Does your institution have a literary magazine that you would like to submit to this year’s CCHA Literary Magazine Competition? If so, please download a copy of the form below and submit yours before the May 30th deadline! Good luck!
Forms for download: 2016 Literary Magazine Competition Entry Form
The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) has developed a humanities liaison program aimed at strengthening the humanities and humanities faculty at the nation’s community colleges. Please consider becoming the CCHA Humanities Liaison Officer at your college. Your involvement in this role would be immensely valuable to the humanities faculty and the humanities program at your college, as well as to CCHA and the humanities generally. You would also receive several benefits.
The winner of the CCHA Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome has been announced! Please join us in congratulating Dr. Meryl Shriver-Rice as she will be off to Rome for a one month fellowship to continue her work on “The Etruscan Table” this June!
Dr. Shriver-Rice is an archaeologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Philosophy at Miami Dade College. Her work on the “Etruscan Table” project will examine the “material culture associated with Etruscan food.” This will also include an investigation into the “botanical, entomological, and zooarchaeological evidence for food, feasting, and trade in exotic consumables in ancient Etruria amongst the Etruscan city-states, their hinterlands, and foreign trade relations.” In addition, the project will also have implications on our modern society, as Dr. Shriver-Rice sees one of the outcomes as a way to “bring visibility” to the issues of “of the food-related predicaments we face today, such as food deserts and sustainability.” It is quite a comprehensive and exciting project!
We are also happy to announce that this was a very difficult decision as we had so many wonderful proposals to review this year. Please consider applying for this increasingly-competitive fellowship in the future as it is a great opportunity. Thanks, again, to all of our wonderful applicants.
Are you interested in an opportunity like this? Attend one of our conferences or check back in on the blog and the website to see if there is an opportunity for you!
Fellow friends and humanists,
I am writing to you to inform you about some updates in addition to offering you an opportunity that will be mutually beneficial! For starters, we now have a fully functional LinkedIn page, Facebook page, Twitter account, and a blog. Please see the links to these below and note that we would love you to “like us” and “follow us” if you are willing and able to do so.
I also wanted to mention an opportunity that goes along with this: publishing something to our blog. The blog posts need not be overtly scholarly, though they also may be. You can write up an opinion piece, a “hot topic” or trend in the humanities, something you did in the classroom, or even something that may be a thought provoking conversation starter.
Please see the links below to each of the 2016 Divisional Conferences! Check back often for other information and updates, too!
Call for Proposals: Eastern Division Conference
Call for Proposals: Central Division Conference
Call for Proposals: Pacific-Western Division Conference
Call for Proposals: Southwestern Division Conference
Call for Proposals: Southern Division Conference
Today is Humanities Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill! Humanities advocates from around the country will be meeting with their Members of Congress to make the case for humanities funding.
For those of you who could not join us in Washington, there are still ways to show your support for humanities funding by email and Twitter.
Tuesday, March 15th is not just the Ides of March, it is also Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, DC. National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William “Bro” Adams will deliver the speech “Beyond the 50th: New Directions at NEH,” and according to an advanced copy of the speech, we at CCHA are elated to hear that he outlines the plan to “invest more heavily in this [Community College Humanities] sector, beginning with grants that will be announced in late March of this year.” This is just the beginning of the push for the humanities, and we want you to help us get the word out tomorrow!
We know that most people will not be able to walk the halls of congress and speak to your elected representatives first hand, but we will be sending out an alert courtesy of the Nation al Humanities Alliance that will outline what you can do to help ensure that the humanities continue to receive the vital funding that ensures future generations will be able to study the dynamic field that we all know and love.
Check back with us tomorrow for more!
We just wanted to let everyone know about a great event happening this week in New York City. It is New York City Digital Humanities (NYCDH) Week!
NYCDH week brings together scholars, librarians, museum and gallery professionals, and other humanities professionals to promote, discuss, and learn about ways that technology can enhance study in the humanities. Sounds like a great event, folks!
Interested in more information? Visit their website at http://dhweek.nycdh.org/ or follow them on Twitter by following @nycdh. In addition, you can see the event calendar by clicking or visiting http://dhweek.nycdh.org/events/week/2016-02-08/
Whether you are a casual fan of the humanities or teach in the humanities in one of the nation’s community colleges, we would like to welcome you to the blog for the Community College Humanities Association. Feel free to poke around, read, and even submit content for future publication, which can be facilitated on this blog, in our Community College Humanist newsletter, or in our Community College Humanities Review journal.
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