Furman Humanities Center Events

National Poetry Month Creative Sessions

Furman Humanities Center (Furman Hall 117)

Furman Celebrates National Poetry Month  with a Series of Creative Sessions Who: All faculty and staff are invited to register. The groups will be capped at 12.  First come, first served. Full participation earns stipends of $300. What: A National Poetry Month celebration and series of sessions to help participants explore, create, and appreciate poetry.  […]

National Poetry Month Creative Sessions

Furman Humanities Center (Furman Hall 117)

Furman Celebrates National Poetry Month  with a Series of Creative Sessions Who: All faculty and staff are invited to register. The groups will be capped at 12.  First come, first served. Full participation earns stipends of $300. What: A National Poetry Month celebration and series of sessions to help participants explore, create, and appreciate poetry.  […]

National Poetry Month Creative Session

Furman Humanities Center (Furman Hall 117)

Furman Celebrates National Poetry Month  with a Series of Creative Sessions Who: All faculty and staff are invited to register. The groups will be capped at 12.  First come, first served. Full participation earns stipends of $300. What: A National Poetry Month celebration and series of sessions to help participants explore, create, and appreciate poetry.  […]

National Poetry Month Creative Sessions

Furman Humanities Center (Furman Hall 117)

Furman Celebrates National Poetry Month  with a Series of Creative Sessions Who: All faculty and staff are invited to register. The groups will be capped at 12.  First come, first served. Full participation earns stipends of $300. What: A National Poetry Month celebration and series of sessions to help participants explore, create, and appreciate poetry.  […]

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 […]

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.

Write Now!

Zoom

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 […]

Write Now!

Zoom

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 […]

CLP: Narrating Trauma in the Nineteenth Century and Now

McEachern (FUR 214)

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 […]

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 […]