*CANCELLED* Public Humanities Day
Engaged Humanities Working Group
April 16, 2020
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Public Humanities Day
April 16, 2020
Institute for the Humanities, 701 South Morgan, Stevenson Hall Lower Level
We would appreciate registration by 4/9/2020 if you intend to join us for lunch: huminst@uic.edu
10:00-12:00
Engaged Humanities Initiative Showcase
Presentations of projects from the spring 2020 first-year seminars, with EHI Director Ellen McClure and EHI faculty
12:00 Lunch (Provided)
1:00-2:30
Public Voices Fellows Lightning Round
Faculty awarded Public Voices Fellowships present current public humanities work:
Jennifer Brier, Gender and Women’s Studies
Andy Clarno, Sociology
Lorena Garcia, Sociology
Rachel Havrelock, English
Anantha K. Harijith, Pediatrics
Henrika McCoy, Jane Addams College of Social Work
Susan Poser, Provost, Mellon Engaged Humanities Award PI
3:00-4:00
Celebration of Recent Humanities Faculty Publications
Liat Ben-Moshe, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Minnesota UP, 2020)
Jennifer Jones, The Browning of the New South (Chicago UP, 2019)
Ronak Kapadia, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke UP 2019)
Steve Marsh, Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy (Indiana UP, 2019)
Ellen McClure, The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Boydell & Brewer, March 2020)
Nicole Nguyen, Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (Minnesota UP, 2019)
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Institute for Humanities Spring Reception
Date posted
Dec 10, 2019
Date updated
Mar 13, 2020