The Melloniad 2018

Public Humanities! Whatever for?... Read more about The Melloniad 2018

Cocktail Party Mellonites

Ask us for one word, for this moment now, roughly 7pm at the Thursday evening cocktail party, June 21^st, aka the Solstice, International Yoga Day, and Katharina’s birthday, and we’ll say:

Generative.

Lighting the mood.

Diversity & resilience.

Passion.

Lovely.

Joy.

Anger.

Sunshine.

Dystopia.

Sí.

Nice driveway.

Bubble.

Sacrum.

Performance anxiety

Times Two.

Mellifluous.

Questioning the "Public" in Public Humanities

The second week of the Mellon School has, so far, seen us explore in greater detail some of the assumptions underpinning this year's theme of public humanities. Tuesday found us returning, in particular, to the question of who exactly constitutes the 'public' we keep referring to?... Read more about Questioning the "Public" in Public Humanities

“A Strange-ness in My Mind”

-How was your day at Mellon School?... Read more about “A Strange-ness in My Mind”

On crumbling edifices and what’s to be done.

On the first floor of the Harvard Art Museums in the Social Realism gallery is David Alfaro Siqueiros’ El Fin del Mundo. Red and orange flames creep from behind a large stone edifice, with a small and solitary human figure in the foreground, arms cast upward in a gesture of terror or helplessness. ... Read more about On crumbling edifices and what’s to be done.

Great Reckonings in (and on) Little Boxes

Sarah Bay-Cheng’s visit to Mellon School 2018 offered attendees (are we Mellonites? Mellonheads?) an occasion to think seriously about the digital as framework through which to understand our efforts at public engagement. In brief, her lively talk sketched out the interplay between the persisting figure of the box set and interventions from the world of contemporary art and performance into our increasingly thoroughgoing digital culture.

Long Live the Mellon Pajama Party

One of the aspects of college life I loved the most was the fact that much of the learning took place outside the classroom.

Publics, Theatres & Performance

To open the 2018 edition of the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research, Martin Puchner asks us to imagine the gathering through the work of the public humanities.

June 2018