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Humanities Collaborative

Humanities Collaborative Luncheon, Nov. 22: All Welcome!

November 15, 2019

Matthew WarshawskiThe next Humanities Collaborative luncheon will take place on Friday, November 22, noon to 1:30 p.m., in the Teske dining room. Lunch will be provided courtesy of the CAS dean’s office.

The featured presenter will be Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, who will discuss “Making the Baroque Less Baroque: Helping Students Understand Texts from Long Ago and Far Away.” This conversation invites you to share strategies for engaging students with texts that at first glance they might consider unrelated to their own experiences, but that in fact have a surprising and important relevance. The frame through which Warshawsky approaches that challenge is literary and artistic production in Spain during the Medieval through Baroque eras, asking students to consider questions of right and wrong, idealized love, gender roles, religious (in)tolerance, and what makes a “good” and even holy life. Participants will consider translations of two poems that students read as a way of approaching some of these issues: “The Dark Night,” by San Juan de la Cruz, and “She Argues to be Inconsistent the Desires and the Criticisms of Men, Who in Women Find Culpable That Which They Themselves Cause,” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to Andrea Egger, egger@up.edu, as soon as possible. Also contact Laura McLary with questions at mclary@up.edu.

Filed Under: 11-18-2019, Academics, International Languages & Cultures Tagged With: Humanities Collaborative, International Languages and Cultures, Matthew Warshawsky

Humanities Collaborative Discussions, 2018-2019

October 12, 2018

The College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Collaborative invites you to participate in a lively lunch-time discussion about topics relevant for the humanities and interdisciplinary connections to the humanities. Please RSVP to Laura McLary at mclary@up.edu. Each lunch is limited to the first 12 participants who reply. All members of the UP community are welcome. This initiative is supported by College of Arts and Sciences dean Herbert Medina.

  • Oct. 30: Discussion led by Anne Santiago and Nina Henrichs-Tarasenko, article “The Coddling of the American Mind” (Atlantic Monthly), Teske Dining Room, noon-1:30pm
  • November 30: Discussion led by Gregory Pulver, “Creativity vs. innovation in the arts and sciences,” place and time TBA
  • January 23: Discussion led by Allie Hill, “The neo-liberal academ,” place and time TBA
  • March 12: Discussion led by Lora Looney, “Teaching for understanding,” place and time TBA
  • April 10: Discussion led by Cheri Buck-Perry and Josh Swidzinski, topic, place, time TBA.

 

Filed Under: 10-15-2018, Academics, College of Arts & Sciences Tagged With: College of Arts and Sciences, Herbert Medina, Humanities Collaborative, Laura McLary

CAS Humanities Collaborative Presentations, Oct. 4

September 28, 2018

The CAS Humanities Collaborative will be highlighting the scholarship of three humanities professors in its first event of the academic year on Thursday, October 4, at 4 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons board room. Simon Aihiokhai, theology; Tina Astorga, theology; and Josh Swidzinski, English, will be presenting on research projects they conducted over the past summer. Participants will also get a first glimpse at the Humanities Collaborative manifesto, created with input from faculty during Faculty Development Day in May. Refreshments will be served courtesy of College of Arts and Sciences dean Herbert Medina. All members of the UP community are welcome and encouraged to attend.

The CAS Humanities Collaborative is dedicated to joining forces with our colleagues in the humanities to promote the enduring relevance of the humanities as a vital part of guiding students in their development as empowered, engaged critical thinkers and participants in a world of unscripted problems. We promote collaboration as a means of providing a strong base for strategic planning and to seek out opportunities to publicize and support the professional development of our colleagues teaching and researching in the humanities.

Please contact the Humanities Collaborative leadership team for more details: Carol Dempsey (theology, dempsey@up.edu), Molly Hiro (English, hiro@up.edu), Laurie McLary (CAS and ILC, mclary@up.edu).

 

 

Filed Under: 10-01-2018, Academics, College of Arts & Sciences Tagged With: College of Arts and Sciences, Herbert Medina, Humanities Collaborative

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