Congratulats to Dr. Fabian Alfie whose translation of La Compiuta Donzella (ca. 1260), the first woman poet of Italian literature, has just been published.
For more information, please visit: “La Compiuta Donzella of Florence (ca. 1260): The Complete Poetry” https://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol55/iss3/1/
The College of Humanities invites you to celebrate the University of Arizona's 105th Homecoming.
Join us for our annual Young Alumni Brunch (with a mimosa bar!) while we enjoy remarks from our Alumna of the Year, Dana Vandersip (B.A. in Russian, 1988), and our Young Professional Achievement Award recipient, Dr. Megan Lisbeth Strang (B.A. in German Studies, Political Science, 2007). Don’t miss the chance to network with your fellow Humanities alumni while meeting our current COH student ambassadors. Alumni from the classes of 2009 – 2019 are especially encouraged to attend! Tickets are $10/person.
REGISTER FOR YOUNG ALUMNI BRUNCH
The College of Humanities invites you to celebrate the University of Arizona's 105th Homecoming.
Mingle with fellow Humanities alumni at our twilight rooftop mixer and meet Humanities faculty, friends and the 2019 COH Alumna of the Year, Dana Vandersip. Dana graduated with her B.A. in Russian in 1988 and currently serves as the Vice President of Development at Make-A-Wish, San Diego. We will have a hosted bar, heavy appetizers and a DJ – you won’t want to miss it!
As new ideas develop and new technologies rise, what can we anticipate about the future?
The Tucson Humanities Festival will look beyond the horizon and at moments in the past that catalyzed change in a series of 10 events celebrating National Arts & Humanities Month. Held from Oct. 2 to Nov. 1, the festival with offer thought-provoking lectures, panels, readings and films presented by University of Arizona faculty members and featured guests, including poet and author Sandra Cisneros.
Topics include cities of the future, the impact of philanthropy, digital lives of young black Christians, modern lessons from ancient philosophy, the #MeToo movement's impact on religion, Russian rap, space exploration and the 100th anniversary of the German art movement Bauhaus.
"We wanted to address the challenges and opportunities that are coming with rapidly changing technology, as well as highlight how past cultures and humans dealt with the transformative moments of their own times," says Alain-Philippe Durand, dean of the College of Humanities. "Human knowledge is expanding at the same time we're growing more connected around the world. We see tremendous potential in the future, for humanity and for the humanities."
The College of Humanities began presenting an annual series of public outreach events in the spring of 2009 that has since grown to a month-long festival centered each year on a different theme that illuminates the impact of humanities on our lives now and into the future. The College of Humanities faculty consider different themes every year for the festival, with recent years exploring "Secrets," "Resistance & Revolution," "Refuge" and "Found in Translation."
The festival is intended to encourage public participation in the humanities, open a dialogue between the university and local community, and share faculty research and expertise about topics with wide interest. The events occur at a variety of on- and off-campus locations, with the Town of Oro Valley hosting a presentation for the first time.
"This year's forward-thinking theme highlights our college's expertise in the digital humanities and the innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship of our world-class faculty," Durand says. "The changes brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution need the perspective and context offered by the College of Humanities, and we're excited to share these presentations with the UA and local communities."
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 5:30 p.m.
Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City
Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, UA Public & Applied Humanities
Playground, 278 E. Congress St.
Sponsored by Rio Nuevo
Monday, Oct. 7, 3 p.m. & 5 p.m.
Designing Women: Overlooked Trailblazers of the Bauhaus
Elizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo
UA Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road
$5 per person
An affiliate event of Tucson Modernism Week
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.
Beyond the Church: The Digital-Religious Lives of Young Black Christians
Erika Gault, UA Africana Studies
Dunbar Auditorium, 325 W. 2nd St.
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m.
Speaking to Power: What’s Next for Religious Institutions after #MeToo?
Karen Seat, Alison Jameson, Daisy Vargas and Konden Smith, UA Religious Studies and Classics
UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St.
Thursday, Oct. 17, 4 p.m.
Space & Wonder: Humanity’s Endless Quest for Answers
Valerio Ferme, University of Cincinnati
Oro Valley Town Hall, 11000 N. La Cañada Drive
Sponsored by the Town of Oro Valley
Friday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m.
Friends or Enemies: Politics & Poetry in Contemporary Russian Rap
Philip Ewell, Hunter College
UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St.
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m.
Ritual & Human Flourishing: Theories from Classical China
Michael Puett, Harvard University
UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St.
Thursday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m.
Puro Amor: A Reading with Sandra Cisneros
Presented by UA Poetry Center
UA Student Union Grand Ballroom, 1303 E. University Blvd.
Advance tickets available via Eventbrite
Sponsored by Arizona Humanities, with additional support from Bookmans Entertainment Exchange and Chicanos Por La Causa
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.
Arrival: Film Screening & Discussion
Richard Poss, UA Humanities Seminars Program
The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.
Free tickets available at noon on Oct. 29 at The Loft Cinema box office. First come, first served.
Friday, Nov. 1, 10 a.m.
Transforming Lives: Empowering Philanthropy through Humanism
Dana Vandersip, Make-A-Wish Foundation
UA Student Union, Kiva Room, 1303 E. University Blvd.
Vandersip is the 2019 Humanities Alumnus of the Year and a 1988 graduate of Russian & Slavic Studies. This presentation is part of Homecoming festivities.
Two College of Humanities professors are among 27 UA employees selected to participate in the 2019-20 Academic Leadership Institute.
Carine Bourget, Professor in the Department of French and Italian and Acting Director of the School of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Jiang Wu, Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies and Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, are Fellows in the yearlong program designed to build the capacity of current and future University leaders.
The Academic Leadership Institute is a partnership between the Office of the Provost and the Division of Human Resources. The cohort is selected through a competitive application process, which looks at leadership potential, commitment to diversity and inclusion, and interest in enhancing the whole of the University community. More than 100 applicants are evaluated each year by the ALI advisory board. See the full list of Academic Leadership Institute Fellows here.
UA Alumna Honorine Rouiller attended the 45th Conference of the African Literature Association held in Columbus OH in May 2019 and presented a paper, "Comics as a new support to convey collective and national memory."
A delegation of UA faculty members joined with colleagues from around the country in Washington D.C. this week for Humanities Advocacy Day.
See the whole story by clicking here.
Dr. Letizia Bellocchio, Department of French & Italian, shared with her Italian 301 students a new Virtual Journey To Italy on Monday, February 25 in the University of Arizona iSpace. Through this multidisciplinary learning community and collaborative makerspace, Dr. Bellocchio’s students were able to visit Rome and Milan with V/R, and they literally flew in Orvieto, Sorrento, and Cinque Terre with HCT VIVE. This event was a great experience and completely free.
Please help us in congratulating Dr. Fabian Alfie who has just received a grant from the Provost’s Author Support program to help complete the production of his forthcoming book, La Cazzaria, Manuscript K: A Nineteenth-Century Copy of the Lost Naples Edition.
Great job, Fabian!
Please help us congratulate our colleague Dr. Deborah Kaye who was recently interviewed in the Daily Wildcat about her published Review Essay in the Religious Studies Review. Click here to read the entire interview.
Find Dr. Kaye's essay "Jewish Continuity and Mediterranean History: Medieval and Early Modern Studies" here.
Félicitations, Dr. Kaye!