Furman Humanities Center Events

Global Humanities Working Group – Bodies

Modern Language Center

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 […]

Global Humanities Working Group – IEJ

Furman Humanities Center Seminar Room (FH 117)

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 […]

FHC Bodies Colloquium

Haynsworth Room in Duke Library 3300 Poinsett Hwy., Greenville, SC

Open to all faculty, staff, and students interested in conversing about the theme of Bodies. We meet every 2-3 weeks during the fall 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.

CLP: Stephanie-Lahya Aukongo: Kalunga’s Child – Living Letters

McEachern (FUR 214)

Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo is a German-Namibian author, poet, and activist who grew up in foster care in East Germany. She became a German citizen in 1995. She will introduce the audience to her work and her experiences as a stateless refugee, being partially paralyzed, and coping with racially motivated abuse. Aukongo found strength in writing to […]

CLP: “Out of the Garden and Into the Multiverse: Open Science Practices, Multidimensional Degrees of Freedom, and Speech Sciences” – A presentation in Linguistics by Dr. Joseph Casillas (Rutgers University)

McEachern (FUR 214)

This event is part of the Furman Lectures Series in Linguistics (FLSL) In this talk, Dr. Casillas will present research on open science and transparency practices in the field of linguistics. He will show that, by and large, linguistics does not engage in open science and transparency practices, though there is reason to believe this is changing […]

FHC Space + Place Colloquium

Duke Library Porch

All are welcome: students, colleagues, and community members. The Space + Place Colloquium meets 8 times per semester for informal discussions of topics related to the study of space and place and the human experience. We also like maps a lot. Each conversation is different. All are welcome to jump in for any single meeting and are welcome […]

Global Humanities Working Group – Bodies

Modern Language Center

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 […]

CLP: John S. Armstrong – Lecture in Media and Democracy

Watkins Room - Trone

This year’s lecture will feature Duke University professor, Chris Bail Ph.D. He will share his research on the polarization of social media and we’ll have a meaningful discussion about how we might yet defeat political tribalism in the digital space.

FHC Bodies Colloquium

Duke Library Porch

Open to all faculty, staff, and students interested in conversing about the theme of Bodies. We meet every 2-3 weeks during the fall 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.