General History

Director
Erin K Kelly

Board
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
Hannah Burdette
Rob Davidson
Rachel Middleman
William Nitzky
Hope Smith
Daniel Viedlinger

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Tracy Butts

Visiting Scholars

• Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, "Thermal Sovereignties"
• Tanja Geis, Visiting Artist
• Jennifer Morgan, "On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive"
• Bonnie Tsui, " Why We Swim: A Conversation with Award-Winning Author Bonnie Tsui"

University Film Series

• The River / Le Fleuve (directed by Jean Renoir)
• Ponyo (directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
• The Makioka Sisters (directed by Kon Ichikawa)
• 5 Broken Cameras (directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi)
• The Last Wave (directed by Peter Weir)

Work-In-Progress Series

• April Kamp-Whittaker, "Conciliation and Community Archaeology at a WWII Japanese American Internment Center"
• Allison Ramay, "Intellectual and Artistic Sovereignty in the Work of Mapuche Women Leaders and Writers (1930-1950)"
• Asa Mittman, "From Local to Global: Maps and Mapmaking during the Middle Ages"
• Robin Averbeck, "William F Buckley Was a Good Man: And Other Liberal Myths"
• Sinwoo Lee, "Unlawful Occupations of Commoners' Houses: Social Status, Migration, and the Housing Crisis in Eighteenth-Century Seoul"

Digital Humanities

• Jeffrey Tharsen, "Texts Talking to Texts: Computational Approaches to Large-Scale Premodern Chinese and Western European Intertextuality and Phonology"
• Whitney Sperrazza, "Measuring Silence: New Digital Approaches to Shakespeare"
• Tiffany D Creegan Miller, "From Tz'ib to Kematz'ib': Decolonial Ontologies of Maya Orality, Recorded Knowledge, and Digital Media in Indigenous Guatemala"

Director
Rachel Middleman

Board
Hannah Burdette
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
Rob Davidson
Chiara Ferrari
Erin K Kelly
William Nitzky
Hope Munro
Daniel Viedlinger
Corey Sparks

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Tracy Butts

Visiting Scholars

• JJJJJerome Ellis, "The Clearing, Continued"
• Melissa Warak, "Sounding Contemporary Art: Six Sonic Sculptures"
• Jessica Schwartz, "Radiation Songs, Global Harmony, and Formations of Abolition"
• David George Haskell, "Sounds Wild and Broken"2022-2023 Soundscapes

University Film Series

• La Cienaga/ The Swamp (directed by Lucrecia Martel)
• Eraserhead (directed by David Lynch)
• Black Orpheus / Orfeu Negro (directed by Marcel Camus)
• Boat People (directed by Ann Hui)
• The Music Room / Jalsaghar (directed by Satyajit Ray)

Work-In-Progress Series

• Sangmin Lee, "Walk, Map, and Engage Interculturally"
• Rachel Skokowski, "Past, Present, and Future Tense: 19th Century French Print Albums"
• Jason Clower, "Planned Obsolescence: China Leaps Backward Into the Future"
• David Dvorin, "Artificial Intelligence in Music Making"

Digital Humanities

• Gina Bloom, "Rough Magic: Performing Shakespeare with Gaming Technology"
• Elise L. Ryan, "Color / Your Loneliness: Imagining and Creating a Public Humanities Podcast"
• Helen J. Burgess, "Loops and Flows: Spinning Worms and Digital Rhythms"

Director
Rachel Middleman

Board
Heather Altfeld
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
Hannah Burdette
Rob Davidson
Chiara Ferrari
Troy Jollimore
Erin K Kelly
William Nitzky
Lauren Ruth
Hope Smith
Corey Sparks
Daniel Viedlinger
Najm al-Din Yousefi

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Tracy Butts
Laura Nice

Visiting Scholars

• Stephanie Sparling Williams, "Black Feminist Critique and Ontological Reconciliation in Artist Lorraine O'Grady's Diptychs"Julie Sze, “Environmental Justice as Freedom”
• Diana Taylor  "Reparative Memory: Trauma, Memory, Accountability, and Repair"Canceled: Jessica L. Horton, "Earth Diplomacy: Diné (Navajo) Arts of Reciprocity, 1966-1968"
• Mimi Onuoha,  "The Hair In The Cable."
• Usha Iyer, "Indian Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Media Intimacies across Creolized Geographies"

University Film Series

• Powwow Highway (directed by Jonathan Wacks)
• The Color of Pomegranates (directed by Sergei Paradjanov)

Work-In-Progress Series

• Alisa Wade,"Wives, Widows, Executrixes: The Familial Politics of Elite Women’s Inheritance in Early National New York City"
• Luz Bermúdez, "Social History through the Act of Naming San Cristobal de Las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico)"
• Misgav Har Peled, "Resistance, Bodies Politic and Extermination: Roman Emperors, Anguished Rabbis and Circumcision"

Digital Humanities

• Willis Monroe: "Introducing the Database of Religious History"
• Amanda Henrichs: "Embroidered Tales: Remediating Mary Wroth"
• Jennifer Underwood: "Storytelling in Video Games: Narrative Devices and Gameplay"
• Beverly McGuire: "More than Mindfulness: Buddhist-Inspired Apps with Ethical Aims"

Director
Daniel Veidlinger

Board
Heather Altfeld
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant Hannah Burdette
Rob Davidson
Chiara Ferrari
Troy Jollimore
Erin K Kelly
Rachel Middleman
William Nitzky
Hope Smith
Corey Sparks
Najm al-Din Yousefi
Lauren Ruth

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Tracy Butts
Laura Nice

Visiting Scholars

• Jeffrey Cohen, “Noah’s Arkive: Utopia, Failure and Climate Change”
• Julie Sze, “Environmental Justice as Freedom”
• Anna Tsing, “Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene”
• Canceled: Jessica L. Horton, "Earth Diplomacy: Diné (Navajo) Arts of Reciprocity, 1966-1968"

Tertulias

• Mark Stemen, “The Narrative of Climate Change”
• Erin Kelly, “Social Identity and the Human Animal Divide in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost”
• Heather Altfeld, “(Im)permafrost in Siberia”
• Sarah Pike, “Climate Strikes as Rituals to Save the Earth”
• Vernon Andrews “African American Culture and the Natural Environment: From Camping to Burning Man”

University Film Series

• 13th (directed by Ava DuVernay)
• The Lure (directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska)
• Nanook of the North (directed by Robert J. Flaherty)
• Genocide/War of the Insects (directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli) (directed by Ermanno Olmi)
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso) (directed by Felipe Cazals)
  

Work-In-Progress Series

• Rob Davidson, "Beyond 'Errand': Raymond Carver and the Art of Homage"
• Teresa Traver, “Reading Victorian Children’s Sunday Books as Hybrid Genre”Bruce Grelle, “Observations on the ‘Religion of the Market’”
• Katia Samilova, "Varieties of mental control"
• Ariane Bélanger-Vincent, "'Gender Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Disarmament Treaties: the Case of the Mine Ban Convention"
• Eran Zelnik, “A Tale of Two Clowns: The Black Minstrel, the Frontier Jester, and the Making of Jacksonian America”
• Postponed: Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, “¡Transfeminista! A Cartography of Transfeminist Activisms Across the Americas”
• Postponed: Jason Nice, “History Art, History Printmaking: Cross-Referencing the Earl Haig Memorial on Whitehall, London”

Digital Humanities

• Matthew Looper, "Speaking Stones: New Approaches to Analyzing Maya Hieroglyphic Writing"
• Laura Sparks, "'Scrolling is Inevitable, Like Falling': Digital Rhetoric in Human Rights Activism”
• Kim Jaxon, "Making as an Epistemic Practice: Inviting Students to Make"
• Postponed: Panel Discussion by Alyssa Daniels, Daniel Veidlinger, Corey Sparks, "Making the Digital Humanities at Chico State"

Panel Discussions

• “Climate Change and the Existential Crisis: A Panel on Ethics and Actions” (Mark Stemen, Geography and Planning Department; Troy Jollimore; Philosophy Department; Randy Larsen, Philosophy Department; Haley Adams, AS Sustainability)

Director
Rob Davidson

Board
Heather Altfeld
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
Hannah Burdette
Rob Davidson
Chiara Ferrari
Troy Jollimore
Erin K Kelly
Rachel Middleman
William Nitzky
Hope Smith
Corey Sparks
Najm al-Din Yousefi
Lauren Ruth

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Tracy Butts
Laura Nice

Visiting Scholars

• Floridalma Boj Lopez (California State University, Los Angeles), “The Making of Archives of Indigeneity: Maya Womxn in L.A.”
• Lynn Freed, “The Romance of Elsewhere”
• Jessica L. Horton (University of Delaware): “Compelling Reciprocity: Native Art & Diplomacy in the ‘70s”
• Alisse Waterston,  My Father’s Wars: An Intimate Ethnography of Exile, Migration, and the Violence of a Century
• Mai Der Vang,  Afterland: Poems

University Film Series

• Woman in the Dunes (Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara)
• Who is Dayani Cristal? (Directed by Marc Silver)
• Sleep Dealer (Directed by Alex Rivera)
• Sans Soleil (Directed by Chris Marker)

Digital Humanities

• Asa Mittman (Art & Art History): “Virtual Mappa: Making Medieval World Maps Accessible for Students”
• Daniel Veidlinger (Comparative Religion and Humanities): “Reading from 30,000 feet: Lexical Pattern Analysis”
• Frank Pereira (Computer Animation and Game Development), “3D scans: Making inaccessible objects available via photogrammetry and virtual reality
• Corey Sparks (English): “Hypertext Beyond Narrative: Twine for Poetry and Pedagogy”
• Jeff Underwood (Computer Animation & Game Development Program): “Digital Humanities, Virtual Reality and 360 Degree Video Technology”
• Paul Olejarczuk (English), “The Lexicon as a Source of Phonological Knowledge

Tertulias and Talks

• Matthew Stone (Recreation, Hospitality, & Parks Management), "I Am From Here. I Am Not From Here"
• Jesse Dizard (Anthropology): “Pushed and Pulled: Migrations, Relocations, and Evacuations”

Work-In-Progress Series

• Robert Tinkler (History), “The Odd Case of the Confederate State Unionists in the U.S. Congress, 1861-65”
• Zanja Yudell (Philosophy), “Are the Laws of Nature Necessary?”
• Dana Williams (Sociology), “In Us We Trust? Expressions and Explanations of Solidarity and Anti-authoritarianism
• Friederike Fichtner (International Languages, Literatures and Cultures), “Between Diversity and Essentialization: Intercultural Competence in the Language Classroom”
• Robin Averbeck (History), “Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race & Poverty in Postwar Political Thought”
• Chunyan Echo Song (Sociology): “Life in Limbo: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Ireland”
• Sarah Anderson (International Languages & Cultures), “Viewing Venezuela: Identity Politics in Bad Hair”
• Ayde Enriquez-Loya (English): “Haunted Borderlands: Nahuatl Epistemologies and Storytelling Practices in the Shadows of Monstrosity and Femicide”
• Nathaniel Heggins Bryant (English): “Prison, AIDS, and Alien Queens: Queering David Fincher’s Alien 3”

Director
Rob Davidson

Board
Heather Altfeld
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
Hannah Burdette
Rob Davidson
Chiara Ferrari
Troy Jollimore
Erin K Kelly
Rachel Middleman
William Nitzky
Hope Smith
Corey Sparks
Najm al-Din Yousefi
Lauren Ruth

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Tracy Butts
Laura Nice

Visiting Scholars

• Vanesa Miseres (University of Notre Dame): “Gendered Routes: Women Travelers in Nineteenth-Century Latin America”
•  John Milbauer (University of Arizona): “Which Side Are you On?”
• Luke Davies: “An Evening of Journeys” with Screenwriter Luke Davies
• Stewart Weaver (University of Rochester): “Mountain of Destiny: The Nazi Assault on Nanga Parbat, 1934-1939”
• Simon Coleman (University of Toronto): “How Pilgrimage Defines Our World: An Idea, a Field, and a Practice”

University Film Series

• A Trip to the Moon (Directed by George Méliès)
• The General (Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
• Hoop Dreams (Directed by Steve James)
• Lion (Directed by Garth Davis)
• Friday (Directed by F. Gary Gray)
• Symbols of Resistance (USA, Freedom Archives)
• The Bicycle Thief (Directed by Vittorio De Sica)
• Central Station (Directed by Walter Salles)
• Waltz with Bashir (Directed by Ari Folman)
• Above All Else (Directed by John Fiege)
• My Own Private Idaho (Directed by Gus Van Sant)
• Paris, Texas (Directed by Wim Wenders)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Directed by Terry Gilliam)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
  

Symposia/Tertulias

• Laird Easton (History): “The Motherland of All Journeys: Lou Andreas-Salomé and Rainer Maria Rilke in Russia, 1900.”
• Troy Jollimore (Philosophy): “The Journey Motif in the Films of the Coen Brothers”
• Russell Burnham, Musical Journeys
• Vietnam: The Hmong Chapter
• Panel on Tourism & Pilgrimage
• Dr. Stephen Diggs & Dr. Rebecca Diggs, “From Detachment to Immersion: The Modern Self’s Journey Through Objectivity and Beyond”

Works in Progress

• Jennifer Malkowski (Communication Studies): “Publics, Counterpublics, and Interpublics: Theorizing Intersectionality, Biomedicalization, and The Public Sphere for Health and Medicine”
• Sinwoo Lee (History): “Demolishing Walls, Dis-membering City: Japanese Colonialism and the Politics of Walls”
• Lauren Ruth (Art): “Impolite Objects and the Construction of Agency.”
• Erin Kelly (English): “Shakespearean Bankside Walk: An Ecosystem of Literary Memorials”
• Joshua Moss (Media Arts, Design, & Technology): “The Marxist Jesus: Catholic Liberation Theology and Counter Cinema”
• Chiara Ferrarir (Media Arts, Design, & Technology): “Imaginary Jerusalem: Southern Italy as a Cinematic Holy Land”
• Saundra Wright (English): “Titles of Address in Academia

Director
Sarah Pike

Board
Heather Altfeld
Hannah Burdette
Laird Easton
Troy Jollimore
Rachel Middleman
Laura Nice
Hope Smith
Corey Sparks
Daniel Viedlinger
Wai-hung Wong

Ex-officio
Joseph Alexander
Robert Knight

Guests

• Bill Johnson and Cynthia Lammel (Music and Theatre), “Playing/Players/Plays”
• L. M. Bogad (UC Davis), “Tactical Performance: On the Theory and Practice of Serious Play”
• Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Playing with Religion and Video Games”
• William Campbell (University of Memphis), “Playing Indian, Europeans, First Peoples, and Struggles for Hegemony in Early North America”
• Lisa Yun Lee (University of Illinois at Chicago), “From Hull-House to Hip-Hop: On the Fierce Urgency of Play in Social Movements”
• Sergio M. Pellis (University of Lethbridge, Alberta), “Fairness, uncertainty and the role of play fighting in making and using the social brain”

Symposia/Tertulias

• Dennis Rothermel (Philosophy), “The Game and the Business: Four Films About Baseball”
• Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy), “Play as an Objective Value”
• Laird Easton (History), “God, Father, Sex: Some Themes in the Life and Thought of Lou Andreas-Salomé”
• Sarah Pike (Comparative Religion) and Rachel Middleman (Art and Art History), “Play in Political Art and Protest: a Discussion”
• Reading Group: Huizinga and Caillois
  James Karman (Emeritus, Humanities), “Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet”

Director
Troy Jollimore

Board
Geoffrey Baker
Rob Davidson
Laird Easton
Robert Herhusky
Troy Jollimore
Laura Nice
Char Prieto
Hope Smith
Daniel Veidlinger
Wai-hung Wong

Ex-officio
Robert Tinkler
Robert Knight

Guests

• A Talk and Taste of Slow Food with Lori Weber (Political Science)
• Feast and Famine: One Thousand Years of Russian Food—A Humanities Center talk with Darra Goldstein (Russian, Williams College)

Symposia/Tertulias

• When Humans Attack—A tertulia on hunting ethics and cultures. Robert Jones (Philosophy) and Sarah Pike (Comparative Religion)
• Anthropology of food—A tertulia with Jesse Dizard (Anthropology)