UNC Humanities Conference

University of North Carolina is hosting an inexpensive conference next week called Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology. Feb 16-20th.



http://www.chatfestival2010.com/index.html

NEH Institute

Greetings Faculty:



This is a great opportunity!





Dear Colleagues



We are writing to alert you to an exciting and intellectually

rewarding way to spend a month this summer. The Silk Roads: Early

Globalizations and Chinese Cultural Identities is a 5-week Summer

Residential Institute funded by the National Endowment for the

Humanities, and hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program, a

partnership between the East-West Center and University of Hawai’i.



This Institute will make use of the rich history and imaginaire of the

Silk Roads as a way of examining how global interconnectedness shapes

and is shaped by culture, focusing in particular on how China’s

complex relationships with other cultures—mediated by both overland

and oceanic “silk roads”—has been crucial to the emergence of

distinctively Chinese cultures over the last two millennia.



Dates: May 24-June 25, 2010

Deadline: March 2, 2010 (post-mark)



NEH Stipend: Participants will receive a total stipend of

$3900 to help meet costs associated with attending the Institute,

including travel, housing (East-West Center guest house), meals, and

required Institute texts.



Full program information and application procedures can be found at

the following hyperlink. If you encounter a problem in opening it,

please copy and paste the web address into your web browser.



http://eastwestcenter.org/?id=1268



Roger T. Ames, Academic Director



Peter D. Hershock, Principle Investigator

S&U 2010 Conference

The Department of Foreign Languages, English Section at the University of Vlora, Albania, is pleased to invite you to participate in its First International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies: The Said and the Unsaid. The conference will take place in Vlore, a beautiful coastal town in the southwestern part of Albania, from 11 to 13 September 2010. Please, visit the conference website (http://univlora.edu.al/fe/lang/al/konf/Home.html) for more information.

Isabel's AT&T Data-Connect Advice

While I'm not sure this is "blog" material, I just wanted to share with you that - after experiencing a semester of weather related internet interruptions, yesterday I subscribed to AT&T data-connect to assure I have a reliable internet backup in the case that I lose my regular internet connection. The service costs $35 a month (and there is a 2 year contract attached to it), but I think it is worth having to assure that we always have access to our classes regardless of weather emergencies. I know I am thrilled with the idea that I won't have to worry if my service goes out (15 minutes before seminar ;o), and wanted to share this with our team. Some folks may not be aware that this option exists and may appreciate the tip; I know I would.

Welcome Dr. Matt Emerson! Our New Assistant Department Chair of Humanities

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Dr. Matt Emerson to the Department of Humanities team. Matt joins us as the Assistant Department Chair of Humanities, joining Dr. Michele Hinton-Riley, Chair. Matt has previously served as a part-time faculty member in the humanities. Matt received his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley, and he has taught anthropology, history and archaeology at the University of California, Princeton University, Carleton College and Southern Illinois University(SIU). At SIU he was the director of a nationally certified archaeology field school. Matt’s administrative experience includes community outreach, university research & curricula review, retention & mentoring, off-campus program assessment, IT and facilities development and admissions.



Matt’s research interests include the archaeology of historic period settlements and the African Diaspora. His dissertation, Decorated Clay Tobacco Pipes from the Chesapeake, identified pipes recovered from seventeenth-century sites in Virginia as the earliest evidence of African craftsmanship in the New World. He continues to write about African influences in New World based on recent ethnographic work among the Northern Edoid speaking peoples in Nigeria, a minority group with a long history in the Atlantic slave trade.



Please join me in welcoming Matt to the team!

Welcome to the Humanities Blog!

Welcome to the Kaplan University's Humanities Department blog! This space will allow us to communicate with each other and share information quickly and efficiently right to your email. On the right we have links to our school's main page as well as our department's site. There are also links to three different Wikis where you can find resources and participate in discussions with other instructors in your field. We'll also use this blog to communicate current events in our department such as our Movie Club discussion.

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