{"id":18332,"date":"2017-09-07T08:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18332"},"modified":"2017-09-07T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:39:55","slug":"18332_institute-for-the-humanities-events-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/2017\/09\/07\/18332_institute-for-the-humanities-events-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute for the Humanities Events 2017-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the Institute for the Humanities is happy to announce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/institute-for-humanities\/upcoming-events\/\">programming for 2017-18<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Institute\u2019s regular annual events, this year\u2019s slate of programs includes the return of Spanish Day as well as pedagogical workshops on theme-based teaching and object-based teaching. <\/p>\n<p>Anchoring the fall programs are Classics Day and World Cultures Day. Now in its third decade, Classics Day will take place on Friday, October 2. &nbsp;Designed to preview college-level classical studies to high school students, it features presentations on classical culture and a contest in Latin grammar, Mythology, and Roman Civilization. &nbsp;The Institute will celebrate universality on Friday, December 1, with World Cultures Day. This year\u2019s program is entitled &quot;We\u2019re All Human: Universal Voices&quot; and will focus on this theme from multiple disciplinary angles within the humanities and social sciences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights of the spring will be a workshop on object-based Teaching on Friday, February 2. &nbsp;It will expand upon what education research has already shown \u2013 the wide-ranging benefits of object-based teaching for enhancing lesson comprehension and recall. &nbsp;It has been proven especially successful in teaching STEM subjects. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, February 23, the Institute will hold its third Spanish Day. &nbsp;Conducted entirely in Spanish, the program features presentations on facets of Spanish and Hispanic culture, plus a film contest, all designed for high school levels III and IV. &nbsp;This year\u2019s theme is &quot;Crossing Borders.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The final program, &quot;Writing Rebels: Breaking the Rules,&quot; on Friday, March 23, will be a workshop for middle and high school teachers examining approaches to teaching literature and film that involve and\/or enact rebellion. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Peak Performances production&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakperfs.org\/event\/leonora-and-alejandro\/2018-03-17\/\">Leonora and Alejandro: La Maga y El Maestro<\/a><\/em>, by the Double Edge Theatre. The play envisions a conversation between Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a surrealist artist, novelist, and founding member of Mexico&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Liberation Movement and Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929-), Chilean-French filmmaker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/institute-for-humanities\/\">http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/institute-for-humanities\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objects, Rebels, and Borders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":118332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-221_institute-for-the-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}