What does it mean to be mentally healthy? The answer has changed over time, says philosopher and historian of science Anya Plutynski. Her research on early 20th-century “mental hygiene” practitioners shows that some providers of the era sought to establish factors and skills that boosted patients’ mental health and prevented symptoms of mental illness from arising. That’s a
What happens when we inhabit the world of a famous story and the story seeps into our own? By analyzing performances of Shakespeare’s plays and Greek tragedies in four 21st-century contexts a reconstructed historical playhouse, open-world theatre, virtual reality and augmented reality Assistant Professor of Drama Elizabeth Hunter proposes a new theory of spectatorship in
A midcentury surge of schoolteachers, trained as agents of rural progress, brought modern education to even the most remote areas of the Andean provinces of Peru. Faculty Fellow Javier García Liendo offers a preview of his book in progress, “The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru.”
With his new book project, humanities center Faculty Fellow and philosopher Casey O’Callaghan taps a range of sources from scientific literature to philosophical theories to memoirs to explore how our senses shape what matters to us.
“Many of us know a good deal about what we might call the signature events of the midcentury Black freedom struggle the events that have been ‘iconized’ in photographs,” says Paige McGinley, associate professor of performing arts and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities. “But what is less well known is how ordinary people prepared to do extraordinary things.”