2019 • 3 months • Criminal Justice. Illinois Humanities mission is to strengthen the social, political, and economic fabric of Illinois through constructive conversation and community engagement. Utilizing art, music, literature, and other humanities as tools to stimulate discussion, they create experiences across Illinois through programming, events, and grantmaking to engage a diverse public on critical issues.. Envisioning Justice is a two-year initiative of the Illinois Humanities that engages Chicagoans in a citywide conversation about the criminal justice system. Participants from a cross-section of neighborhoods engage multimedia to re-envision a system that fosters justice, accountability, safety, support, and restoration for all people affected by crime and violence. Envisioning Justice centers the voices of those most affected by these issues while educating Chicagoans about the complexities of the criminal justice system and its outcomes. Envisioning Justice leverages the arts to ... Benefits. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and leadership at other similarly situated non-profit organizations. Hanover Habitat offers an excellent benefits package including 401K Match, Health, Dental, Simple IRA, Sick Leave and Vacation.. About Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.. Habitat for Humanity International is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best ... While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in coming to terms with empathy is due to the modernist dichotomies that have structured Western medical discourse, such that doctor and patient, knower and known, cognitive and emotional, subject and object are situated in oppositional terms, with the result that such accounts cannot coherently encompass an emotional doctor, or a patient as knower, or empathy as other than a possession or a trait. This paper explores what, by contrast, a radical critique of the Cartesian world view, in the form of a Deleuzean theoretical framework, would open up in new perspectives on empathy. We extend the framework of emotional geography to ask what happens when people are affected by empathy. We suggest that doctors and patients might be more productively understood as embodied subjects that ... The Age of Misrule is proving to be a fantastic read. Adding a bit to what is explored in a fantastic review at rob will review, in the Age of Misrule Chadbourn presents something of the anti-Tolkien fantasy, while embracing many of its standards. Tolkien explores Britains mythology by creating a world where magic is leaving, and humanity in all its imperfection is rising. Chadbourn explores Britains mythology by taking our world and bringing back the magic, myths and legend - a world where humanity may be on the way out. All at once, humanity looses science, technology, and religion. Chadbourn shows us a world where all humanity has is each other as they fight for survival and they slowly understand what they may have gained through their loss. This is an exploration of humanity - the reality of humanity rather than its ideals, what has been lost through science, technology, and dogmatic religion, and what just might be gained. This is a series that has completely captured me and I cant wait ... This reflective fad foreshadows some of the tensions current between nature poetry, ecological poetry, and ecological issues. And these tensions are linked to the perceived problems of contemporary experimental American poetry itself that is, that it is somehow out of touch, cloistered, urban, interior. As Jonathan Skinner says in the introduction to his new literary journal, Ecopoetics, "walks do not make it into the closed environments of today s best poetry." However, Juliana Spahr has pointed out in recent readings and essays that such poetry, the poetry of "walks," smacks of old-fashioned Nature poetry, a poetry that, says Spahr, doesn t include the "bulldozer" along with the "bird." But then there s the other extreme, a poetry that too obviously delineates the battles between bulldozer and bird, and expects deep yet instant change in human actions toward the environment, while making no deep and intrinsic change within its own poetical structure. Ecopoetics showcases a more experimental ... The Columbia Museum of Art will create and provide educator tools and programs based on American Impressionism themes for South Carolina K-12 educators to complement the exhibit Charles Courtney Curran: Seeking the Ideal which will be on display from February 20 - May 17, 2015. An "Evening for Educators" will be held on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., and an Educator Workshop will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2015. SC Humanities supported these educational efforts with a Mini Grant in January 2015.. The exhibit Charles Courtney Curran: Seeking the Ideal will bring together 58 Curran masterpieces and will be on display from February 20 - May 17, 2015 at the Columbia Museum of Art. Curran is among the select group of artists who brought Impressionism to America.. The exhibition will offer the opportunity for educators from across South Carolina to explore many subjects with their students including English Language Arts, American history, social studies, science, and ... 2015 Offers/Awards. Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff, AZ. NEH: $122,524 Nonfederal Matching: $367,574 Total Project: $490,098. Title: Revitalizing Community Connections in the Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau Gallery. Project Description: Renovation of space in the Ethnology section of MNAs Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau exhibition.. Imperial Valley Desert Museum Society, Inc. Ocotillo, CA. NEH: $260,000 Nonfederal Matching: $520,000 Total Project: $780,000. Project Title: Endowing the Imperial Valley Desert Museum: Broadening Humanities Perspectives in Archeology and in Non-museum Going Demographics. Boulder Museum of History Boulder Historical Society, Inc. Boulder, CO. NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $2,140,000 Total Project: $2,640,000. Project Description: Support the creation of the new Museum of Boulder in a repurposed Masonic Lodge building in downtown Boulder, Colorado. Gainesville University of Florida Libraries Gainesville, FL. NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: ... Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes: Live in Richmond, was produced by the Virginia Folklife Program at Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, on its Virginia Folklife Recordings Label. Virginia Folklife Recordings boasts over a dozen titles of some of Virginias finest traditional music, including bluegrass, old time, gospel and blues.. Representing the broad spectrum of todays global independent music scene, the Independent Music Award Nominees in over 80 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories were culled from thousands of submissions from North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Greenland and Europe. Winners will be determined by a panel of influential artist and industry judges including Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Ziggy Marley, Suzanne Vega, Meshell Ndegeocello, Del McCoury, Pete Wentz, Shelby Lynne, Jim Lauderdale, McCoy Tyner, Brandi Carlile, Judy Collins, and others. The results will be announced later this month.. In addition to industry-determined Winners, ... McGrath: One is the kind of poetry that might be called tactical, about some immediate thing: a strike, lets say; some immediate event. The poet should give it as much clarity and strength as he can give it without falling into political slogans, clichés and so on. I also thought we needed another kind of poetry that is not keyed necessarily to immediate events, a poetry in which the writer trusts himself enough to write about whatever comes along, with the assumption that what he is doing will be, in the long run, useful, consciousness raising or enriching. A strategic poetry, lets say. There have been a lot of tactical poems directed to particular things, and those poems now are good in a certain sort of way, but the events they were about have moved out from under them, Somebody asked Engels, "What happened to all the revolutionary poetry of 1848?" He replied: "It died with the political prejudices of the time." That is bound to be the fate of a lot of tactical poetry. But thats O.K. If ... In the maiden voyage of this column, Poetry for the Nervous, Vol 1, I led with the principle that what you love, what strikes you, what moves you in poetry is what matters. Critics do not matter. The judgments of others do not matter. Poetry is yours to dispose as your heart dictates. If your teachers or friends impose upon you some poem or poet they champion, and you just dont get it, there is no need to think yourself stupid or inadequate, nor to give up on poetry as a whole. You will find what you love eventually, because poetry in its essence is as deep within us as our desire to communicate.. From an appeal towards what you love, Ill work into something a bit less romantic. I think the best poetry is also useful. Thats a dangerous word in the world of art, wrapped up as it is in the most ancient debates about aesthetics and utility, but Im always ready to argue that gallery art is great, but does it really beat, say, a well crafted chair that is beautiful to behold, and is also very ... The fundamental reason why the "Greens" oppose shale oil and gas is because their real target is not climate at all, but oil and gas companies (throw all coal business into the pot for good measure). It is the companies they seek to destroy and the climate fairy tale is just a pretext. The reason, in turn, why they seek to destroy oil and gas companies, is because they see them as the foundation of wealth and prosperity around the world, but especially in the West, in which they are correct. So, if they can hit oil and gas, they pull down the whole of humanity with it, in particular all the democratic and prosperous societies of the West.. The "Greens" hate humanity. There has never been such an anti-humanistic movement in humanitys political history.. From the point of view of climate science, it makes no sense at all to talk about human CO2 emissions, while ignoring natural emissions and natural CO2 absorption. Human emissions are only about 4% of all CO2 emissions-most of which comes from ... Articles. The "specific evidentness" of contemporary radical landscape poetry: innovative form and spatial presence in The Ground Aslant, English 65.251 (2016), 363-386.. Walking Women: Embodied Perception in Romantic and Contemporary Radical Landscape Poetry,The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (forthcoming).. Book Chapters. Affinities with innovative and visual poetry in the work of Geoffrey Hill, for publication in a volume on the poetics of Geoffrey Hill, edited by Andrew Michael Roberts, Shearsman (forthcoming).. Walking and Visual Perception in Romantic and Modernist Literature, co-written with Andrew Michael Roberts, for publication in The History of Distributed Cognition, Edinburgh University Press (currently under peer review).. Edited Journals. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, special issue on Traversing the Field conference proceedings, co-edited with Alice Tarbuck (forthcoming).. Conferences Organised:. Traversing the Field: An Interdisciplinary ... The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is one of 14 academic colleges at the University of Houston. With nearly 10,000 students, CLASS is the largest college of the university, and was established in 2000 after the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication and the College of Social Sciences merged. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication University of Houston College of Humanities University of Houston College of Social Sciences Department of Health and Human Performance Department of History Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluations and Statistics The college offers degree programs in the following areas: African American Studies, Anthropology, Communication, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Economics, English, Folklore, Hispanic Studies, History, Modern & Classical Languages, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Religious Studies, ROTC, Sociology, Visual Studies, and Womens Studies. In ... Phil Brown joined Northeastern University in 2012 after 32 years at Brown University. He is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, and director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI), which extends the work of the Contested Illnesses Research Group, which started in 1999 at Brown. SSEHRI has many federal research and training grants from both the NIH and NSF, involving collaboration between social science and environmental health science, including a decade of work with Silent Spring Institute. SSEHRI trains graduate students and postdocs in this interdisciplinary work, and develops curriculum for expanding that training nationally.. Phil Brown is the author of No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action, and Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement, and co-editor of Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine, Social Movements in Health, and Contested Illnesses: ...