Humanities Conversations

In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation between Professors Harvey Hix and Stephen Dillon about Hix’s book American Outrage: A Testamentary , a work of poetry that is also a compendium of extensive research about gun violence in the United States. It memorializes the lives lost, while also representing the data, concepts, and ideas through which we attempt to make sense of the problem.  The con...

Margo Guernsey’s documentary The Philadelphia Eleven tells the story of eleven women were ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1974 in violation of church policy, transforming an institution despite threats to their personal safety and risk of rejection from the church they loved. “It is about how to break down barriers with grace,” according to Guernsey, “and be true to oneself in the process....

Ahead of her Sandeen Lecture on Dec. 9, "The Herder's Laboratory: Indigenous Climate Science in the Peruvian Andes," Dr. Allison Caine was interviewed by Dr. Kayla Burd. Listen in to learn more about her background, the research she conducted in Peru, and her ongoing work. Dr. Caine is a cultural anthropologist with a research focus on the environment, climate change, rural health, a...

At the end of a week-long retreat at the University of Wyoming's Neltje Center⁠ , fellows in our ⁠Humanities Research Group⁠ program discuss what they accomplished and what they valued about the one-of-a-kind experience: (01:22) Shelby Shadwell and Amanda Sikirica (11:45) Seth Swanner and Hannah Phalen Learn more about the research of this year's fellows here . To support our research fell...

Soon, we'll begin releasing humanities conversations once again, including an interview with this year's Sandeen Lecturer, a conversation between Humanities Research Group fellows while at the Neltje Center, and a Q&A discussion about the documentary The Philadelphia Eleven . Please subscribe and stay tuned for the exciting content we'll release in the future! Music: 'The Spaces Between' by Sc...

Surveying the visual iconography of mental illness throughout the history of art often reveals a number of reoccurring and prevalent stereotypes, replete with stigma, shame, and misunderstanding. Looking to key examples from contemporary art, such as Anna Schuleit Haber’s installation Bloom (2003) and the Faces of Mental Health Recovery public art project (2014), shows that art has the power to re...

This will be an online discussion with Dr. Alexandra Kelly for her new book "Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa & New England." She will be joined by Dr. Adam Blackler and Dr. Melissa Morris to answer questions and discuss her book.   The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys,...

There is a sense that WWII represented a seminal moment in racial thought and that the realization of the Holocaust was transformative in the role of race-thinking by state agencies and popular institutions, particularly in the U.S. Dr. Patton's research challenges this assumption, particularly since Black American soldiers went back to a country that held steadfastly to Jim Crow, which included a...

Each year, WIHR welcomes a new cohort of Research Fellows. Chosen through a competitive process, these researchers have demonstrated that they are working on compelling projects that speak to both academic and broader public audiences. In this Think & Drink, we welcome back Research Fellows who participated in the first three cohorts to talk about their ongoing writing and knowledge-making act...

Please join us to meet the acquisitions staff from the new University of Wyoming Press in a lunchtime conversation titled "Getting Published: Tips from the Acquisitions team at the University Press of Colorado and University of Wyoming Press."    Speakers include: Allegra Martschenko, Acquisitions Editor Darrin Pratt, Director Nate Bauer, Acquisitions Editor Rachael Levay, Acquisitions E...

Check out our online conversation featuring Dr. Danielle Allen, author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. We are so happy to have Launched the Democracy Lab and create new opportunities for democracy in the state of Wyoming.   Dr. Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, is a political theorist...

If you’ve ever been enthralled by a park ranger’s story during a national historic site guided tour, listened to a docent bring the objects in a museum exhibit to life, watched the excitement on a child’s face as a zoo employee explained the care and feeding of a rare primate, or stopped to read an interpretive sign explaining the natural wonders of a spectacular state park, you have experienced h...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

This panel looks at the field of Early American Environmental History. Although Environmental History is a flourishing subfield, the use of an environmental lens has been somewhat reluctantly applied to the Colonial Americas—North, South, and Caribbean. This is despite the fact that the colonization of the New World had monumental environmental consequences which continue to resonate in the presen...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioner...