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Curated Group: Global Blackness
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This curated set of think pieces features six reflections on global blackness.
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Medical Memoirs and Social Agency in Planetary Perspective
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In this panel discussion, WiSER Institute colleagues Achille Mbembe (Author, Philosopher) and Nolwazi Mkhwanazi (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology), are joined…
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Race and Medicine
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The Health Humanities & Social Justice: BREATH, BODY, VOICE Conference sought to ask the question: “How are the humanities transforming…
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Health Humanities & Social Justice: Breath | Body | Voice Conference
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How have the humanities rearticulated their core disciplinary paradigms by engaging with new fields of exchange such as genetics, the…
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On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus
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This essay introduces the idea of biopolitical aesthetics and argues for a more nuanced attention to the figure of the medically commodified body in contemporary Chinese and transnational literature, art, and popular culture.
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“Racing” in “Place”: Dance Studies and the Academy
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A theoretical and practical intervention interrogating issues of institutional/cultural hegemony in the dance/research/performance complex.
Keyword: race
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Latest Blogs
- Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List October 15, 2019
- FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows holds second annual symposium June 7, 2018
- Table of Contents for Humanities Futures Papers December 4, 2017
- Instructor Guest Post: Building Global Audiences for the Franklin Humanities Institute September 25, 2017
- Announcing new cohort of FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows (2017-18) August 19, 2017
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Latest Papers
- Academic Precarity in American Anthropology
- After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad in South Asia
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- Health, Illness, and Memory
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Latest Media
- An Interview with David Novak, UC Santa Barbara
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- Craig Klugman: Future Trends in Health Humanities Publishing and Pedagogy
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