Public Humanities

CCS Virtual Internship Showcase Dec. 8 from 3-4 p.m.

Posted by Rebekah Pratt-Sturges on November 29, 2023

Please join CCS for a celebration of our student interns at our virtual fall 2023 Internship Showcase from 3-4 p.m. MST on Dec. 8, 2023! The showcase will feature presentations from CCS majors and minors with internships at the Museum of Northern Arizona, NAU Art Museums, Riordan Mansion, and more. Contact the CCS Internship Coordinator Dr. Diana Coleman to RSVP or for any questions.

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Join CCS for the Climate Project Student Showcase on Wednesday Dec. 6 at 4 p.m.

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Join the department of Comparative Cultural Studies for a showcase of student research for HUM 382 The Climate Project on Wednesday Dec. 6 at 4 p.m. in the Health and Learning Center room 3108. This event is free and open to the public! This culminating event will feature brief presentations, light snacks, and radical hope!

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CCS Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer lecture at Coconino Center for the Arts on Nov. 30, 2023

Posted by Rebekah Pratt-Sturges on November 27, 2023

CCS Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer will reflect on ways of “seeing” objects and photography in violent-traumatizing contexts in his lecture “The Aesthetics and Ethics of Representation” at the Coconino Center for the Arts on Thursday November 30 at 6:30 p.m. The talk is part of the current exhibition (in partnership with the Martin-Springer Institute): El Sueño Americano / The American Dream, on display until December… Read more

CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave two invited talks in Chicago last month

Posted by Rebekah Pratt-Sturges on November 12, 2023

CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave an invited lecture titled “Marketing Motherhood: Etruscan Case Studies” at Northern Illinois University on Oct. 11 and at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on October 12, 2023. She discussed how one class of household artifacts – engraved bronze mirrors – depict… Read more

Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Katrina Maggiulli presented at the 2023 Society for Literature Science and the Arts “Alien” conference in Tempe, Arizona in October

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Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Katrina Maggiulli presented their paper “Containing Hybrid Threat & Controlling Genetic Futures: Policing Species Borders in Threatened & Endangered Conservation” at the 2023 Society for Literature Science and the Arts “Alien” conference in Tempe, Arizona.

While scientists will typically agree that species boundaries and definitions are difficult (if not impossible) to definitively mark—the processes of evolution producing inherent flux which problematizes their discernibility—nevertheless conservation will often treat species as if they are clearly delineated and actively… Read more

Public Lecture: Art in the Atomic Age with curators Gabrielle Decamous and Shawn Skabelund on Nov. 2, 2023

Posted by Rebekah Pratt-Sturges on October 26, 2023

The department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Asian Studies program present two curators in conversation on Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. in Liberal Arts room 120 for “Art in the Atomic Age: Japan, the Pacific Islands, and North America.”

This lecture features Gabrielle Decamous, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, and  Shawn Skabelund, an artist working to reveal the complex issues, ecologies, and cultural histories of and in… Read more

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