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For the 2022-23 academic year, the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures is pleased to welcome three new fellows for the academic years o
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The Institute of the Humaities and Global Cultures is pleased to announce its new Advisory Board.
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For the 2022-23 academic year, the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
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The Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures is excited to announce a new set of research networks and initiatives, beginning Fall of 2023.
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Mapping Indigenous/UVA Relations: Stories of Space, Place, and Histories is a participatory action methodological project that focuses on
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My research focuses on sabils, or charitable water fountains, as a key location for exploring vernacular water architecture and investigating the u
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The focus of my research while a Mellon Humanities Fellow takes off from the ubiquity of the phrase: "the long eighteenth century." Proliferating i
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What meaning did a fictional Ottoman tale and the manuscript containing it have to those who copied, read, heard, and owned it?
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“If human beings suddenly ceased imitating, all forms of culture would vanish.” This striking statement by René Girard not only ascribes to mimesis
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How did the partition of the Indian subcontinent resolve the problem of belonging for minority religious communities – in India, Pakistan, and late
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Ari Blatt, “State of Place, State of Mind: Vernacular Landscapes in Contemporary French Photography”
Since the mid-1980s, art photographers from metropolitan France have been training their lenses on places throughout the country they call home.
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I am beginning a new project at IHGC, one that builds from the methods that I developed in my first book, Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Ind
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Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City is a collaborative monograph (co-authored by George Mpanga and Sarah Namirembe)
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Project Summary: My project on Byzantine urbanism and Athens in particular, seeks to reconstruct the topography and spatial layout of Byza
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Project Summary: My current book project reframes narratives of photography’s origin and originality by zooming into the first one hundred