2022 Annual Meeting: Network Meetings

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Annual Meetings have always been opportunities for our various member networks to meet, discuss their projects, and exchange best practices. With our meetings taking place online in the last two years, we have seen an expansion of the participation from the CHCI membership in network meetings. We want to preserve and build upon this expansion. At the same time, we recognize that a critical aspect of the in-person meetings before the pandemic was, appropriately enough, networking, socializing, and exchanging ideas face to face. This year, CHCI networks will hold online events in the couple of weeks preceding the conference and hold in-person, more informal gatherings in Durham, on May 19, 2022, the opening day of the conference. Registration for the main conference is not needed to participate in these events.

Public Humanities Network

The CHCI Public Humanities Network has been meeting since 2013 and is interested in questions of collaboration, engagement and impact in the context of diverse research partnerships internationally. The CHCI offers a unique networking opportunity for the global public humanities community and the pre-conference is designed to share conversations about emerging ideas, best practices and future opportunities.

In-person gathering

Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 1:00-3:00pm John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) Smith Warehouse, Duke University (114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Durham)

Call for Digital Responses

The Public Humanities Network of the CHCI invited digital responses to the theme, "How do you do Public Humanities?" from partner centers and institutes. All responses are now available for viewing in the digital exhibit, and will be displayed at the 2022 CHCI annual meeting.

Guidelines:

  • Digital responses should answer the question “How do you do Public Humanities?”
  • Digital responses can take the form of any suitable technology (TikTok; video; recorded interview; podcast excerpt; GIS map; etc.); if a video or other recording is made it should not exceed four minutes in length
  • Digital responses can include projects already made or in process, and may include a brief video explaining a project
  • Submissions can be in any language and can involve students, public fellows, and any other groups or individuals the member center or institute thinks appropriate
  • All submissions will be made to the Public Humanities Network Committee by the head, or representative, of a CHCI partner center or institute
  • Centers and institutes will be responsible for determining whether and how submitted projects may be shared according to relevant intellectual property guidelines
  • All submissions must adhere to responsible public speech

    Humanities Administration Network

    The newly reconfigured Humanities Administration Network, building on the contributions of its predecessors, aims to provide a platform for critical reflection on the work of institutes and centers and the unique roles they play, and have the potential to play, both within and outside the academy. Interrogating and theorizing the material, virtual, and philosophical spaces of the center, along with the aesthetic, affective, and political tasks they assume and perform, the intellectual labor of directing, as well as the relationship between knowledge (research, thought, creation) and the public, are examples of the kinds of themes that we will be addressing.

    In-person gathering

    Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 1:00-3:00pm John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) Smith Warehouse, Duke University (114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Durham)

    Online pre-conference sessions

    For the 2022 CHCI conference, the Humanities Administration Network is pleased to announce a two-part series of conversations: “Forming the Humanities: On Care” and “Traversing the Humanities: On Space.” We encourage and invite participation in both, but anyone is welcome to join in when they can. Each session will be introduced by brief provocations, followed by group conversation. The sessions are for anyone in any way engaged in the work of administering, facilitating, imagining, and creating spaces for humanities knowledge.

    Zoom Registration Links (registration for the main conference is not needed):
    Session One: "Forming the Humanities: On Care" (May 12, 12-1:30pm EST)
    Session Two: "Traversing the Humanities: On Space" (May 13, 12-1:30pm EST)

    Forming the Humanities: On Care (online session 1: May 12, 12-1:30pm EST)

  • Session recording (Youtube)

    If the concept of ‘administration’ refers genealogically to forms of ‘care’ (stewardship, accompaniment, taking care), thus largely exceeding the programming of measurable high research outputs amid the so-called economy of knowledge in the current neoliberal system (a teleological function towards productivity, growth, efficiency, applications), what does ‘care’ mean in and for the formation of the humanities? How does ‘care’ define instances which go from the mood and style which determine the intertwined research, thought and creation involved in the humanist task, passing through the evaluation of its processes and works, up to their political commitment and broad social role? How are these forms of care able to create a communitarian consensus in the humanities different from those of other forms of knowledge, especially those of the natural sciences?

    Traversing the Humanities: On Space (online session 2: May 13, 12-1:30pm EST)

  • Session recording (Youtube)

    If the task of the humanities center involves traversing and articulating several topologies, amid which the material space of its actual work, its symbolic space as an institution, and the interdisciplinary and intercultural space created by integrating and translating from heterogeneous discourses, times and cultures, how do centers clear such spaces for the arrival of the new, make room for the unexpected? More precisely, up to what extent are centers able to establish counter-institutional spaces which allow new possible futures, new inseminations between disciplines and cultures, new commitments to re-symbolize the real? How do or can these disruptive spaces promoted by the centers relate to traditional university faculty and departmental instances with their assigned tasks of preserving and communicating more or less agreed-upon knowledge? How can or must the centers establish a solution of continuity between these innovative spaces and contingency, making an impact in the usual relations and problems in human common life through a socially shared language?

    Health and Medical Humanities Network

    The CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network is a hub for health and medical humanities research and collaboration. With over 30 member institutions worldwide, the CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network is one of the largest organizations in the field, forging new interdisciplinary networks and collaborations between campus, clinic, and community.

    Hybrid gathering

    Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 1:00-3:00pm John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) Smith Warehouse, Duke University (114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Durham) and online. In order to virtually attend this gathering, please sign up for the network's mailing list here, or contact Helen Zhao to ask to join this gathering by Zoom.