Katheryn Wright, Program Director of Digital Humanities at Champlain College, reflects on the intimate relationship forming between humans and artificial intelligence, our newest digital companion. She introduces the emerging field of Digital Humanities, which uses digital methods to address important questions about culture, identity, and ethics.
Erica Heilman’s podcast Rumble Strip encourages listeners to fall in love with strangers and to discover how we are often more alike than we are different. Recent episodes included conversations with Vermonters about class, produced with Vermont Public. In this Fall Festival video, join Heilman for a discussion on making the show and trying to build community in an increasingly divided society.
Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger made her “Stuck in Vermont” video series for 17 years, during an era when video journalism has exponentially grown in influence. Eva reflects on what lies ahead for this video series—and possibly for Vermont—in the coming years. Go behind the scenes into her video making process, hear about the importance of telling local stories, and even get some tips for making your own content.
Artist and scholar Ace Lehner has taken the motif of the barbershop and created a space for queer world-making through their installation and social practice performance piece, “Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure.” Lehner discusses how their piece reimagines and “queers” the traditional images and experiences of barbershops.
In 1962, Virginia Naeve attended her first international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland. It was there that southern Black activists described the enduring poverty of the rural South and the burgeoning civil rights movement. UVM Professor of African American History Pamela Nicole Walker tells how Naeve returned home to Jamaica, VT to fight for peace and civil rights using mostly pen, paper, and a lot of gumption.
The podcast and video series “Deep Dish Conversations” unpacks the issues shaping our world today, especially as it impacts our local communities. Join host and author Jerome Moore as he takes us on a dynamic journey toward becoming “an explorer of social change.”
Mar y virus/Virus and the Sea is a multimodal electronic project that directly responds to the impact of Covid-19 on society and the environment. Poet Tina Escaja shares some of the texts from the project, such as the Poem@ CAPTCHA, which can serve as a test of what subtly makes us human.
Author Phuc Tran will discuss his book, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and The Fight To Fit In, and the memoir and writing process. For anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature.
Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways.
A monument depicting Massasoit welcoming the Pilgrims was installed in Plymouth, MA in 1921 to mark the 300th anniversary of the landing of the English. Historian Jean O’Brien considers if the monument prompts us to reckon with the structural violence of settler colonialism, or further entrenches celebratory narratives of national origins.
Our seasonal “Words in the Woods” program allows Vermonters and visitors to enjoy our state’s natural beauty while listening to and reading literature in the outdoors.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported the Chandler Center for the Arts’ Global Connections Youth Outreach program, which highlights artists from around the world.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
