Humanities Institute at The University of Texas at Austin

📣📣Reminder📣📣

STUDENTS: Register for the Project Management Workshop, part of the Humanities Institute’s Professional Development Program. This workshop run by Stephanie Childress equips participants with practical tools for leading collaborative projects with clarity, efficiency, and shared expectations through interactive sessions. This workshop will take place on April 20th, 2026 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am via Zoom.

RSVP using the link in bio.

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:

Futures Beyond Militarism: Confronting Violence, Restoring the Sacred
A two‑day conference bringing together scholars, artists, and activists to imagine and enact global alternatives to militarism.

🎬Day 1: Thursday, April 23 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us for a free public screening of Mālama Mākua (2025)—winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2025 Hawai‘i International Film Festival. The documentary traces grassroots efforts to return militarized lands to Native Hawaiian stewardship and connects local resistance to global movements for demilitarization and environmental justice. Screening followed by a Q&A with the director, cast, and producer Dr. Laurel Mei‑Singh (UT Austin).

🌏Day 2: Friday, April 24 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The full conference convenes international scholars and activists to explore how communities confront violence, restore sacred relationships, and build sustainable, interdependent futures. Free breakfast and lunch provided. Special performance by Viva Palestina Orchestra.

RSVP linked in bio.
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The Co-Sponsorship Program is a Humanities Institute initiative that funds public-facing UT events that align with HI’s core mission to support the advancement of the humanities. To be notified of the next opportunity to apply and keep up with all of our initiatives, please sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio.

This week at the Humanities Institute:

HI research funding applications for 5x5, Research Working Groups, Humanities Research Awards, and the Laboratory Catalyst Program due 4/3

Curating Black Studies with Dr. LaCharles Ward
4/1 @ 5:00 PM

E3W Sequels Conference
4/4 @ 7:00 PM

Transdisciplinary Ecological Engagement as Rhetorical Practice with the Urban Bird Project
4/6 @ 4:00 PM

Learn more at the links in bio.

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:

The Spanish Atlantic on Paper: Methods on Material Culture and Critical Bibliography
April 9th - 10th, 2026, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Located at the Institute for Historical Studies and the Benson Latin American Collection.
Join us for a two‑day symposium bringing together scholars of textual, visual, and material cultures across the Spanish Atlantic world. Together, we’ll explore how examining materiality reshapes our understanding of the historical geographies of the Spanish empire, the “New World,” Latin America, the United States, and their interconnected borderlands.
The program includes: five invited speaker lectures, a showcase of the Benson Latin American Collection’s treasures, a book discussion and panel conversations on archives, digital objects, & curatorial practice.

Light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments provided throughout the day.
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The Co-Sponsorship Program is a Humanities Institute initiative that funds public-facing UT events that align with HI’s core mission to support the advancement of the humanities. To be notified of the next opportunity to apply and keep up with all of our initiatives, please sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio.

Reminder: applications are open for HI’s research funding opportunities, including 5x5 Incubator Grants, Research Working Groups (RWGs), and Laboratory Catalyst Program (LCP). Swipe through to see what these opportunities have to offer and learn more at the link in our bio.

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:
Transdisciplinary Ecological Engagement as Rhetorical Practice with the Urban Bird Project
April 6th, 2026 at 4:00 PM in the Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 1
Join us for a talk exploring the collaborative, justice‑centered work of the Urban Bird Project (UBP), a transdisciplinary initiative connecting Rhetoric, Ecology, and Chicanx & Indigenous Studies through the study of local, migratory, and culturally significant birds.
Led by faculty and graduate students at UT San Antonio and developed alongside communities across South Texas, Greater México, and beyond, this presentation highlights emerging projects that model ecological engagement as a rhetorical and relational practice.
RSVP link in bio.
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The Co-Sponsorship Program is a Humanities Institute initiative that funds public-facing UT events that align with HI’s core mission to support the advancement of the humanities. To be notified of the next opportunity to apply and keep up with all of our initiatives, please sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio.

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:

Las Muertes Mas Bellas: Screening and Talkback happening on March 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM. Join us as they discuss the story of the Salvadoran-Wachintonian artists who made art out of war and displacement.

Funding provided by the Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in
Liberal Arts and Fine Arts.

Learn more here: https://www.lasmuertesfilm.com/

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:

Narratives of Resistance: Human Rights, Memory, and Democracy in the Americas

March 26, 2026, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
RLP 1.302D

This event will feature Dr. Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, President of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes—ICFJ Knight Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of Efecto Cocuyo, a digital‑native media outlet specializing in human rights—in a public conversation about how narratives—personal, political, and collective—shape the struggle for human rights and democracy in Latin America.

Funding provided by the Sterling Clark Holloway Centennial Lectureship in Liberal Arts



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The Co-Sponsorship Program is a Humanities Institute initiative that funds public-facing UT events that align with HI’s core mission to support the advancement of the humanities. To be notified of the next opportunity to apply and keep up with all of our initiatives, please sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio.

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:
Book release date: March 25, 2026 @ 6:00PM - 8:00 PM at Alienated Majesty Books
Diné poet Jake Skeets celebrates the release of his second book of poems, Horses, with a reading at Alienated Majesty Books.
Poetry reading date: March 26, 2026 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM at UT Poetry Center, PCL
Join Diné poet Jake Skeets and UT Austin Professor of Anthropology Anthony K. Webster as they discuss Skeets’ second book of poems, Horses, followed by a reading.
RSVP links in bio. Funding provided by the Barron Ulmer Kidd Centennial Lectureship.

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The Co-Sponsorship Program is a Humanities Institute initiative that funds public-facing UT events that align with HI’s core mission to support the advancement of the humanities. To be notified of the next opportunity to apply and keep up with all of our initiatives, please sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio.

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring:

New Generations Conference

March 25, 2026, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM
WCP Student Activity Center, 3.116 Balcony Room C 8am-4pm and RLP 1.302B 5pm-9pm

New Generations aims to provide an accessible forum for young scholars, spread across a variety of disciplines and fields to come together, share ideas and research, and give new, and experienced, graduate students an opportunity to present at a conference. Against the background of current events impacting the body, the use of power, and memory in the Middle East, this conference encourages researchers to rethink established assumptions and methods of analysis within our discipline. Keynote Speaker: Sara Omar (Georgetown University)

Funding provided by the Barron Ulmer Kidd Centennial Lectureship.

RSVP link in bio.



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The Co-Sponsorship Program is a Humanities Institute initiative that funds public-facing UT events that align with HI’s core mission to support the advancement of the humanities. To be notified of the next opportunity to apply and keep up with all of our initiatives, please sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio.