BOONE - This spring the Humanities Council will feature the works of new faculty during "Warm Up with the Humanities." The event will take place February 26, 2016, from 1pm to 4pm in Belk Library room 421. Hot chocolate will be served during the event.
"By featuring the research of new faculty, we will highlight the continuing importance of the humanities in developing the conceptual frameworks, contextual understandings, and interdisciplinary perspectives necessary to address the complex problems facing society today," says Dr. Nancy Love, Humanities Council Coordinator.
Two different presentation formats will be used, including traditional 30 minute lectures, and 3 minute (3MR) presentations. There will be added time for discussion between audience and presenters.
The following presentations will be given by six professors from across the College of Arts and Sciences.
"At the Foot of the Beast: Ethnographic Research with Gang Communities in Honduras"
Jon Carter, Anthropology Department
This presentation examines the everyday impacts of free-trade policy, the War on Drugs, and immigration, with particular attention to transnational street gangs in Honduras who have been the target of mass incarceration for over a decade.
"Appalachian Wine Rhetorics: Framing the Region's Vineyards"
Jessica Blackburn, English
This presentation will argue that the commodification of Appalachia vis-a-vis winemaking represents a new formation of regional identity that is derivative and inimitable, as well as local and global.
"Saving the Sea, Socially: Measuring Correlations Between Rhetorical Strategy and Common Social Behaviors of Engagement on Facebook"
Sarah Beth Hopton, English and Mitch Parry, Computer Science
This presentation explores the relationship between gesture and content on the social media platform Facebook.
"Black Genocide: American and West German Protest Movements and Changing Social Memories of Mass Violence in the 1960s and 1970s"
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
This presentation demonstrates how the Black Panther Party, GI resistance, and the Students for a Democratic Society collaborated in modifying genocide imageries that radicalized the late 1960s protests, influencing how we confront genocidal crimes today.
"The Cruelty of Critique: Philosophy and Violence"
Rick Elmore, Philosophy Department
This presentation addresses the question of how violence might be essential to the practice of philosophy, based on Rick Elmore's current book project.
"When the Subaltern Speaks: Insights from the USA"
Cary Fraser, Government & Justice Studies
This presentation will explore the legal tradition in American life which has been used to marginalize people of color in American society, building on the work done on subaltern groups by Indian historians.
For additional information visit humanitiescouncil.appstate.edu/