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Denbo Center funds faculty to attend DHSI in Montreal
The Denbo Center supported five faculty and graduate students at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), an annual digital scholarship training institute that is organized by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) and takes place at the Université de Montréal campus. Heather Coker Hawkins (Art/Cinema Studies), Jamal-Jared Alexander (English), Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud…
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Message from Director Amy Elias
It is such an honor to write to you at the end of this incredible building year for the Denbo Center! In our first full year at our new location at Cherokee Mills, and in the face of unsteady and often volatile national and international events as well as some key staff departures, we have…
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Burnett Joins Denbo Center as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs
UT Alumna Katharine Burnett joins Denbo Center to help grow research and public-facing programs for humanities and the arts. Katharine Burnett will join the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts in July as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs, a role central to Denbo’s future growth. In this role, she will help support the center’s…
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2024 End-of-Year Director’s Message
For all of us at the Denbo Center, this calendar year has been one of momentous change. In January we moved to the Cherokee Mills building on Sutherland Avenue, off campus but to a beautiful historic site and in our own suite with exactly the right vibe for arts and humanities research and community building.…
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Call for Applications: 2025 Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Application Deadline: January 6, 2025 The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee, in partnership with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), is providing funding for a week-long course at the 2025 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held at the Université de Montréal in Canada. Tentative dates for the course are…
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Quantum Canvases
Exploring the Arts & Humanities through Physics Story by Amy J. Elias What on earth (or beyond it) do physics and the humanities have in common? A lot more than you’d expect! In October of 2023, the Denbo Center collaborated with the UT Department of Physics and Astronomy and staff from the Geneva-based European Organization…
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Reflection: Michael Sutherlin
2023-24 Denbo Center Graduate Research Assistant My introduction to the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts was through my friend, Lucas Nossaman, who was a previous graduate fellow at the Humanities Center [in 2020-21]. After praising many facets of the Center, he concluded with the following comment: “Again, the [Center’s graduate] fellowship was wonderful,…
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One Health + Humanities Days
Arts + Humanities Interventions Equine history. Cinematic dance. Moroccan archaeology. Mental health. What do these topics have in common? They were just a few of the subjects explored during One Health + Humanities Days (OHHD), a collaborative partnership between the Denbo Center (then the UT Humanities Center) and the UT One Health Initiative (OHI). OHHD showcased…
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Denbo Center Fall 2024 Application Deadlines
The Denbo Center offers a number of internal funding and research opportunities for UT faculty and graduate students during FY25 and FY26. For a list of our fall 2024 application deadlines, see below. Some links may require your UT login to access SharePoint. October 15 • FY25 Manuscript Workshop • FY25 Book Proposal Workshop Program…
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Denbo Center seeks Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs
We’re hiring! The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a research center housed within the university’s College of Arts and Sciences and located in a historic off-campus suite housing seminar and reading rooms, conference space, fellowship offices, and communal spaces. The DCHA represents nine arts and humanities…