Humanities/Humanity Archive
2022–23 Workshops
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How does lyric poetry move through the world? What place does it have in our cultural, social, political worlds? And why do lyrics—whether understood as literary masterpieces or the words to our favorite songs—continue to touch us in both “body and soul”? Bridging lyric theory and poetic praxis, this workshop series invites scholars, poets, and songwriters to collectively rethink the incredible persistence of lyric forms across various cultures, time periods, and media.
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The Political Pedagogy Today workshop brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, along with intellectually active political educators to consider the claim that political activity itself constitutes a form of education. The focus for thinkers—from disciplines as various as Literature; Political Philosophy; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Education—is to find out what the 2010s have to teach us about pedagogy, on the one hand, and about parties and movements, on the other.
2021–22 Workshops
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The Bodies Perform Resistance conference assembled an international network of scholars, artists, and activists to discuss protest and performance in Russia and East Europe. Held in 2022—a year marked by the pandemic, the devastating war in Ukraine, and political rage worldwide—this two-day hybrid conference examined the centrality of performance art to contemporary protest movements, focusing especially on the leading roles played by women cultural producers and feminist performance.
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A “triple history” of photography—as a weapon of oppression, a tool of liberation, and a vehicle of restitution—inspired the Discerning Dispossession: Photography and Restitution project. An interdisciplinary group of researchers, photographers, and historians convened at Yale for a symposium and workshop exploring the history of camerawork as both an apparatus of subjugation and as potential tool of liberation and restitution in historical and legal contexts.
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This workshop series brought together anthropologists, geneticists, historians, linguists, musicologists, and other researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to studying the human past. Experts from within and beyond Yale participated in three linked workshops during the 2021–22 academic year, engaging with each other’s research on human histories and collectively identifying new frontiers in understanding the human past.
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The Seeking Global Sanctuary in a Time of Climate Emergency workshop convened a diverse group of experts, including historians, environmental scientists, legal scholars, literary critics, psychiatrists, architects, anthropologists, practitioners, and artists. They engaged in discussions and critiques of current concepts of environmental migration and sanctuary, with a specific focus on understanding the cultural geographies and shared histories influencing environmental migrants’ itineraries.
Workshops Before 2021–22
Imagining Russian Hackers: Myths of Men and Machines
Faculty: Marijeta Bozovic (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Marta Figlerowicz (Comparative Literature; English), Robert John Williams (English), Doug Rogers (Anthropology)
Medieval Futures
Faculty: Ardis Butterfield (English; Medieval Studies), Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics), Shawkat Toorawa (NELC)
Perspectives on Constructing Human Kinds
Faculty: Robin Dembroff (Philosophy), Issa Kohler-Hausmann (Sociology; Law), Marta Figlerowicz (Comparative Literature; English), Yarrow Dunha (Psychology)
Religion and American Excess
Faculty: Tisa Wenger (Divinity School), Kathryn Lofton (American Studies; Religious Studies; Divinity), Zareena Grewal (American Studies; Religious Studies; Ethnicity, Race & Migration), Sally Promey (American Studies; Religious Studies; Divinity)
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Faculty: Noreen Khawaja (Religious Studies), Lisa Messeri (Anthropology), John Durham Peters (English; Film & Media Studies), Nana Quarshie (History of Science and Medicine), Joanna Radin (History of Science and Medicine), Marco Ramos (History of Science and Medicine)
The Aesthetics of (Anti) Fascism in 1930s Central Europe: Forms, Institutions, Stagings
Faculty: Fatima Naqvi (German; Film and Media Studies), Katie Trumpener (Comparative Literature; Film and Media Studies), Gundula Kreuzer (Music), Marc Robinson (English; Theater and Performance Studies; Drama School), Nicola Suthor (Art History)
Traveling Expertise in Modern South Asia
Faculty: David Engerman (History), Rohit De (History), Steven Wilkinson (Political Science)
Climate for Theory
Faculty: Tavia Nyong’o (American Studies; Theater Studies), Paul North (German), Lisa Lowe (American Studies), and Rod Ferguson (Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies)
Desert Futures: Sahara/Sonora
Faculty: Jill Jarvis (French), Eda Pepi (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), and Jonathan Wyrtzen (Sociology, History, and International Affairs)
Discerning Dispossession: Photography and Restitution
Faculty: Laura Wexler (American Studies), Cecile Fromont (History of Art), and James Green (Yale University Art Gallery)
Experimental Bioethics: Emerging Intersections Between Medicine, Philosophy, and Social Science
Faculty: Joshua Knobe (Philosophy and Cognitive Science), Mark Mercurio (Pediatrics), Molly Crockett (Psychology), and Stephen Latham (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics)
M/F. Mediating Fear, Fearing Media
Faculty: Marijeta Bozovic (Slavic Languages and Literatures; affiliated with Film and Media Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Francesco Casetti (Humanities; Film and Media Studies), Marta Figlerowicz (Comparative Literature; English), Carolyn Jacobs (Film and Media Studies; American Studies), and Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature; affiliate of the Programs in Renaissance Studies and the History of Science and Medicine)
Energy Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Faculty: Paul Sabin (History), Doug Rogers (Anthropology), Michael Warner (English), Deborah Coen (History of Science and Medicine), Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan (Anthropology; F&ES), and Rosie Bsheer (History)
1968 Languages & Legacies of Liberation
Faculty: Rüdiger Campe (Germanic Languages & Literatures; Comparative Literature), Michael Denning (American Studies; English), Moira Fradinger, (Comparative Literature), and John MacKay (Slavic Languages and Literatures; Film Studies)
Collapse! What Collapse? Societal adaptations to abrupt climate changes before global warming
Faculty: Richard Burger (Anthropology), Michael Dove (Anthropology and FES), Joseph Manning (History; Classics), Robert Mendelsohn (FES; Economics), and Harvey Weiss (Environmental Studies; Dept. NELC)
Internet Cultures: Histories, Networks, Practices
Faculty: Marijeta Bozovic (Slavic Languages and Literatures; Film and Media Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Francesco Casetti (Humanities; Film and Media Studies), Marta Figlerowicz (Comparative Literature; English; Film and Media Studies), Amy Hungerford (English; Divisional Director of Humanities), Holly Rushmeier (Computer Science), Michael Warner (English; American Studies), and Laura Wexler (American Studies; Film and Media Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), and R. John Williams (English; Film; Media Studies)
Philologia Sacra et Profana: Constructions of the Authentic
Faculty: Yii-Jan Lin (Yale Divinity School), Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics), and Kirk Wetters (Germanic Languages and Literature)
Early Modern Techne: Towards a Framework for Cross-Cultural Conversation
Faculty: Tina Lu (East Asian Languages and Literatures), Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature), and Kishwar Rizvi (History of Art)
Encounters with Classical Antiquity in Latin America
Faculty: Moira Fradinger (Comparative Literature), Emily Greenwood (Classics; African American Studies), and Aníbal González (Spanish and Portuguese)
Transformations of Critical Theory
Faculty: Paul Kockelman (Anthropology), Isaac Nakhimovsky (History & Humanities), and Paul North (German)
Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Faculty: Erik Harms (Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies), K. Sivaramakrishnan (South Asia Studies; Anthropology; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies), and Helen Siu (Anthropology)
Provinces in the Pre-Modern World
Faculty: Andrew Johnston (Classics; History; Arch. Studies), Noel Lenski (Classics; History), Joseph Manning (Classics; History), and John Collins (Divinity; Religious Studies)
Techniques of the Listener
Faculty: J.D. Connor (Art History; Film and Media Studies), Ben Glaser (English), and Brian Kane (Music)
Utopia after Utopia
Faculty: Marijeta Bozovic (Assistant Professor), Katerina Clark (Comparative Literature and Slavic, affiliated with Film and Media Studies), Marta Figlerowicz (Comparative Literature and English), Douglas Rogers (Anthropology), Marci Shore (History), and Katie Trumpener (Comparative Literature and English, affiliated with Film and Media Studies)
Climate, Ecology, Culture and History
Faculty: JG Manning (Classics; History), Fabian Drixler (History), Roderick McIntosh (Anthropology), Alan Mikhail (History), Mark Pagani (Geology; Geophysics; Director of Yale Climate & Energy Institute), and Paul Sabin (History)
South Asian Photographs Across the Disciplines: The Use of Visual Evidence
Faculty: Inderpal Grewal (South Asian Studies; Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies), Laura Wexler (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies), Kishwar Rizvi (History of Art), and Tamara Sears (History of Art)
The Resurfacing of the Screen
Faculty: Craig Buckley (History of Art), Rudiger Campe (German Languages and Literature), and Francesco Casetti (Humanities; Film Studies)
The Trauma of Perpetrators? The politics, ethics and limits of representation
Faculty: Ron Eyerman (Sociology), Ben Kiernan (Genocide Studies), John MacKay (Film Studies; Slavic Languages and Literature), and Elisabeth Jean Wood (Political Science)