An offshoot of the original Global Humanities Working Group, this research community explores ways that decentering Western perspectives in our curricula might inform the design of IEJ general education courses. This two-year working group brings together scholars whose research concentrates on IEJ related topics: including but not limited to racial justice; gender and sexuality; climate […]
The Global Humanities Working Group (GHWG) participates in a special seminar on a new topic each year. Members of this interdisciplinary community gather for an hour each month to read and discuss notable scholarship on the annual them, often sourcing works from each participant’s respective areas of specialization. Seminar members are provided modest stipends or research funds for full participation […]
Open to all faculty, staff, and students interested in conversing about the theme of Bodies. We meet every 2-3 weeks during the semester to discuss a new text that relates to the colloquium’s theme. Meetings encourage lively discussion full of diverse and interdisciplinary thoughts and perspectives. Colloquia are organized as a series of drop-in sessions.
James Tauber, Principal Investigator of the Digital Tolkien project, will be giving a CLP on Monday, February 26 at 5 PM, titled “From the Hobbit to Homer and Back Again: an Unexpected Adventure in Digital Philology” (location Furman Hall 214).
A hands-on workshop on Tolkien and Digital Editions. The workshop will cover some basic aspects of digital editing, annotation and text mining, using Tolkien as a case study. Seats at the workshop are limited. If you are interested in attending the workshop, email chiara.palladino@furman.edu at your earliest convenience.
Participants engage in low-stakes, open-ended, exploratory conversations with colleagues on the article, book (chapter), podcast episode, digital resource or project that has most captured their attention of late. Open to all Furman faculty and staff.
Open to all faculty, staff, and students interested in conversing about the theme of Bodies. We meet every 2-3 weeks during the semester to discuss a new text that relates to the colloquium’s theme. Meetings encourage lively discussion full of diverse and interdisciplinary thoughts and perspectives. Colloquia are organized as a series of drop-in sessions.
Part of the Furman Lecture Series in Linguistics, join us for CLP featuring Dr. Mark Louden
The Global Humanities Working Group (GHWG) participates in a special seminar on a new topic each year. Members of this interdisciplinary community gather for an hour each month to read and discuss notable scholarship on the annual them, often sourcing works from each participant’s respective areas of specialization. Seminar members are provided modest stipends or research funds for full participation […]
The lecture will be in Spanish with translation in English by Dr. Maria Rippon.
Light refreshments will be served.
In this CLP event, journalist and podcaster Kaiser Kuo will give a 45-minute lecture on how technology has been so central to the way the US and China have shifted perceptions of one another and impacted their interactions in the last few decades. Kaiser will draw on his experience making the new PBS NOVA documentary Inside China’s Tech […]