May 2025
The 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop celebrated the work of 10 Brown University Ph.D. candidates completing the Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities and featured presentations of their innovative and timely work.
Sessions included commentaries from scholars Susan Bernstein (Brown University), David L. Eng (University of Pennsylvania), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia University), and Leela Prasad (Brown University), as well as a Q&A.
Presented by the Collaborative Humanities Initiative at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Schedule, abstracts, and bios: https://humanities.brown.edu/courses/doctoral-certificate/workshop2025
Sessions included commentaries from scholars Susan Bernstein (Brown University), David L. Eng (University of Pennsylvania), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia University), and Leela Prasad (Brown University), as well as a Q&A.
Presented by the Collaborative Humanities Initiative at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
- Aseel Azab-Osman (Religious Studies), “From Self-Actualization to Self-Attunement in Egyptian Post-Islamism”
- Matthew Ballance (Anthropology), “Imagining Risk: Time, Distance, and Profit on the Roads of the Southern Andes”
- Nick Bentz (Music and Multimedia Composition), “The Forming of Form: Listening, Likeness, and Interval in Sonic Structure”
- Elizabeth Berman (Modern Culture and Media), “Cut, Splice, Life: CRISPR and Cinematic Bioethics”
- Choa Choi (English), “‘A Present-Tense People’: Urban and Virtual Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s ‘There There’”
- Amber Hawk Swanson (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies), “‘SCANDAL! SALLY & MONICA SEX LOVE POWER SHAME WHO’S REALLY TO BLAME?’ Marisa Williamson’s ‘Sally & Monica’s Hot Tub Hangout’ (2014)”
- Shirley Mak (Musicology and Ethnomusicology), “The Silk Road Project: Towards an Ethics of Intercultural Music Making”
- Sönke Parpart (German Studies), “The ‘Aestheticization of Politics’ and the Fascist Sublime”
- Goutam Piduri (English), “‘Things that amaze, but will not make us wise’: Metaphor-Object Relations in Thomas Traherne”
- Sofía Rocha (Music and Multimedia Composition), “In the Shadow of Assimilation: Disidentification, Reclamation, and Identity in the Work of Arca and underscores”
Schedule, abstracts, and bios: https://humanities.brown.edu/courses/doctoral-certificate/workshop2025