January
Friday, 1/27; 12:30-3:30; Coor L1-72
Note: registration required
ORSPA training opportunity: Electronic Proposal Submission Options with an emphasis on humanities-related proposals
In this hands-on computer workshop, there will be an introduction and overview of Grants.gov- locating funding, proposal development working off line and proposal submission process. Participants will learn how to maneuver in the National Science Foundation's FastLane and National Institute of Health's eCommons. In addition, this workshop will also provide insights on other electronic proposal submissions and the impact of Public Law 106-107. Facilitator: Judy Harris
February
Thursday, February 2; 2:30-4:00; LL 165
Research Cluster: Languages, Identities, and Ideologies
Monthly meeting generally scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each month, 2:30-4:00. Contact facilitators for additional information:
Holly.Cashman@asu.edu or Helene.Ossipov@asu.edu
Friday, February 24; 12:45 PM; Coor 4403
IT and the Humanities: The Antislavery Literature Project
Joe Lockard (English) received IHR seed grant funding to support this research project and development of teaching resources. The presentation will include discussion of the research project and feedback from educators who are utilizing materials on the web page.
Monday, February 27; 11:40-1:15
Please contact IHR to register for this workshop.
Research Workshop: NSF Funding Opportunities in Linguistics and Endangered Languages
Cecile McKee, former Director of the NSF Linguistics Program and currently professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona, will conduct this workshop for faculty who are interested in NSF funding opportunities, especially in the linguistics area.
There will be a brief overview of NSF funding opportunities and the divisions within the Social, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, followed by a review of some successful (and perhaps unsuccessful) proposals. Copies of successful NSF proposals will be available for review prior to the workshop session.
March
Thursday, 3/2; 7:30 PM, Old Main Carson Ballroom
IHR First Annual Distinguished Lecture
Academic Norms and Critical Inquiry: Challenges for Difficult Times by Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California Berkeley
for additional information here; to RSVP ihr@asu.edu
Friday, 3/3 and Saturday, 3/4
IHR Seed Grant Project Conference: Through the Prism of Race and Ethnicity: Re-imagining the Religious History of the American West
See http://www.asu.edu/clas/religious_studies/racewest/conference.html for additional details
Wednesday, March 8; noon-1:30; ECA 385
Operational Problems of Multi(inter)disciplinary Collaborative Projects in the Humanities
Based on an IHR seed grant, "Current Transformations of Islamic Education in Global and Comparative Perspectives," Institute for Humanities Research. Presenters: Souad Ali, Agnes Kefeli-Clay, Mirna Lattouf, M. Sani Umar, Mark Woodward
Tuesday, March 21; 1:00-2:45; Coor 4403
Graduate Students in Humanities Workshop: Grant Writing Essentials
Facilitator: Rachel Fuchs, Interim Director, IHR
Wednesday, March 22; 4:45 PM; Coor 174
Opening The Geese Book
Co-sponsored by IHR and ACMRS.
IHR, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and international organizations have provided research support for "Opening The Geese Book." This 500-year-old illustrated liturgical manuscript was once used in the parish church of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, Germany, and is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.
Wednesday, March 29; 3:30; Coor 120 - film screening
Friday, March 31; 12:00; SS 107K - discussion
Die Mitte (The Center)
Film screening sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster: What is Europe? Definitions, Boundaries, Identities
Friday, March 31; 9:30-5:30; MU 219 (Navaho Room)
Crossing Borders: Christianity and Colonialism in the Southwest and Beyond
Christianity—which is today the dominant religion in the Southwest Borderlands--developed here as one version of the “colonial encounter.” When Spanish missionaries first introduced Christianity to the Southwest, they acted as part of a larger colonial project. Later, Anglo-American Protestants engaged in a similar encounter when they entered the region in the nineteenth century. By inviting specialists from various disciplines who have examined the relationship between Christianity and colonialism in other contexts, our conference seeks to understand these encounters in a global and historical perspective.
The conference examines three sets of questions about Christianity’s relationship to colonialism. First, as Christianity expanded, how did it affect indigenous religions? Secondly, how did this encounter transform Christianity? Finally, how has the colonial project continued to transform the identities and the ideologies of the colonizers and colonized even in this new era of globalization?
Within these broad rubrics, we hope to raise important questions about strategies for analyzing Christianity and colonialism more broadly. To what extent is Christianity a system of social and cultural reproduction? How is it a system of reproducible artifacts, ideologies, and practices? How is this system reproduced and transformed in colonial situations? Is resistance to Christianity also resistance to globalization? Are there structural similarities between Christian colonial encounters around the world? Or do the vast differences within Christianity and its agents ultimately sabotage any effort to create a master narrative of this encounter? How are we to understand the dialectics of culture and power, ideology and consciousness that shape such historical processes?
Thanks to the Division of Graduate Studies, the Institute for Humanities Research, and the Department of Religious Studies for their generous support.
April
April 4; 7:00 PM, Coor 4403
The French Smile Revolution: Beauty, Identity and Dentistry in 18th-Century Paris
Colin Jones is a professor of modern history at the University of Warwick. His interdisciplinary work draws upon art, science, medicine, and the social and cultural implications of the smile.
April 6; 4:00 PM; SS 107 conference room
City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacan
IHR seed grant recipients Gwyneira Isaac, Miguel Aguilera, David Birchfield, Megha Budruk, George Cowgill, Ben Nelson, and Hari Sundaram
Institute for Humanities Research
Tuesday, April 11; 1:40-2:55; EDB L1-36
The Frontiers in Iberia in the Middle Ages
(in Spanish) followed by a discussion (in English)
Co-sponsored by IHR, the Spanish Program in the Department of Languages and Literatures, and the Department of History.
Jorge Ortuno Molina is a post-doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. He is a visiting Fulbright scholar for 2005-2006 in the department of history at UCLA.
Additional details; Power Point presentation
Thursday, April 13; 3:30; SS 107K
Histoire Comparative sur la Press des 17e-19e Siecles/Comparative History of the Press in France and Mexico from the 17th-19th Centuries
(presentation in French with English transparencies followed by discussion in English)
Dr. Laurence Coudart, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM) Departamento de Historia-Facultad de Humanidades
A joint meeting with the French Historians of Arizona and the IHR audience
Wednesday, April 19; 3:00; SS 107K
The Empire of the Real: From the Great American Desert to the Greater Middle East - Four Theses on Desert Crossing
Hager Weslaty (Hajer Oeuslati) is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Letters, Department of English at University of Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia. For the 2005-2006 year she is a visiting Fulbright scholar at Indiana University-Bloomington in the Department of American Studies. She will be teaching at the Institute of Cultural Research, Lancaster University, at the end of her Fulbright term.
In the context of contemporary politics and critical theory, Dr. Weslaty will discuss her reading of the desert and the concept of crossing.
Thursday, April 20; 4:00; Murdock Hall 101 - Lecture
Friday, April 21; 9:00; University Club - Dialogue (RSVP required)
Thinking Race, Thinking "Red"
Co-sponsored by IHR, APAS, and CET
Lewis R. Gordon , Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, Temple University, will give a lecture as part of the IHR reseach cluster's project on Race in All Its Implications.
Thursday, April 27; 3:15-4:30; Coor 5536
War, Exile, Fiction
T. M. McNally, Department of English, Anna Holian, Department of History, Brian Gratton, Department of History
The symposium will feature T. M. McNally reading from and discussing his recent novel, The Goat Bridge, and Anna Holian examining literary representations of war and refugees in the modern era, focusing on the Polish writer, Tadeusz Borowski.
We will also introduce the new Institute for Humanities Research program Refuge and Rejection. This internet-based project will bring a humanities perspective to the discussion of refugees and displaced persons. It will provide ASU and community participants a forum for presentation of their ideas and work to an international audience. It is our hope that you will participate in the Refuge and Rejection project.
You are welcome to invite your graduate and undergraduate students to the symposium, please inform us so that we can forecast total attendance, which is limited to 40 persons. RSVP to Brian Gratton.
Sponsored by the Migration Cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, ASU
Friday, April 28; 1:45-3:15; SS 107
IHR Open House and Appreciation Reception
Please join us as we celebrate our first year of IHR programming activities and help us show our appreciation for those who have made contributions to the IHR.
May
Wednesday, May 3; 2:00-3:30; LL 165
IHR Research Cluster: Language, Identities, and Ideologies.
IHR Research Clusters meet monthly.
Please contact research cluster facilitators for additional details.