Have ideas for a new public humanities project? Join us for a free workshop to learn about upcoming major and mini grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations and individual researchers planning public programs in the humanities. The Rhode Island Council for the Humanitiesโ funding areas include public projects, documentary film, K-12 civic education, and individual research, […]
Book launch at a special reception and talk with author Robb Dimmick on Tuesday, September 29th, 5:00pm at the Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street in Providence. The event is free and open to the public and includes a pop-up exhibit of some of the books in the bibliography. The book assembles an extraordinary history of […]
Learn about the distinguished design history of this landscape while enjoying exquisite gardens and breathtaking views. Experience the creation of Frederick Law Olmsted who initially designed the grounds. The tour covers 250 years of this beautiful propertyโs history from farmland to premier vacation spot. Weather dependent, registration available online.
Transatlantic Legacy: Full Circle Providence premiere of works by artist Tony Ramos October 6th - 9th, 2015 The work of Tony Ramos as a pioneering performance and media artist is framed by his sojourns from Rhode Island to Cape Verde. It spans a forty year trajectory of recording, documenting, and creating a narrative that connects […]
Have ideas for a new public humanities project? Join us for a free workshop to learn about upcoming major and mini grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations and individual researchers planning public programs in the humanities. The Rhode Island Council for the Humanitiesโ funding areas include public projects, documentary film, K-12 civic education, and individual research, […]
Literary study has lost ground within universities and with the general public because of two apparent failures. It doesn't seem to produce research knowledge of the kind defined by the natural and physical sciences. It also appears not to help to solve public problems like climate change, structural racism, faltering technological innovation, or economic inequality. […]
This fall marks the 45th anniversary of the collapse of the job market for humanities PhDs. Thanks in large part to adjuncting, the market has never fully recovered. Assuming perm-austerity in university finances and distruptive debates about student learning, how should graduate programs respond? Speaker Christopher Newfield's prior research suggested the humanities have been too […]
Join Little Compton Historical Managing Director Marjory O'Toole as she discusses her research into the lives of Little Compton's 250 enslaved and indentured people. Photo: Lucy Collins, a free black woman who lived and worked in Little Compton.
Anthropologist are explorers. We travel to exotic locales to excavate ancient ruins or learn from indigenous communities. Many of the materials gathered in our research are now in the storerooms and laboratories of University museums. In this talk, Carla Sinopoli (University of Michigan), opens the storerooms of the remarkable Asian collections of the University of […]
Join the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities to celebrate and support our humanities community and honor leaders who demonstrate the power of the humanities to create meaningful connections across sectors, disciplines, and communities. The Celebration will feature an open wine bar provided by Campus Fine Wines, hors d'oeuvres, silent and live auctions featuring unique […]
โStages of Freedom: Black Performing Arts in Rhode Islandโ will explore the contributions Black artists have made to the performing arts, specifically on stage and screen, in Rhode Island. The project will help us look at performing arts as a tradition of dynamic cultural, ritual and identity exercises that tell important stories about the Black […]
Join Little Compton Historical Managing Director Marjory O'Toole as she discusses her research into the lives of Little Compton's 250 enslaved and indentured people. Photo: Lucy Collins, a free black woman who lived and worked in Little Compton.
Working quickly and often out of doors, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters captured the ephemeral and often fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Their contemporaries criticized the apparently imprecise qualities of their finished canvases for being merely sketches or studies. Britany Salsbury, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, guides viewers through close […]
Presented by Gloria O'Neill, President and CEO, Cook Inlet Tribal Council Learn how a tribal nonprofit organization in Anchorage Alaska and its partners created a new precedent for sustainability and self-determination. As told through the lens of the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska, the global launch of the puzzle-platformer โNever Alone (Kisima Inลitchuลa)โ established a […]
We seek out fearย in movies or crazy roller coasters. We struggle to overcome and learn to live with fear & we look for ways to illustrate it, perform it, and laugh at it. Now, in time for Halloween, The Currents takes on โFearโ from many perspectives through the voices of our speakers, including: W. Zachary […]
A lecture by Dan Snydacker on Charles Lippitt, his role in the construction of the Rhode Island State House, and his summer house in Newport known as The Breakwater, or Lippitt's Castle. Snydacker, former executive director of the Newport Historical Society and Interim Director of the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park, is writing a book […]
Get ready for Urban Bush Women's February 2016 performance of a jazz dance fest entitled "Walking with 'Trane" by celebrating the culture of the African diaspora.
Inupiat Eskimo of Northwest Alaska first encountered European explorers in 1816, when a Russian expedition arrived in Kotzebue Sound. But archaeological research shows that European and Asian trade goods like beads and metal tools were already present in the region. Excavations lead by Doug and Wanni Anderson, Brown University, along the Kobuk River have revealed […]