Inspired by the creative responses to the public health crisis and the many resources that we are discovering, the Humanities Council launched a weekly round up of stories that engage and connect us. Join us throughout the week on social media – Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @rihumanities — where we will use the #HumanitiesInTheAgeOfSocialDistancing — and here, each Friday, where we’ll highlight our top picks from the week. Click here to subscribe to our e-newsletter.
- Announcement of the Council’s new bi-monthly enews: #HumanitiesInContext coming next Tuesday!
- To Read:
- “How Oral History Projects Are Being Stymied by Covid-19” in Smithsonian Magazine
- What’s behind a monument? National context from Time Magazine
- Local perspective from artist Becci Davis with My Living Monument project
- How the Tomaquag Museum is riding out the pandemic in the Providence Journal
- To Watch:
- Requiem for the Living, In Color – Friday, June 12th at 7:00 pm
- Defiance! by Sylvia Ann Soares
- Listen, Learn, & Unlearn:
- ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ an interview with Resmaa Menakem from On Being
- A Statement on Social Change Through the Humanities
- To Read:
- “The Double Standard of the American Riot” in The Atlantic by Kellie Carter Jackson
- Local historical context from the Providence Walks: Early Black History tour by our colleagues at The Center for Reconciliation, Stages of Freedom, the Rhode Island Historical Society, and the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Are we asking too much of the police? from NPR’s Code Switch
- “A Quarter Century of Cato Research on Police Accountability” from The Cato Institute
- To Watch:
- Equal Justice Initiative and Just Mercy film – now available to rent for free on streaming platforms through June
- I Am Not Your Negro documentary film – now available to rent for free (through 6/5/20) courtesy of newportFILM in partnership with the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
- To Listen, Learn, & Unlearn:
- 1619 Project from The New York Times
- Talking About Race from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative gets creative
- I Blame the Quarantine Project
- “How the Spanish Flu Almost Upended Women’s Suffrage” from The New York Times
- “Obituaries Reveal Who and What We Really Care About” from WNYC
- “Humanities as Essential Services” from Inside Higher Ed
- Quarantine Diaries – a new project from Stages of Freedom
- “Learning About Global Health While Living in a Pandemic” from Wheaton College
- Race in the History and Practice of Medicine
- Our Lives Now from Write Rhode Island
- “You Thought You Were Free, but History Found You: The 2020 commencement speech you’ll never hear” from The Atlantic
- “How the Coronavirus Will Shape a Generation” from Yes! Magazine
- Thursday, June 4 at 5:00pm | A Civic Conversation: What does liberty mean in America today? Registration required.
- RISD Museum – K-12 Virtual Visits
- #RhodyLoveNotes remind us of the joy of opting outside (safely!)
- Importance of community care from Yes! Magazine
- Rhode Tour for your socially distanced explorations
- Call for Nominations: 2020 Rhody Awards for Historic Preservation
- Virtual Book Discussion with URI Center for the Humanities, May 19th or May 20th
- Reminder: Second deadline for Council’s Covid-19 Relief grant opportunities is May 15th – click here for more details about eligibility and application deadlines.
- Nuestra Gente en La Época de La Pandemia from RI Latino Arts
- Share Your Rhody Love by participating in #rhodylovenotes from Doors Open Rhode Island
- “Germany enlists humanities scholars to end coronavirus lockdown” – a piece from the World Economic Forum
- Importance of language in crisis: 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners
- May 11 & 12: Asian Americans a new five-part series on PBS
- May 13: The Road to Reopening, a conversation with Brandon Marshall, PhD
- Appreciating our shared humanity – an invitation to contribute to a RI edition of In My Humble Opinion
- Reminder: First deadline for Council’s new Covid-19 Relief grant opportunities is May 1st, second deadline is May 15th – click here for more details about eligibility and application deadlines.
- Coronavirus Coverage: Community Responses – a growing archive from The Public’s Radio
- “Global problems need social sciences” – a piece by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of The British Academy in London
- Radio Influenza: An artwork by Jordan Baseman
- Facing History Now: A Community Conversation Series
- Our Lives Now: Flash Non-Fiction 2020 – a project of Write Rhode Island for RI students grades 7-12
- Celebration of the Humanities Awards nomination deadline extended until Friday, May 8th – submit nominations here.
- Council announces two new Covid-19 Relief grant opportunities – click here for more details about eligibility and application deadlines.
- #HumanitiesFromHome – students explore Rhode Tour and the Council’s Digital Archive
- “Why we need a new WPA”
- April 28th – Virtual Screening “The Newport Bridge: A Rhode Island Icon”
- RI Covid-19 Archive from PPL & RIHS
- Latinx views – an archive project of Rhode Island Latino Arts
- “The Lost Diaries of War” from The New York Times
- From the Archives on the Tomaquag Museum’s Belongings Blog
- Adaptive Practices: Six Artists Redefine Isolation and Distraction
- Bite-Sized Preservation
- Stories for the Soul (round 3) with Bill Harley, two-time Grammy winner and recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities Award
- Listen Up: Artclectic New England podcast
- National Poetry Month and the Poetry is Bread Reading Series organized by RI’s Poet Laureate Tina Cane
- Professors are Crowdsourcing a #Coronavirus Syllabus
- Culture is Key – Civic Engagement 101 with the engaging and relevant games and resources from iCivics
- COVID-19 and Foreign Disinformation – April 14, 2020 | 6:30 pm virtual lecture with Jim Ludes, Executive Director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy
- Stories for the Soul (round 2) with Len Cabral, recipient of the 2017 Tom Roberts Prize for Creative Achievement in the Humanities
- Beaches and restaurants closed? Not in our cultural memory! Hit the Rhode (virtually) with Rhode Tour
- How do we preserve in times of crisis? Explore Google Arts & Culture’s Open Heritage site
- Exploring God’s Little Acre in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the oldest African American burial grounds in the country
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare! with Tony Estrella from The Gamm
- Free Access to films using Kanopy
- Resources for the Humanities Sector During the Pandemic
- General Civic Engagement: Fill Out Your Census Form!
- Listen Up – a deeper dive into the podcasts that keep us listening deeply and thinking critically about the humanities and the world around us. A few favorites include:
- Careers in the Public Humanities – interview with Taylor Polites, 2017 recipient of the Public Humanities Scholar Award
- OnBeing – a national independent, nonprofit media and public life project founded and hosted by Krista Tippitt, a Brown University alumna and 2014 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
- Mosaic – from our friends at The Public’s Radio. The first season of the Mosaic podcast includes 30 episodes about the American immigration experience past and present.
- Guide to Finding Fakes & Facts
- Smithsonian Distance Learning Resources During School Closures
- Raid the Icebox Online Exhibits to Explore
- The Wilbury Theatre Group offers online workshops
- Reading Across Rhode Island Goes Virtual
- Resources for the Humanities Sector During the Pandemic
- Storytelling for the Soul with 2017 Public Humanities Scholar honoree Valerie Tutson
- Bite-sized History: Virtual tours with Marjorie O’Toole of the Wilbur House at the Little Compton Historical Society. The LCHS received the Council’s 2017 Innovation in the Humanities Award for their “If Jane Should Want to be Sold” exhibit and programs.
- Films that make us think more deeply: Check out a list of films available for streaming from Council grantee newportFILM.
- Protecting yourself with stories: A 14th-century text shows us how to survive coronavirus
- Reimagining who gets the cover – 100 Women of the Year
- 3/26: Politically Engaged Art – Virtual Panel
- XIX: Shall Not Be Denied Educational Materials
- Resources for the Humanities Sector During the Pandemic
