Programming
Open to all faculty, staff, and students interested in conversing about the theme of Bodies. We meet every 2-3 weeks during the fall semester to discuss a new text that relates to the colloquium’s theme. Meetings encourage lively discussion full of diverse and interdisciplinary thoughts and perspectives. Colloquia are organized as a series of drop-in sessions.
Contact for More InformationAll are welcome: students, colleagues, and community members. The Space + Place Colloquium meets 8 times per semester for informal discussions of topics related to the study of space and place and the human experience. We also like maps a lot. Each conversation is different. All are welcome to jump in for any single meeting and are welcome to come and go.
Contact for More InformationThe Global Humanities Working Group (GHWG) participates in a special seminar on a new topic each year. Members of this interdisciplinary community gather for an hour each month to read and discuss notable scholarship on the annual them, often sourcing works from each participant’s respective areas of specialization. Seminar members are provided modest stipends or research funds for full participation across the year’s meetings. Participants also have the option to draw on FHC funding and support to work together across the following summer to develop (joint) projects related to the annual research theme.
Translations is an FHC Colloquium open to the entire campus community. We meet once a month during the Spring semester to discuss the topic of “translation” across languages, texts, and media. Faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend as many meetings as they wish. Calendar and readings are disseminated prior to every meeting through email.
Participants engage in low-stakes, open-ended, exploratory conversations with colleagues on the article, book (chapter), podcast episode, digital resource or project that has most captured their attention of late. Open to all Furman faculty and staff.
Each semester the Furman Humanities Center teams up with the Faculty Development Center to jointly run Write Now! writing accountability groups for faculty. The FHC and FDC work with faculty to support sustainable and productive writing practices, including establishing clear, achievable, and meaningful writing goals and building supportive writing accountability communities. Faculty participants earn $500 stipends per semester for full program participation.