Workshop Schedule
The two-week Summer Institute will be held from Monday, June 19 to Saturday, July 1, 2024.
A full schedule of lectures, workshops, panel discussions, and site visits will be provided at least a month before the Institute. Broadly speaking, the first week will focus on the broad concepts and examples of integrating geographical perspectives into studies on literature, history, and philosophy. The second week will use Boston as a GeoHumanities laboratory, as we will visit sites associated with the city and region’s literary and philosophical traditions and rich histories, but also think about how localized knowledge can travel from one site to another.
Please see the institute’s schedule below:
Week 1: June 19 – June 23
Monday, June 19, 2024
- 8:30 am: Continental Breakfast
- 9 am: Dean’s Welcome; Co-directors Introductions
- 10:30 am: Coffee Break
- 11 am: Project Introductions – Lightning Talks (3 minutes, 12 presenters)
- 1 -4:30 pm: Excursion: North End Food Tours
Or
- 1 pm: Lunch Break
- 2 pm: Project Group Meetings
Tuesday, June 20, 2024
- 9 am: Workshop: Geography and Justice in the Humanities – Sarah Kanouse
- 10:30 am: Coffee Break
- 11 am: Project Introductions – Lightning Talks (3 minutes, 13 presenters)
- 1 -4:30 pm: Excursion: North End Food Tours
Or
- 1 pm: Lunch Break
- 2 pm: Project Group Meetings
Wednesday, June 21, 2024
- 9:30 am: Recap/Check-in
- 10 am: Lecture: Ongoing research in Material Culture and Historic Preservation (Title TBD) – Mary C. Sies
- Noon: Lunch Break
- 1 pm: Panel: Spatializing History – G. Heefner, K. Baumgartner, J. Linker (Nieves)
- 2:30 pm: Coffee Break
- 3 pm: DH Workshop: Overview of Digital Tools in the Humanities – Angel Nieves
Thursday, June 22, 2024
- 9:30 am: Recap/Check-in
- 10 am: Data Workshop: University-led displacements, Lakeland Community Heritage Projects – Mary Sies
- 12 pm: Lunch Break
- 1 pm: Panel: Project work time (individual or group)
Or
- Noon: Working lunch for Knowles affinity group
- 1 pm: Sies consultation with self-selected participants
- 3 pm: Coffee Break
- 3:30 pm: Workshop: Op-eds and Public Writing – Liz Bucar, Suzanna Walters
- 5:30 pm: Free Nights at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Friday, June 23, 2024
- 10 am: Morning Excursions
- Excursion 1: Environmental Justice Leventhal Map Center
- Excursion 2: African American Heritage Trail – Joel MacKall
- 12 -2 pm: Lunch and Travel Break
- 2 pm: Afternoon Excursions
- Excursion 1: Environmental Justice Leventhal Map Center
- Excursion 2: African American Heritage Trail – Joel MacKall
Week 2: June 26 – July 1
Monday, June 26, 2024
- 9:30 am: Recap/Check-in
- 10 am: Lecture: Ongoing research in Black Feminist Geographies (Title TBD) – Katherine McKittrick
- 12 pm: Lunch Break
- 1 pm: DH Workshop: “Deep Mapping” (Scalar) – Angel Nieves
- 2:30 pm: Coffee Break
- 3 pm: Excursion: Histories of Erasure/Urban Renewal – The West End Museum
Tuesday, June 27, 2024
- 9:30 am: Recap/Check-in
- 10 am: DH Workshop: Visualizing Neighborhoods with 360 Degree Videography – Angel Nieves
- 12 pm: Lunch Break; Working Lunch for McKittrick Affinity Group
- 1 pm: Project work time (individual or group) or McKittrick consultation with self-selected participants
- 3 pm: Coffee Break
- 3:30 pm: Panel: Spatializing Black Feminisms – McKittrick, A. Chan-Tack, N. Aljoe, L. Brown
Wednesday, June 28, 2024
- 9:30 am: Recap/Check-in
- 10 am: Lecture: Ongoing Research in African American Placemaking (Title TBD) – Bryan Carter
- 12 pm: Lunch Break
- 1 pm: Project work time (individual or group)
- 2 pm: Excursion: Slave Histories of Boston (Royall House, Faneuil Hall, Port Area) – Royal House Museum
Thursday, June 29, 2024
- 9:30 am: Recap/Check-in
- 10 am: Data Workshop: Virtual Harlem: Using VR to Recreate 1920s Harlem – Bryan Carter
- 12 pm: Lunch Break; Working Lunch for Roberts Affinity Group
- 1 pm: Project work time (individual or group) or Carter consultation with self-selected participants
- 3 pm: Coffee Break
- 3:30 pm: Excursion: Food and Cultures of Nubian Square and Roxbury – Collin Knight
Friday, June 30, 2024
- 10 am: Panel 1: Project Presentations and Reflections from 6 or 7 participants
- 1 pm: Group Lunch
- 2 pm: Panel 2: Project Presentations and Reflections from 6 or 7 participants
Saturday, July 1, 2024
- 10 am: Panel 1: Project Presentations and Reflections from 6 or 7 participants
- 1 pm: Group Lunch
- 2 pm: Panel 2: Project Presentations and Reflections from 6 or 7 participants
- 5 pm: Farewell Dinner – Location TBD