The calendar is updated frequently. Please check back regularly for additional information.
If an RSVP is requested for an event, please reply to ihr@asu.edu, carol.withers@asu.edu or 480-965-3000.
Spring 2008
Events for this semester include the third session of 2007-2008 faculty seminar series with the theme of "Truth, Evidence, and/or Fiction in Humanistic Inquiry," a new occasional lecture series, "The Humanities At Work," presentations by project facilitators and PIs, and grant workshops.
November through January 31, 2008
The IHR invites you to the public exhibition of “Sustainability and the Visual Arts.” The exhibition includes eight artists and twenty-six works of art. The art will be on display in the IHR offices (SS 107) and the conference room (SS 109) through January, 2008. This exhibit is part of the IHR’s 2007-2008 commitment to the theme of Humanities and Sustainability.
Watch for the Art Truck, a project of the Sustainability, Systems and Ecological Art ASU Fellows team.
February - May, 2008
"Between Two Worlds: Art by Melanie Yazzie"
A public exhibition of works by Melanie Yazzie are on display in the IHR offices (SS 107)
JANUARY
Wednesday, 1/23; noon-1:30; SS 109
IHR Faculty Seminar Series: "Truth, Evidence, and/or Fiction in Humanistic Inquiry"
Jeffrie Murphy, Regents’ Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
"Literature and Moral Insight"
Jane Maienschein, Director, Center for Biology and Society, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, Parents Association Professor, School of Life Sciences
"Can Scientists Do History?"
Thursday, 1/24
Welcome Reception for IHR Visiting Fellows
Wednesday, January 30; 2:00; SS 109
Digital Humanities Workshop Series
Workshop I - "How Humanists Can Leverage Technology in Their Research"
Facilitators: John Howard, ASU Libraries
Jeremy Rowe, School of Computing and Informatics
Their presentations are available:
Thursday, 1/31
Dan Smail, Department of History, Harvard University
Public presentations:
"Fama and the Culture of Publicity in Medieval Europe."
Coor Hall, Room 4403, noon
"Bridging the Abyss of Time: Making ‘History’ with History and Paleoanthropology.”
Coor Hall, Room L1-20, 4:30 PM
Dr. Smail's visit is jointly sponsored by History, SHESC, ACMRS, and the Institute for Humanities Research.
FEBRUARY
Thursday, 2/7; 4:00 PM; SS 109
The Humanities at Work Series: "Narrative Medicine"
Robert Bjork, Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Professor of English
Narrative medicine is defined as medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness and to analyze the structures and nuances of language wherever and whenever they play a role in medical knowledge and clinical practice.
Thursday, 2/14; 2:00; SS 109
Digital Humanities Workshop Series
Workshop II - "Focused Session on Use of Technology in Humanities Research"
Facilitators: Philip Konomos, ASU Libraries
Jeremy Rowe, School of Computing and Informatics
Thursday, 2/14; 6:00 PM, Coor L1-74
"Diversity and Diaspora: Recontextualizing Politics and Identity in the African Metadiaspora"
Kim Butler, Professor of History and Africana Studies, Rutgers University
Organized by the IHR African and African-Diaspora Research Cluster. Co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the English Department, and the History Department.
Monday, 2/18; 12:15 PM, Art 220
Power's On: Contemporary Art and the Primordial Sun
Linda Weintraub, critic and curator, author of In the Making and Art on the Edge and Over.
Wednesday, 2/20; 3:00-4:30; SS 109
Friday, 2/22; 2:00 PM; Coor 184
"Bringing the Humanities to Science Policy: The IPCC and the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change"
Nancy Tuana, Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University.
Thursday, 2/28; 7:00 PM; Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Armstrong Hall
2008 IHR Distinguished Lecturer Michael Bérubé
“The Humanities and the Limits of the Human”
MARCH
Wednesday, March 19
The IHR Research Clusters, Migration and Belonging and Migration Narratives, have organized an interdisciplinary migration studies colloquium in the spirit of Christiane Harzig.
1:00-2:30, Coor 5536
Migration Studies: Gendered Past; Gendered Present
Donna Gabbacia, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
3:00-4:30, Coor 5536
Interdisciplinarity in Migration Studies: Courage, Crossings, and Class
Mary Romero, Angelita Reyes, Tamara Underiner
Co-sponsored by the IHR and the Department of History, with the support of Dr. Pamela Stewart, 2007-08 Centennial Professor
Thursday, March 20; SS 109
Gender and Sustainability Colloquium organized by the IHR Jenny Norton Research Cluster on Women
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Film maker and Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
9:00-11:30 - film screening, The Shape of Water
1:30 - roundtable discussion
For complete schedule see flyer.
Cosponsored by the IHR, the Women and Gender Studies Program, the Global Institute of Sustainability, School of Human Evolution and Social change, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Department of Transborder Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Studies, and School of Justice and Social Inquiry.
Thursday, March 20; 6:00 PM, Coor L1-74
IHR African Diaspora Research Cluster
"Gods and Goddesses in the Yoruba Diaspora: Dance, Music and Modernity"
Presented by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
Co-sponsored by the IHR, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, African and African American Studies Program, and the History Department.
Thursday, March 27; 3:00-5:00; SS 109
Walking, Skipping & Creating: Art by a Contemporary Navajo/Dine Woman
Melanie Yazzie, Associate Professor of Art, University of Colorado
Visit the IHR offices (SS 107) to see Yazzie's mid-career exhibition of her work from 1990-present. Art will be on display from February 8 through the end of the spring semester.
APRIL
Tuesday, April 1; 7:30 PM, ASU Art Museum upstairs gallery
The IHR Sustainability, Systems, and Ecological Art Fellows (http://www.asu.edu/clas/ihr/faculty/fellows/2007-2008SustainabilityTheme.html) have organized a visit by Nils Norman. Norman’s projects include a redesigned alternative energy tour coach, a public park in Denmark, and a London school playground.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008; 4:00 - 5:30 pm; SS 109. Reception and light refreshments to follow.
Adoption, Immigration, and Privatization: Transnational Transformations of the Family
Laura Briggs,
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of Arizona Tanner Humanities Center Fellow, University of Utah
This event is free and open to the public. It was made possible by support from the Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research (www.asu.edu/ihr), the Department of English, Women and Gender Studies, Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, and the School of Social and Family Dynamics. For more information, please contact: Claudia Sadowski-Smith, ASU Assistant Professor of English, (480) 965-7660 or Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu.
Monday, April 21; 2:00; SS 109
"Nature, Culture, and History in the US-Mexico Sky Islands Borderland"
IHR Seed Grant PIs Paul Hirt, History, and Daniel Arreola, Geographical Sciences
Friday, April 25 & Saturday, April 26
Linguistics Cycle workshop organized by the IHR Linguistics Cycles Research Cluster.
For additional details go to http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/LingCycles.html or contact Elly van Gelderen, cluster facilitator.
MAY
On-going IHR Events:
IHR ASU & Visiting Fellows – weekly Friday seminars; please contact IHR or ASU Fellows for topics
Research Clusters – see Research Groups for topics and additional information.
IHR Faculty Working Group on Sustainability meets monthly. Public lectures will be announced.
Archives of Previous Semesters