Author: marenr
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Public History & Public Humanities: A tale of two MAs
The following post is an essay written by Lara Kelland (AM’02) and her doctoral colleague Anne Parsons. Lara and Anne are frequent contributors to the National Council on Pubic History’s “History @Work” blog. Public history is a professional field that engages the tools of academic history towards the creation of public projects such as museums,…
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Teaching the Body – Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) on her upcoming exhibit
Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) is a current PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. As a facet of her studies, she has been planning an exhibition on American art and artistic anatomy, the topic of her dissertation research, since the spring of 2010. Directly inspired by her MAPH thesis…
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Open Letter to MAPH 2012-2013 – Service and Humanistic Inquiry
Greetings, MAPHers! I hope this post finds all of you well. I appreciate that some of you may have time to read this, as much as I appreciate that many more of you may not have such time because you are so immersed in your zealous study of those recondite things we call the humanities.…
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Project on Civic Reflection – The Reflection
Tim Fosbury, MAPH ’12, reflections on the MAPH year and his internship at the Project on Civic Reflection. Two phrases stick out in my mind from my MAPH year. First is David Wray’s assertion, during one of our first core lectures no less, that we could expect MAPH to be a sort of “P90X for…
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The Odyssey Project: Anna Burch and Marybeth Southard (MAPH ’12) reflect on their internships
I first heard about the Odyssey Project during a “What am I going to do with my life?” conversation with Hilary Strang, who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing to Odyssey students. To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into, other than what I knew from the description on the Illinois Humanities…
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My Kind of Town: A Discussion of Police Torture in Chicago
On Tuesday, May 22nd at 6:00 pm at the brand new Logan Center, MAPH is co-sponsoring a panel discussion on Chicago police torture. In moment when the relevance of the humanities is being challenged, it is a great opportunity to have a conversation about what the role of journalism or a play might be in…
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Revival, Nostalgia, and Angels in America
Reposted from the Court Theatre Blog. The first part of Angels in America opens March 30, 2012 “The World Only Spins Forward” by Deborah Blumenthal MAPH ’11 I was seventeen when I first saw Angels in America, and it did, as it does, change how I saw the world. It was the magnificent HBO…
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Alumna Sarah Best Reflects on Art, MAPH and Invites Everyone to Dance Films Kino
Dance Films Kino is a three-week project that I am presenting as an artist in residence at Hyde Park Art Center, March 4-25, 2012. Over three weeks, I will present 30 works of dance on film, as well as over a dozen live music, dance, and literary readings. All of the programs will be free…
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The Path from MAPH to Running an Online Art Gallery
Drew Messinger-Michaels (MAPH ’10) Some Gallery Somewhere It’s 2010, and the week before graduating from MAPH, I walk into an art gallery with my best friend. We’re intellectual equals, this friend and I, but I’ve studied art history formally and he hasn’t, and he is painfully aware of this fact. He doesn’t form an…