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UBC-V Public Humanities Hub newsletter | Spring 2020
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Letter from the Academic Director
Dear colleagues and community partners,
Deep breaths. Since the COVID-19 pandemic put us all in quarantine, I have been thinking a lot about breath. Deep breaths sustain us, comfort us, and empower our voices, which allows us to share our ideas and feelings with others. While COVID patients around the world have been struggling to breathe, people around the world have been taking deep breaths and inspiring one another by singing from their balconies and via Zoom. Their voices urge us all to overcome our physical isolation and to connect with others in whatever ways we can. Under quarantine, even as we remain physically distant from others, around the world, “everyone with lungs” is connected, as poet Juliana Spahr reminds us. We breathe the same air. We are in this together.
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Photos by Oliver Mann
Thank you to the 120+ faculty, staff and community partners who came out to our Afternoon Tea on March 9th. We are fortunate we had the opportunity to celebrate with you in person.
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Hub website now live
Check out https://publichumanities.ubc.ca for the latest news, events, deadlines, awards, programming information and more. Also, please join our mailing list to make sure you receive these thrice-yearly newsletters and check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Community storytelling project
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Join us for a webinar on May 14th at 1:30 pm with Guyanese-Canadian author Tessa McWatt (University of East Anglia) as she describes CityLife, a research project that pairs student writers with community members “to uncover stories: to invigorate place and storytelling for a new way of seeing, hearing and having meaningful exchanges”. Perhaps her CityLife template can inspire a collaborative storytelling project at UBC.
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Photo by Christine Mofardin
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Coming soon: #HumaniReads
PHH is rolling out a new video series featuring UBC Humanities scholars giving their perspectives on “Life in a time of COVID”. We are looking for Humanities scholars willing to record a 3-minute talk on a text of their choosing. Share your thoughts about plague narratives, plague histories, or discourses of plague and contagion. Or your ideas about texts that remind us about belonging to a larger community, make us feel quintessentially human, or help us cope with isolation. Participate in the video series! Fill out the linked form, and we will follow up with you.
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Inspiring Arts talks, performances, and exhibits to enjoy from home
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UBC COVID-19 research portal
Are you a faculty member engaged in research or scholarship that relates to COVID-19 and its impacts? The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, is encouraging Humanities scholars in particular to submit a profile and/or project description on its new UBC COVID-19 Research website, which will help scholars, potential collaborators, and media connect.
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Congratulations to our 2020-21 Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship winners
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Nicola Levell (ANTH) “Dark Skies: Celestial Bodies, Art & Sounds—a Digital Exhibit”
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John Paul Catungal (GRSJ) “Mentorship as Political Practice: Filipino-Canadians Organizing Against Educational Abandonment in Vancouver BC”
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David Gaertner (CIS) “Centre for Community-Engaged Documentation and Research”
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Public Humanities Survey
Thank you to everyone who’s already provided feedback. We value the time you’ve taken to help shape public humanities at UBC. This survey gives us valuable information about the programming and support UBC Humanities scholars need and about how we can help scholars better engage with the community at large. If you haven’t done so already, please fill it out soon. On May 15th, we will close the survey and analyze the results.
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Call for proposals: Digital Humanities conference at UBC-Vancouver
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If COVID-19 affects our ability to meet in-person, we will move the conference to an online format. The revised deadline for proposals is April 30, 2020. Please submit a proposal if you have a DH project in the works you’d like to share!
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Need more support for your DH research?
Dr. Megan Meredith-Lobay, Research Specialist, Humanities and Social Sciences, for Advanced Research Computing, is available for online consultation with UBC faculty and graduate students about DH projects or interests.
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Vancouver International Film Festival is interested in co-writing a SSHRC Connections Grant on a series of public talks and roundtables with invited filmmakers and documentarians that can be converted into a podcasting project (potential topics include “post-truth” and environmental issues). Interested in being a PI? Contact Ken Tsui for more information at ken.tsui@viff.org.
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Roedde House Museum keen to co-sponsor community programming about early-20th-century Vancouver food, architecture, culture, and history. For more information, contact info@roeddehouse.org.
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The Vancouver Art Gallery would like to hear from Humanities scholars researching Creativity and Artificial Intelligence. For more information, contact mary.chapman@ubc.ca.
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Need support filling out your Canadian Common CV form?
The Faculty of Arts now has staff who can help you prepare a CCV for a SSHRC Insight Development Grant application.
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