"Crowdsourcing" the Humanities
One of the early projects supported by Humanities Writ Large, Humanities on Demand, allowed ACLS Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Michael P. Ryan the chance to experiment with students contributing content for a… Read More...
Collaborations to Support Digital Humanities
In a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education William Pannapacker, Associate Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, MI, argues that teaching-focused institutions have much to gain from partnerships with research… Read More...
Embracing the Past and the Future
"The library is one of the few academic organizations with a core mandate to embrace both past and future," said Joshua D. Sosin, associate professor of classical studies and history at Duke. "That's… Read More...
CIT Showcase
Humanities Writ Large projects will be well represented at the CIT Showcase on Friday, April 26. If you want to learn more about Visiting Professor Adeline Koh's Trading Races game, the Fantasy Art… Read More...
Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
"Humanitarianism in Haiti: Vision and Practice," is underway. The first panel addressed the lack of transparency about the use of both taxpayer and donor dollars, and the lack of lasting accomplishments, since the… Read More...
Employers Want to Hire Broadly Educated People
The Association of American Colleges and Universities has brought together 160 employers and 107 college presidents around a compact, released on Wednesday by AAC&U. The signatories pledged "to help the public understand the… Read More...Audiovisualities
Humanities Writ Large is pleased to announce the newest humanities lab: Audiovisualities.
The inaugural courses in the Audiovisualities Lab include a first-year seminar in Audiovisualities, Introduction to Film Studies, and Sounds of the South. Students enrolling in these courses will be presented with opportunities to work with faculty and other students on original research.
Audiovisualities will be based in Bay 4 of Smith Warehouse. The Franklin Humanities Institute is also home to the BorderWork(s) Lab, another Humanities Writ Large Humanities Lab.
Visiting Faculty Fellows Upcoming Events
On Wednesday, April 24, Visiting Faculty Fellow Adeline Koh will talk about her experiences designing the game Trading Races - an elaborate role-playing game set at the University of Michigan of Ann Arbor campus in April 2003. Professor Koh will also be joined by Eileen Chow (AMES), who will discuss her use of the game in her classes at Duke in Spring 2013. Join them from noon - 2 p.m. at the Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse.
Visiting Faculty Fellow Ralph J. Savarese will host a panel discussion on The Difference that Disability Makes on Friday, April 26. How might blindness and bipolar disorder be understood as acceptable forms of difference, not conditions to be pathologized and lamented? How might they contribute to the literary arts? Come listen to two celebrated authors read from their work and discuss these questions. Join them from noon - 2 p.m. at the Mary D.B.T. Semans Center for Health Education.
