Summer 2006
Graduate Students in Humanities
Grant-writing workshops
Tuesday, May 30; 1:00 PM; SS 107
Thursday, June 22; 1:00 PM; SS 107
Tuesday, July 18; 1:00 PM; SS 107
Fall 2006
August
Wednesday, 8/23; 2:00-4:00; SS 107;
Thursday, 8/24; 9:30-11:00 and 2:00-4:00; SS107;
IHR Welcome Back Coffees
Friday, 8/25
IHR Advisory Board Meeting
Wednesday, August 30
Deadline for AY06-07 Research Cluster applications
September
Wednesday, September 20; 3:00 PM; SS 107
Cyberstructure in the Humanities: a Report on the UCHRI conference and New Trends in Humanities Technology
Presenter: Philip Bernick, English
Philip Bernick, assistant professor and IT specialist in the English Department, attended the July conference on “Cyberstructure in the Humanities” sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He will share information about the topics covered at the conference, new trends, how humanities faculty at other institutions are utilizing technology, and what still remains to be done in order to better utilize technology for humanities scholarship.
The session will conclude with a discussion of humanities grants that encourage use of technology as part of humanities projects and examples of ongoing projects at ASU that include a substantial technology component.
October
Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7; see web page for times and places
Buddhist Objects: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
A recent gift from the Guardian of the Flame Collection of Sinhala Buddhist texts to Arizona State University and of Sri Lankan Buddhist sculpture donated to Phoenix Art Museum provides the occasion for this research consultation on Buddhist literary and material culture.
ASU hosts an international event on Buddhist manuscripts and art in South and Southeast Asia on October 6 and 7. Ten visiting scholars from Europe, Asia and the United States meet with faculty and students for an intensive two-day research consultation. The presentations explore how Buddhist material culture as well as literary and artistic traditions shaped religious and cultural practices in pre-modern Asia. Specifically, these researchers investigate the roles manuscripts and images play in the transmission of Buddhist texts and in fostering devotion among Buddhist communities. Collectively, the presentations offer cross-cultural and comparative insights into the transmission of Buddhist knowledge and the use of texts and images as ritual objects in the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Buddhist cultures
For schedule and additional information please go to the event page .
Tuesday, October 10; 7:30 PM, Old Main Carson Ballroom
Templeton Research Lectures: "Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science and Technology"
Leda Cosmides
Sponsored by the ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; IHR is a partner in the Transhumanism project; contact CSRC for additional information.
Friday, October 13; 9:00-2:00; Memorial Union
Workshop: Research and Teaching on Slavery in Interdisciplinary Studies
This workshop builds on research being conducted on the Tempe and West campuses related to anti-slavery and anti-trafficking literature and culture. Much of this work is being done by the Antislavery Literature Project (http://antislavery.eserver.org) at the ASU English department, and its affiliated ASU faculty. The goal is to provide new resources for faculty and graduate students who wish to incorporate teaching about slavery into their course syllabi.
ASU faculty will partner with off-campus speakers to present two main sessions and three breakout sessions. Tim McCarthy (Harvard) has collaborated on the Antislavery Literature Project with Joe Lockard and other ASU faculty. McCarthy is one of a small group of Harvard faculty with expertise on historical and contemporary slavery, and who collaborate with ASU in developing curriculum materials.
Go to http://antislavery.eserver.org/ for project details.
Co-sponsored by the IHR, Campus Environment Team, English Department, ASU West Department of Language, Cultures and History, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies
For those who were not able to attend the recent Slavery & Antislavery workshop co-sponsored with the Institute for Humanities Research , Bruce Matsunaga has produced videos of that event that are now available at http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/features/antislavery.html. These videos feature talks by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Angelita Reyes, Stephen Marc, and Kay Norton. In addition, there is another new related video of a talk by Timothy McCarthy on "Prophets of Protest: Literary Abolitionism and the Aesthetics of Equality" at http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/video/index.html#theory.
Monday, October 16
IHR Seed Grant Deadline
Tuesday, October 17; 2:00 PM; Coor 4403
Medieval Maps, Modern Technology: New Tools to Understand Old Cultures
Asa Mittman, School of Art
In the Middle Ages, the world was considered to be a reflection of God’s divine plan. Therefore, study of the layout of the world was analogous to the study of the Bible, in that greater truths could be found within it. World maps were therefore of great importance, and have are receiving increased scholarly attention. Dr. Mittman will discuss medieval maps, and an exciting new project , the Digital Mappaemundi, a digital interface in development that will allow flexible interaction with the maps and their textual sources, in a dynamic environment.
Sunday, October 22; 4:00-6:00 PM, Deer Valley Rock Art Center
Book Signing
Tuesday, October 24; 7:30 PM; Great Hall, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Cosquer Revisited
Dr. Jean Clottes, European prehistorian and rock art specialist, will speak on his recent research in Cosquer Cave, the "cave beneath the sea."
Organized by the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Deer Valley Rock Art Center; co-sponsored by the Department of History, Department of Languages and Literatures, and IHR.
October 26-27
surREALISM and the American West Conference
Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of surrealist artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning’s arrival in Sedona, Arizona, this conference is the first extended scholarly consideration and discussion of an almost forgotten episode in the history of modern art: the sustained engagement by surrealists—both American and European—with Arizona, the Southwest, and the greater American West, as they began to look beyond the urban context that had defined and contained the practice of modern art during the first part of the century.
This conference has been funded by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts at ASU and the Herberger College School of Art.
For additional information go to the conference web page.
October 29, Tucson
Arizona Humanities Council Lorraine W. Frank Lecture
Visit the AHC web page for registration details.
November
week of 11/6
Medical Informatics Workshop: Effective Documents Contain More Than Data
Organizer: Philip Bernick, English Department
On-going IHR Events:
ASU Fellows – weekly Friday seminars; please contact IHR or ASU Fellows for topics
Research Clusters – see Research Groups for topics and additional information.