News and Notes

We Are Pleased to Announce the Publication of An Anthropocene Primer

We Are Pleased to Announce the Publication of An Anthropocene Primer

Announcements, Public Scholarship, Research, TeachingJason KellyOctober 25, 2017#environmental humanities, Anthropocene, collaboration, environment, humanities, publication, teachingComment

Reading List: Social and Cultural Theory Since 1900

Reading List: Social and Cultural Theory Since 1900

Blog Posts, TeachingJason KellyJuly 7, 2017critical theory, cultural theory, feminism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, social theory, syllabus, theoryComment

The Anthropology of the Anthropocene Workshop is Almost Here

The Anthropology of the Anthropocene Workshop is Almost Here

Announcements, ConferencesJason KellyMay 8, 2017Anthropocene, anthropology, conference, environment, methodologies, methods, research, Rivers of the Anthropocene, social science, theory, workshopComment

Jared Council: "IU Professor Leads Local DataRefuge Effort"

Jared Council: "IU Professor Leads Local DataRefuge Effort"

Announcements, Digital Humanities, Public ScholarshipJason KellyApril 28, 2017big data, climate change, data, data refuge, data rescue, datarefuge, datarefugeindy, datarescue, IBJ, Indianapolis Business JournalComment

Earth Day and the Anthropocene

Earth Day and the Anthropocene

Announcements, Blog Posts, ResearchJason KellyApril 21, 2017Anthropocene, earth day, earth week, ecology, environment, rivers, University of California Press, waterComment

Open Access and the Historical Profession

Open Access and the Historical Profession

On July 22, 2013, the American Historical Association released a statement recommending that departments and universities allow students the option of embargoing their dissertations from open online access for up to six years. The following debate ensued...

Blog PostsJason KellyApril 20, 2017diamond open access, digital humanities, gold open access, green open access, open access, publishingComment

Reading the Grand Tour at a Distance: Archives and Datasets in Digital History

Reading the Grand Tour at a Distance: Archives and Datasets in Digital History

Announcements, Essay, ResearchJason KellyApril 19, 2017architecture, archives, databases, digital history, digital humanities, eighteenth century, Grand Tour, methods, Republic of LettersComment

"What happens to Indy if the arts and humanities are defunded?" by Amber Stearns and Emily Taylor

"What happens to Indy if the arts and humanities are defunded?" by Amber Stearns and Emily Taylor

Announcements, Art, Public ScholarshipJason KellyApril 16, 2017arts, funding, humanities, Indianapolis, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEHComment

"Hoosiers soon to be at ‘the crossroads’ of sustainability" by Ross Reagan

"Hoosiers soon to be at ‘the crossroads’ of sustainability" by Ross Reagan

Announcements, Art, PresentationsJason KellyApril 11, 2017chamber music, Crossroads Project, Entanglements Series, environment, Fry Street Quartet, music, painting, performance, photography, spoken wordComment

Learn about The Cultural Ecologies Project

Learn about The Cultural Ecologies Project

Announcements, Public Scholarship, ResearchJason KellyApril 7, 2017art, PhD program, public art, public scholarship, researchComment

Resistance to WWI in the United States: 41 Tweets on the Centenary of WWI

Resistance to WWI in the United States: 41 Tweets on the Centenary of WWI

41 Tweets on the Centenary of WWI

Blog Posts, TeachingJason KellyApril 6, 2017conscientious objectors, conscription, draft, Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, protest, resistance, war, warfare, WW1, WW1centenary, WWIComment

Op-Ed: Values in City Planning and Design

Op-Ed: Values in City Planning and Design

Announcements, ArchitectureJason KellyMarch 24, 2017Alexander Ralston, city, city planning, development, Edward Pierre, ethics, ideal town, Indianapolis, placemaking, urbanism, urbanization, valuesComment

Get a minor or major concentration in the History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine at IUPUI

Get a minor or major concentration in the History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine at IUPUI

Announcements, TeachingJason KellyMarch 18, 2017courses, engineering, environment, environmental history, history of medicine, history of science, HSTEM, medicine, science, STS, technologyComment

How Much do the NEA and NEH Cost Us?

How Much do the NEA and NEH Cost Us?

Art, Blog PostsJason KellyMarch 17, 2017budget, government, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, policyComment

On Bolívar, Resistance, and Revolution in the Midst of WWII: Claude Thompson's "A Man from Jamaica"

On Bolívar, Resistance, and Revolution in the Midst of WWII: Claude Thompson's "A Man from Jamaica"

Blog PostsJason KellyMarch 11, 2017Caribbean, Caribbean Literature, Claude Thompson, Dunkirk, Haiti, Paris, revolution, Simón Bolívar, world history, WWIIComment

Another Successful #DataRescueIndy Event Yesterday

Another Successful #DataRescueIndy Event Yesterday

Banning History Books (again): Arkansas's Representative Kim Hendren Wants to Silence Howard Zinn

Banning History Books (again): Arkansas's Representative Kim Hendren Wants to Silence Howard Zinn

Blog Posts, Public ScholarshipJason KellyMarch 4, 2017academic freedom, Arkansas, democracy, education, free speech, history, Howard Zinn, Kim Hendren, mitch daniels, teaching, ZinnComment

What We Need to Know: Cuts to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

What We Need to Know: Cuts to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

Blog PostsJason KellyFebruary 27, 2017arts, budget, humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, policyComment

The Guiding Principles of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

The Guiding Principles of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

Blog PostsJason KellyFebruary 25, 2017arts, culture, history, humanities, legislation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, valuesComment

Yankee Doodle and the Macaroni

Yankee Doodle and the Macaroni

When “Yankee Doodle” became a popular tune in the late eighteenth century, to call someone a “macaroni” was to connect them to a satirical type -- typically a male overly concerned with continental fashions and foreign art.

Blog Posts, ResearchJason KellyFebruary 2, 2017cosmopolitanism, dress, eighteenth century, fashion, gender, Italy, literature, macaroni, nationalism, sexualityComment