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2019-20 Working Group Activities across the Corridor


Spring 2020 – Collaborative Research Activities by Campus

During Spring 2020, there are 72 collaborative research activities and events happening across 8 of the 11 CNY Humanities Corridor campuses. View a PDF snapshot of activities or find updated details below by campus. The host campus may have additional details, times, and locations for public events.


Cornell University

January 30 - February 2, 2020
Improvisation in Theory and Practice (MMH18)
Ithaca Sounding 2020 –  (open to the public)
This is a four-day festival and symposium celebrating, exploring, and questioning the traditions of modernist and experimental keyboard music by Ithacans past and present.

February 13-14, 2020
HIV/AIDS Activism and Public Health (HS9)
Histories of HIV/AIDS, Public Health, and Community Activism Workshop
We will workshop four papers on histories of HIV/AIDS, learn about an upcoming University of Rochester exhibition focused on a collection of HIV/AIDS public health posters, view HIV/AIDS related collections at the Cornell Rare and Manuscript Collection, and build community among scholars working on HIV/AIDS and public health in the region.

February 14, 2020
Historical Keyboarding (MP5)
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations –  (open to the public)
Scholar-Performer Mike Lee facilitates a workshop and masterclass on Beethoven's piano music.

February 29, 2020
Gender and Class in the Novel (LLC25)
Workshop
The group will read and discuss ongoing works-in-progress by graduate students and faculty centered on the novel as an archive for addressing questions of class and gender across national and epochal boundaries.

March 1, 2020
Athena in Action New York (PCT15)
Planning Meeting
This meeting will entail reviewing and making the final selection of graduate papers and to determine the program for our Summer 2020 conference.

March 2, 2020
Feminist Praxis in Architecture and Design (VAC28)
Workshop

March 4, 2020
Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal (HS1)
The Weedy Nation: Nativism and Accommodation in Early Modern England – (open to the public)
Kat Lecky (Bucknell University) gives a talk exploring the use of botanical science as an ethical grounding for nativist political theories invoking natural law in a range of literary, scientific, political, and theological texts.

March 7, 2020
Improvisation in Theory and Practice (MMH18)
MoogFest Synthesizer Improvisation Session – (open to the public)

Canceled: March 27-28, 2020
LELACS (LLC12)
Border Environments: Towards a Political Ecology of the Edges of the World – (open to the public) – Signature Event/Cornell Conference Initiative
Borders embody not just physical and human geographies but also complex assemblages of human and non-human flows, structures, and systems. “Border Environments” asks how ecosystemic, multiscalar, and transhuman theories and practices can transform not only the existing understandings of geopolitical, biopolitical, and technopolitical dimensions of borders, but ultimately impact their ontology and imaginary.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 16, 2020
Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation (LLC9)
"Fragments of a Darkened History: Performance Art Across Asia's Cold War Borders": An Evening with Video/Performance Artist Soni Kum – (open to the public)
Multimedia artist Soni Kum will perform new work, coming off a recent project interviewing North Korean migrants in Osaka, Japan. This event will be of interest to those working on issues of migrants, diaspora, performance, cultural memory, and trauma studies, as well as those working in East Asia and the Pacific Rim.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 20, 2020
New Directions in Semantics and Pragmatics (LIN11)
Workshop on Focus and Alternative Semantics – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 21-22, 2020
Urban Humanities (HS3)
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, a Lecture and Workshop – (open to the public)
In her book, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown University) asks to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. She argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: May 1, 2020
Health Humanities: Medicine, Disease, Disability, and Culture (LLC22)
The Cultures and Countercultures of Medicine – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: May 2, 2020
Perspectives on Europe from the Periphery (LLC11)
Research Workshop and Planning Meeting
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: May 5, 2020
Continental Philosophy (PCT6)
Undergraduate Conference – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Jewish Studies (LLC17)
Conference Planning Meeting
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: May 17-18, 2020
Jewish Studies (LLC17)
Di Linke: the Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War – (open to the public) – Signature Event/Cornell Conference Initiative
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

ongoing
Music Theory Examples by Women (MP3)
Scores of Scores – (open to the public)
This event will be an open international crowd-sourcing drive for transcriptions and analyses of 19th century songs by women composers. More information can be found at fourscoreandmore.org/scores-of-scores.

June 16, 2020 (tentative date)
Athena in Action New York (PCT15)
Athena in Action Conference – Signature Event/Cornell Conference Initiative


Syracuse University

January 17, 2020
Emptiness (VAC29)
Brainstorming Meeting

January 29, 2020
Composition, Labor, and Embodiment (LLC26)
Colloquium with Michelle LaFrance – (open to the public)
LaFrance demonstrates methods in institutional ethnography with a view toward opening the possibilities for critical inquiry into austerity-era higher education. We'll consider fundamental analytical frames that LaFrance employs in her method, including ruling relations, standpoint, social coordination, experience, work, institutional discourse, and texts/textual mediation.

January 30, 2020
Teaching Exchange (MMH17)
Teaching Exchange
Judith Peraino (Cornell University), a renowned specialist in rock music, gender, and sexuality, gave a guest lecture in Amanda Eubanks Winkler's class on David Bowie.

February 20, 2020
Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal (HS1)
Dining with Hermaphrodites: Dietary Advice and Nutritional Excess in Early Modern France – (open to the public)
Kathleen Long (Cornell University) will give a lecture on the 1605 novel, The Island of Hermaphrodites, which has generally been read as a satire written to excoriate the excesses of the court of Henri III (1574-1589). We will examine the two scenes of collective consumption of food that appear side-by-side in the narration, to consider a more complex reading the courtly practices represented in the novel.

February 21, 2020
Rethinking Imperial Assemblages (LLC31)
Brainstorming Meeting
This new working group coheres around cultural and theoretical analytics pertaining to race, empire, ethnonationalism, conflict, and gender in transnational and relational frameworks.

February 28, 2020
Practice-Based Performance Studies (MP4)
Discovery Meeting

March 5-6, 2020
Environmental Humanities (HS5)
Environmental Humanities Symposium
We will discuss cutting-edge work in the environmental humanities with panels on Native American Studies and the Environmental Humanities, the Humanities and Climate Change, and presentations on animal history. Guests include Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Andrew Robichaud (Boston University).

March 6, 2020
Late Antiquity (HS4)
2126 Mt. Eliott St.: Late American Late Antiquity – (open to the public)
Historian and artist Catherine Michael Chin's (University of California at Davis) animate-object installation and discussion explores the resonance between contemporary and ancient practices of object animation, re-animation, and remembrance, as forms of embodied knowing that traverse human and nonhuman.

March 10-11, 2020
Performance/History (MMH22)
Mother Music: The African-American Spiritual and Its Role in Shaping American Musical Styles – (open to the public) – SU Distinguished Visiting Collaborator
Lecture recital highlighting the history and context of the Negro spiritual and its influences on American music, and a special choral concert featuring performances by the American Spiritual Ensemble, the Setnor School of Music choirs, and a 200-voice combined choir.

Canceled: March 12, 2020
Incarceration and Decarceration (LLC5)
Justice on Both Sides Book Circle – (open to the public)
Educators and community members join Maisha T. Winn (University of California at Davis) to discuss how restorative justice can help schools effectively address race, class, and gender inequalities.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: March 25, 2020
Social and Cultural Sustainability in South Asia (LLC23)
Water and Land: Words that Contain Worlds: Lecture with Luisa Cortesi – (open to the public)
How do people who live in the midst of floods think about water? Informed by multidisciplinary long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this presentation presents ethnographic evidence that, in North Bihar, land and water are thought of as intimate correspondence with each other. By virtue of comparison, then, this ethnographic encounter is held to defy other ontologies of water that see the two substances as in opposition. Since ontologies of natural substances are often "watertight," mutually exclusive and unable to adapt, this presentation suggests, their encounter may result in semiotic conflict.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: March 27, 2020
Language Documentation in Multilingual Communities (LIN9)
Workshop and Planning Meeting
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: March 30-31, 2020
Improvisation in Theory and Practice (MMH18)
Organ Improvisation Follow-up Workshops with Bruce Neswick – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

April 2, 2020
Urban Humanities (HS3)
Symposium (via Zoom)

Canceled: April 17, 2020
Emptiness (VAC29)
Emptiness and its Aftermath – (open to the public)
Danny Hoffman (University of Washington) will deliver this lecture.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 25-26, 2020
Syntax-Semantics Interface/Theoretical Linguistics (LIN4)
Workshop – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 30, 2020
Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal (HS1)
Workshop with V.K. Preston and Pablo Garcia Pinar – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
AI and Human Values (DH11)
Seminar and Planning Meeting – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Practice-Based Performance Studies (MP4)
Planning Meeting
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Continental Philosophy (PCT6)
Lecture – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Feminist Praxis in Architecture and Design (VAC28)
Future Planning: Working Group Seminar
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Emptiness (VAC29)
Content/Workshop
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Emptiness (VAC29)
Emptiness: What We Have Learned, A Workshop
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.


University of Rochester

February 21-22, 2020
Mediterranean Seminar (HS8)
Emotions, Passions  and Feelings – (open to the public)
This conference and workshop explores the ways in which Mediterranean studies and the history of emotion interrelate and can provide useful frameworks for each other.

March 4, 2020
Performance/History (MMH22)
Mother Music: The African-American Spiritual and Its Role in Shaping American Musical Styles – (open to the public) – SU Distinguished Visiting Collaborator
Lecture recital highlighting the history and context of the Negro spiritual and its influences on American music.

Canceled: March 20-21, 2020
Theorizing Italy (PCT11)
Dante Politico at the Crossroad of Arts and Sciences – (open to the public) – Signature Event
An international symposium on Dante's political thought devoted to a multidisciplinary discussion on Dante's corpus.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: March 24, 2020
Incarceration and Decarceration (LLC5)
Power, Healing, Transformation – (open to the public)
A conversation with Kempis Songster, Founder of Ubuntu Philadelphia, about how to transform American justice.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: March 27-28, 2020
Global Digital Humanities (DH3)
Symposium on Intersectionality and/in Digital Humanities – (open to the public) – Signature Event/UR Digital Humanities Initiative
This two-day symposium will discuss on the topic of intersectionality and/in digital humanities in conversations based on the circulation of each other's works. Xiao Liu (McGill University) will deliver the keynote.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: March 28-29, 2020
Culture and Democracy in 19th-century New York (LLC30)
Meeting and Site Visit
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 3, 2020
Community-Engaged Public Humanities (LLC27)
Community-Building Teaching: placemakerspace
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 3, 2020
Data in the Humanities (DH12)
Data Carpentries Workshop – (open to the public) – UR Digital Humanities Initiative
This event will highlight the research of two humanities scholars engaged with diverse types of data and conclude with a discussion about building a community of practice around data in the humanities, featuring Molly Ball (University of Rochester, "Extracting Embedded Immigrant Narratives and Realities with ArcGIS") and Chris Forster (Syracuse University, "How to Find What You Don't Know You're Looking For: The Challenges of Working with Text").
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

April 4, 2020
Hemispheric Indigenous Studies (LLC32)
Planning Retreat (via Zoom)

Canceled: April 18, 2020
Language Sound Structures (LIN10)
Workshop
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 23-24, 2020
Religion and Morality in China (LLC33)
Spiritual Crisis and Moral Transformation in Contemporary China – Workshop/Roundtable Discussion – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

May 1, 2020
AI and Human Values (DH11)
Workshop on Algorithmic Bias – UR Digital Humanities Initiative – (via Zoom)

Canceled
New Directions in Semantics and Pragmatics (LIN11)
Organizational Workshop – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Modernist Geographies (VAC23)
Seminar – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.


Colgate University

February 24, 2020
Emptiness (VAC29)
Thinking Emptiness: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt – (open to the public)
Journalist Chris Hedges will give a lecture, and the working group will host an exploration of socio-spatial emptiness, (re)construction of place, and work to re-create identity and belongingness.

March 11, 2020
Performance/History (MMH22)
Mother Music: The African-American Spiritual and Its Role in Shaping American Musical Styles - SU Distinguished Visiting Collaborator – (open to the public)
Lecture recital highlighting the history and context of the Negro spiritual and its influences on American music.

April 14, 2020
Small Press Reading Series (LLC24)
Small Press Reading Series & Workshop – (via Zoom)
Rachelle Toarmino is the founding editor in chief of Peach Mag and author of That Ex (forthcoming from Big Lucks in 2020) and Feel Royal (b l u s h, 2019). Christina Vega-Westhoff is a poet, translator, aerialist, and teaching artist living in Buffalo, NY; her first book, Suelo Tide Cement, won the 2017 Nightboat Prize for Poetry.

Canceled
Performance/History (MMH22)
Seminar with Aimee Meredith Cox
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.


Hamilton College

January 28, 2020
Cultural Competencies in Arts Performance and Research (MP2)
Presentation and Performance on the Evolution of the African-American Spiritual
This event will feature a guest presentation and performance by Dr. Stephen Spinelli and Tamara Acosta (Cornell University) for students in a course on African-American music.

Canceled: March 13, 2020
Urban Humanities (HS3)
Preeti Chopra – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Apostolic Legends: Imagining Early Christianity from the Local to the Global (HS7)
Workshop
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
South Asian Media and Performance Cultures (MP1)
Writing Retreat/Workshop
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.


Hobart and William Smith Colleges

February 27, 2020
Global Digital Humanities (DH3)
The Principles and Praxis of a Black Feminist DH Practice – (open to the public)
Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland) will give a talk focusing on the interrelationship between race, gender, and media, particularly on African American culture and discourse in traditional and new media.

Canceled: April 11, 2020
LELACS (LLC12)
Symposium: Discord and Diaspora in Latin American Politics and Cultural Production
This full day activity will feature four working papers in literature, history, anthropology, and cultural studies related to different aspects of Latin American culture and diaspora. The event will also include a Q&A and a keynote from Camilla Stevens (Rutgers University) on Latin American contemporary theater.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled: April 25, 2020
Global Cinema (VAC27)
Global Cinema Workshop
This workshop brings together scholars from colleges and universities throughout Central New York to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with teaching global and national cinema courses. In a series of moderated workshops, participants will explore best practices for teaching global cinema, identify opportunities for regional collaborations, and generate strategies for implementing collaborative initiatives.
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Canceled
Feminist Praxis in Architecture and Design (VAC28)
Wikipaediathon –  (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.


Le Moyne College

May 16, 2020
Moral Psychology (PCT12)
CNY Moral Psychology Workshop – (open to the public)


Union College

Canceled
Ancient Philosophy (PCT7)
Symposium – (open to the public)
This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.



Fall 2019 – Collaborative Research Activities by Campus

During Fall 2019, there were 54 awarded, collaborative, research activities and events happening across 7 of the 11 CNY Humanities Corridor campuses..


Cornell University

September 13-14, 2019
Re-Imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Humanities, and the University(LLC28)
Conference
This international conference will examine the disciplinary and institutional contexts that make up Anglo-American German Studies in our day.

September 27, 2019
Language Documentation in Multilingual Communities (LIN9)
Workshop: Celebrating Indigenous and Refugee Language Communities in New York State
In this workshop we are focusing on the state of indigenous and refugee languages in New York State and on linguistic tools for documenting and analyzing under-resourced languages.

October 4-5, 2019
Interdisciplinary Approach to Discourse (LIN6)
7th Cornell Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy: Meaning and Practice
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together philosophers, linguists, and others to explore a range of approaches to the meaning of natural language.

October 5, 2019
LELACS (LLC12)
Academic Publishing Workshop and Planning Meeting
This is a planning meeting for the April 4-5, 2020 symposium/conference at Cornell on Border Environments. Later in the day, we will host a publishing workshop with Beth Bouloukos (Amherst College Press and Lever Press) and Rebecca Colesworthy (SUNY Press).

October 8, 2019
Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation (LLC9)
Poiesis and the Black Pacific: On the Translation of Time and Race--a Diptych
A discussion of literature of the Black Pacific in relation to cross-cultural conceptions of time and race.

October 10, 2019
Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal (HS1)
Breath, Pneumatics, and the Limits of the Human: Stage Machines and Uneasy Humanity in Early Modern Theatre
This workshop will be led by Stephanie Shirilan (Syracuse University) and Alison Calhoun (Indiana University).

October 16, 2019
Feminist Praxis in Architecture and Design (VAC28)
Roundtable
Mabel Wilson (Columbia University) joined the working group for a workshop.

October 18, 2019
Performance/History (MMH22)
Seminar with Joseph Roach

October 19, 2019
Athena in Action (PCT15)
Planning Meeting

November 2, 2019
Language Sound Structures (LIN10)
Lab Exchange
The goal of the event is an introductory meeting with participants from each of our participating institutions offering a brief overview of their current projects.

November 7-9, 2019
Media and the Premodern (AM6)
Conference: Siren Echoes: Sound, Image, and the Media of Antiquity
Speakers will explore the media operations of sound and image within Greco-Roman culture, the reception of such models in later periods, and the role of ancient models of media within media theory.

November 15-18, 2019
Performance/History (MMH22)
Fall Writing Retreat

December 2, 2019
Feminist Praxis in Architecture and Design (VAC28)
Workshop

December 5, 2019
Continental Philosophy (PCT6)
Beckett's Method
Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University) will give a lecture on Beckett, Adorno, and Jameson to the undergraduate students of "Introduction to Critical Theory." This is the precursor event to the undergraduate research conference upcoming in the spring term.


Syracuse University

August 21-23, 2019
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy/ Creighton Club (PHI1)
Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
This is a political philosophy conference.

August 29, 2019
Spanish Poetics (LLC13)
Those Unique Survivors Called Books
Independent writer/scholar Irene Vallejo Moreu will discuss how books and other printed matter preserve and transform our understanding of subversive politics and historical social movements.

September 5, 2019
Visual Studies (VAC3)
Putting "Rebecca" on Trial: Daphne du Maurier's Novel and the Negotiation of Genre Replay and Originality in the Dark Female Gothic in 1940s Hollywood
British film scholar and historian Helen Hanson (University of Exeter) presents on women and film.

September 7, 2019
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy/ Creighton Club (PHI1)
Creighton Club's 165th Annual Meeting
A general philosophy conference organized by the Creighton Club, the New York State Philosophical Society.

September 15, 2019
Central New York Religious Studies Consortium (PHI13)
Inaugural Workshop with faculty and graduate students
This professional retreat includes a brainstorming session on the direction the group would like to take, close reading groups, and plans for future events.

September 20-21, 2019
Bringing Latin to Life: Transforming Latin Pedagogy for Maximal Inclusion and Impact (LLC29)
A Teaching Workshop with Justin Slocum Bailey (Indwelling Language)
This teaching workshop aims at exchanging ideas of teaching practices geared toward Latin as target language.

September 25, 2019
Jewish Studes (LLC17)
Conference Planning Meeting

October 5, 2019
Social and Cultural Sustainability in South Asia (LLC23)
Decoding Sustainability through an Ethnography of Seeds
Using the lens of organic farming in India, we will explore the multifaceted nature of sustainability in South Asia.

October 5-6, 2019
Culture and Democracy in 19th-century New York (LLC30)
Initial Planning Retreat
A retreat to establish the mission of the group and to plan the next year's activities.

October 9, 2019
Small Press Reading Series (LLC24)
Small Press Reading Series & Workshop
Joe Pan (Operating Systems, Spork Press 2019) will lead a poetry writing workshop. Later in the day, Joe Pan, Lori Anderson Moseman (darn, Delete Press, 2019), and Jesi Bender (The Book of the Last Word, Whisk(e)y Tit, 2019) will give a reading.

October 11, 2019
Community-Engaged Public Humanities (LLC27)
Placing Research & Teaching: A Workshop
This workshop focuses on community-engaged approaches to research and teaching in and outside settings of formal education.

October 23, 2019
Modernist Geographies (VAC23)
Transatlantic Abstraction
A panel discussion with Megan Sullivan (University of Chicago) and Amy Chun Kim (Cornell University) on the relations of abstract artists in Europe and the Americas at midcentury.

October 25, 2019
Perspectives on Europe from the Periphery (LLC11)
Perspectives: Centers, Margins, Boundaries
This one-day symposium explores the complex relationships between centers and peripheral spaces, as well as boundaries and borders that define our world and how they are represented in literatures and the visual arts.

October 26, 2019
Theorizing Italy (PCT11)
Dante Politico: Organizational Meeting

November 5, 2019
Urban Humanities (HS3)
Transmedia Historical and Architectural Reconstructions: Forensic Traces of Apartheid-Era Human Rights Violations in Soweto’s Built Environment, 1976-1989
This lecture from Angel David Nieves (San Diego State University) looks at the ways scholars and community leaders in South Africa have used new digital technologies too tell the complex histories of the anti-apartheid movement.

November 6, 2019
LELACS (LLC12)
Voces Teatrales with Bárbara Colio
In this public lecture, Mexican playwright Bárbara Colio will read scenes from her work and discuss the role of women in Mexican theater today.

November 7, 2019
Social and Cultural Sustainability in South Asia (LLC23)
Water and Land: Words that Contain Worlds, A Talk by Luisa Cortesi (Cornell University)
Informed by multidisciplinary long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this paper reveals how in North Bihar land and water are in intimate correspondence with each other.

November 8, 2019
Global Digital Humanities (DH3)
Intersectionality in/and the Digital Humanities Workshop
This one-day workshop will share work that addresses how digital technologies, online contexts, and/or analog or digital media remediate gender, race, disability, identity, and their intersections. 

November 8, 2019
LELACS (LLC12)
Spanish/Latin American Studies Student Colloquium
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students from Syracuse University, University of Albany, Colgate University, and Skidmore College will share their research during a day-long colloquium.

November 18-19, 2019
Improvisation in Theory and Practice (MMH18)
Masterclass Workshop with Bruce Neswick
Bruce Neswick (Canon for Music at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon) will lead a series of workshops for organists and keyboardists on incorporating improvisation into daily practice, over the course of a 2-day residency.

December 6, 2019
Health Humanities: Medicine, Disease, Disability, and Culture (LLC22)
Health Humanities Methodologies
This even will provide participants with opportunities to explore varied methodologies for research and teaching in the health humanities.


University of Rochester

September 26, 2019
LLC10 Sound and Media (LLC10)
Primary Sources as Pedagogy in the Music History Classroom
This workshop, moderated by Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (University of North Texas) and Darren Mueller (Eastman School of Music), considers the use of primary source documents in the music history classroom.

October 25-26, 2019
Gender & Sexuality Writing Collective (LLC21)
Gender and Sexuality Writing Collective
The aim of the collective is to create an intimate space for emerging scholars of gender and sexuality to share their work with a focus on preparing the paper for publication. This event is intended as an opportunity for graduate students to consider issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability.

October 25, 2019
Composition, Labor, and Embodiment (LLC26)
Mapping to Understand What we Know
The workshop, with Tony Scott (Syracuse University) is intended to acknowledge the tensions created by the often precarious terms of work in composition education while also seeking site specific means of identifying and valuing the intellectual expertise and agency of teachers.

November 21-24, 2019
South Asian Media and Performance Cultures (MP1)
Signature Event: Filmi Worlds: A Festival of Indian Cinema
Filmi Worlds” combines movie screenings, scholarly talks, and public conversations about Indian films over the course of one film-filled weekend. Featuring films containing star actors, directors, and music directors, panels of film experts, and an audience of Indian cinephiles, “Bollywood” novices and longtime fans alike will find something of interest! Held in collaboration with the Eastman Museum of Film and Moving Image in Rochester, NY, the festival will feature four films from the Museum’s South Asian film collection, currently the largest collection of contemporary South Asian films in the world. Each screening will be preceded by a panel featuring three scholars of South Asian film offering brief framing talks on topics ranging from geopolitics to production practices to film music. A public reception offers an opportunity for audience members to speak with the panelists about the films they have seen over Indian snacks. The festival will close with a panel featuring members of the Indian diaspora reflecting on what it means to grow up with Indian cinema.

November 22-23, 2019
Premodern Transmedia (VAC26)
Brainstorming Session
A meeting to consider the importance of re-mediation for scholarship on the history of art in premodern Europe and Asia.

December 12-14, 16-18, 2019
History and Technology of the Book (HS6)
Introduction to Codicology: Graduate Workshop
Dr. Ilya Dines, Manuscript Specialist for the Library of Congress, will lead a hands-on experience exploring digital resources for paleographic and codicological analysis of the book as a physical object.


Colgate University

September 14, 2019
Ancient Philosophy (PCT7)
Symposium: Plato and Platonism
This workshop has a focus on moral psychology and epistemology.

September 19, 2019
Apostolic Legends: Imagining Early Christianity from the Local to the Global (HS7)
Fall Brainstorming Meeting
The group seeks to build scholarly connections and collaborative relationships among faculty who study the creation, transmission, and significance of apostolic legends in medieval culture.


Hamilton College

November 9, 2019
Gender and Class in the Novel (LLC25)
Workshop
The group will read and discuss ongoing work-in-progress by graduate students and faculty centered on the novel as an archive for addressing questions of class and gender across national and epochal boundaries.


Hobart and William Smith Colleges

August 20, 2019
Global Digital Humanities (DH3)
Kickoff and Brainstorming Meeting
This first planning meeting will be a discussion around our umbrella theme, intersectionality and/in digital humanities.


Le Moyne College

August 29, 2019
Spanish Poetics (LLC13)
Those Unique Survivors Called Books
Spanish novelist and newspaper columnist Irene Vallejo will give a lecture on her forthcoming book, El infinito en un junco (Siruela, 2019), a narrative essay on history of books and reading.

September 3, 2019
Visual Studies (VAC3)
Women in Early American Film History
British film scholar and historian Helen Hanson (University of Exeter) will present on women directors and below-the-line female workers in early Hollywood.