2022 Memories As 2022 draws to a close, we are grateful to you—colleagues, students, and friends—for your thoughtful engagement, partnership, and commitment to a vibrant humanities community. May this season bring rest and reflection, and a renewed energy for the year ahead.
Nicole Cox (Anthropology) is a 2022–2023 HRI Graduate Fellow. Cox’s project, “Re/Moving the State: Multiple Productivities of Embodied Practice in Indian Diplomacy” focuses on the role of embodied practices such as dance and yoga in India’s public diplomacy and seeks to undo invisible and oversimplified notions about global Indian heritage, state power, and the moving […]
Daniel DeVinney (Communication) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Fellow. DeVinney’s project, “The Post-Racial Imaginary: Visual Logics of Race in the Obama and Early Trump Eras,” examines the visual culture of the post-racial myth during the Obama and early Trump eras. According to DeVinney’s research, this decade was not beyond race, but instead was a […]
Earlier this month, Odyssey Project students collaborated with Chicago artist Rafael Blanco to create an interior mural in Levis Faculty Center over the course of three days. The painting, which spans nearly 20 feet wide by 6-and-a-half feet tall, features a background of bright, multicolored stripes with a portrait of an African American woman and […]
Ray Martinez (Spanish and Portuguese) is a member of the 22–23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. He shares about his experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23–24! Learn more about Interseminars. […]
Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan (Theatre) is a member of the 22–23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23–24! Learn more about Interseminars. View […]
Kofi M. Bazzell-Smith (Art and Design) is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. He shares about his experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23—24! Learn more about Interseminars. […]
María B. Serrano-Abreu (Educational Psychology) is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23—24! Learn more about […]
Beatriz Jiménez (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23—24! Learn […]
What can innovation in arts and humanities research look like? Interdisciplinary graduate training and collaboration. The inaugural cohort of the Interseminars Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation, met for a multi-day intensive to present about their scholarship, framework and understanding of “speculative practice” as they plan a new course together for spring 2023. The 2022–23 […]