| The Art of Liberation | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/art-of-liberation.jpg | | The Art of Liberation | 10 | Gaiter, Colette | | | 2011 | | <p>The Departments of Art and Black American Studies offered a Spring 2011 cross-listed course called "The Art of Liberation," which included mostly art students and a diverse group of students from departments throughout the university. The guests engaged students in dialogue about how arts and humanities practitioners can mobilize communities and effect positive change. From a humanities point of view, the guests addressed the social conditions surrounding their work and put it in historical context compared to other kinds of liberation activities. The visiting artists were Emory Douglas, Artist and former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party and Favianna Rodriguez, both Bay Area activist artists. The Paul R. Jones lecture, by sculptor Melvin Edwards and his wife, performance artist and poet Jayne Cortez, became part of the Art of Liberation lecture series at the suggestion of Julie McGee, Curator of African American Art for University Museums. An exhibition celebrating the 10-year announcement of the Paul R. Jones gift of African American art to UD included works that speak directly to the "Art of Liberation" theme, addressing the interrelationship of visual arts and personal, political and social advocacy. Students from Christiana High School and Latin American Studies at UD attended a class session with Favianna Rodriguez. Emory Douglas lectured in a BAMS class. The visiting artists interacted with students in more informal situations—Favianna Rodriguez did a print demonstration and Emory Douglas attended a gallery opening for the "Art of Liberation" exhibition in Recitation Hall, which featured his recent posters.</p> | cgaiter | | |
| Into the Archives | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/2018-05-31 16.21.46-1.jpg | | Into the Archives | 8 | Helton, Laura | | | | | <p>“Into the Archives” is a pair of courses that introduce students to archival practice and theorythrough immersion in African American collections at the University of Delaware and beyond.The undergraduate course, “Into the Archives: The Ephemeral Langston Hughes” beginswith one literary figure—the poet, playwright, and activist Langston Hughes—to ask studentswhat it means not only to archive, but also to think, write, and act archivally. The companion graduate seminar in theory and methods, “Archives Theory,” will take up a related set of questions about the construction of the archive, giving students a toolkit of theory,keywords, and practices to support their independent work in the field of public humanities.</p> | lehelton | | |
| Wilmington Archives Project | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/WilmingtonDE-wpcf_300x225[1].jpg | | Wilmington Archives Project | 47 | Kim, David
Bowler, Anne
Jenkins, McKay
Kalmbach, Michael
Perez, Victor
Winslow, Margaret | | | 2017 | | <p>Building on the series of digital scholarship workshops and initiatives sponsored by the IHRC and the Library in the past few years, this pilot explores the city of Wilmington as the theme that brings together various interests in digital pedagogy in the effort to study the multiple dimensions of urban space. This pilot broadly defines digital pedagogy as the assemblage of various emerging modes of storytelling for teaching and sharing. Designed for both novices and the experts in digital tools and platforms, this pilot explores the collaborative potential of digital pedagogy in order to develop publicly accessible projects created by the students and faculty in partnership with community-based organizations.</p> | djkim
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| Renewing the Museums Working Group | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/2013-renewing-museums.jpg | | Renewing the Museums Working Group | 5 | Tomlinson, Janis A. | | | 2013 | | <p>In January 2013, the exhibition of the University of Delaware art collection in the Old College Gallery will be de-installed, to make room for two large temporary exhibitions: <em>Gertrude Käsebier: The Complexity of Light and Shade</em> (spring, 2013) and <em>Goya's War: Los Desastres de la Guerra</em>(fall, 2013). Selections from the UD collection will be reinstalled in January 2014.</p><p>The goal of the Renewing the Museums Working Group is to design a new installation of the collection in Old College Gallery that best serves the interests of students, faculty and the curriculum. The installation will draw from the UD Art Collections, which encompass art that came to the University Museums through the Old College Gallery (formerly, the University Gallery), the gift of Paul R. Jones, and the President's Office (transferred from Archives in 2007) and through gifts from individual donors. Particular strengths are in American and African American 20th century art, but the collection also encompasses Russian icons, Greek and Roman antiquities, Pre-Columbian artifacts, African Art, southwest pottery and a significant photographic collection, as well as prints and drawings.<br></p> | jat | | |
| Broadening UD's Disabilities Studies Minor: Building Sustainable and Cross-College Engagement | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/nothing-about-us-without-us.png | | Broadening UD's Disabilities Studies Minor: Building Sustainable and Cross-College Engagement | 35 | Kerschbaum, Stephanie
Eisenman, Laura | | | 2015 | | <p>DIST is the largest minor at UD. This project will expand the minor's current focus to include courses on humanistic disability studies and to build connections with faculty across campus. Two leading disability studies scholars will visit campus in Fall 2015 to consult and deliver public lectures.</p><p> </p><p>The image above shows a close up of part of a colorful quilt, dominated by a red hand shape stitched onto colorful background fabric using light purple/blue thread. The same thread was also used to stitch the words "nothing about us without us" onto the palm of the hand. Image credit: Amy Selders.</p> | kersch
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| Graphic Medicine | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Overview Image - for Graphic Med Workshop.jpg | | Graphic Medicine | 37 | Virdi, Jaipreet
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| Digital Pedagogy Lab 2018 | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Screen Shot 2018-09-19 at 11.58.31 AM.png | | Digital Pedagogy Lab 2018 | 38 | Stommel, Jesse | | | 2018 | | <p>February 16 & 17, 2018. <strong>Digital Pedagogy Lab Delaware</strong> is
a practical professional development opportunity for graduate students,
postdoctoral teaching fellows and early career faculty to teach and
work with digital technology. Participants will practice hands on
solutions for the common challenges teachers and learners face when
working digitally. However, this will not be simply a 2 day tutorial.
Instead, Digital Pedagogy Lab Delaware will ground itself in
philosophical and theoretical discussions of digital technology,
identity, and pedagogy while also offering University of Delaware
participants opportunities to engage with Hybrid Pedagogy’s learning
community through pre and post institute activities related to course
design projects.</p> | jstommel | | |
| Serious Games | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/serious-games-wpcf_300x225.jpg | | Serious Games | 39 | Harvey, Terry
Richards, Troy A. | | | 2010 | | <p>Video games and computer-generated animation are growing fields with tremendous potential for artists, designers, and computer scientists. The development of new media blurs the traditional boundaries between artist and scientist. To use software like Pixar's Renderman requires both programming skills and artistic skills to bring characters to life. The goal of this Integrated Semester project was to have 20-30 Computer Science majors and 10-20 Art majors co-enroll in two courses, CISC275 Software Engineering I, and ART 467, Senior Studio Design, and work together to design animated short videos about issues of sustainability in simulated environments with constrained resources. Funding from the grant brought four speakers from the serious game industry to campus: Susan Seggerman, co-founder and president of Games for Change, a non-profit organization focused on the use of video games for social change and a blogger for the Huffington Post; Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist and engineer whose work has been exhibited at museums and galleries such as the MASSMoCA, the Whitney, and the Cooper-Hewitt; Brian Winn, Co-Director of the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University; and Len Annetta, Associate Professor of Science Education at North Carolina State University. Ten students in the course also had an opportunity to attend the Games 4 Change Festival in New York City with the faculty coordinators of this project.</p> | tharvey
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| Electroacoustic Collaborations | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/electroacoustic.jpg | | Electroacoustic Collaborations | 22 | Gythfeldt, Marianne
Pigford, Ashley | | | 2009 | | <p><strong>PG2 – Soundart Duo</strong><br></p><p>Coming together in the spirit of experimentation and cross-fertilization of art-forms, PG2 cultivates a new era of hybrid and mixed media interaction. The Duo includes hybrid/mixed-media visual artist and electric guitarist, Ashley Pigford, and clarinetist and electroacoustic performer, Marianne Gythfeldt.</p><p>They improvise using “found” objects as the primary inspiration for live performances. Their creations use unusual sound-sources such as the mechanical clicks and spasms of an old record-player or printer to build shows of original audiovisual pieces. The funding from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center produced the following works:</p><p><strong>Escher Geometrics – Pigford-Gythfeldt , PG2</strong></p><p>Escher Geometrics is an interactive audiovisual piece using Max/msp. Sound and image are synchronized in an hypnotic slow-moving pace, that creates the illusion of cohesion. However, while the sound ebbs and flows in ascending and descending patterns, the images unfold in a linear fashion, while tracking the depth of sound of the clarinet pitch.</p><p><strong>Six Point Three – Pigford-Gythfeldt , PG2</strong></p><p>A computer-controlled electric typewriter creates the rhythmic foundation for an original musical composition involving bass guitar, MIDI wind machine and acoustic clarinets. The text used is an excerpt from Milton Babbitt’s book, Words about Music, and clarinet excerpts from Milton Babbitt’s epic clarinet solo My Ends are My Beginnings.</p> | mgythfeldt
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| DigiPed Lab Delaware 2016 | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/green-chameleon-176136-unsplash.jpg | | DigiPed Lab Delaware 2016 | 23 | | | | 2016 | | <p>May 6 & 7, 2016. <strong>Digital Pedagogy Lab Delaware</strong> is a practical professional development opportunity for graduate students, postdoctoral teaching fellows and early career humanities faculty to teach and work with digital technology. Participants will practice hands on solutions for the common challenges teachers and learners face when working digitally. However, this will not be simply a two-day tutorial. Instead, Digital Pedagogy Lab Delaware will ground itself in philosophical and theoretical discussions of digital technology, identity, and pedagogy while also offering University of Delaware participants opportunities to engage with Hybrid Pedagogy's learning community through pre and post institute activities related to course design projects.<br></p> | | | |
| Transnational Encounters: World-Renowned Authors at the University of Delaware | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/hajinlecture-51V.jpg | | Transnational Encounters: World-Renowned Authors at the University of Delaware | 24 | Crawford, Iain
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Zipser, Richard | | | 2011 | | <p>We are inviting six internationally known authors over a four-semester period beginning in the fall 2011 semester. Each author will spend two days on campus. During this period she/he will present a public lecture, a reading, and interact with students, faculty, and others. The thematic and conceptual focus of the series is on transnationalism and diversity, and the authors will be selected on the basis of their contributions to this topic.</p><p>One hallmark of an intellectually vibrant campus is the opportunity to hear and engage with leading scholars and artists of diverse national and international communities. Our high-profile authors series seeks to create a forum for such an engagement at UD, using the medium of world literature in order to discuss and reflect upon such issues as new forms of migration, the role of the nation state, identity politics, or gender and family structures. The series will bring significant attention to UD and highlight its commitment to all aspects of diversity. It will also engage large segments of the campus and broader community with current core intellectual issues related to transnationalism and diversity.</p><p>There will be six events: One is scheduled for fall 2011 and one for spring 2012; two writers will be invited for fall 2012 and two for spring 2013. Information about the first event in the series, a talk by Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, can be found at <a href="http://commonreader.fye.udel.edu/" target="_blank"><strong>the Common Reader web site</strong></a>.</p> | icrawf
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| Crafting Healthcare | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/IHRC Crafting Healthcare image2.png | | Crafting Healthcare | 27 | Fallik, Dawn
Heilferty, Catherine
Ley, Barbara
Payne, Yasser | | | 2019 | | <p>This project is to design and offer an undergraduate elective course for UD juniors and seniors in any major field of study, HLTH467/ENGL409/WOMS467 Crafting Healthcare. Students will be invited to explore caring and being cared for at the margins through the intersection of crafting and healthcare. Informed by work in the humanities, students will participate in experiential and service learning about illnesses, social disparities, and healthcare practices that occur primarily outside hospital settings.</p> | dfallik
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| Watersheds and Foodsheds: An Interdisciplinary, Experiential, and Community-Based Environmental Humanities Project | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/IHRC-Jenkins1-wpcf_300x225.jpg | | Watersheds and Foodsheds: An Interdisciplinary, Experiential, and Community-Based Environmental Humanities Project | 28 | Jenkins, McKay | | | 2015 | | <p>In collaboration with Nancy Bentley, who runs the nearby Fair Weather Farm, environmental humanities students will study the way Americans have come to grow, distribute and eat both industrial and local, organic food. This project will allow students to build, tend, and harvest their own organic garden plot at Fair Weather Farm – and, in the process, see for themselves (with their eyes and their hands) how local, organic food production works.<br></p><p>You can follow our project on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/335822969950743/?ref=group_header" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.<br></p> | mckay | | |
| Teaching African American Material Culture with Digital Humanities | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Lead-Graffiti-wpcf_300x300[1].jpg | | Teaching African American Material Culture with Digital Humanities | 30 | Erickson, Jesse R. | | | 2018 | | <p>The Teaching African American Material Culture with Digital Humanities project is a two-course series taught through a partnership with the English Department and the Special Collections and Museums. The project is designed to promote engagement with primary source research and the use of digital methods and technologies in the classroom. The project’s course offerings include a fall 2017 semester undergraduate course and a spring 2018 semester graduate-level seminar. Both courses center on the handling, description, and analysis of ephemera as texts, and each combines on-site collection research opportunities with skill development in digital scholarship.</p><p>
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| Political Communication and Engagement in the 21st Century | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/civic-engagement.jpg | | Political Communication and Engagement in the 21st Century | 15 | Hoffman, Lindsay
Jones, Philip Edward
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Wilson, David C.
Carrión, Julio | | | 2009 | | <p>Since the infancy of the Internet, scholars in Communication and Political Science have posited that the medium could mobilize and engage citizens. This project was driven by questions about how exactly new media technology affect individual attitudes toward politics as well as political behavior. We conducted a national online survey to answer two major research questions: To what extent do online emotional appeals by candidates lead people to engage with politics? And are citizens' motivations to engage in politics online driven by a desire to influence government (i.e., participate) as well as to communicate political ideas to others (i.e., communicate)? To answer the first question, we showed respondents screenshots from a fictional candidate's website where the candidate expressed either "angry", "hopeful", "anxious" or no emotions about the economy. Respondents then indicated how likely they were to participate on his behalf. We found that, contrary to concerns that using emotions in politics will agitate the least knowledgeable or engaged citizens and distort the democratic process, it is the most engaged and politically sophisticated voters whose decisions are swayed by these appeals. For the second question, we explored the ways in which these two behaviors—which we delineate as participation and discussion—are perceived by citizens in online versus offline contexts. We also examine how such perceptions can predict certain behaviors, such as "friending" a candidate on a social networking site and messaging with friends online about politics. It turns out that these behaviors are indeed perceived differently among American citizens, and that these perceptions can predict the likelihood of participating in online political forums.</p> | lindsayh
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| Creative Vision Factory | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Creative Vision Factory.jpg | | Creative Vision Factory | 17 | Bowler, Anne
Kim, David | | | 2021 | | <p>This project promotes experiential learning and community engagement through an ongoing collaboration between an advanced undergraduate seminar in the sociology of art, the Wilmington Archive Project (WAP), and Creative Vision Factory (CVF). Students enrolled in SOCI/MCST 449 contribute to the living history of a community arts organization through research projects that center on cataloguing works and writing artist profiles for the CVF digital archive, founded in the fall of 2018. The collaborative nature of the seminar forms a lens through which students engage with core paradigms in arts sociology that speak to the complex historical relationship between art and social inequality, and the potential role of the arts as a medium for social justice. <br></p> | abowler
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| Encountering the Disability Gaze | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Disability Gaze.jpg | | Encountering the Disability Gaze | 19 | Virdi, Jaipreet | | | 2021 | | <p>The "disabled gaze" is an autonomous claiming of identity, the opposite of freakery or the "medical gaze," that serves as a guard against ableism and oppression. For disabled people, the power of this gaze allows them to assert their lived experiences to reduce stigma. Students in "Disability and the American Experience" (HIST 268) will analyze how the disabled gaze is prevalent in technology and share their work at the Center for Material Culture Studies' Third Biennial Conference, "The Disability Gaze."</p> | virdij | | |
| The Art and Literature of the American Revolution in Global Contexts | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/art-of-literature.jpg | | The Art and Literature of the American Revolution in Global Contexts | 11 | Bellion, Wendy
Larkin, Edward | | | 2010 | | <p>Our IHRC project took the form of a fall 2010 Integrated Semester composed of two graduate seminars in Art History and English. Thirteen students from English, Art History, and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture met twice weekly for an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which art and literature shaped political thought and action in the Atlantic world during the American Revolutionary period, from the taxation crises of the 1760s and 1770s through war with Great Britain and the French and Haitian Revolutions. The American Revolution challenged British North Americans to reassess many of their fundamental assumptions about their world, including the viability of their political institutions, the nature of social relations, and their cultural and aesthetic values. Students investigated such issues by focusing on the intersections of literature, the arts, and political culture. A major component of the Integrated Semester was the study of original texts and works of art at institutions rich in the material culture of the American Revolution. Students undertook field trips to the Library Company of Philadelphia, the University of Delaware's University Museums, and Winterthur Museum. Public talks also formed an important part of the course. Three esteemed scholars visited campus for public lectures and classroom workshops with students. The students also presented short public talks based upon their original research at an in-house symposium, "New Directions in Cultural Studies of the American Revolutionary Era."</p> | wbellion
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| Arts and Science: Connections and Intersections | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/ASConnections.jpg | | Arts and Science: Connections and Intersections | 12 | Isenstadt, Sandy | | | 2015 | | <p>“Art & Science:
Connections and Intersections” is a series of symposia and curricular events
dedicated to research that cuts across academic boundaries and has broad social
implications. Following an initial symposium on the interpretation of images in
the arts and sciences, the 2015 symposium focuses on lighting design and
technology.<br></p> | isnt | | |
| Shanghai Sonatas | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Shanghai_Sonatas_logo.png | | Shanghai Sonatas | 40 | Gao, Xiang
Zavadivker, Polly | | | 2020 | | <p>In the late 1930s, over 23,000 German and Austrian Jews fled from the Nazi regime to the only city in the world that didn’t require a visa — Shanghai, China. Among these largely middle and upper-class refugees were about 450 professional musicians, who utilized their art to give voice to the fears, anxieties, struggles and hopes borne of their experience as guests in a completely foreign culture.</p><p>Nearly eighty years later, the world-renowned musician and UD Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music, Xiang Gao, is creating with his team of world-class artists <em>The Shanghai Sonatas, </em>a new musical based on the memoirs of the Jewish refugees who lived through this unique historical reality.</p> | xiangg
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| Spanish, Healthcare, & Community | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Spanish healthcare community.png | | Spanish, Healthcare, & Community | 41 | Dabkowski, Meghan Frances | | | 2021 | | <p>This project highlights themes of central concern to students enrolled in the Spanish for Healthcare minor: the intersections of language, health, and healthcare. The project aims to strengthen ties between UD and Spanish-speaking communities in DE by connecting students to those communities in health, wellbeing, and healthcare contexts. <br></p> | mdabkows | | |
| Textiles in a Global World: An Interdisciplinary Conversation | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/textiles-global.jpg | | Textiles in a Global World: An Interdisciplinary Conversation | 43 | Garrison, Ritchie
Cobb, Kelly | | | 2010 | | <p>Few forms of human behavior are more pervasive than the production and use of textiles. They help navigate the course of empires, organize the work of men and women, inspire the world of fashion and design, shape social performances and spiritual rituals, encourage investments in science and technology, determine farm strategies, and knit together the politics of sweatshops and sustainability. Textiles are hidden in plain sight because they are so common. This symposium on October 1, 2010 considered the role that textiles have played in human culture, with an emphasis on the themes of art, history, science and sustainability. The goal was to foster interdisciplinary conversations and identify the ways in which people and their things intertwine, often with unintended consequences.<br></p> | rjg
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| The Creative Vision Factory Archives | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/The Creative Vision Factory Archives.jpg | | The Creative Vision Factory Archives | 49 | Bowler, Anne
Kim, David | | | | | <p>This project is designed to promote experiential learning and community engagement through an ongoing collaboration between an advanced undergraduate seminar in the sociology of art, the Wilmington Archive Project (WAP), and Creative Vision Factory (CVF), a community arts organization located in Wilmington, Delaware. Students contribute to the living history of a community arts organization through research projects that center on cataloguing works and writing artist biographical profiles for the CVF digital archive, founded in the fall of 2018. With additional support from the Division for Professional and Continuing Studies, artists from CVF participate in the course as registered students. <br><br></p> | abowler
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| Things in Common: Fostering Material Culture Pedagogies | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/ThingsInCommon-unsplash.jpg | | Things in Common: Fostering Material Culture Pedagogies | 44 | Yates, Julian
Winn, Lance
Mohun, Arwen
Andrews, Deborah | | | 2009 | | <p>This project aims to develop and make widely available innovative strategies for interpreting and learning about material culture, with the goal of enhancing the visibility of our interdisciplinary material culture programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels and fostering interdisciplinary thinking and curriculum innovation. We will host a national meeting of the Consortium for American Material Culture as well as a series of related activities on and off the UD campus, and develop a proposal for an NEH summer institute for K12 educators.</p> | jyates
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| Healing our Forests, Healing Ourselves | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Unknown.jpeg | | Healing our Forests, Healing Ourselves | 45 | Jenkins, McKay
Trammell, Tara | | | 2020 | | <p>This collaborative project between students in Environmental Humanities and Urban Forestry will train STEM and Humanities students in a variety of courses, including Introduction to Environmental Literature (ENG230); Environmental Journalism (ENGL409); and Urban Forestry (PLSC 367), to become fully-engaged, cross-disciplinary Watershed Citizens, especially through encounters with environmental and indigenous literature; the field exploration of local watersheds; the cataloguing of native and invasive plants in the forests of White Clay Creek State Park; and forest restoration work through the removal of invasive plants and the planting of native trees in our local forests and communities. Attendant to all of these projects will be the joint, interdisciplinary composition of narrative and digital documentary projects to disseminate urgent ecological information to the university community and the general public.</p><p> </p> | mckay
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| Developing Research and Research-based Teaching through Collaboration with the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Victorian Periodical at UD.png | | Developing Research and Research-based Teaching through Collaboration with the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals | 48 | Crawford, Iain
Frederick, Margaretta
Stetz, Margaret | | | 2014 | | <p>Building around the 2014 annual meeting of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, this project focuses upon enhancing disciplinary and interdisciplinary work by UD graduate students. It makes use of print and other materials in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection and at the Delaware Art Museum to promote scholarship and research-focused undergraduate teaching in the area of the Victorian press.</p> | icrawf
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| Environmental Humanities Working Group | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/2012-environment humanities grp.jpg | | Environmental Humanities Working Group | 3 | Jenkins, McKay
Isenstadt, Sandy
Perez, Victor | | | 2012 | | <p>Why do we have environmental problems? What shapes our ideas about nature, and about the human place in the natural world? The Environmental Humanities Working Group is bringing together the insights of history, literature, journalism, philosophy, aesthetics, and other disciplines to analyze and understand the environmental predicaments of the 21st century. Although we look to the sciences and the social sciences for their own expertise, we take for granted that neither are sufficient to understand the complex ways people relate to the non-human world.</p><p><strong>The Environmental Humanities Working Group</strong> has three principal missions.<br></p><ol><li>We have <a href="http://catalog.udel.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=11&poid=5119" target="_blank">designed a new minor</a> to help students use the tools of the humanities to think more rigorously and imaginatively about environmental issues. Information on the humanities minor can be found on the <a href="https://www.english.udel.edu/undergraduate/minors/environmental-humanities" target="_blank">English Department website</a>.<br></li><li>We are creating opportunities for scholars in different fields to collaborate on environmental research.<br></li><li>And we are planning public programs about environmental questions, including community readings and discussions of important books and ideas.<br></li></ol> | mckay
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| Engaging the public in the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle) of fashion by leveraging the humanities. | https://www.ihrc.udel.edu/Projects/Engaging the public in the 3Rs.png | | Engaging the public in the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle) of fashion by leveraging the humanities. | 52 | Kim, Hye-Shin
Kim, Nokyeon | | | 2023 | | <p>This project promotes public engagement in environmental sustainability through 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle). The ultimate outcome is a public facing website created by students who enroll in FASH649 (Apparel Consumers and Social Responsibility) and FASH210 (Seminar on Fashion and Sustainability). The website offers practical and conceptual ideas to support the sustainability movement and help the public make informed and progressive decisions related to the 3Rs of sustainable fashion. To leverage humanities and foster intellectual stimulation in student learning, the FASH courses involved are enriched by academic experts and industry leaders who value humanistic approach, public engagement, and environmental sustainability.<br></p> | hskim
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