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.
Each semester the Furman Humanities Center teams up with the Faculty Development Center to jointly run Write Now! writing accountability groups for faculty. The FHC and FDC work with faculty to support sustainable and productive writing practices, including establishing clear, achievable, and meaningful writing goals and building supportive writing accountability communities. Faculty participants earn $500 stipends per semester for full […]
Each semester the Furman Humanities Center teams up with the Faculty Development Center to jointly run Write Now! writing accountability groups for faculty. The FHC and FDC work with faculty to support sustainable and productive writing practices, including establishing clear, achievable, and meaningful writing goals and building supportive writing accountability communities. Faculty participants earn $500 stipends per semester for full […]
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the way we think about PTSD: how can we understand psychic trauma related to anticipated danger rather than past harm? And how can we tell those stories? Surprisingly, nineteenth-century medicine, culture, and literature had theories about that. This CLP explores nineteenth-century narratives of mental pain in connection with our contemporary cultural […]
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 […]
The South Carolina Cello Choir Weekend has been an important annual tradition for Palmetto-state cellists since 1980. It offers a chance for cellists of all ages from near-beginners to professionals to celebrate their love of the cello by playing together. Affiliated with South Carolina’s Chapter of the American String Teacher’s Association (SC-ASTA), in its early […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
It is hard to define what the border sounds like. It is a complicated sonic imaginary: is it noisy? Are those sirens? Can you hear the conjunto playing next door? These questions, unequivocally, lead to deeper ones: Why are certain musical genres deemed as “noise” while others are not? What does it mean to be […]