Humanities Reading Group
The Humanities Reading Group, involving faculty from across the arts and humanities departments, meets several times a semester to discuss readings on the role of the humanities in public life.
If you would like to participate in the Humanities Reading Group for 2022-2023, please contact Professor John Lurz (English). He will send PDFs of the readings to participants a few weeks before each meeting date.
2022-2023 Readings
Friday, September 30, 2022 | 12:00-1:30 pm
Zoom
Selections from Lauren Berlant’s The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimenality in American Culture from 2008 as well as her later essay “Trump, or Political Emotions.”
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 12:00-1:30 pm
Zoom
Selections from Apricots of Donbas, a collection of poems and an essay by the Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk
Friday, March 31 | 12:00-1:15 pm
Zoom
Selections from Nicole R. Fleetwood’s recent Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
This meeting hopes to be in conversation with the Civic Humanities and Decarceration Conference that the Tufts University Prison Initiative (TUPIT) is hosting on April 3 where a number of students in the MyTERN program will be talking about the hurdles of re-entry and the support provided by educational programming. Please contact John Lurz for a copy of the reading.
The Educationist Reading Group
The Educationist Reading Group welcomes faculty from across the arts and humanities departments. We meet two to three times a semester to discuss philosophies of teaching and learning as crucial to scholarly practice and humanist inquiry. We are interested in these writings within their historical and intellectual frameworks as well as how they shape our approaches in the classroom. Readings are determined by group interest. We currently meet over Zoom but hope to meet in person soon.
If you would like to participate in the Educationist Reading Group during Spring 2023, please contact Jennifer Minnen (English). She will send PDFs of the readings to participants a few weeks before each meeting date.
Spring 2023 Readings
Friday, March 3, 2023 | 1-2pm
Zoom
Selections from bell hooks’ Teaching to Trangress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Friday, April 21, 2023 | 1-2pm
Zoom
Short selections from the writing of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart in conjunction with selected entries in Raymond Williams’ Keywords