Humanities: University of Arizona Projects
Humanities-Focused Projects from the University of Arizona
Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry
"The Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry convenes scholars from across disciplines, supports relevant interdisciplinary projects, and presents new knowledge to the public in engaging ways."
Fronteridades
"Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersections in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands program at the University of Arizona is aimed at collecting and sharing the stories and art of people at the U.S.-Mexico border while creating new learning opportunities. "
Humanities Seminars Program
"Housed in the Dorothy Rubel Room in The University of Arizona’s Helen S. Schaefer Building — also home of The University of Arizona Poetry Center - the Humanities Seminars Program offers the community a wide range of classes from astronomy to archeology and from Shakespeare to film noir. "
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arizona
"OLLI-UA (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arizona) is a non-credit lifelong learning program open to all adults over the age of 50."
Public History Collaborative
"The Public History Collaborative, inaugurated in July 2019, brings the public, students, staff & faculty together to produce and practice history."
Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project
"Based on the collection of nearly 500 films in the American Indian Film Gallery housed at the University of Arizona, this project tribesources mid-20th century educational and sponsored films about Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest by recording Native narrations and contextual information for film content from the Native communities they represent. The films contain valuable historical visual imagery, but the original narrations are often inaccurate and culturally uninformed. Tribesourcing places historical materials with the peoples they represent in order to tell the untold or suppressed story. As we have conceived it, tribesourcing is guided by the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (2006)."
Tucson Humanities Festival
"The University of Arizona College of Humanities began presenting an annual series of public outreach events in the spring of 2009, showcasing timely projects and topics of broad interest. Under the name Humanities Week, this program continued, with attendance steadily rising and presentations expanding from faculty speakers to film screenings and distinguished guests, reflecting the interdisciplinary scope of the College’s programs. In 2011, Humanities Week began organizing the presentations around a central theme, which continues. The annual theme allows the College to focus on showcasing its innovative research and teaching programs in a way that shares with the community the impact of humanities on our lives. In 2016, the name of the series changed from Humanities Week to the Tucson Humanities Festival, which has now grown to a month-long series of events."
VOCA
"VOCA, the University of Arizona Poetry Center's audiovisual archive, features recordings from the Center's long-running Reading Series and other readings presented under the auspices of the Center. The earliest of these recordings is a Robert Creeley reading from 1963. Voca includes multiple recordings of poets who have read for the Poetry Cneter numerous times over the years. All recordings are made available with the permission of the reader. Images are from the Center's photographic archives."
The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.
