of Truth and Power, Presentations Day 1
6
Annual Young Researchers Conference: Technologies and Narratives of Truth and Power, Presentations Day 2
8
Black Male Athletes' Education Matters: What's College Sport Got To Do With It?
8
Social Media in the Former Soviet World
8
The Gnawa Lions: Moroccan Ritual Music
9
Outside the Box: A Student Response Exhibition Celebration and Awards Ceremony
10
Asylum Under Siege: Nations, Borders, and Refugees in the Age of Global Migration Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series
11
Reading by Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Rae Armantrout
11
“I’m Muslim Don’t Panic”: Responding to French Islamophobia through Hip-Hop Sponsored by:
11
Free Speech, Liberal Education, and the Dying Art of Civil DIsagreement
12
Disaster Food: Humanitarianism and the Provision of Sustenance
15
Rethinking Sport Cultures Beyond Black, White, and Male: Sports as Sites of Possibility, Contradiction, and Social Change
16
Ground Truths: Rethinking Carthaginian Domination
16
Exhibition Talk: Artwork for Healing
16
Contingent Faculty Research Table
18
Transparency and Enigma in the Gimmick as Capitalist Form
19
Postgrowth Imaginaries: New Ecologies & Counterhegemonic Culture
19
Humanities Grants Round 3 Deadline (2019)
22
College Athletes' Rights and Well-Being: Finding Their Own Voices
22
On-line Dictators and Digital Protesters: Political Life of Social Media in the North Caucasus
23
A Conversation about Truth and Power
23
Panel: A Proactive Student Response to Genocide
23
Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times
25
Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs
25
Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
26
Digital Humanities Fellowship Proposal Deadline 2019
26
The Other Urban America: Alec MacGillis
26
The Other Urban America: Day 1
27
Bat Boy: The Musical
27
The Other Urban America: Day 2
29
Strange Racial Figures on the Basketball Court: Transnationalizing Race and Investigating the Politics of Citizenship
29
Alma Brasileira: Music in Search of the Brazilian Soul
2017-2018
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January 2018
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Research Methods Workshop
19
Humanities Grants Round 2 Deadline (2018)
19
Research Collaborative Proposal Deadline 2018
29
2018 Penny Lecture Series: Introduction to Global Identities and Social Movements
29
Call for 2018-2019 Altman Scholars
February 2018
1
Publishing Your Scholarly Book: Writing Books People Will Want to Read
5
Kill It To Save It, Is Going Global
7
It's About Telling A People's Story
8
Devotion in Motion, a photojournalism project following religious pilgrims in Oaxaca, Mexico
11
The Politics and Diplomacy of Global Health
14
Remaking European Borders: The Migration Crisis from an East European Perspective
15
Populism: East European Developments from a Global Perspective
15
In News We Trust: Misinformation and Media Literacy with Brooke Gladstone
15
The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
16
Spooky Archaeology
17
Eye of the Beholder Workshop
19
Lemony Snicket’s Bewildering Circumstances
19
Tryin' Times: Black Women, Soul, and Narratives of Resistance in the Age of Black Power
19
The Pythia's Oracles and the Nymph's Dice: Types of Divination at Delphi
21
The Alt-Right and the Medieval Roots of White Supremacy
21
City Matters
21
A Holocaust Survivor Speaks
21
Eye of the Beholder Workshop
22
The Intimate Realities of Water
24
Women & Writing: Finding Your Voice in a #MeToo World
26
Purgatorio: A Journey into the Heart of the Border
26
Not a Puppet: Tremors, Tempos, and the Feeling of Being Animated (from Meyerhold to social media)
26
From Ferguson to France
28
From Slavery to Sanctity, Francisco Félix de Souza
28
Sonic Space in Ten Thousand Waves
28
What is Fascism Anyway and Why Should I Care?
September 2017
WIT: A Staged Reading of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play
Pandemics: Tracking Contagion from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Designs for Living: Rethinking the Medical Model of Disability through Architecture
The Politics of Pain
Two Solitudes: Doctors’ and Patients’ Stories
Can Medicine Save the Humanities, and Vice Versa?
Medicine, Culture, and Modern China
Health, Responsibility, and Lifestyle in Ancient Medical and Philosophical Thought
The Power and Politics of Countercultural Medicine
The Eclipse of the Sacred Human: Are Human Rights Under Threat from Medical Science?
7
A Lecture by Dan Cameron
8
Humanities Grants Round 1 (2017)
8
Havighurst Center Student Open House
11
Rethinking Porkopolis
11
A Hundred Years Later: Some Reflections on the Russian Revolution of 1917
11
Why I Love the Electoral College (and You Should Too)
12
Mass Migration in the Age of Environmental Devastation
13
Understanding Threshold Concepts about Writing
13
The Path to Research in the Humanities (2017)
14
Where Have All the Voters Gone?
18
Russian Movie Night: The Guardians (2017)
19
Who Owns the City?
20
2016-2017 Altman Symposium: Medicine and the Humanities
21
Tuning Your Historical Voice: Listening to the Past in a Tone-Deaf Era
21
A Lecture by Raul Gonzalez
22
Their Footprints Are Still Visible: Landscape, Stories, and Myaamia Language and Culture Revitalization
22
Chinese Festival
25
David B. Maxfield Memorial Lecture in Architecture
25
Very Young Girls (2007) Film Screening
25
The View from Outside
25
The Other Bloodlands: Central Asia in War and Revolution
26
American & Muslim Women's Collaborative
26
Completion: The Last 20%
26
Discussion: Queer People of Color
27
Rhetoric and Imperialism
27
Streaming Death: The Politics of Dying on YouTube
27
Tourism Collaborative Governance and Rural Community Development in Turpan
27
The History, Culture, and Art of Paper
27
U.S. Policy at the Intersection of ISIS, Europe, and Russia
27
Opening Night: “The Flick”
28
A Brief History of the Video Essay
29
Liquid Identities and Bedrocks of Desire: Queer Rituals Under Late Capitalism
29
Creating Community at Copan: Kinship & Migration at the Ancient Maya Frontier
29
China’s Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative and Sino-Kazakhstan Cross-border Tourism
October 2017
2
Human Sex Trafficking in the U.S and in Ohio
2
Pests before Pets: The Etymology of “Hamster” and Nationalizing Tendencies in Slavic Linguistics
2
Confession in a Time of Revolution: The Sacrament and the Secular
2
Is the Future Urban?
3
Rap, Racial Alliances, and Activism: Asian American Studies in the Contemporary Political Moment
3
The Mask You Live In (2015) Film Screening
4
Lit Unplugged: Archive Fever
4
Digital Humanities Brown Bag
4
Europe’s New Peripheries: Local Economic Development in Ukraine
5
A Multicultural Symposium
5
Surface Sing
6
Havighurst Center Book Reading Group: The Red Web
9
Is American Nationalism Unique?
9
Open City
10
The “Rosewood Massacre” of 1923 and the Strange History of American Reporting on Race and Violence
10
Sculpture: From the Representational to the Experimental
16
Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics: A Sociocultural Approach
16
Sobornost as Practice: The Local and National Church Councils of 1917
18
Russia’s Hybrid Warfare in Ukraine
18
The Real, the Rational, and the Reading Critic: on Pierre Macherey’s “A Theory of Literary Production”
18
Rattlesnake Tales
18
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters.
18
Indo-Sri Lanka Fishery Conflict: Issues of the Margins and New Directions
18
Political Economy Workshop
19
A Hard Walk Through Solitude: Volcanic Landscapes of Alaska
19
Fright Night
19
How Late Night TV Makes Fun of Washington
20
Mahatma Gandhi: Vegetarianism and Social Critique
24
From Penguins to Plankton: The Dramatic Impacts of Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula
25
The Value of Local Government Archives
25
Designs on the City: Gender and Urban Renewal in San Francisco
25
Is the National Debt the New Road to Serfdom?
25
Blanchot, Levinas, and the Question of the Ecological Other
25
DACA Teach-In
26
Democratic Judgement in the Age of Alernative Facts
26
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
30
An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa
30
Bodies Visible and Invisible: The Necro-politics of the Jewish Cemetery in the Life of Modern Thessaloniki
31
A Secret Society’s Raffia Costume: Understanding the Art of West African Masquerade
November 2017
1
Litworks: Student panel on New Queer Media
1
Political Economy Workshop
2
Resurface Again
2
Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms
2
The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century: Martin Luther and His World, 500 Years Later (Day One)
3
War, Revolution, and Jewish Life in Russia: Symposium
3
The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century: Martin Luther and His World, 500 Years Later (Day Two)
6
The Path to Research in the Humanities (2017)
6
Mobilizing for War, Demobilizing for Revolution: Russia, 1914-1918
6
Translating Language, Translating Culture: The Zen of Footnotes in La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao
6
Neanderthals, Too Stupid to Live?
7
Conspiracy Theories and Revolution in Post-Soviet Russia
8
Plan for the Best or Anticipate the Worst? From Sustainability to Resilience
9
Climate Change and the Collapse of Societies
9
Objects in the Middle
9
“America’s Diplomats” film screening and discussion
13
The Fractiousness of Jewish Responses to the Russian Revolution
14
Living in Limbo, with Fear, and in the Shadows: Understanding and supporting undocumented immigrants
15
Handwriting, Design, and Concetto in Michelangelo’s Poetry and Biomedical Design
15
Opening Night: “Gathering Blue”
16
Participation and Organization in Contemporary Art
16
Salsa Picante with Rice and Beans: Cuban Music in a New Global Context
16
Deep Roots: Fascist and Antifascist Conflict in the United States, from the 1920s to the Age of Trump
17
Grand Night: Love Letters to Ella
18
Grand Night: Love Letters to Ella
27
Promoting Western Integration: 1950s Governmental PR in West Germany in the Context of NATO
27
This is London: CNN’s Role in News from Abroad with CNN London Bureau Chief
29
The Hexagram of the Heavens, The Strings of My Guitar: Joni Mitchell’s Crip Virtuosity
29
American Cultures Seminar
30
Hunt and Gather
March 2018
1
HIVoices
1
The Geography of Ignorance in the Age of Smart Devices
1
Stalin’s Empire: Soviet Propaganda in Central Asia
4
Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2018
4
Altman Graduate Fellow Deadline 2018
5
The Structure of Protest Cycles: Contagion and Cohesion in South Korea’s Democracy Movement
5
Rethinking Women’s Roles in Early Medieval Japan: Was Hojo Masako Japan’s Only Female Shogun?
5
What the L: Language Research at Miami
6
Presence Without Identification: Creating Postcolonial Archives after Communism
7
Opening Night: “We Are Proud to Present”
7
What are We Really Fighting about When We Fight about Monuments?
7
From Caoutchouc to Galoshes: How to Talk to (Soviet) Children about Class, Labor and Ethnicity.
8
Cross-Border Citizens
12
Food and Identity at Azoria, an Archaic City on Crete
12
A Tale of Two African Hegemons: Nigeria and South Africa
12
Girls Who Code: Paving a STEM Path Forward
12
Retro Hungary: Nationalist Re-mattering of the Modern Past
13
Revivifying Narratives: Death Row, Willie Francis, and Imprisoned Radical Intellectualism in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying.
13
Postgrowth Imaginaries–Work in Progress
14
The 1960's: Why We Are Still Learning from that Unforgettable Decade
14
What's the Difference Between Liberal and Illiberal Democracy?
26
Intersectionality Identities and Globalization of Reproduction Shaping Domestic Workers’ Movement for Justice
26
Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism
27
LitUnplugged: Blogging the Book
28
Writing Stories with Help from Artificial Intelligence [Human and Computer Interaction in the Writing Process]
29
Beyond Bachelor Hall
29
Ethnic Crime, Imperial City, and New Imperial History: A Perspective of Ab Imperio's Editor
29
The Politics of Audibility: Language, Music, and Piety in a Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholic Community
April 2018
2
Social Movements and Neoliberalism: Opportunities and Challenges
2
Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia
5
Communism Lived and Remembered, A Dialogue
5
A Theory of Parallel Urbanization
5
Careers in Art History and Beyond
6
Trash, Recycling, and Urban Culture in Contemporary Madrid
6
Altman Symposium Faculty and Geoffrion Student Presentations
9
Precarious Care: Psychological Guidance on a Russian Margin
9
Displacement and Dual Voices: Roman Writing in the Late Republic
11
Baltazar de la Cruz Rodriguez: Maya-Ixil Cultural Rights and Megaprojects in Guatemala
11
Politics, Tragedy, and Chicken Tender
12
"Making the Past Present": Insights from the National History Teacher of the Year
12
Near Eastern Emigres and the Development of Oriental Studies in Russia
12
Religion in Urban America: Race, Immigration, and New Forms of Faith in US Cities
13
"Son, I'd rather not talk about it...": Holocaust Hero and Righteous Among the Nations
16
Black Feminism: Legacies and New Directions
16
White Demographobia: Race, Statistics, and the Construction of ‘Latino Threat'
16
What the L: Language Research at Miami–The Neural Processing of American Sign Language
16
Money, Transparency and Health Care Reform in Lithuania
18
Handling the Haters
19
The Crisis in Ukraine
20
Humanities Grants Round 3 Deadline (2018)
23
A Possession for All Time: Podcasting Greek History in the Digital Age
23
Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
23
"Don't Trust Politicians": Self-Organization Before and After Ukraine's Maidan
25
Black Feminist Theory & Afro-Futurism in Black Panther and Beyond
25
Aesthetics of Discovery: Pierre Belon's Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins (1551) and the Construction of Renaissance Natural Knowledge
26
Unstable Ground: Communicating Science in a Changing Climate
27
Digital Humanities Fellowship Proposal Deadline 2018
30
Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
May 2018
2
Tartuffe: A Production by Miami University's Department of Theatre
3
Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis
4
Post-Cold War Eastern European Film & Media
7
Global Identities and Social Movements: Conclusion of the 2018 Penny Lecture Series:
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Russia's Quiet Revolution: Single Motherhood and Normalized Gender Crisis
15
Humanities Summer Research Institute
November 2020
2
Art and Architecture Lecture: Do Not Try To Remember: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture
2
Miami University Digital Humanities Forum
4
The Scene of the Novel: Varieties of the Actual in Early Modern Prose Narratives
5
MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 1
6
MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 2
7
MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 3
11
Crucial Conversations #7: Love, Study, Struggle
11
Race, Politics, and Sports
11
Works-in-Progress Talk: "Race Mixing"
12
MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 4
13
MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 5
14
MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 6
18
Crucial Conversations #8 - Where Do We Go From Here?
December 2020
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