Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments Due | Discussion Leader |
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August 22 | Introductions and Orientations | |||
August 29 | Humanities and Public Humanities | “The State of the Humanities circa 2022,” Robert B. Townsend and Norman Marshall Bradburn |
”The Public Future of the Humanities,” Judith Butler
“Introduction,” “The Rise of the Public Humanists,” and *“Afterword: The “Doing” of Doing Public Humanities” from *Doing Public Humanities
“A Typology of the Publicly Engaged Humanities” and “Goals of the Publicly Engaged Humanities,” Daniel Fisher, Humanities for All
“Seven Rules for Public Humanists,” Steven Lubar | Show and Tell #1 | | | September 5 LABOR DAY (NO CLASS) | Local | Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Trail
Hallowed Grounds, Hilary Green | Blog post review of either Civil Rights Trail or Hallowed Grounds Tour posted by end of day Tuesday. | | | September 12 | Publics | “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964),” Jurgen Habermas
“Publics and Counterpublics,” Michael Warner
“Every Tool is a Weapon: Why the Digital Humanities Movement Needs Public History,” Mary Rizzo
“Introduction: A DH That Matters” by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein | Show and Tell #2 | | | September 19 | Power | Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History | Show and Tell #3 | Sophia | | September 26 | Community | ”Partnership and Publicly Engaged Humanities Work,” Daniel Fisher, Humanities for All
*Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy,* Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald eds. | Show and Tell #4 | Casey | | October 3 | Religious Studies | “Religious Studies & the Imagined Boundaries of the Humanities,” Jodi Magness and Margaret M. Mitchell
“‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations,” Johannes C. Wolfart
Browse through the website of Sacred Writes. | Show and Tell #5 | Aidan | | October 10 | Scalar | “Materializing the Bible: A DigitalScholarship Project from the Anthropology of Religion,” James S. Bielo & Claire Vaughn
Browse through Materializing the Bible
Browse through Boston’s Hidden Sacred Spaces
Read the Introduction and browse through Uncivil Religion | | | | October 17 | Scalar | Scalar 2 User’s Guid | | | | October 24 | Omeka | “Digital Historiography and the Archives”, Kate Theimer, et al. (read all the essays in the roundtable) OPTIONAL
Browse through Building Histories of the National Mall
Creating an Omeka exhibit | | | | October 31 | Omeka | Omeka workshop | | | | November 7 | Podcasting | “Podcasting Religious Studies,” Michael J. Altman
Listen to an episode of The Religious Studies Project.
Listen to an episode of Keeping it 101.
Listen to an episode of Study Religion. | | | | November 14 | Podcasting | Podcasting workshop | | | | November 28 | | | | |