UH Comparative Cultural Studies

Winning exchange: How the University of Houston keeps producing Fulbright scholars | The Hispanic-serving institution is becoming a model for success in getting talented scholars into the international program.

Song of Me | May 27 - June 12 Philip’s getting married. But first, he's reconciling his past.

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Curating the Ethnographic Moment - Archive Journal ¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 By vastly increasing the volume and types of data that field researchers can collect, digital technologies have reshaped ethnographers’ relationship with their accumulated research data and materials. Whereas paper-based fieldnotes and other physical ethnograp...

We are happy to feature the University of Houston – Downtown Center for Critical Race Studies in partnership with The Houston Young Lawyers Association (HYLA) and Kindred Spirits Design Co. as an Education House resource for Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race… Theory?

In this installation, visitors are met with thought-provoking illustrations, questions, and answers with the aim of quelling curiosity about CRT’s past, present, and purpose. In visiting the Education house, guests walk away with a deeper understanding of CRT, and therefore, are better equipped to engage with the remaining featured art houses and beyond.

Currently on view for Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race...Theory?, curated by Danielle Burns-Wilson. Open Wednesday – Sunday from 12 – 5 pm until June 5th, 2022.

To learn more about Round 53, visit https://projectrowhouses.org/rounds/round-53-curious-case-ii/

Photo by Alex Barber.

The Anthropology of Emotional Violence To better understand humanity, Associate Professor says anthropologists need to pay attention to the kinds of violence that don’t always leave a mark.

Join us Friday with The African American Library at The Gregory School and Hobby School of Public Affairs.

The Center for Public History 100 Years of Stories project is part of an innovative storytelling collaboration and interactive public history initiative that showcases the important role the University has had played in shaping the city. Learn by following the link! https://bit.ly/3upctRJ

Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 95 year old Sir David Attenborough and 88 year old Dr. Jane Goodall.They've dedicated their lives to educate and protect our Planet!!

Please join the University of Houston's Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies and UH Staff Council Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee on Thursday, April 28 at 12:00 pm CT (10:00 am Los Angeles / 1:00 pm New York / 6:00 pm London / 8:00 pm Jerusalem) in celebration of National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM)!

The 2022 NAAHM Webinar, "Arab American Women: Voices from the Grassroots," will feature contributions from Dr. Nadine Naber (Professor of Women University of Illinois Chicago), Mary Harb (Principal Founder, Palestinian American Women's Association), Dr. Zeina Zaatari (Director, Arab American Cultural Center, University of Illinois Chicago), and Jehan Hakim (Chair, Yemeni Alliance Committee).

Please register for this event here: bit.ly/aaefcas

This event is open to the public!

Please contact [email protected] for any questions regarding this event.

We're open! Visit Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race... Theory? at PRH from 12-5pm, Wednesday-Sunday. This Round invites us to explore how and why Critical Race Theory (CRT), an analytical framework designed for graduate-level discourse, escaped the academy and became a cultural chimera and catch-all for personal assumptions and/or systems of belief about race in public meetings, education, social media, and among the pundit and political classes.

In the Education House of Round 53 (pictured here), Houston attorneys from the Houston Young Lawyers Association join scholars and students from the University of Houston-Downtown’s Center for Critical Race Studies to explore the evolution of CRT from its legal studies beginnings to its present-day status as a legal obsession. With visual aids provided by Kindred Spirits Design Co., the house highlights the major premises of the academic theory alongside key passages of current legislation in the Texas Senate, which aims to ban CRT in publicly funded schools for good. Visitors to the house will be met with thought-provoking illustrations, questions, and answers that aim to quell curiosity about CRT’s past, present, and purpose, and will walk away better equipped to engage with the remaining art houses in Round 53.

Round 53 is Danielle Burns Wilson's debut as Curator and Art Director at PRH. Participating Artists include David-Jeremiah, Leah Gipson, Tammie Rubin, Adam W. Mckinney, Bradley Ward, ROUX (a collective comprised of Rabea Ballin, Ann Johnson, Lovie Olivia, and Delita Martin), UHD Center for Critical Race Studies, HYLA, and Kindred Spirits Design Co.

Photo by Alex Barber.

Dear friends, please join this amazing multidisciplinary and transnational group of scholars to think on, with, and beyond Mudimbe, and explore the insights offered by his work for rethinking African studies and the decolonial turn.

Thursday, 21 April 2022 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST
It is going to be lit!

Register Here to attend:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvceuhrj8oGN0nvr8SImuggsioEkA__CaJ

Undergraduate & graduate students spending the summer in Houston: apply for an internship at TPM ☀️ Send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] by April 30th. We are looking for motivated students interested in:

👉 Collections, Archives, & Cataloging
👉 Education and Interpretation
👉 Communications / Digital Media
👉 Digitization

Sale on texts in religious studies!

Religion Princeton University Press | Religion Catalog | 2021 | Subject Catalog

Stories from the Third Ward dives deep into local histories of Houston's Third Ward. In this special episode of Public Historians at Work, UH graduate student in Art History; Sheri Schrader- leads us through the art and legacy of the influential and inspirational, Dr. John T. Biggers. Listen to the podcast by clicking the link below!
https://bit.ly/3KxdxKB

The U of H Center for Public History Lecture Series event on the Texas Blackout looks at the power grid failure and the historical context of national blackouts. Click the link below to watch the discussion panel!
https://bit.ly/3fMjjeX

Please join the Department of African American Studies for their Endeavors Seminar Series on An Anthropology of Abolition/Liberation with facilitator Aimee Cox, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology.

When: Thursday, March 31, 2002
Time: 11:45 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Zoom Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/94116359898

Join us for this exciting conversation online today at 12pm CST--
The Department of Comparative Cultural Studies presents "Rooted: A Discussion on Plants, Race, and Science".
Register here: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pd-uhqD0pG9S8qbVhMtYJyv3o9ZlYSKEY

Great opportunity for a community training! Check it out.

April 1st - ! Limited seating! Register by tomorrow! Ever wonder about how “work”? Join the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and CPH for a behind-the-scenes look at everything that goes in to creating the exhibitions you enjoy! https://bit.ly/3i9R4a0

You love it or you hate it, but does the polarizing taste perception of cilantro/coriander rely on a gene variant?

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Rooted: A Discussion on Plants, Race, and Science. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The Department of Comparative Cultural Studies presents "Rooted: A Discussion on Plants, Race, and Science". This event features panelists Gabriela Soto LaVeaga, Ph.D. (Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University), Jeannie Shinozuka, Ph.D. (Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Soka Uni...

Sharing Stories from 1977 launch party is on March 22 featuring a full day of exciting panels that you will not want to miss.
Registration links and QR codes (in-person or virtual) in poster below.
Sharing Stories from 1977

Dissertation Award – Association for Feminist Anthropology Dissertation Award The Association for Feminist Anthropology supports a cash grant ($2,000) competition for individuals completing the writing phase of a dissertation that makes a significant contribution to feminist anthropology (across all subfields). The doctoral candidate may be pursuing an anth...

A pioneer in anthropology.

UH Libraries Digital Research Commons is pleased to announce the 2nd annual DH@UH, an event convening UH humanists, data scientists, librarians, and digital humanities practitioners at every level. Save the date for April 11 - 13!

https://libraries.uh.edu/about/news/dh-uh-2022/

"A remarkable 36 UH students have earned Fulbright grants since 2018, one more than in the previous 51 years combined. Those recipients are conducting research and teaching English in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, and Turkey. Five UH students were also named alternates. "

International Impact In what was the most competitive application year in the Fulbright Program’s more than 75-year history, the University of Houston has once again emerged as a top producer of Fulbright U.S. students.

Performance at UH March 10th by artist and anthropologist Maya Stovall. Join us!

Maya Stovall: Theorem, no. 2 Performance | Blaffer Art Museum All Events Date Mar 10 2022 Time 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Maya Stovall: Theorem, no. 2 Performance Thursday, March 10 3:00pm–5:00pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Theorem, no. 2, which will debut at the University of Houston on March 10, 2022, is a continuation of Maya Stovall’s Theorem series, as well a...

With CCS professor Dr. Debarati Sen!

Webcast: How Microfinance in Urban India Relies on Unpaid and Underpaid Female Labor Commercial microfinance in India is a subprime credit industry that lends to over 35 million working-class women at interest rates of 20 to 26 percent. In th...