Please see the following message from Teresa Mangum, Director for the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

The Obermann Center is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and I wanted to share the latest CHCI newsletter. It includes several opportunities that might appeal to our humanities faculty. Feel free to share with faculty in your departments and units, especially those interested in international, collaborative, and or publicly engaged humanities. Teresa

1. We at the Obermann Center help out if you’d like to apply for a Mellon-funded Global Humanities Institute grant. Past recipients have worked with colleagues across the world on exciting initiatives that you can read about here: https://chcinetwork.org/programs.
2. Note that any of our faculty interested in connecting with publicly engaged humanities scholars are welcome to attend the upcoming Town Hall hosted by the Public Humanities Network within CHCI. (You can also view the panel on public humanities held at the National Humanities Summer conference this summer—see link below.)
3. Finally, the lectures from this year’s meeting at Duke University are available online. All are interesting, but this session, South-South Interfaces of Intellectual Traditions and Everyday Activism (Youtube), was just astonishing: Thozama April, University of Fort Hare and Chérie Ndaliko, UNC-Chapel Hill. The topic of Ndaliko’s talk was her community garden, which she describes as—“the plot in resistance to the [academic] plantation”—was transformative for many in the audience.