The central source of support for research in the humanities at the University of Connecticut.
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US，CT，Storrs，06269
Today’s read: Picturing the Pandemic, originally created as a collaboration between The Pandemic Journaling Project and the Future of Truth initiative at UCHI, is on display at Homer Babbidge Library. Learn all about it in UConn Today!
A new exhibit of words, images, and audio collected from around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic now on display at Homer Babbidge Library offers a rare glimpse at how people captured history even as it was being made.
Today’s read: 2024–25 Dissertation Research Scholar Danielle Pieratti reflects on translation as a creative practice in a piece published at Poetry Foundation. https://lnkd.in/dAahzHE2
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Students at UConn are doing fascinating and rigorous humanities and social science research on subjects they are passionate about. Kanny, one of our undergraduate fellows this year, is a great example of that.
“For a long time, manual languages were banned in white schools. You weren’t allowed to teach deaf children how to sign. They would need to learn to speak or use oral language as well. But the rules were different in Black schools, where Black children had a space to learn sign language and practice signing because their education wasn’t given the same attention as white students.” With an undergraduate research fellowship from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Kanny Salike ('26 CLAS) is tracing the co-evolution of African American English (AAE) and Black American Sign Language (BASL). https://lnkd.in/e_cVCvra
UCHI has created a humanities toolkit—a series of guides to help humanities researchers produce and disseminate their scholarship.?Looking for research funding? Check out our guide to fellowships and grants in the humanities. https://lnkd.in/dVtJmu27
The deadline to apply for our undergraduate fellowship has been extended to March 14th. Don't miss out on the opportunity to spend a whole year working on the big questions you really care about. https://lnkd.in/dccX9WiY
Today’s read: UCHI Director Anna Mae Duane on childhood, labor, capitalism, and the TV show Severance.
As a scholar of childhood studies, I couldn't resist writing about Miss Huang--capitalism's perfect child. She is strange, sure, but no stranger than our growing impatience with the inefficiency of childhood.
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What a great review of University of Connecticut Humanities Institute undergraduate fellow Evan Wolfgang’s play, I am Going to the Lordy, in The Daily Campus. https://lnkd.in/dSepAthV
Today’s read: learn all about Undergraduate Fellow Kanny Salike’s fellowship project tracing the development of African American English and Black American Sign Language.
“For a long time, manual languages were banned in white schools. You weren’t allowed to teach deaf children how to sign. They would need to learn to speak or use oral language as well. But the rules were different in Black schools, where Black children had a space to learn sign language and practice signing because their education wasn’t given the same attention as white students.” With an undergraduate research fellowship from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Kanny Salike ('26 CLAS) is tracing the co-evolution of African American English (AAE) and Black American Sign Language (BASL). https://lnkd.in/e_cVCvra