Research Workshops
Institute Research Workshops
Other Workshops
2009-2010 Research Workshops
The Engaged Humanities Scholar as Public Intellectual
Convener: Professor Michael J. Kramer
The Engaged Humanities Scholar as Public Intellectual Research Workshop, cosponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Civic Engagement, investigates debates about the humanities and public intellectuals to explore potential connections between specialized scholarly research and civil society as a whole. Read more...
Freire Forty Years Later
Convener: Professor J. Daniel Elam
Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed was published in Portuguese in 1968 and translated into English two years later, coinciding with his visiting professorship at Harvard University. The book has remained in print across the world and in many languages since, and has had significant impact on university and community pedagogy, theory, theatre, and activism. 2010 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the English translation, providing an opportunity to highlight its continued relevance and importance. The Alice Kaplan Research Workshop, “Freire Forty Years Later,” honors this significant contribution to pedagogy, but also recognizes and hopes to explore the work within the changing social, cultural, economic, and political environments of the past forty tumultuous years. Read more...
Poetry and Poetics
Convener: Professor Reginald Gibbons
The Post Racial Turn
Convener: Professor Barnor Hesse
The Senses in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Convener: Professor Christina Traina
This new discussion and reading group will meet approximately two times each quarter and will bring together faculty and students from across disciplines, schools, and campuses to address questions related to the senses, a subject currently enjoying renewed focus in a number of fields. Read more...
Early Modern Colloquium
Convener: Professor Jeffrey Masten
Other Workshops:
The Institute hosts the weekly Culture and Society workshop, led by Wendy Griswold. For more information, please
see their web site, or contact culture workshop@gmail.com
