From: Lowe, Lisa
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 12:17:33 PM (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
To: Craig Eley
Cc: Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
Subject: Re: [CHCI contact] Subject: change of director
Hi Craig,
I would like to submit a revised description of our Center for the Humanities at Tufts, which is currently out of date:
The Center for Humanities at Tufts fosters interdisciplinary humanities work in comparative literature, comparative religion, world history, philosophy, anthropology, and the arts, to innovate new research and reflection. The Center hosts public lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia by visiting artists, writers, and scholars, and brings together faculty, postdoctoral, and dissertation fellows. Fellows participate in a research seminar and attend monthly public events with distinguished visiting scholars.
Each year, the Center will select a theme around which to organize some of its central activities. In the 2016-2017 year, the Center is home to the Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Humanities, which includes faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate student fellowships in residence at the Center, as well as a monthly series of distinguished visitors who will lead fellows seminars, present public lectures, and participate in public colloquia.
Just as all parts of the university have been affected by the last decades of national and global transformations, the humanities and interpretive social sciences are challenged to redefine their studies in ways that are responsive to our increasingly interconnected world. While recent global exchanges and interdependency initiate new discussions of personhood, culture, society, and the world, we know that global connections are not new. Comparative global humanities names an interdisciplinary study that considers the links, exchanges, and entanglements of culture, art, music, theatre, literature, religion, philosophy, and politics, not only in the modern period, but throughout the longer course of world history. Distinguished scholars from a variety of fields and specializations will lead seminars and present their research on such studies of cultural contact and encounter, as well as on past and future ideas of "the human," the figure around which the humanities have been centrally organized.
The Center sponsors Faculty Fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, and graduate dissertation fellowships.
Thank you very much, and please don’t hesitate to be in touch with any questions or requests for further information.
Yours,
Lisa
On Mar 15, 2017, at 10:26 AM, Craig Eley eley2@wisc.edu wrote:
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for reaching out and congratulations on your new directorship. I made this change internally and you should see it reflected on the website now. Let me know if anything else needs to be corrected or updated.
All best,
Craig
Craig Eley, PhD
Membership and Communications Director
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
University of Wisconsin-Madison
On 3/14/17, 3:10 PM, "dws-internal@duke.edu on behalf of Lisa Lowe" <dws-internal@duke.edu on behalf of Lisa.Lowe@tufts.edu> wrote:
Submitted on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 16:10
Submitted by anonymous user: [66.30.112.98]
Submitted values are:
Name: Lisa Lowe
Email: Lisa.Lowe@tufts.edu
Subject: change of director
Message:
Dear CHCI,
The Center for the Humanities at Tufts is a member of the CHCI. As of
September 2016, I am the new director: Lisa Lowe, Distinguished Professor of
English and Humanities.
From: Lowe, Lisa Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 12:17:33 PM (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) To: Craig Eley Cc: Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Subject: Re: [CHCI contact] Subject: change of director
Hi Craig,
I would like to submit a revised description of our Center for the Humanities at Tufts, which is currently out of date:
The Center for Humanities at Tufts fosters interdisciplinary humanities work in comparative literature, comparative religion, world history, philosophy, anthropology, and the arts, to innovate new research and reflection. The Center hosts public lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia by visiting artists, writers, and scholars, and brings together faculty, postdoctoral, and dissertation fellows. Fellows participate in a research seminar and attend monthly public events with distinguished visiting scholars.
Each year, the Center will select a theme around which to organize some of its central activities. In the 2016-2017 year, the Center is home to the Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Humanities, which includes faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate student fellowships in residence at the Center, as well as a monthly series of distinguished visitors who will lead fellows seminars, present public lectures, and participate in public colloquia.
Just as all parts of the university have been affected by the last decades of national and global transformations, the humanities and interpretive social sciences are challenged to redefine their studies in ways that are responsive to our increasingly interconnected world. While recent global exchanges and interdependency initiate new discussions of personhood, culture, society, and the world, we know that global connections are not new. Comparative global humanities names an interdisciplinary study that considers the links, exchanges, and entanglements of culture, art, music, theatre, literature, religion, philosophy, and politics, not only in the modern period, but throughout the longer course of world history. Distinguished scholars from a variety of fields and specializations will lead seminars and present their research on such studies of cultural contact and encounter, as well as on past and future ideas of "the human," the figure around which the humanities have been centrally organized.
The Center sponsors Faculty Fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, and graduate dissertation fellowships.
Thank you very much, and please don’t hesitate to be in touch with any questions or requests for further information.
Yours, Lisa