2012 Arts of Citizenship Public Humanities Institute
Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to share with you an opportunity for Doctoral and MFA students in the arts, design, and humanities to participate in the 2012 Arts of Citizenship Public Humanities Institute, sponsored by Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan. The 4th Annual Public Humanities Institute (PHI) will take place in Ann ...
Arts of Citizenship Announces 2012 Graduate Student Summer Internships in Public Scholarship
Arts of Citizenship is pleased to announce several full-time professional development opportunities in southeast Michigan that enable graduate students to explore how they might apply their knowledge, skills, and values to careers outside the Academy, while strengthening relationships and building experience. Host sites include the Arab American National Museum, the University of Michigan Detroit Center, ...
Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel
Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel Telling It Curriculum: A model for an interactive website Offered in conjunction with an undergraduate and graduate-level course entitled “Empowering Community through Creative Expression,” Telling It uses the arts and creative writing to support the scholastic achievement, self-confidence, and literacy skills of at-risk youth. The goal of this project is to create a ...
Mixed Neighborhood in Mixed Genres
Haifa, August 2011 Visitors to Massada Street in Haifa’s Hadar neighborhood in Israel place it somewhere between Berlin and Tel Aviv, Ramallah and Cairo. It has coffee shops in various styles, designers’ studios and shops, second-hand stores for books, clothes and antiques, a hookah bar, a sushi restaurant, a watchmaker store, tattoo shop, a synagogue, ...
The Mountains of Detroit
This post is about what I see happening in Detroit. But to make sense of it, I have to take my readers east. Not east like Windsor Ontario east, but east like Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand east. Witnessing the Feedum Freedom garden in East Detroit, I immediately thought about Zomia, the vast, mountainous “Appalachia” that ...
(Hi)Story Telling: Neighborhood Archaeology in the Southern Appalachians
The tradition of Appalachian story telling thrives in the mountains of western North Carolina. Given the region’s equally strong tradition of small family farms, many of the stories you hear recount local family histories and increasingly drastic changes in the surrounding landscape. In the small town of Canton, NC, I have partnered with the Canton ...
Reflections on the auto-ethnographic essay
On the morning of my first drive into Dearborn to begin my internship at the Arab American National Museum, the ether was aflutter transmitting the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. The day was May 2, 2011, and only hours before my morning commute had the news broke. The chatter on the radio ran the ...
Changing History at The Chronicle of Higher Education
A new graduate course seeks to remove the wall between academic and public history. Check out the full article, Changing History by Alexandra M. Lord and Michelle L. McClellan, at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Blogging the PHI: The Mountains of Detroit
Written by James F. Dator This post is about what I see happening in Detroit. But to make sense of it, I have to take my readers east. Not east like Windsor Ontario east, but east like Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand east. Witnessing the Feedum Freedom garden in East Detroit, I immediately thought about Zomia, ...
Blogging the PHI: Kernel of an Idea for a Project
I’d be interested in discussing the idea of organizing a seminar, to be held at a corrections facility in the region, dedicated to addressing philosophical issues related to human freedom. These might include (though they needn’t be limited to)