List of blogs in the Humanities Division

May 28th, 2008

Individual and multi-author blogs are available to all Humanities Division faculty and staff in support of research, academic events, graduate workshops and other collaborative projects. Please consult the Blogs FAQ for more information.

Below is a list of blogs and blog-based websites hosted by the Humanities Division in reverse chronological order, sorted by category: 

Workshops:

  • Workshop on Contemporary Philosophy - Graduate student workshop on Contemporary Philosophy.
  • Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language - Graduate student workshop on Semantics and the Philosophy of Language. A joint venture by the departments of Linguistics and Philosophy.
  • New Media Workshop - The New Media Workshop provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss the innovation and obsolescence of media, where these overlapping, asynchronous events are understood through social practices and lived experience.
  • Wittgenstein Workshop - The Wittgenstein Workshop aims to foster a variety of forms of interdisciplinary research that take their point of departure from a shared interest in Wittgenstein’s intellectual achievement.
  • EthNoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop - the goal of the workshop is to contribute to the growing interdisciplinary dialogue on music as a social practice, exploring diverse approaches to the study of music in both the humanities and the social sciences.
  • Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop - a forum to discuss ancient philosophical texts, present papers and receive feedback.
  • Clinical Ethnography Workshop - the workshop provides an opportunity for faculty and students involved with the clinical ethnography program to meet and discuss issues related to clinical psychology and culture.
  • Early Modern Philosophy Workshop - a forum in the Department of Philosophy for graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to engage with Early Modern thinkers.
  • Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop - the purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty and graduate students working on areas of the Western Mediterranean during the medieval and early modern periods.
  • Social History Workshop is a forum to discuss and develop work that takes social history methodology seriously – the history of everyday life and people who have been excluded from dominant historical narratives.
  • Literature and Cultural History of Premodern East Asia is a graduate student workshop sponsored by the Council of Advanced studies and the Center for East Asian Studies

Current and Upcoming Conferences:

  • Strange Reading: Practice, Audience, Theory - the third annual graduate conference organized by the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
  • Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium - An annual colloquium bringing together scholars and researchers in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.
  • Myth and Muthmaking in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures is a graduate student conference hosted by the Spanish Graduate Student Committee at the University of Chicago. This conference will address the many myths that are created and discussed specifically in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic literature of all time periods and genres.

Archived Conferences:

Websites:

Individual Faculty Blogs:

  • goldsmith. Professor John Goldsmith’s blog.

Staff and Department Blogs:

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