Digital Humanities

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The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative supports digital humanities projects in research, teaching, and public outreach at Rutgers. Our programming includes a regular schedule of events, including workshops, lectures, and conferences. The DHI is an interdisciplinary group of scholars drawn from across the School of Arts and Sciences and the New Brunswick Libraries.

Global Asias

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Global Asias is a faculty collaborative for cross-disciplinary and trans-regional scholarship on Asia and its diasporas. Home to two-thirds of the world population, Asia sits at the center of key twenty-first century challenges, ranging from trade wars to nuclear proliferation, refugee crises to environmental disasters.  While the growing policy and academic emphasis on global processes and transnational relations challenges a traditional area studies model of scholarship, recent trends show nationalism and regionalism to be on the rise, due in part to globalization itself. Rutgers is home to a wide diversity of scholars actively engaging in research on Asia and its diasporas. Thus, we are uniquely positioned to take a leading role in reshaping conversations on the region.

Humanities Plus: The 21st Century Learner

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Humanities departments at Rutgers recently revised their offerings to meet the requirements of the Core Curriculum and created courses in entirely new or recalibrated categories: Byrne Family Seminars, Interdisciplinary Honors Seminars, and Language Engagement Courses.  These exciting curricular changes have asked faculty to focus on content. The Humanities Plus Initiative (HPI) asks faculty to turn their attention to the means by which students learn. To that end, HPI offers pedagogical grants in the form of research funds for all Humanities undergraduate courses of 3 credits or more, including Interdisciplinary Honors Seminars. Proposals that involve collaboration with or borrowing from disciplines beyond the Humanities are encouraged.

Language Bank

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The Language Bank is a free service provided by the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. Its mission is to provide high-quality translation and interpreting services to local non-profits, social services organizations, and outreach initiatives. The program provides our volunteers – Rutgers students, staff, and faculty – with the opportunity to engage with and serve the local community.

Language Engagement Project

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Rutgers is one of the most linguistically diverse universities in the nation; so is New Jersey among states. With funding from the Chancellor Office Rutgers-New Brunswick, the Division of Humanities established the Language Engagement Project (LEP) to recognize the linguistic diversity at Rutgers. LEP embraces and nurtures this reality across our institution. It  takes innovative approaches to language learning, including a series of curricular initiatives (e.g., courses modules) and activities that integrate languages and cultures across the curriculum. Most recently, the LEP launched the Language and Social Justice Initiative that addresses linguistic diversity and issues of social justice in three focus areas: research, pedagogy, and community engagement.

New Jersey Folk Festival

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The New Jersey Folk Festival is an annual festival, held the last Saturday in April as part of Rutgers day, presented under the auspices of the American Studies Department, which attracts 15,000 people to the sprawling grounds of Eagleton Institute. The festival's plan is a celebration of regional folk culture–folk arts, farm arts, folk music, and contemporary crafts. The goal is to stimulate awareness and appreciation for folklore and folk-life, past and present.

Public Humanities Initiative

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The Public Humanities Initiative supports research, teaching, and outreach by individual faculty or departments in the publicly engaged humanities. Publicly engaged scholarship and teaching is characterized by scholarly work directly related to a faculty’s academic expertise that benefits the external community; has public and scholarly impact; and is visible, shared, and collaborative with community stakeholders. Publicly engaged projects include artistic, critical, scientific, and humanistic work that influences, enriches, and improves the lives of people beyond the academy. This Initiative currently supports a Public Humanities Graduate Certificate, and a Public Humanities Graduate Summer Experiential Learning Program, among other projects. Our programming, often in coordination with other SAS departments, programs, and centers, includes a schedule of conferences, lectures, and workshops.

Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative

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The Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative fosters intellectual and creative exchange among students and faculty engaged in making, analyzing, and conceptualizing translation at Rutgers, creating a collaborative home for the diverse interdisciplinary work happening now at Rutgers and for promising new dialogues, projects, and theoretical horizons. New undergraduate and graduate curricula, a lecture series, translation workshops, collaborations with university presses to support new publications, and an inaugural spring symposium will launch in 2022-23, so be in touch now with Professor Karen Elizabeth Bishop, the first director, to join the collaboration.

Year of Languages

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The Year of Languages invites students, faculty, staff, university leaders, and alumni to consider deeply and to share across our communities why we value the languages we know and how we benefit from knowing more languages.  Across the Humanities and beyond, the Year of Languages will feature interdisciplinary courses; co-curricular programming; community outreach; programming in the visual and performance arts; food and culture festivals; and poster competitions to engage students, faculty, staff, and university leaders in thinking, feeling, and acting through languages.