Our Summer 2025 CHR Doctoral Fellow Research Talks began today with PhD Candidate Dhruv Deepak delivering a talk entitled "Community-Owned Digital Resources: Experiments to Democratize ‘Data Relations’ for Community Wealth."
Thank you to the Graduate Division for funding these awards.
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Thanks to our co-sponsors (The Cheuse Center, The Global South Hub-Center for Social Science Research, and The Women and Gender Studies Program), we left the room with full hearts and full bellies both!
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Thank you to all who joined us today to celebrate the publication of "Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora," with authors Holly Mason Badra and Meryem Uzumcu.
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Join us next week for our first CHR Book Launch of the year!
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While the CHR will be hosting our own book launch for Holly Mason Badra next month (Sept. 12), we wanted to draw your attention to her DC launch TOMORROW!
@ Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
WEBSITE LINK: politics-prose.com/holly-mason-...
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Announcing 2025 Summer Research Grants- Faculty Recipients
Congratulations to these faculty members, who each received a competitive $3,500 CHR research grant to carry out humanities research this...
Congratulations to these faculty members, who each received a competitive $3,500 CHR research grant to carry out humanities research this summer!
Anu Aneja
Jianfei Chen
Sayed Elsisi
Jessica Hurley
Learn more about their work:
chr.gmu.edu/articles/22289
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The CHR's Annual theme for next year will be "Space, Territory, and Mobility."
Congratulations to our new faculty and graduate fellows!
Learn more about our fall 2025 and spring 2026 cohorts-
chr.gmu.edu/articles/22083
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CHR is thrilled to have the support of George Mason's Graduate Division to offer competitive summer fellowships to doctoral fellows conducting research in the humanities.
Read on to learn about our summer 2025 fellows:
chr.gmu.edu/articles/22174
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Today we hosted a talk by CHR Residential Fellow Huwy-min Liu entitled "Decolonizing Formosan Black Bears in Taiwan."
It was our final research talk of the term. A big thank you to our fellows for their fantastic presentations!
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We invite you to share how recent governmental actions have impacted your research, teaching, morale, or spirit. We also invite you to share perspectives on ways to move forward.
chr.gmu.edu/events/17026
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Learn more about the CHR's Keynote Speaker, Jeffrey J. Cohen, in advance of Annual Symposium with an extensive bibliography prepared by Alok Yadav: chr.gmu.edu/articles/22114
The keynote, "Monsters at the Limit," is TOMORROW, April 24.
Please register in advance: chr.gmu.edu/events/16473
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Learn more about the CHR's Keynote Speaker, Jeffrey J. Cohen, in advance of Annual Symposium with an extensive bibliography prepared by Alok Yadav: chr.gmu.edu/articles/22114
The keynote, "Monsters at the Limit," is TOMORROW, April 24.
Please register in advance: chr.gmu.edu/events/16473
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Our annual symposium is this week- please join us for Thursday's keynote and Friday's panels!
Full schedule/registration: chr.gmu.edu/events/16473
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CHR Residential Fellow Michael O'Malley (Professor, History and Art History) presented work-in-progress earlier this week in a talk entitled "You Laugh as He Laughs: Musical Machines and their Human Avatars at the turn of the 20th century."
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Wonderful event happening today- hosted by History/Art History!
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Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals.
Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
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The CHR is a proud co-sponsor of this symposium, happening tomorrow!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Celebrating Mason Vision Day at breakfast with CHSS colleagues 💚💛
Join me in making a gift to the Center for Humanities Research (CHR) today- chr.gmu.edu/give
Catherine Olien, Associate Director, CHR
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Read full piece here:
chr.gmu.edu/articles/22025
Calls to action can be found at the bottom of the article.
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We're halfway through our spring residential fellow talk series- please join us for three more talks in April!
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As part of the CHR Residential Fellow Talk series, this week we heard from PhD Candidate Caroline Greer (History and Art History), who presented a talk entitled "Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: The Female Itinerant Preacher's Body in the Nineteenth Century."
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Summer funding available!
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Learn more and apply at chr.gmu.edu/what-we-do/s...
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