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Humanities Events 2020-2021
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August 2020
19
Crucial Conversations Session 1: What is the Movement for Black Lives?
24
Siberian Exile: A Conversation with author Julija Šukys
24
Western Program: Tea and Conversation
25
MUM Book Discussion
26
Thinking about History
31
Re-Imagining Russia: 20 Years of the Havighurst Center
31
Art and Architecture Lecture: Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures
31
Western Program: Tea and Conversation
31
Black Student Stories From Abroad
September 2020
6
(Black) Literature as (Black) Philosophical Method
10
Welcome to the World: An Art Exhibition
10
A Conversation about Russia’s Empires
11
Spring Street Reading
12
Societies, Politics, and Economies Meet and Greet Luncheon
12
Resetting the Clocks in a 24/7 World
13
Spanish Culture of Food & Gastronomy: The Quest for Identity in a Globalized World
13
Humanities Grants Round 1 (2019)
13
"What Should the Mission be for 21st Century Environmental Professionals?"
16
Refugee Advocacy: Translating Passion into Action
16
The Public Sphere in Catherine the Great’s Russia: Where to Look for It
16
Translation Symposium Day 1
17
Research Apprenticeship Program 2019
17
Research Apprenticeship Program 2020
17
Translation Symposium Day 2
17
Statistics: Confused, Misused, and Abused, or How to Avoid Being Swept Away in the Data Deluge
18
CANCELLED: Rhythm and the Life of Forms: On Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante
19
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019
21
Ohio Writing Project Fall Teacher Conference
23
Democracy in Foresight? The Thorny Path of Civil Society and Nonprofit Sector Development in Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia
24
Screening and Filmmaker Q&A with Oren Rudavsky
24
Jen Sammons Chapbook "Trisagion"
24
Medicine and the Media and its Role in Business
26
A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism
26
Misreading History
26
The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
October 2020
1
Federal Force, States’ Rights, and the National Good
2
Tell the World: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
5
Art and Architecture Lecture: Building Stories
7
Monuments and History
7
Why Are We Still Fighting Over the Civil War?
10
What Would Martin Do? The Experience of Black Men in America
10
CANCELLED: The reflection of time/ O reflexo do Tempo/ El reflejo del Tiempo
12
POSTPONED: Unfinished: stories on the end of the world- Podcast Launch Event
14
Postponed: "Mothers, Tell Your Daughters"
14
Crucial Conversations #5 - Revolution, Abolition, and Radical Hope
15
Hitler’s Refugees and the Hollywood Screen
15
Postponed: Discussion with Bonnie Jo Campbell
15
Freedom in Black and White: The Making of a Photographer-Activist [Virtual]
16
Gandhi's Challenge to America: Reflections on James Lawson's Philosophy of Non-Violence
16
Mushroom Walk with Dr. Nik Money
16
CHCI Event: The Public Humanities Tomorrow
17
Black Lives Matter: The Emergence of Sports in Dialogue for Racial Equality and Inclusion
19
Art and Architecture Lecture: Walking in the Footsteps of History: Digital Documentation and Visualization of the Civil Rights Movement
19
The Role of the Media in American Democracy
21
Writing about the Past
21
Finding Opportunities in a Global Workplace
21
Beyond the Day of the Dead: Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) as a Revolutionary Artist
26
Art and Architecture Lecture: Layered Experiences: Brand and Storytelling in Design
28
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2020
28
Crucial Conversations #6 - Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education
28
The Periodic Table: Primo Levi and the Dangers of Purity
29
The Legacies of Slavery in Global Perspective
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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January 2021
4
Grant Development Information Session
27
Democracy Under Pressure: A Town Hall Discussion of Recent Events
27
Creative Horizons Artist Series: Vladimir Tsesler, Belarussian Artist
28
Mwenso and The Shakes (Virtually) Live
February 2021
2
Designing Assessments for Deep Learning
4
Artist Talk - Taylor Loftin Kudzu Grave
4
Eukaryotes Updated: An Amoeboid Guided Tour with Dr. Nicholas P. Money
8
The Reemergence of Protests and Marches in America
9
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session
9
Killing Emmett: The murder of Emmett Till and the white Mississippi Press
9
Other Architecture
10
Artist Talk: Carmen Winant—What is a feminist picture?
11
The Danger of Origins: Migration and Time in the African and Black Diasporas
11
Echoes of a Forgotten Past: Cultural Heritage Revitalization and the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma
11
Willeke Lecture: Climate Change—The Challenge and the Opportunity
15
Bob Woodward - How We Got Here: The State of the American Presidency
17
Live, Work, Pose!: Exploring the Black and LGBTQ Experience at Miami
18
How to Win Humanities Grants
18
The Remembrance Project's Racial Justice and Interfaith Cooperation Panel
18
World Anthropology Day: Global Pandemics - Black Death, Resistance, and Joy
18
Experiences of Black/Indigenous Identity Panel
22
The Weapon of Laughter: Soviet Political Cartoons and the Making of a State Viewer
22
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session
22
Vertical Urban Aeroponics
24
Political Ecology and Postgrowth Futures
24
Icons
24
René Girard as a Reader of Dante: Testing the Theory of Mimetic Desire
24
Georges Rouault in the Context of Art and War
March 2021
1
Populism and Anti-Populism in American Democracy
3
"Crazy Blues"
8
Not Just for Fun: the Soviet Satirical Magazines as a Weapon, Mediator and Entertainment?
10
Concrete
11
The Great Departure: Mass Migration and Freedom
15
Graphic Satire in the Lithuanian Satire and Humor Magazine Broom
15
Why Civility is Necessary for American Democracy
16
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Overrepresentation of Underrepresented Ohioans
17
The Photograph
18
Writing about Mental Difference and Writing FROM Mental Difference
19
Valuing Water MiniCon
22
Why do extremist political parties publish joke magazines? Satirical newspapers in 1940s Hungary
22
The Legacy of the Nineteenth Amendment
23
The Future Repeats Itself: Historical Roots of Anti-Chinese Animus in the time of COVID
23
The History of Frontier Nursing Service
24
Mati Diop and Transience
24
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session
29
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: U.S. Immigration and Abolitionist Futures
29
Should We Keep the Electoral College?
30
Navigating a Pandemic: Between the Social and the Medical
30
Fiction Reading + Book Launch: H.C. Gildfind
31
Birth Control Pill
April 2021
1
L.P. Irvin Lecture by Domietta Torlasco - "Rhythm and the Life of Forms: On Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante"
1
Performance Workshop: For What? Reader/Audience impact in poetry on mental illness, page, and stage
5
Qué ridículo!: Bakhtin and the Power of Not Being in on the Joke
5
The Civil War, Reconstruction and the Problem of Freedom
6
Book Panel Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020
6
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session
7
Porcelain
7
Annual Havighurst Lecture 2020-2021: Art, Memory, and Protest in Belarus
8
Unstuck: Issues of Time and Trauma
8
Historians in Public: The Perils and Pleasures of Doing Public History
9
Hackathon for the HumanitiesInvisible Cities: 24-hour Student Design Challenge
14
Model T
14
Telling Stories: Medicine and Institutional Racism
15
From Population Exchange to Ethnic Cleansing: Lessons from the Balkans
15
2020-2021 Altman Symposium: Migrations - Day 1
15
Trinity Haven
15
NEH Virtual Workshop: Native Communities, Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities
16
2020-2021 Altman Symposium: Migrations - Day 2
19
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia-US relations
19
The Constitution and American Life
20
Pinstripe Camouflage: On Civil War in Kosovo
21
Earthworks
22
ARCHIVES OF ADDICTION: Finding and forming narratives of recovery
22
NEH Virtual Workshop: Community and Two-Year Colleges
27
“Home Sick”: Reimagining Indoor/Outdoor Space in the Pandemic
28
L.P. Irvin Talk by Fabrice Leroy "The dialogue between French comics and New Wave cinema"
28
Noise
28
Urban Precarity and Indigenous Designs
29
The History of Soviet Jewish Humor
29
Marianne D. McComb Series in Creative Writing: Craft Panel
29
NEH: Virtual Workshop
may 2021
4
From Monomyth to Multimyth: BIPOC Children’s Fantasists Discuss Globalism, Possible Futures, and Writing in the Age of Pandemic
6
NEH Virtual Workshop: Digital Humanities
13
NEH Virtual Workshop: Individual Scholars
15
Chef Nick DiGiovanni: Food and Climate
20
NEH Virtual Workshop: Archives and Libraries
27
NEH Virtual Workshop: College and University Grants and Sponsored Research Offices
Humanities Events 2019-2020
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August 2019
1
Reading/Performance: Wang Ping
2
Reading: Jacquelyn Mitchard and Lee Martin
September 2019
2
Crucial Conversations #2 - What Does It Mean to Be Human?
3
myaamiaki aancihsaaciki: The Miami Tribe Removal - A Journey of Healing
8
Western Program: Tea and Conversation
9
The 1619 Project and Freedom on the Move
14
Art & Architecture Lecture: Interior Urbanism
15
Western Program: Tea and Conversation
16
Crucial Conversations #3: White Supremacy and Its Centripetal Force
16
The Allure of Light: A Panel Discussion (Chasing Light Exhibition)
16
Graphic History: A discussion with Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
17
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2020
22
Western Program: Tea and Conversation
22
The Deep Read: Margaret Atwood Live
23
National Park Talks Series: Mt. Rainier
24
America's Refugee Origins: 'Pilgrim' Migration and the Making of a National Myth
28
Art and Architecture Lecture: Designing Dissenting Histories
28
Beyond Europe: Student Stories from Abroad
29
Western Program: Tea and Conversation
29
Reading: Eric Goodman
30
Crucial Conversations #4: The Challenge of Anti-Blackness
October 2019
1
Racial Consciousness 101
1
Imagining Russian Regions
1
After All: On Dereliction and Destitution
2
Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Alain Gomis
3
How to Win Fellowships in the Humanities: Panel Discussion
3
Lillian Schwales: Gutsche Life and Career Event
3
Faculty Research Mixer
7
Who is the Man from Underground?
9
Lamps and Leadpipes: Identifying Makers and Locating Roman Lamp Factories
9
A Discussion with Roza Otunbayeva
10
After All: On Dereliction and Destitution Copy
10
Coffee and Conversation, with Jack Halberstam
15
Cinema as Counter Word
15
A Conversation with the Author: Ruta Sepetys
16
The Complex Ecological Interactions Behind Your Cup of Coffee
16
The Trump Presidency: Successes and Failures
17
International Archaeology Day Lecture with Dr. Morag Kersel
17
Research on a Dialect in India
17
Working the Genres: How Writing Meets the World
18
Gandhi’s 150th Birthday Celebration: Gandhi’s True Civilization and the Aesthetics of Silence
19
Illuminating the Past: Symposium
22
Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets: Making History through Rituals in Siberia
22
China's "War on Uyghurs": Cultural Genocide in the Name of Counterterrorism
23
William Niven’s Mexico (1890-1910): Photograph as Document and Memorial
24
Scaling Up: Planetary Imagination and Extinction in Mexican Culture
24
Coffee and Conversation, with Marcia Bjornerud
24
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
25
Contested Spaces: Visual Vocabularies of Public Protest.
28
Protect the Vote: Voter Suppression and Rights in 2020
28
“The Writer’s Duty”: Shalamov and the Fate of the Intelligentsia in the Gulag
29
Theory and Practice in Visual Psychological Anthropology
29
When Books Become Art
29
The T on Georgia
30
Poetry Reading: Trisha Low & Stephanie Young
30
Ecological and Cultural Landscapes: Ermanno Olmi’s Documentaries Through the Lenses of Ecocinema
30
1619 and Slavery's Legacy
31
Nature Change: The Rhetoric of Environmental Videography
November 2019
1
Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 1
2
Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 2
4
Can the Rich and Powerful Actually Work for the Common Good?: Thoughts from Central Asia
4
Brown Bag Lunch with Matthew Burtner
4
Auksalaq: A Climate Change Opera, with Composer’s Talk on 'Musical Temporalities of Climate Change'
7
Hefner Lecture: "A Hyena's Tale"
7
Archetype: Cindy Sherman; FotoFocus: Auto/Update
8
Reclaiming Terrorism: Lynching as Racial Terrorism
11
Putin’s Publics: Conspiracy, Conformity and the Conservative Turn
13
What the L Talk: Anxiety, Lexicon and Morphosyntax in Instructed L2 Spanish
13
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019
14
New Books at Miami
14
Meet a Top French Diplomat
18
The Moldovan Truth Commission: A New Approach for the Study and Remembrance of Soviet History
20
Writers' Harvest Benefit Reading
21
Time and the Visual Imagination: From Physics to Philosophy
21
Film Screening: The Seventh Seal, (1958)
21
Coffee and Conversation with Jenann Ismael
25
The Two Faces of Freedom
December 2019
1
Writing for the Public Faculty Deadline 2019
1
Humanities Lab Faculty Submission Deadline 2019
2
We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching
4
Work in Progress Talk: Muhammad ibn al-Zain's Basin
January 2020
23
The Mandalorian and the Public Humanities
February 2020
3
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
12
American Cultures Seminar
12
Art and Activism: Looking Closer at Historical Documentary Photographs and Contemporary Imagery
12
We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King
12
What Does "Research" Mean For an Art Historian, and What Does the Shroud of Turin Have To Do With It?
12
What does research mean for an art history? What does the Shroud of Turin have to do with it?
17
Russia and the West: Lecture by Yoshiko Herrera
24
Russia and Central Asia: Lecture by Eugene Huskey
25
The American Presidency and Thurgood Marshall: Lecture by Wil Haygood
26
And God Knows the Martyrs: Theodicy, Violence, and Asceticism in Jihadi-Salafism
26
"Training for Freedom: How Ordinary People in Unusual Time & Unlikely Place Made Extraordinary History" Documentary Premier
26
And God Knows the Martyrs: Theodicy, Violence, and Asceticism in Jihadi-Salafism
27
Anthropology Day Lecture: Why Anthropology Matters Now
27
Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization
28
Lessons in Drag: An Evening with LaWhore Vagistan
28
Racialized Animacy: Thinking Affective Injustice through Bergson
March 2019
1
Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2020
2
Puff Lecture: Solving America's Hunger Crisis
2
Russia and Ukraine: Lecture by Tim Model
3
Book Talk with Jason Rezaian
3
The Inhumanities: Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff
3
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 1
3
Discourses of Ukranian Nationhood Before and After 2014
4
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 2
4
MakeHERspace
4
Contesting Extinction: Toward a Praxis of Language Reclamation
4
“Approaching Extinction, Contesting Extinction” Symposium Day 2
5
We Can End Homelessness (But Not if We Keep Acting Like This)
5
Willeke Lecture: Climate Justice
6
Stunt-double Spanish: Using Puppets for Language Learning and Community Outreach
9
Russia and the Baltics: Lecture by Neringa Klumbyte
9
Through the Agency of Words: 19th Century Women, Lunacy, and Literacy
9
Dr. Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind
10
What the L: Language Research at Miami
10
Digital Storytelling Three Day Facilitator Training
11
CANCELLED: Everyday Corruption in Russia: Lessons from the Soviet Past
11
CANCELLED: Voices: Gentrification and Oral History
11
Displaced Voices: Gentrification and Oral History
12
The Power of Our Story
12
POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Michelle Wright
12
POSTPONED: Race and Temporality: From Newtonian Blackness to Quantum Diasporic Spacetimes
12
Starting a FYRE (Course): Introducing First-Year Students to Undergraduate Research (FYRE seminar series part 2 of 3)
12
CANCELLED: Abortion and Abandonment of Children in Soviet Lithuania, 1945-1989
12
Digital Storytelling and Social Change
12
Women's Journeys, Women's Voices
13
CANCELLED: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 1
13
CANCELLED: Book Reading and Discussion: Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning
14
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 2
16
CANCELLED: 30 Years of Independence: A Discussion with Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania
17
CANCELLED: Robin James: The Sonic Episteme
18
CANCELLED: Leveraging the Research on Mindset to Improve Students' Learning
19
POSTPONED: Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: The Conspiracy Against Men
April/may 2020
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