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"PUL & MARBAS Present ..." Spring 2022 Schedule
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: "PUL & MARBAS Present ..." Spring 2022 Schedule
Abstract: "PUL & MARBAS Present ..." Spring 2022 Schedule
Date Range: March 1 - May 19 2022
Primary URL: https://marbas.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf411/files/2022-05/pul_marbas_present_full_spring_2022_event_calendar_pink_and_blue.png

Princeton Machine Learning and the Future of Philology Symposium
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: Princeton Machine Learning and the Future of Philology Symposium
Abstract: Princeton Machine Learning and the Future of Philology Symposium Schedule
Date Range: December 9, 2023
Primary URL: https://marbas.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf411/files/2022-11/cdh_ml_and_philology_symposium_poster_draft343_page_2.png

"PUL & MARBAS Presents ..." Fall 2022 Schedule
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: "PUL & MARBAS Presents ..." Fall 2022 Schedule
Abstract: "PUL & MARBAS Presents ..." Fall 2022 Schedule
Date Range: September 15 - December 15, 2022
Primary URL: https://marbas.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf411/files/2022-09/pulmarbas_fall_2022.png

Introduction to HTR: Handwritten Text Recognition Technologies of Medieval Manuscripts
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: Introduction to HTR: Handwritten Text Recognition Technologies of Medieval Manuscripts
Abstract: A revolution has slowly begun in the study of historical documents: Machine Learning tools have been developed to allow for the automatic transcription of documents. Over the last decade, these tools can now help assist in the production of texts from medieval manuscripts at previously unobtainable levels of accuracy. Today, libraries have used these tools to make their collections searchable, while researchers have sped up the process of creating editions of texts and adopted them for the study of medieval documents. The course will offer an introduction into some of these ongoing projects, but more importantly provide an introduction into the practice of studying medieval documents with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technologies. The course will have two main parts: 4 online sessions and a three-day in person workshop in Vienna. During the first phase, participants will be introduced to both the theory of handwritten text recognition and its practical application using the Transkribus (transkribus.eu) tool. We will then work in four groups, focusing on four different periods and languages: Carolingian Latin, late medieval Latin, late medieval German, and late medieval Czech. Each group will have its own supervisor and its goal will be to train an HTR model for each type of writing. During the in-person workshop in Vienna, we will finalize the four projects and publish our results online: both the transcriptions and Handwritten Text Recognition models. Additionally, we will also visit libraries in Vienna to see selected manuscripts in person. Finally, we will test other machine learning tools for their automatic transcription outcomes and use other digital tools. The course will be taught by a team of experts in HTR, medieval manuscript studies and Latin, German and Czech philology. At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate.
Date Range: October-December 2022
Primary URL: https://marbas.princeton.edu/events/2022/winter-school-introduction-htr-handwritten-text-recognition-technologies-medieval

A. S. Yahuda and Arabic Manuscripts Seminar
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: A. S. Yahuda and Arabic Manuscripts Seminar
Abstract: Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951) is one of the most enigmatic, influential, and overlooked Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century. Born into an Iraqi-Jewish and German-Jewish family in Ottoman Jerusalem and educated in Germany, Yahuda was a scholar of Hebrew and Arabic texts and held the first-ever university professorship in Jewish studies, at the University of Madrid. For more than three decades, Yahuda made his living as a manuscript dealer, buying rare Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts and selling them to libraries and collectors in Europe and North America, including the British Museum, the Irish-American collector Cheater Beatty, Princeton University, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Michigan, Yale University, and the U.S. Army Medical College (now the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland). At the end of his life, he bequeathed his remaining collection to the National Library of Israel, including the archive of Isaac Newton. Examining all Yahuda’s activities from three-hundred-sixty degrees reveals a network of local cosmopolitans and entrepreneurs who capitalized on their knowledge and access to antiquities as the old imperial order crumbled. His correspondence provides essential information on the provenance of Middle Eastern and South Asian manuscripts, information that is otherwise difficult and painstaking to reconstruct.
Date Range: June 2021–June 2022
Location: Zoom
Primary URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1qlHTQS3dvCt-vZbQaNZG9eEG8-kW_O/view

A. S. Yahuda and Arabic Manuscripts Symposium
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: A. S. Yahuda and Arabic Manuscripts Symposium
Abstract: At this symposium, we will share written drafts of the papers from the Yahuda Seminar series among participants and discuss revisions toward the publication of a collaborative book on Yahuda.
Date Range: June 2023
Location: The Chester Beatty, Dublin
Primary URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b-6GBLp5STbOLs1s0OW-z2dlLxi3TILCap0aZA55YDo/edit?usp=sharing
Primary URL Description: Symposium schedule (tentative)

Princeton Paleography Labs
Grant details: AA-277700-21
Title: Princeton Paleography Labs
Abstract: Princeton Paleography Labs are a fun, low-stress environment in which students and faculty members collaboratively try their hand at deciphering premodern manuscripts. The founder of our Latin Paleography Lab was an undergraduate student, J. J. Lopez Haddad. He is responsible for the poster linked below. The Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Paleography Labs organized their sessions via email and Slack.
Date Range: Spring 2022–Spring 2023
Primary URL: https://marbas.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf411/files/2022-10/pplab_poster.png

Faculty Institute on Digital Humanities and Race
Grant details: AA-284524-22
Title: Faculty Institute on Digital Humanities and Race
Abstract: The first half of the 2022-2023 Faculty Institute on Race and Digital Humanities was completed during the reporting period. This included three meetings: DH in the #BLM Era: 9/21/2022 Exhibiting DH: 10/19/2022 Text Encoding, Analysis, and Visualization: 11/16/2022
Date Range: 9/22-11/22
Location: Framingham State University

Grambling State University Inaugural Digital Humanities Workshop
Grant details: AB-269212-20
Title: Grambling State University Inaugural Digital Humanities Workshop
Abstract: This five-day workshop, held from August 3rd-7th, 2020, will serve as an intensive introduction to Digital Humanities and an opportunity to develop learning activities for new and existing classes. Faculty from Grambling and all regional universities are encouraged to apply to participate.
Date Range: August 3rd-7th, 2020
Location: Grambling State University (Virtual)

Grambling State University Digital Humanities Workshop
Grant details: AB-269212-20
Title: Grambling State University Digital Humanities Workshop
Abstract: This four-day workshop, held from August 2rd-6th, 2021, will introduce instructors and librarians to techniques of digital spatial analysis in the Digital Humanities and to provide an opportunity to develop learning activities for new and existing classes. Over the coming week, we look forward to hearing from speakers who are working on groundbreaking digital projects, discussing daily topics through selected readings, and creating activities that can be implemented in the classroom. Faculty from Grambling and all regional universities are encouraged to apply to participate.
Date Range: August 2-August 6, 2021
Location: Grambling State University (Virtual)

Faculty Development, as well as Pedagogical Strategies, Workshops for the fall 2015, summer 2016, and fall 2016 cohorts
Grant details: AC-226779-15
Title: Faculty Development, as well as Pedagogical Strategies, Workshops for the fall 2015, summer 2016, and fall 2016 cohorts
Abstract: The project spearheaded faculty development spaces within which presentations from, and discussions with, NYU faculty prompted BMCC faculty to disseminate knowledge, explore ideas on best (classroom) practices, and develop their own thoughts and approaches regarding global issues, thus refining the latters' courses to create a more integrated learning experience for students. Subsequent monthly Pedagogical Strategies workshops, each focused on one competency, and to which all faculty and administrators of the BMCC academic community were invited, brought together workshop participants to provide “status reports” regarding the curricula changes they implemented concerning the particular global competencies they chose to nurture
Date Range: Fall 2015 - Spring 2017
Location: Borough of Manhattan Commuinity College, CUNY

Public Presentation
Grant details: AC-253204-17
Title: Public Presentation
Author: Dr. Maria Cotera
Abstract: Searching for Margaret: The Ambivalent Politics of Collaboration in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero
Date Range: February 27, 2018
Location: Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Mini-Conference, "Towards an Aesthetics of South Texas Women Artists"
Grant details: AC-253204-17
Title: Mini-Conference, "Towards an Aesthetics of South Texas Women Artists"
Author: organized by Susan Roberson
Abstract: The one-day conference brought in speakers not only from the grant participants and colleagues at TAMUK, but artists and poets from San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley. There was a rich diversity of academic papers, readings, performances, and art displays conference with
Date Range: October 11, 2018
Location: Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Liberty in the American Revolution Workshop Invitation
Grant details: AC-258915-18
Title: Liberty in the American Revolution Workshop Invitation
Author: Jonathan Mercantini
Author: Elizabeth Hyde
Abstract: This is the flyer inviting teachers to attend the Teaching Workshop.
Date Range: May 23-26, 2022
Location: Kean University

Frantz Fanon's Contributions to Post-Colonial Theory
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: Frantz Fanon's Contributions to Post-Colonial Theory
Author: Belkis Gonzalez
Abstract: Dr. Gonazalez offered an overview of the theories of Frantz Fanon and their impact on the literature and political theory of the Americas as well as his influence on subsequent theories and authors such as Roberto Fernandez Retamar and Edward Said.
Date Range: 4/12/19
Location: LaGuardia Community College, Conference Room C-459

The Debate at Valladolid: Bartolome de las Casas vs Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: The Debate at Valladolid: Bartolome de las Casas vs Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Author: Milton Roberto Ruiz
Abstract: Prof. Ruiz offered a comprehensive presentation on the historical and philosophical issues surrounding the Valladolid debate of 1550 regarding the nature of indigenous peoples of the Americas. The presentation discussed the important influences of Aristotle and how his ideas were being challenged partly as a result of the discovery of the New World. Prof Ruiz also discussed the significant contribution this debate made to human rights theories on a global scale.
Date Range: 5/10/19
Location: LaGuardia Community College, conference room C-459

Anti-Slavery Movement and Related Documents in the United States and Latin America
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: Anti-Slavery Movement and Related Documents in the United States and Latin America
Author: Paul Fess
Abstract: Dr. Fess offered a comprehensive presentation regarding the anti-slavery movement in the United States and subsequent developments in Cuban literature. He compared the the similarities and differences of the literature and discourse of these movements.
Date Range: 5/10/19
Location: LaGuardia Community College, conference room C-459

Caliban: Culture and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: Caliban: Culture and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
Author: Maria Victoria Perez-Rios
Abstract: Professor Perez-Rios offered a compelling presentation about the re-contextualization of the character of Caliban within the framework of post-colonial theory in the second half of the twentieth century.
Date Range: 9/27/19
Location: LaGuardia Community College, conference room C-459

Borges, "The South," and Sarmiento Revisited
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: Borges, "The South," and Sarmiento Revisited
Author: Ernesto Menendez-Conde
Abstract: Dr. Menendez-Conde discussed the story by Jorge Luis Borges within the context of the debates surrounding civilization and barbarism between Jose Marti and Domingo Sarmiento in the latter half of 19th century Latin America.
Date Range: 9/27/19

The Menchu-Stoll Controversy, An Overview
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: The Menchu-Stoll Controversy, An Overview
Author: Rebecca Tally
Abstract: Dr. Tally discussed the many factors and points of view of the Menchu-Stoll controversy of the 1990s, connecting it to the seminar's previous human rights discussions involving the indigenous populations of the Americas.
Date Range: 11/22/19
Location: LaGuardia Community College, conference room C-459

Latin American Studies Final Reflections and Pig Roast
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: Latin American Studies Final Reflections and Pig Roast
Author: William Fulton
Author: Hugo Fernandez
Author: Rebecca Tally
Author: Ana Maria Hernandez
Abstract: This Final Project Meeting gathered participants in our two project seminar to reflect on the history and accomplishments of our project, with presentations by Dr. William Fulton and guest instructors who have been teaching courses created/revise/revived under the grant.
Date Range: October 2020
Location: Zoom

NEH LAS/LATINX Conferene: Building Bridges
Grant details: AC-258966-18
Title: NEH LAS/LATINX Conferene: Building Bridges
Author: Hugo Fernandez
Author: William Fulton
Author: Ana Maria Hernandez
Author: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Author: Rebecca Tally
Abstract: Program for the NEH-Sponsored Conference on Building Bridges: The Present and Future of Latin American Studies at CUNY, 23 April 2021.
Date Range: 23 April 2021 9am-6pm
Location: Webinar
Primary URL: https://www.laguardia.edu/las-latinx/
Primary URL Description: Conference Program
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC7n6GWBUTw7JTsrlHe_2i_KNg_FbLfAN
Secondary URL Description: Recordings of the entire conference on 23 April 2021

Diversity In and Outside of the Classroom: A Holistic Approach to Pedagogy at an HSI and MSI
Grant details: AC-264104-19
Title: Diversity In and Outside of the Classroom: A Holistic Approach to Pedagogy at an HSI and MSI
Author: Dr. Tara Sirvent
Author: Dr. Kristen McCabe Lashua
Author: Dean Amanda Lebrecht
Abstract: This presentation will allow attendees to consider successful practices to address diverse students’ learning needs. Students, particularly if they are underrepresented minorities and/or first-generation, often need faculty and staff to work together to create a holistic approach to diversifying curriculum and pedagogy in an increasingly diverse higher education landscape. Our presentation includes a training exercise to help participants assess their own understanding of diversity as relates to successful learning outcomes. We will then discuss the creation of summer STEM and humanities bridge programs that exemplify faculty and academic support staff working together to create a comprehensive program for academic support and success.
Date Range: October 3, 2019-October 6, 2019
Location: George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon
Primary URL: https://www.cccu.org/cccu_event/2019-diversity-inclusion-conference/
Primary URL Description: Conference Program

International Kurdish Conference Booklet
Grant details: AC-264292-19
Title: International Kurdish Conference Booklet
Author: Mucahit Bilici
Abstract: Northeastern Illinois University’s Multilingual Learning Center in collaboration with Zahra Institute has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to develop a Kurdish Language and Culture Studies Program. It is a one-year project to develop three new courses and related curricular resources in Kurdish language and culture and an International Kurdish Studies Conference. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago Zahra Institute July 24-25, 2019 New Perspectives in Kurdish Studies
Date Range: July 24-25, 2019
Location: Northeastern Illinois University
Primary URL: https://www.neiu.edu/academics/multilingual-learning-center/summer-institute-kurdish-language-and-culture/international-kurdish-studies-research-conference

Oral History Institute
Grant details: AC-264295-19
Title: Oral History Institute
Author: Kirsten Gardner
Author: Valerie Martinez
Abstract: Week-long institute to examine the best practices in Oral History with Expert Speakers and Invited guests.
Date Range: May 20-24, 2019
Location: San Antonio, TX
Primary URL: http://https://militarycityusa.wordpress.com
Primary URL Description: Oral History Institute material: Readings, Tips, Photos.

Miami Studies Symposium
Grant details: AC-277755-21
Title: Miami Studies Symposium
Author: Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University
Abstract: Day-long program in Miami Studies featuring music, exhibitions, local food, roundtables and panels, and more. It was hosted at our community partner site, the Historic Hampton House, a Jim Crow-era Black motel and entertainment venue that now serves as a museum and community space.
Date Range: March 5, 2022
Location: Historic Hampton House (Miami, FL)
Primary URL: http://https://wphl.fiu.edu/community-storytelling/miami-studies-program/inaugural-miami-studies-symposium/index.html

NEH Humanizing Technology Course Design Institute
Grant details: AC-284519-22
Title: NEH Humanizing Technology Course Design Institute
Author: Jody Greene
Author: Kendra Dority
Abstract: Over Summer 2022, an instructional community of faculty and graduate students assembled to collectively design the five new courses for the Certificate in the Humanities, each tailored to a distinct General Education requirement. These courses draw from and integrate themes that connect directly with the impacts of the biotechnological, computational, and data scientific technologies engineering students study and develop in their careers post-graduation. As an overarching goal, the courses inspire students to cultivate a sense of epistemic humility — to decenter the present moment, problematize conventional narratives, and reckon with the unintended consequences of their field. Each course had a set of course leads (drawn from faculty and graduate students) who worked together to develop a syllabus and assignments and shepherded the course through the course approval process.
Date Range: July 6 - July 20, 2022
Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

THE MIDDLE EAST ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Grant details: AC-50089-11
Title: THE MIDDLE EAST ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Author: Nayereh Tohidi
Abstract: On November 9 and 15, 2011, over 100 scholars, students, ethnic community leaders, activists, representatives of the media and interfaith groups from SoCal gathered along with CSUN faculty from the new minor initiative in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program (MEIS) at the MEIS Symposium. The symposium was to discuss with 12 distinguished experts invited to CSUN. This symposium was funded by an NEH grant and directed by Dr. Nayereh Tohidi. It aimed to help CSUN faculty with curriculum development and provided the participants with an opportunity for exchange of ideas, experiences, and best practices concerning pedagogical challenges in MEIS. Selected parts of the proceedings of this symposium will be featured on this website later.
Date Range: November 9 & 15, 2011
Location: California State University in Northridge, California
Primary URL: http://www.csun.edu/meis
Primary URL Description: On November 9 and 15, 2011, over 100 scholars, students, ethnic community leaders, activists, representatives of the media and interfaith groups from SoCal gathered along with CSUN faculty from the new minor initiative in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program (MEIS) at the MEIS Symposium. The symposium was to discuss with 12 distinguished experts invited to CSUN. This symposium was funded by an NEH grant and directed by Dr. Nayereh Tohidi. It aimed to help CSUN faculty with curriculum development and provided the participants with an opportunity for exchange of ideas, experiences, and best practices concerning pedagogical challenges in MEIS. Selected parts of the proceedings of this symposium will be featured on this website later. Speakers were:

The Creation and Development of Interdisciplinary Courses and Sequences
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: The Creation and Development of Interdisciplinary Courses and Sequences
Author: Dr. Carolyn Haynes
Abstract: A faculty development seminar focused on the development and creation of interdisciplinary courses and sequences. Dr. Carolyn Haynes presented methods and practices on the creation of interdisciplinary courses and programs, worked with the participating professors on the creation, design, and development of their interdisciplinary courses, and worked with the Convergence of Science, Technology, and the Humanities Project Steering Committee on the development and design of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Sequence.
Date Range: 22-23 Febrary 2012
Location: Universtiy of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Appropriate and Alternative Technologies in Interdisciplinary Contexts
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Appropriate and Alternative Technologies in Interdisciplinary Contexts
Author: Carl Mitcham
Author: Indira Nair
Abstract: This faculty development seminar focused on the philosophical aspects of the design, use and choice of technologies. Emphasis was given to the analysis of the idea of progress, the concept of humanitarian engineering and how different conceptions of human progress relate to differences in design and innovation in technology. The seminar ended with a round table discussion on the benefits and detractions of different types of technologies. Both Drs. Nair and Mitcham served as consultants for the course team.
Date Range: 3/16/2103
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Care, Engineering, Technology, and Global Justice
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Care, Engineering, Technology, and Global Justice
Author: Indira Nair
Abstract: This talk explored some of the awareness, thinking and competencies that the global citizen of today needs in general. It touched on the aspects that all of us need to reflect on as we design or make decisions everyday about technology- care and justice in its design and use. Starting with a definition of care, the talk articulated some properties - complexity, systems, interdependence - of the technological systems that we have come to depend upon and how we could design, use and spread these with care and justice for a sustainable world. A call for reflection on the role of technology and science in today's living, in our thinking, and how to do it with care in our individual dealings and how care at this level is a pre-requisite to global justice in the deployment of technology. The primary purpose of this reflection was to consider whether we are asking the right questions, solving the right problems, and bringing the right perspectives, starting from our various disciplinary points of view.
Date Range: 3/14/2013
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Appropriate and Alternative, Technology and Life
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Appropriate and Alternative, Technology and Life
Author: Carl Mitcham
Abstract: Dr. Mitcham discussed "What is "appropriate" about appropriate technology?" The question requires more than a technological or engineering response. The abbreviation of "appropriate technology" (AT) can also be read as "alternative technology." The second reading suggests a more radical approach to the same think about what we are doing as we replace the natural with the built environment and turn the world into an artifact. It is thus useful to consider the dialogue between these two terms - using two approaches to one particular kind of technology, energy technology. Whether and to what extent we can develop an appropriate or an alternative energy technology will be crucial to the kind of world-artifact we will construct. This contrast will further distinguish two approaches to an ethical assessment of energy: Type I energy ethics is grounded in a belief that increases in energy production and use are both humanizing and civilizing; Type II energy ethics questions this belief and argues that beyond a certain point, energy production and use become counterproductive. Our technological way of life is currently determined by Type I energy ethics, although Type II energy ethics deserves a hearing. A provocative illustration of the Type II approach to energy will reference energy ethics and policy in China. In the end, a case for the pursuit not just of an appropriate technology but an alternative technology and way of life was made.
Date Range: 3/14/2013
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Presentation of results and evaluations of the course on Mind, Consciousness, and Machines (originally-Embodied cognitive science: the impact of robotics.)
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Presentation of results and evaluations of the course on Mind, Consciousness, and Machines (originally-Embodied cognitive science: the impact of robotics.)
Author: Ana Nieves Rosa
Author: Anderson Brown
Author: J. Fernando Vega
Abstract: The results and evaluations of the first course were presented to the NEH Convergence group and any interested professors. Materials used in the first interdisciplinary course were presented and discussed so that the participants could utilize the materials in their courses, if applicable. The results indicated that the students prefer to meet with all of the professors in all of the class meetings. They found meeting with the professors separately, did not demonstrate nor support the goals of the project or course. For this reason, one-third way through the course, then professors met with all of the students for all of the class meetings. In addition to the originally planned seminar, the course team members added information on the results and evaluations of the first team-taught course offered under the NEH grant.
Date Range: 4/14/2013
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Considerations about human and artificial intelligence from Psychology
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Considerations about human and artificial intelligence from Psychology
Author: Ana Nieves Rosa
Abstract: A discussion on the psychological aspects of artificial intelligence and the most up-to-date notion of intelligence in Psychology, as well as the implications of these debates in the conceptualizations on human intelligence; the notion of human intelligence vs. the notion of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, this seminar included an examination of the implications of both at the level of operationalization of these concepts as well as a look towards the evolution and development of both in regard to the notion of what represents intelligent behavior.
Date Range: 2/2/2013
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Questioning Technology as an Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Experience. (Originally titled: Interdisciplinarity and Appropriate Technology)
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Questioning Technology as an Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Experience. (Originally titled: Interdisciplinarity and Appropriate Technology)
Author: Christopher Papadopoplous
Author: Marcel Castro-Sirtiche
Author: Hector Huyke
Abstract: The seminar Alternative and Appropriate Technologies: Technology for Whom? Technology for What? provided an interactive discussion of the philosophical, engineering, and technological aspects of alternative and appropriate technologies, as well as the methods and assessment results from the class. In particular, the workshop explored key motivating exercises conducted in the class, What Appropriate Technology means and how to build a course around this topic; how interdisciplinary inquiry ranging from philosophy to technical literacy was incorporated to critically examine Appropriate Technology; the interdisciplinary skills developed by students, ranging from writing critiques in essay form to estimating physical quantities; and the transformational experiences expressed by both students and faculty. The workshop was particularly useful to the following audiences: Faculty interested in teaching interdisciplinary general education courses, Faculty seeking to enrich their disciplinary courses with interdisciplinary methods, Administrators supportive of interdisciplinary general education courses. All concerned with how technology impacts society, quality of life, and wellbeing.
Date Range: 3/22/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Quantum Cosmology and Creation
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Quantum Cosmology and Creation
Author: Dr. George Coyne, S.J.
Abstract: Dr. George Coyne, S.J., Professor Emeritus of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY presented a seminar on cosmology and belief to the UPRM Community. This seminar focused on the philosophical and interdisciplinary aspects of cosmology. Emphasis was given to an analysis of what is the cosmos and the interdisciplinary connections between evolution, cosmology, and belief systems . Dr. Coyne is a world-wide recognized authorities on cosmology and is a former director of the Vatican Observatory and one of the leading scholars articulating a relationship between natural sciences and theology. He belongs to a group that sustains that natural sciences and religions are complementary and not in conflict. However, a possible dialogue between these two sources of knowledge raises some questions and it was these questions that were examined in the faculty and UPRM Seminars.
Date Range: 8/19/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

The Implications of Scientific Evolution to the Semantics of the Christian Faith
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: The Implications of Scientific Evolution to the Semantics of the Christian Faith
Author: Dr. George Coyne, S.J.
Abstract: During this seminar Dr. George Coyne, S.J., addressed the issue of how what we know from science about the evolution of life in the universe influences our religious attitudes and to what extent can religious thought contributes to our scientific understanding of the origins and evolution of life in the universe. This twofold question poses the serious risk of transgressing upon the epistemological independence of the various disciplines: theology, philosophy, astrophysics, biology and cosmology, and creating, thereby, more confusion than understanding. Therefore, it is that possible to establish a fruitful dialogue between natural sciences, philosophy and faith? What are the conditions that render possible such interdisciplinary dialogue? From the religious side this dialogue must be limited to the rational foundations for religious belief. The seminar included the following topics: (I) the Science of the Universe, Cosmology and Life's Origins, (ii) biblical faith and Christianity, (iii) possible models of interactions between natural sciences and religious faith, (iv) the limits of our scientific and religious knowledge, (v) what would both, natural sciences and religious faith, gain from a dialogue?
Date Range: 8/22/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Final Colloquium: Information, Content and results of the course: Cosmology, Evolution, and Belief.
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Final Colloquium: Information, Content and results of the course: Cosmology, Evolution, and Belief.
Author: Matthew Landers
Author: Matías Cafaro
Author: Raúl Portuondo
Abstract: The seminar provided an interactive discussion of the philosophical, evolutionary, and cosmological aspects on the origins of the universe, as well as the methods and assessment results from the class and how the team integrated those topics in this type of interdisciplinary course. They also presented the results of the course, which included the evaluations of the course by both participating students and professors. In particular, the workshop explored key motivating exercises conducted in the class, such as: What are the theories of the beginning of the Universe both from the scientific and belief points of view; How could the interdisciplinary inquiry ranging from philosophy to evolution to physics explain the origins of the universe; and what does belief affect our understandings of our beginnings.
Date Range: 1/15/2015
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Enseñanza Y Aprendizaje Interdisciplinario (Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning)
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Enseñanza Y Aprendizaje Interdisciplinario (Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning)
Author: Dana L. Collins
Abstract: A discussion of the format of the UPRM NEH project, the goals, objectives, and results of the project. It included a discussion of the courses created under the project, along with other types of interdisciplinary projects and products.
Date Range: 12/3/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Cayey

Turing Machines: Can consciousness emerge from computers?
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Turing Machines: Can consciousness emerge from computers?
Author: J. Fernando Vega
Abstract: Dr. Vega examined the history of Turing machines and their abilities and uses from the perspective of Godel's incompleteness theorems. The enduring questions examined were: Is the brain a Turing machine? Can the paradoxes and apparent contradictions of human thought be explained in the light of Godel's theorem? When the limits of electronic computers are reached, can quantum computers offer the solution to many the current shortcomings of artificial intelligence? Will (or can) consciousness emerge from computing machines?
Date Range: 4/20/2013
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

The Problem of Consciousness. (original title: Mental representation: The Cartesian tradition and contemporary alternatives)
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: The Problem of Consciousness. (original title: Mental representation: The Cartesian tradition and contemporary alternatives)
Author: Anderson Brown
Abstract: A discussion of the the mind/body dualism as derived form Descartes and contemporary philosophers and the assigned readings. The discussion covered a brief history of mind/body dualism and its effect or influence on the development of "thinking" machines or how humans view the possibility of machines that "think". This seminar was offered on 22 March 2012 and was attended by the members of the NEH group and interested faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences
Date Range: 3/22/2012
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

The Creation and Development of Interdisciplinary Courses
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: The Creation and Development of Interdisciplinary Courses
Author: Dr. Carolyn Haynes
Abstract: Research and discussion on the creation of interdisciplinary courses began the first cycle of seminars in order to prepare the participants for creating and offering their own interdisciplinary courses. Dr. Carolyn Haynes, consultant of the Integrative Studies Association, gave a two day seminar (The Creation and Development of Interdisciplinary Courses) on the elements of interdisciplinary studies in 25-26 February 2012. This seminar was attended by all participating faculty members, as well as interested faculty from across the disciplines. In this seminar, Dr. Haynes led the participants in an investigation of how an interdisciplinary context could be employed at UPRM. The principal topics discussed in this seminar were: • basic design of interdisciplinary courses • design of assignments or the courses • methods for evaluation of the courses • possible obstacles confronted by those interested in working in an interdisciplinary context During the course of the seminar, the participants worked in cross-disciplinary groups on various mini-projects to aid them in designing topics and materials for interdisciplinary research. These cross-disciplinary groups included faculty members from the Humanities, the Sciences, and Engineering fields.
Date Range: 2/25/2012
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

The biology of the fungal tree of life
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: The biology of the fungal tree of life
Author: Dr. Donald Pfister
Abstract: In the seminar for the UPRM community, Dr. Pfister discussed the use of evolution and ecology to provide students with important life skills in regard to being informed global citizens. In this workshop he explored how it is that historical topics around early evolution debates set the stage for present day concepts and presentations. Using a course that was developed for the General Education program at Harvard University, we examined the way in which an integrated presentation (with literature, biology, and history) can lead students to broaden their views about the world in which they live and relate to their studies outside particular fields.
Date Range: 1/16/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Trees and forests: teaching evolution and biodiversity
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Trees and forests: teaching evolution and biodiversity
Author: Dr. Donald Pfister
Abstract: Dr. Donald Pfister presented faculty seminars on evolution to the UPRM community. The seminars focused on the philosophical and interdisciplinary aspects of evolution. Emphasis was given to an analysis of Darwin's Origin of the species, the concept of evolution, and and the interdisciplinary connections between evolution, cosmology, and belief.
Date Range: 1/18/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Integration Biology and Science into an interdisciplinary context
Grant details: AC-50156-12
Title: Integration Biology and Science into an interdisciplinary context
Author: Dr. Donald Pfister
Abstract: Selected group of professors discussed integration of biology and science into an interdisciplinary context with other disciplines. This was done in relation to existing formats in various universities, especially how it is implemented in Harvard University. Dr. Donald Pfister is a world-wide recognized authority on evolution and fungi and this seminar formed an integral part of the exploration of what constitutes the beginning of the universe in preparation for offering the interdisciplinary course Cosmology, Evolution, and Beliefs in August of 2014.
Date Range: 1/19/2014
Location: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NAACS) 2012 Fall Regional Conference
Grant details: AC-50169-13
Title: National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NAACS) 2012 Fall Regional Conference
Author: Winona Wynn
Author: Jose Moreno
Abstract: Coordinated and hosted, to enhance our "Somos Indios" grant, the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies 2012 Fall Regional Conference. Heritage University faculty associated with our NEH grant were able to present their work related to our four NEH "Somos Indios" syllabus themes created for our Native American and Indigenous Studies Academic Program.
Date Range: 10/19/2012-10/20/2012
Location: Heritage University Smith Family Hall, Toppenish, WA
Primary URL: http://www.heritage.edu/AboutHeritage/NAACS2012Conference.aspx
Primary URL Description: Full program and conference presentations listed on this Heritage University site. Friday Program opening statements by Dr. Winona Wynn credited NEH and presented our funded grant program, 'Somos Indios" as a catalyst for hosting the NAACS Conference.

Houston Eats! Texas Gulf Coast Food in the Past, Present, and Future
Grant details: AC-50194-14
Title: Houston Eats! Texas Gulf Coast Food in the Past, Present, and Future
Author: R. Todd Romero
Author: Monica Perales
Abstract: Houston is the most diverse city in the country, a diversity that is reflected in the city’s food. You can eat Pakistani goat biryani, a Colombian empanada, a Uyghur meat pie, Vietnamese bún bò hu?, Viet-Cajun crawfish, Nigerian egusi soup, a cheese enchilada, Gulf oysters and more all in a five-mile radius. Over the course of the two-day conference, historians, farmers, food writers, sociologists, activists, and artists will explore the origins of that diversity, how it impacts the way the city eats now, and what it means for the region’s future. The conference opens Friday, February 2nd with a keynote by Dr. Tyina L. Steptoe, author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, Texan, and associate professor of History at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The event will culminate on the evening of Saturday, February 3rd with a conversation between the Houston Chronicle’s restaurant critic Alison Cook, the winner of three James Beard awards, and two of of Houston’s premier restaurateurs, Sylvia Casares, chef and owner of Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen and author of The Enchilada Queen Cookbook, and Kaiser Lashkari, chef and owner of Himalaya Restaurant. Between Friday morning and Saturday evening, attendees will also hear from Houston-raised historian of the Vietnamese immigrant experience Roy Vu and Houston Chronicle barbecue columnist J.C. Reid, and Mikaela Selley, Hispanic Collections Archivist at Houston Metropolitan Research Center, will discuss the history of Mexican restaurants and tortilla factories. This is just a sampling of the many interesting topics and presenters at the conference. The event is free and open to the public. The conference is organized by the Gulf Coast Food Project and Foodways Texas and is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Houston Center for Public History Lecture Series, and the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management.
Date Range: 2/2-2/3/2018
Location: University of Houston

Signs and Symptoms: Medicine is Humanities
Grant details: AC-50204-14
Title: Signs and Symptoms: Medicine is Humanities
Abstract: Our two-day conference is designed to foster cross-disciplinary scholarship and student education in medicine and the humanities. Our conversations will focus on medical narratives and approaches to the pursuit of healing and the applied practice of doctoring. The conference will feature three keynote talks by external speakers, presentations from our medical students, and work from our own faculty. All sessions are open to the public as an outreach to the community.
Date Range: October 13-14, 2016
Location: Unveristy of California, Riverside
Primary URL: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/conferences/signs-symptoms/

Religious Literacy in a Plural Age
Grant details: AC-50213-14
Title: Religious Literacy in a Plural Age
Author: Vincent Biondo
Abstract: Has religious literacy become a necessary component of citizenship? In England and Quebec, the state school curricula have been revised to include religious literacy. Do these programs share successful strategies that can succeed in the U.S.? Faculty experts and doctoral students from diverse disciplines and backgrounds will present on how to improve religious literacy education across ethnic, religious, and partisan lines.
Date Range: July 9, 2016
Location: Harvard University
Primary URL: https://storify.com/lkwert/neh-religious-literacy-in-a-plural-age-conference
Primary URL Description: https://storify.com/lkwert/neh-religious-literacy-in-a-plural-age-conference

conference session - Technologies for the Digital Humanities: Applications and Concerns in 3-Dimensional Scanning of Cultural Heritage
Grant details: AD-50036-12
Title: conference session - Technologies for the Digital Humanities: Applications and Concerns in 3-Dimensional Scanning of Cultural Heritage
Author: Jessie Ryker-Crawford
Author: J. Craig Thompkins
Abstract: The Institute of American Indian Arts was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which culminated in two multi-disciplinary courses for both the Museum Studies and New Media Arts departments. These courses teach students how to 3-D scan cultural objects with laser scanning and photogrammetry techniques. The possibilities through the application of these two techniques for tribal institutions and communities are amazing and ground-breaking, and should be embraced with some care and diligence. For although it will allow our objects to "return" to the communities from which they emerged in order to be utilized in a variety of educational and cultural ways, the dissemination of this data must be carefully guarded as well. This panel will first present the amazing work that the IAIA students have done in scanning the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts' collection pieces, and then will move into a heart-felt discussion on the issues and concerns on how these and other technologies could have upon our cultural property rights. We look forward to fully sharing the 3D scanning techniques in a pre-conference workshop at the IAIA campus, and then we hope to dialogue together in order to be prepared to utilize technology within our own uniquely strong and knowledgeable culturally-based philosophies and ethics.
Date Range: June 10-13, 2013
Location: Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
Primary URL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrzdgsr89yy65uf/2013%20ATALM%20Conference%20NEH.pdf
Primary URL Description: 2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums conference program

National Collegiate for Honors Council
Grant details: AE-247973-16
Title: National Collegiate for Honors Council
Abstract: Dean Terry Young and Project Director Angela Wright attended the NCHC conference in Seattle in October 2016 to learn more about setting up an Honors program at Patrick Henry Community College.
Date Range: October 2016
Location: Seattle, Washington
Primary URL: http://http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/nchc.site-ym.com/resource/collection/074ead02-e1b5-4968-8a29-542a4a54f744/Official-Program-2016a.pdf?hhSearchTerms=%222016+and+conference%22
Primary URL Description: The link is for the program for the 2016 conference in Seattle.

2020 Two--Year College Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
Grant details: AE-269208-20
Title: 2020 Two--Year College Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
Author: Ann Thebaut
Author: Jason Frank
Author: Greg Wright
Author: John Garcia
Abstract: Santa Fe College, in collaboration with other two-year institutions across the country who participate in Ethics Bowl, developed a unique model for the 2020 and Two-Year College Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl that successfully met the challenges of hosting a virtual competition. SF's model incorporated both asynchronous and synchronous competition components that were designed to put competitors at ease in the virtual world and promote those aspects of Ethics Bowl that distinguish it from the traditional Speech and Debate model, namely, collegial and civil discourse. It allowed teams to spend more time crafting their presentations through a critical, self-evaluative process that promoted deeper understanding of not only the cases, but also of team dynamics. Although it was recognized that the asynchronous aspects of the proposed model took away some of the spontaneity inherent in the traditional face-to-face Ethics Bowl competition, participants agreed that the hybrid model for a virtual Ethics Bowl had pedagogical and technical advantages. Going forward, it is a model worth considering, even in a post-Covid world, as it promotes outcomes difficult to achieve in a face-to-face environment, namely, greater participation (due to decreased cost) on the part of two-year colleges, as well as a heightened sense of community among two-year colleges across the country.
Date Range: 10/16/2020 thru 11/21/2020
Location: virtually, via Zoom/hosted by Santa Fe College
Primary URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iLwkN9UONUErDPLCMU4shSS1IrGesy3i/view?usp=sharing

2021 Two-Year College Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
Grant details: AE-269208-20
Title: 2021 Two-Year College Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
Author: Ann Thebaut
Author: Jason Frank
Author: Greg Wright
Author: John Garcia
Abstract: Santa Fe College, in collaboration with other two-year institutions across the country who participate in Ethics Bowl, developed a unique model for the 2021 Two-Year College Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl that successfully met the challenges of hosting a virtual competition. SF's model incorporated both asynchronous and synchronous competition components that were designed to put competitors at ease in the virtual world and promote those aspects of Ethics Bowl that distinguish it from the traditional Speech and Debate model, namely, collegial and civil discourse. It allowed teams to spend more time crafting their presentations through a critical, self-evaluative process that promoted deeper understanding of not only the cases, but also of team dynamics. Although it was recognized that the asynchronous aspects of the proposed model took away some of the spontaneity inherent in the traditional face-to-face Ethics Bowl competition, participants agreed that the hybrid model for a virtual Ethics Bowl had pedagogical and technical advantages. Going forward, it is a model worth considering, even in a post-Covid world, as it promotes outcomes difficult to achieve in a face-to-face environment, namely, greater participation (due to decreased cost) on the part of two-year colleges, as well as a heightened sense of community among two-year colleges across the country.
Date Range: 10/1 - 11/20/2021
Location: base of operation was Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Florida; other institutions involved participated via Zoom
Primary URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f_6P3lmEeJr0PHuC_EG46qtlriKrrzTL/view?usp=sharing

Transborder Dialogues COIL Seminar for Faculty
Grant details: AE-277515-21
Title: Transborder Dialogues COIL Seminar for Faculty
Author: Dr. Matthew Van Hoose
Abstract: A comprehensive faculty seminar incorporating readings and individual and group activities on the global humanities and on the development and implementation of COIL projects. Many seminar activities model best practices in online learning.
Date Range: February 2021 - May 2022
Location: Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland
Primary URL: https://howardcc.instructure.com/courses/1103075
Primary URL Description: Canvas course site

The Liberator
Grant details: AH-272560-20
Title: The Liberator
Author: Alex Kershaw
Abstract: On April 29, 2021, the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau by American forces, the Friends of the National World War II Memorial hosted a discussion with best-selling author Alex Kershaw featuring Kershaw’s book, "The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau", which recounts the remarkable battlefield journey of U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation of Europe and the moral integrity and courage he displayed at the darkest moment.
Date Range: April 29, 2021
Location: Washington, D.C.
Primary URL: https://vimeo.com/544799076

Cornerstone: Learning for Living Faculty Institute
Grant details: AH-274009-20
Title: Cornerstone: Learning for Living Faculty Institute
Abstract: In October 2020, The Teagle Foundation hosted its inaugural Cornerstone:Learning for Living faculty institute.
Date Range: October 2020
Primary URL: http://www.teaglefoundation.org/Resources/Convenings-and-Webinars#cornerstone

Teaching with Transformative Texts (Session I)
Grant details: AH-274009-20
Title: Teaching with Transformative Texts (Session I)
Abstract: Reginald Dwayne Betts in conversation wtih Major Jackson on why reading and writing matter and the ways in which teachers can bring literature alive for students. As part of this session, Major Jackson reads his poem entitled "Let Me Begin Again" and Dwayne Betts reflects on his poem, “In Alabama.”
Date Range: 10/7/21
Primary URL: https://teaglefoundation.org/Resources/How-and-Why-I-Teach/Resources/Teaching-with-Transformative-Texts-(Session-1)

Virtual Powell Summer Institute
Grant details: AH-274614-20
Title: Virtual Powell Summer Institute
Author: Holocaust Center for Humanity Education Team
Abstract: In August of 2021, 22 teachers of students in grades 6-12 gathered virtually to network, learn, and practice using new tools to better educate about the Holocaust. The program featured guest lectures by speakers from American Friends of Yahad-In Unum, Pacific Lutheran University, and Western States Center. Evaluation of the program shows that 98% of participating Fellows surveyed would recommend the Holocaust Education Best Practices tools to a new teacher, and 94% rated the facilitator knowledge and skills in leading the program as "Excellent."
Date Range: 6/15/2020 – 12/31/2020
Location: Virtual
Primary URL: https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/teach/professional-development
Primary URL Description: You can find announcements about our next upcoming Powell Summer Institute on our website, as well as a list of our other Teacher Training and Professional Development resources.

High Impact Practices for Developing Ecoliteracy and Civic Action
Grant details: AK-255344-17
Title: High Impact Practices for Developing Ecoliteracy and Civic Action
Author: Denise Mitten (Prescott College)
Author: Emily Shields (Iowa Campus Compact)
Author: Christoffer Lammer-Heindel (Loras College)
Abstract: Dr. Denise Mitten of Prescott College, and Emily Shields, Executive Director of Iowa Campus Compact, examine best practices for engaging students in high impact practices that develop civic engagement and ecoliteracy on the part of students. Introductory remarks by Dr. Christoffer Lammer-Heindel, Loras College. (Eighteen faculty from Loras College and two other area institutions, Clarke University and the University of Dubuque, participated in the workshop.)
Date Range: 09/09/2017
Location: Loras College (Academic Resource Center), 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, IA 52001
Primary URL: https://buildingecoliteracy.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/workshop/
Primary URL Description: Project webpage announcement.
Secondary URL: https://buildingecoliteracy.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/ecoliteracy_civic-action-workshop-1.pdf
Secondary URL Description: Promotional poster, which was distributed on the Loras College campus and to other area institutions (Clarke University and the University of Dubuque).

Radical Climate Justice and the Humanities (Online Mini-Conference)
Grant details: AK-255344-17
Title: Radical Climate Justice and the Humanities (Online Mini-Conference)
Author: Benjamin Darr, Organizer (Loras College)
Author: Christoffer Lammer-Heindel, Organizer (Loras College)
Author: John Foran, Speaker (UC Santa Barbara)
Author: Ken Hiltner, Speaker (UC Santa Barbara)
Abstract: On November 29 and 30, Loras College will host an online mini-conference, "Radical Climate Justice and the Humanities," featuring John Foran, professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, and Ken Hiltner, professor of environmental humanities at UC Santa Barbara. The conference is made possible by a Humanities Connections grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Participation is free and open to anyone in the world with internet access.
Date Range: 11/29/2017-11/30/2017
Location: Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, IA 52001
Primary URL: https://climatejusticehumanities.org
Primary URL Description: Webpage for the mini-conference, including free registration.

Common Problem Workshop
Grant details: AKA-260418-18
Title: Common Problem Workshop
Author: Dr. James Liszka
Abstract: Last year a committee at SIUE was awarded National Endowment for the Humanities funds to plan the Digital Community Engagement Pathway, a program for students who will take a set of core courses emphasizing interdisciplinary research and problem-solving methods. The committee has brought in Professor Liszka to share his work on the similarly designed Common Problem Project. The Common Problem Project is a consortium of five State University of New York campuses, and is funded by the National Science Foundation, the State University of New York and Teagle Foundation. The purpose of the project is to promote cross-disciplinary teaching and learning, while developing problem-solving skills and civic engagement in students. Faculty from different disciplines are paired and their relevant, existing classes are coordinated to include a joint project, focused on a problem or problems of common interest. The problem can be either local, regional, or wider still. Students work in cross-disciplinary teams to devise solutions to the problem(s). Community partners and instructors serve as expert sources, but emphasis is placed on the self-direction of the learning in student teams. The talk will give an overview of the pedagogy, practice and logistics of doing common problem projects. Several examples will be used to illustrate the variety of projects and their impact on students and communities, including SUNY Oswego’s “Good Neighbor” project, promoting local business, the “Sustainability in the Schools” project at SUNY Oneonta, involving a collaboration of elementary, secondary, and college students. The “Sustainability and Film” project at SUNY Plattsburgh, and the “Stigma in the Opioid Crisis,” a collaboration among SUNY Queensbury, SUNY Plattsburgh, and Roosevelt University in Chicago. Several other classroom collaborations will be discussed.
Date Range: 03/21/2019
Location: Center for Faculty Development and Innovation at SIUE
Primary URL: http://www.siue.edu/facultycenter/events/2019/03/James_Liszkra_03_21_19.shtml
Primary URL Description: Link to information advertising the workshop.

Digital Community Engagement Pathway Training
Grant details: AKA-260418-18
Title: Digital Community Engagement Pathway Training
Author: Jessica DeSpain
Author: Connie Frey Spurlock
Author: Michael Hankins
Author: Howard Rambsy
Abstract: A three-day workshop to discuss research team methods, teaching courses with African American content, mentoring underserved students, designing service learning assignments, developing community partnerships, teaching students about digital ethics, and integrating digital pedagogies into classroom assignments.
Date Range: 07/22/2018 to 07/24/2018
Location: SIUE's Center for Faculty Development and Innovation
Primary URL: http://www.siue.edu/facultycenter/events/2019/07/dcep_workshops.shtml
Primary URL Description: Website advertising the Pathway training and allowing user registration.

WHIP Winterim Workshop
Grant details: AKA-265758-19
Title: WHIP Winterim Workshop
Author: susan Huss-Lederman
Author: Prajukti Bhattacharyya
Author: Marjorie Rhine
Author: John Frye
Author: Dale Splinter
Author: Elena Levy-Navarro
Author: Ted Witt
Abstract: Anticipated Workshop Outcomes: 1 Course development plans (proposals for new courses/modifications of existing courses (with schedule of necessary work for submitting course proposals through curriculum committees 2 Travel study proposal timeline, including approximate budget information for site visits 3 Ideas for collaboration with speakers who are coming in 4 Possibly "float" Celebration of Teaching and Learning workshop in May
Date Range: January 14-16, 2020
Location: UW Whitewater Rock County Campus

Workshop on the Medical and Health Humanities
Grant details: AKA-279356-21
Title: Workshop on the Medical and Health Humanities
Author: Linda Friedlaender
Author: Sarah Berry
Author: Carol-Ann Farkas
Abstract: A two-day workshop was held at Johnson & Wales University on teaching the medical and health humanities. The purpose of the workshop was to acquaint Johnson & Wales faculty chosen to develop and teach courses for a new Medical and Health Humanities minor with approaches to course design and instructional methods practiced by those currently teaching in the discipline. The workshop featured the following presentations: Teaching the Skills of Visual Analysis by Linda Friedlaender, Yale Center for British Art; Strategies for Teaching the Medical and Health Humanities by Sarah Berry, Hiram College; and Narrative Medicine, by Carol Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The workshop invitation will be uploaded to the Supplementary Materials section of this report.
Date Range: October 29, 2021 and October 30, 2021
Location: Johnson & Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

Curricular Innovations at the University of Pittsburgh
Grant details: AKB-260426-18
Title: Curricular Innovations at the University of Pittsburgh
Author: Ruth Mostern
Abstract: As part of a workshop on Curricular Innovations held at the March 2020 Meeting of the National Humanities Alliance, Dr. Mostern shared the Project Team’s experience with introducing interdisciplinary curricular innovations at Pitt, obstacles and solutions to enhancing recruitment, and challenges encountered in cultivating humanities-centered interdisciplinary skills. Grant funds were not used to support this activity.
Date Range: March 8-10, 2020
Location: Washington, D.C.
Primary URL: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/nhalliance/pages/2059/attachments/original/1583446003/HAD_Program_Final_UPDATED.pdf?1583446003
Primary URL Description: Preliminary Program of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the National Humanities Alliance

Business and Labor History in Art and Design Programs—Pedagogical Innovations. Roundtable Workshop.
Grant details: AKB-260507-18
Title: Business and Labor History in Art and Design Programs—Pedagogical Innovations. Roundtable Workshop.
Author: Kyunghee Pyun
Author: Daniel Levinson Wilk
Author: Yunah Lee
Abstract: Through their art history departments, art and design schools do a good job teaching students the history of the things they will be making. They learn less about the history of the careers they will be pursuing. At the Fashion Institute of Technology, an interdisciplinary team of faculty from the fields of fashion design, interior design, photography, fashion business management, communication design, home products development, sociology, history, and art history is creating new lesson plans and curricula. We hope to better teach students how people have shaped and reshaped the experience of a job or career in art or design, especially over the last two centuries, to show where the levers of power tend to be, and how they, too, might shape capitalism. We would like to hold a workshop panel at the EBHA to demonstrate and offer training in a couple of techniques. First Kyunghee Pyun and Daniel Levinson Wilk, who created the project and jointly administer the grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that funds it, will briefly describe the project’s genesis and purpose. Then they, other members of the panel, and the audience will role-play two class activities from the new curriculum. Then we will discuss the activities, and help audience members brainstorm other ideas for curriculum about the labor history of artists and designers.
Date Range: 08/29/2019 to 08/31/2019
Location: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Primary URL: https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/ebha2019
Primary URL Description: Main Page of the European Business History Association (EBHA) 23rd Annual Conference in Rotterdam (2019) Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Erasmus University Rotterdam
Secondary URL: https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/ebha2019/congress-programme
Secondary URL Description: Congress Programme Webpage

Tailoring American Business and Labor History for Art and Design Curriculum. Roundtable Session.
Grant details: AKB-260507-18
Title: Tailoring American Business and Labor History for Art and Design Curriculum. Roundtable Session.
Author: Kyunghee Pyun
Author: Daniel Levinson Wilk
Author: Carol Quirke
Author: Jonathan Square
Abstract: In this experimental session, historians and art historians present their most effective and least expected tool of addressing issues of business and labor history. This “tool” can be a technological platform or an excerpt from someone’s biography. It could be a clip from a movie or a song from the 70s. Or Andy Warhol’s works of art can be an illuminating example for queering advertising industry in the 70s. FIT faculty members were pursuing ways in which to engage fellow artists and designers as well as students aspiring to grab jobs in creative industry. In this experimental session, business and labor historians are invited to expose their toolkits, well known or secretive, to lead a discussion for pedagogical innovations. One could share frustration over inefficacy or redundancy of digital databases while some may exalt the audience with potential impact of AI-assisted visual analysis of old magazine photographs. In a loosely formatted, experimental session, presenters and audiences can dismantle the disciplinary boundaries and pose thought-provoking questions of what to use to better disseminate learnings of business and labor history.
Date Range: 01/03/2020-01/06/2020
Location: Hilton New York, New York City
Primary URL: https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/annual-meeting/program
Primary URL Description: Main webpage of The 134th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association (AHA)
Secondary URL: https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session19594.html
Secondary URL Description: Webpage of the Roundtable Session

Business of Contemporary Art in the Demise of Small or Mid-Size Galleries
Grant details: AKB-260507-18
Title: Business of Contemporary Art in the Demise of Small or Mid-Size Galleries
Author: Kyunghee Pyun
Abstract: Between 2015 and 2017, 46 small or mid-size galleries, reputable in the field, went out of business in New York while demand for contemporary work has risen five-fold since 2000. Despite growth in the total amount of sales, only 25 artists are responsible for almost half of all postwar and contemporary art auction sales. In 2017, work by this small group of elite artists sold for a combined $1.2 billion—44.6 percent of the $2.7 billion total generated by all contemporary public auction sales worldwide. People like Robert Cenedella, a professor at the Art Students League of New York, accused major museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art of conspiracy to control art markets, domestic and international, by promoting artists, very few, whose works they own in the collection. If the artists gain more recognition as pioneer who made an impact on contemporary art as is argued in scholarly essays for a special exhibition, the total value of the institutions’ holdings would be increased. Papers in this session discuss issues such as changing conditions of primary and secondary markets; demise of small or mid-size galleries; rise of public art; growing business expenses; choices made by artists as alternatives to a gallery system; amending a standard gallery contract; transformation of an artist’s careers; monopoly of few giant galleries; demographic changes of collectors; and other crucial perspectives.
Date Range: 02/13/2019-02/16/2019
Location: New York City
Primary URL: https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/conference2019/schedule
Primary URL Description: 2019 Annual Conference by College Art Association
Secondary URL: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/2503
Secondary URL Description: Session webpage

Teaching Fashion Labor at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Grant details: AKB-260507-18
Title: Teaching Fashion Labor at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Author: Daniel Levinson Wilk
Author: Karen Trivette
Author: Eileen Karp
Abstract: Labor in the Creative Industries: The Case of Fashion is an international conference held in Oslo, Norway. The panel with three FIT faculty members focuses on pedagogical strategies of how to teach the notion of labor and workplace injustice.
Date Range: 06/11/2019-06/12/2019
Location: Oslo, Norway
Primary URL: https://www.fashionlaborconference.com/
Primary URL Description: Main website for the conference

Gangsters, Deindustrialization and Labor History for the Fashion Industry: Perspectives on New York City’s Garment District. The Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Conference 2021, Chicago, 26–28 May, 2021
Grant details: AKB-260507-18
Title: Gangsters, Deindustrialization and Labor History for the Fashion Industry: Perspectives on New York City’s Garment District. The Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Conference 2021, Chicago, 26–28 May, 2021
Author: