Date Topic Readings Assignments Due Discussion Leader
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

Up and Running with Omeka.net

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 | | | | |