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HUMANITIES EVENTS

NEH Virtual Workshop: Individual Scholars

May 13, 2021
2:00 pm
Virtual, via Teams

NEH Virtual Workshop: Archives and Libraries

May 20, 2021
2:00 pm
Virtual, via Teams

NEH Virtual Workshop: College and University Grants and Sponsored Research Offices

May 27, 2021
2:00 pm
Virtual, via Teams
Isabel Wilkerson

Altman Lecture: Isabel Wilkerson

September 9, 2021
5:00 pm
Shriver Center
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The 2020-2021 Humanities Event Calendar continues to develop. As it does, this calendar will be updated regularly. Please check back often for all upcoming Humanities Events. All events are being planned with care, caution, and consideration for COVID-19.

this year's events

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

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 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
Works-in-Progress Talk: "Race Mixing"
11
Crucial Conversations #7: Love, Study, Struggle
11
Race, Politics, and Sports
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

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
Echoes of a Forgotten Past: Cultural Heritage Revitalization and the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma
11
Willeke Lecture: Climate Change—The Challenge and the Opportunity
11
The Danger of Origins: Migration and Time in the African and Black Diasporas
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
Should We Keep the Electoral College?
29
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: U.S. Immigration and Abolitionist Futures
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
2020-2021 Altman Symposium: Migrations - Day 1
15
Trinity Haven
15
NEH Virtual Workshop: Native Communities, Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities
15
From Population Exchange to Ethnic Cleansing: Lessons from the Balkans
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
Dr. Carl Dahlman Talk
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
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