Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Join us on Wednesday 4/17/24 at 11:00am, at the RPI Union, Mother’s room 1510, for an informal round-table discussion with educators about the value of engaging with local communities and extending institutional resources in the context of climate justice. Hosted by faculty in Rensselaer’s Department of Science and Technology Studies, this workshop is open to educators working in STEM fields, social sciences and humanities, the arts, architecture, and other areas. We will share strategies on how to care-fully and effectively incorporate community work into course syllabi and assignments.

You are invited to join the school of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences as we welcome John Storyk for a discussion about his career as an architect and studio designer. The talk will occur from 2:00 - 3:30 PM on Tuesday, April 9th in the HASS Media Studio, located on the first floor of the DCC - room 174.

The 82nd annual McKinney Reading Series and Student Awards Ceremony is Friday, April 19, 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the EMPAC Concert Hall, featuring 22nd US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Tracy K. Smith. Hosted by the Department of Communication and Media and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in collaboration with New York State Writers Institute, the event will feature the announcement of McKinney Student Writing Contest winners, a poetry reading, and audience Q & A. An opportunity to purchase books and meet the author will follow. 

Beginning on April 5th, 2024 at 7:00 PM, join FEMeeting Sister Labs, a conference bringing together women in art, science and technology, at The Sanctuary for Independant Media for two days of speakers, workshops, and community activities. NATURE Lab hosts FEMeeting Sister Labs right here in North Central Troy, NY, welcoming local and international artists, scholars, students and community members. All are welcome for this exciting weekend of events! 

How to mend a damaged planet, a fractured democracy, a ruptured institution, a shattered iPhone? Perhaps we could devise cross-scalar strategies of repair by examining the history, politics, and aesthetics of the repair manual as a didactic genre, a bibliographic species, and a creative form.

Please join the Cognitive Science department at 12 pm on Wednesday, April 3rd in Carnegie 113 for a presentation titled "Why studying individual differences in cognition is so hard and what can be done to make it easier" by Dr. Jeffrey Rouder of University of California Irvine.

Please join us for a concert by students of Jamecyn Morey, performing music by Antonio Vivaldi, including the Concerto for Four Violins and the Four Seasons. The performance will be held at the West Hall Auditorium on April 6th, 2024 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM.

Please join the HASS Science and Technology Studies Department on Wednesday, April 3rd at 11:30 in Sage Labs, room 5711, to listen to guest speaker Denielle Elliott, PhD, Associate professor of socio-cultural anthropology at York University, York Research Chair in Injured Minds. Deputy-Director of the Institute for Technoscience and Society. Her current research explores the embodied experience of people living with altered neuro states and knowledge-making practices in the clinic, laboratory, and neuro-tech industry, and their convergences.

Join us to discuss Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing with editors Denielle Elliott (Science and Technology Studies, York University) and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Science and Technology Studies, RPI) as they officially launch the book with a conversation about the multi-media, interdisciplinary collection. Naked Fieldnotes brings together examples of ethnographic writing from anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers with the aim of demystifying how they conduct qualitative research.

WMHT wants to hear from you! On April 10, from 12 to 1 PM, WMHT, our Public Broadcast Service for television for the Capital Region, invites students, faculty, and staff to join them in the Sage Labs Dean's Lounge to give feedback at one of their listening tour sessions. Tell them what is going on in your community; what should they know about where you live; what issues are important to you; how can WMHT better serve you and your community?