Division of the Humanities Blogs

Individual and multi-author blogs are available to all Humanities Division faculty and staff in support of research, academic events, graduate workshops and other collaborative projects. Please consult the Blogs FAQ for more information.

 

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Below is a list of blogs and blog-based websites hosted by the Humanities Division in reverse chronological order, sorted by category:

 

 

Workshops:

• Workshop on Contemporary Philosophy - Graduate student workshop on Contemporary Philosophy.
• Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language - Graduate student workshop on Semantics and the Philosophy of Language. A joint venture by the departments of Linguistics and Philosophy.
• New Media Workshop - The New Media Workshop provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss the innovation and obsolescence of media, where these overlapping, asynchronous events are understood through social practices and lived experience.
• Wittgenstein Workshop - The Wittgenstein Workshop aims to foster a variety of forms of interdisciplinary research that take their point of departure from a shared interest in Wittgenstein’s intellectual achievement.
• EthNoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop - the goal of the workshop is to contribute to the growing interdisciplinary dialogue on music as a social practice, exploring diverse approaches to the study of music in both the humanities and the social sciences.
• Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop - a forum to discuss ancient philosophical texts, present papers and receive feedback.
• Clinical Ethnography Workshop - the workshop provides an opportunity for faculty and students involved with the clinical ethnography program to meet and discuss issues related to clinical psychology and culture.
• Early Modern Philosophy Workshop - a forum in the Department of Philosophy for graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to engage with Early Modern thinkers.
• Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop - the purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty and graduate students working on areas of the Western Mediterranean during the medieval and early modern periods.
• Social History Workshop is a forum to discuss and develop work that takes social history methodology seriously – the history of everyday life and people who have been excluded from dominant historical narratives.
• Literature and Cultural History of Premodern East Asia is a graduate student workshop sponsored by the Council of Advanced studies and the Center for East Asian Studies
• 18th- and 19th-Century Cultures Workshop - During the years 1660-1900, cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of the workshop is to interrogate the tension between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this 240-year span.
• China Before Print Workshop - Graduate Student Workshop
• Formal Philosophy - This workshop is intended as a venue for graduate students and faculty to discuss issues pertaining to logic, the philosophy of mathematics, formal epistemology, general philosophy of science, and the philosophy of the particular sciences.  The emphasis from year to year is tailored to graduate students’ areas of interest.  Both qualitative and formal discussions of these topics are welcome.
• Art & Politics in East Asia - Graduate Student Workshop
• Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia - Graduate Student Workshop

Current and Upcoming Conferences:

• South Asia Graduate Student Conference - The aim of this conference is to encourage discussion regarding the current state and future trajectories of South Asian studies, particularly in the wake of interventions made by the Subaltern Studies group. April 17-18, 2009.
• Cinema, Nature, Ecology - the sixth annual graduate student conference held by the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. It is a one-day academic conference accompanied by screenings and workshops, in Chicago, IL, bringing emerging scholars a variety of disciplines from around the world.
• Anscombe’s Intention - A conference on the 50th anniversary of Anscombe’s Intention. February 24-25, 2009

Archived Conferences:

• INKLIT - Interdisciplinary Workshop on North Korean Literature. June 16-17, 2008.
• NAOKOL - North American Workshop on Korean Literature. June 19-21, 2008.
• (Ce) que la poésie raconte or, (What) Poetry Narrates Conference. April 11, 2008.
• Looking at Asian Art - A Symposium in Memory of Professor Harrie Vanderstappen. April 12-13, 2008.
• Nietzsche: Style and Thought - A colloquium at the University of Chicago, Feb. 8-9th, 2008.
• The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome. Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. A Symposium at the University of Chicago, November 2-3, 2007.
• Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope . . . A Conference on Political Feeling. A record and resource for the conference taking place at the Franke Institute October 19-20, 2007.
• Contradictory Selves - Contradictory Selves: Multiplicity and Conflict in Roman Representations of Character. This conference will take place October 17–19, 2008, at the University of Chicago.
• Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium - An annual colloquium bringing together scholars and researchers in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.
• Myth and Muthmaking in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures is a graduate student conference hosted by the Spanish Graduate Student Committee at the University of Chicago. This conference will address the many myths that are created and discussed specifically in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic literature of all time periods and genres.
• Strange Reading: Practice, Audience, Theory - the third annual graduate conference organized by the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

Websites:

• WinningWords - Verbal Arts for Democratic Practice
• Odyssea/EduCon - Odyssey and The Educating Community
• Partnering for a Sustainable Chicago - A network of individuals and organizations that are working toward a more sustainable Chicago.
• Southside Arts & Humanities Network - “The Network,” is a collection of small and mid-sized arts and humanities organizations based on the south side of Chicago.
• Early China. The internet home of the Society for the Study of Early China (SSEC).
• The Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture

Individual Faculty Blogs:

• goldsmith. Professor John Goldsmith’s blog.

Staff and Department Blogs:

• Humanities News Blog - The latest events, awards & accomplishments from the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.
• South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC) blog.
• afterMAPH is written by the staff and alumni of the Master of Arts Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago.
• The MAPH blog is a source of information and a forum for announcements and events of interest to current students in the Master of Arts Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago
• Faculty Grants & Fellowships. A blog maintained for the benefit of University of Chicago Humanities Faculty by Daniel Parisi, Director of Grants and Fellowships.
• Graduate Student Grant/Fellowship Blog. A blog with news and information about grants and fellowships for graduate students in the Humanities Division.
• gedeode. A blog with news and information from the Center for the Study of Languages (CSL).
• BLING is the official news outlet of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago.
• All Things Visual. Communiqués from the Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History.
• Turing’s Tape is a multi-author blog written by staff and students in Humanities Computing with technology news, tips and updates.
• Digital Dilettante is a blog written by Arno Bosse, Director of Technology in the Division of the Humanities, exploring the field of digital humanities.