{"id":14819,"date":"2015-01-30T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14819"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:54:30","slug":"talks-humanities-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14819","title":{"rendered":"Tisch talks on the humanities and civic engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Initiatives in the Public Humanities at Tisch College sponsor this series of monthly brown\u00a0bag lunches during the spring semester of 2015. The Tisch Talks in the Humanities seek to\u00a0identify areas of mutual interest and concern through conversations informed by contemporary civic\u00a0and cultural practices.<\/p>\n<p>All sessions take place at 12pm at Tisch College, Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Hall<br \/>\nModerated by Diane O&#8217;Donoghue, Senior Fellow for the Humanities, Tisch College<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb 2: Source @Sourcing<\/strong><br \/>\nMarie-Claire Beaulieu, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics<br \/>\nJennifer Eyl, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professors Beaulieu and Eyl will discuss the impact of contemporary practices of\u00a0knowledge production, such as found in the digital humanities and open-source\u00a0scholarship, on the audiences and reception of classical and biblical texts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>March 30: Generative Empathies<\/strong><br \/>\nAmahl Bishara, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology<br \/>\nDoris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and<br \/>\nLiterature and Director, Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University<br \/>\nPeter Levine, Associate Dean for Research, Tisch College<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professors Bishara, Sommer, and Levine will explore current discourses around\u00a0the meanings and uses of \u201cempathy,\u201d a topic with implications that are both\u00a0compelling and complex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>April 27: Neighboring<\/strong><br \/>\nPenn Loh, Director, Master in Public Policy Program and Community<br \/>\nPractice, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning<br \/>\nPeter Probst, Professor and Chair, Department of Art and Art History<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Probst and Mr. Loh will discuss the implications of proximity as the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">provocation to objects and acts of \u201cneighboring.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Initiatives in the Public Humanities at Tisch College sponsor this series of monthly brown\u00a0bag lunches during the spring semester of 2015. The Tisch Talks in the Humanities seek to\u00a0identify areas of mutual interest and concern through conversations informed by contemporary civic\u00a0and cultural practices. All sessions take place at 12pm at Tisch College, Rabb Room, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-theory","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14827,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions\/14827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}