The Denbo Center proudly supported five UT faculty and grad students at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held at Université de Montréal and organized by CRIHN. Attendees explored topics ranging from R programming to the cultural implications of AI.

Attention faculty! For the month of June, the Denbo Center has expanded our hours for the Write On Site program! Faculty are now welcome to join us every weekday from 9am-4pm for our Write On Site program! We can't wait to see you here!

We are thrilled to announce that Katharine Burnett will be joining the Denbo Center in July as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs! In this role, she'll support the center’s research projects, coordinate events, and identify and develop new programming opportunities.

Over the past year, we've had the pleasure of hosting UT’s game studies seminar series, which welcomed faculty, students, and guest speakers to explore launching a GameLab that bridges research, public engagement, and the gaming industry.

As part of Black Maternal Health Week, a public Narrative Medicine workshop explores a Black woman’s birth story, inviting reflection on loss, joy, safety, community & more through reading and writing. No experience needed. Hosted by Africana Studies + Knox Birth Equity Alliance.

Reminder: The Denbo Center will be closed April 17th-18th for the University of Tennessee's Spring Recess. We will reopen on Monday, April 21st.

Join us April 7th at 3:30pm for our Spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Menno Schilthuizen on "Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution." Join us in person at Student Union 169 or online via Zoom! Register for the link at tiny.utk.edu/Schilthuizen

Discover how digital games are shaping education and Esports careers. Join the UT Esports Club at Volan 2025 on April 12 from 12 to 1:30 PM at UT Student Union 262A for insights on the future of gaming and industry opportunities.

Join the Denbo Center on April 6th at Knoxville's Central Cinema for a free screening of the 2025 Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d'État. The film explores Congo-Belgian-US Cold War history, with an introduction by historian Nicole Eggers followed by a Q&A with UT experts!

Thanks to all who came for Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez' Distinguished Lecture Series talk "'On the run from ownership': Nathaniel Mackey, Music, Centrifugitivity." Be sure to check out their spoken word and jazz performance at 6:30pm on March 29th at the Knoxville Museum of Art!

Want to learn about our upcoming speaker Brandon Lopez? Check out his interview with Sound American! soundamerican.org/issues/thirt... Don't forget to join us at the Knoxville Museum of Art on March 27th at 6pm for his and Fred Moten's talk, as well as on the 29th at 6:30 for their performance!

Join us at the Knoxville Museum of Art on March 27th at 6pm for the latest talk in our Distinguished Lecture Series by Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez, as well as at 6:30pm on March 29th for their spoken word and jazz performance! We hope to see you all there!

Join us on March 10th at 3:30pm for our Spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Olivia C. Harrison on "Going Native: Jean Raspail and the Fictions of Indigeneity." Join us in person at the Denbo Center or online via Zoom! Register for the link at tiny.utk.edu/Harrison

Join the Department of History for the 10th Annual Fleming-Morrow Distinguished Lecture & Symposium on March 6, 2025, from 9am–4:30pm. Events include research panels, a luncheon conversation with Drs. Fleming & Morrow, and a 3pm keynote by Dr. Crystal Sanders. Register: tiny.utk.edu/flemingmorro...

So happy to host a luncheon at the @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social‬ with Beauford Delaney Estate Executor Derek Spratley, honoring the exceptional Monique Y. Wells of Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, a pivotal resource in Beauford Delaney studies! And so many other Delaney supporters!

Join us on March 3rd at 3:30pm for our Spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Shatema Threadcraft on "Black Femicide and Morrisonian Democracy." We hope you can join us in person at the Denbo Center or online via Zoom! Register for the link at tiny.utk.edu/Threadcraft

On Friday, the Denbo Center had the pleasure of hosting a luncheon for Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson during his visit to the University of Tennessee to discuss "The Scopes Trial in History and Folklore." Thank you to Ed Larson for sharing his time and expertise.

The Denbo Center is excited to announce the 2025-2026 Denbo Fellows cohort! These outstanding faculty and graduate scholars will pursue groundbreaking humanities research. See the full list of fellows and their fields in the replies below. Congratulations to all!

Join the 2025 Graduate Student Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center from July 14-18, 2025. Connect with peers, refine research & teaching skills, and explore funding strategies. Early registration discounts available—sign up by Feb. 15! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-pr...

Write on Site is officially back at the Denbo Center for the Spring 2025 semester! Thursdays: Grad Students 9am-4pm Fridays: Faculty 9am-4pm Come study, read, or write while meeting other arts & humanities grad students/faculty! Snacks, coffee, & tea provided.

Celebrate Frederick Douglass Day with fellow Vols during Black History Month with events, including keynote addresses, UT scholars talks, a multimedia day in collaboration with the library, and the transcribe-a-thon and celebration. Don't miss it!

Marcy Norton will be with us this Friday at noon for her book talk, “The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492.” Don’t miss it—attend in person or online!

UT Parking & Transportation Services has updated the shuttle route between Cherokee Mills and campus, so that there is now a direct bus from the Denbo Center to Hodges Library and back. parking.utk.edu/transit/t-bu...

Today we're bidding farewell to DCHA communications & marketing coordinator @klhkhistorian.bsky.social (PhD '15). She will be starting a new job as assistant director of communications at Rare Book School in Charlottesville, VA, in late January. We wish her all the best in her new role!

We're excited to announce the spring 2025 lineup of events in our Distinguished Lecture Series! Details of all talks are available on the Denbo Center's website: humanitiescenter.utk.edu/programs/distinguished-lecture-series/

Apps for the Start-Your-Project Award from ACH are due Jan 27th. This award is designed to support small digital projects at various stages of development & to provide critical support to individuals who might otherwise face barriers in initiating digital projects.

In December, Denbo Center Director Amy J. Elias joined Jim Phelan of the Project Narrative Podcast (based at The Ohio State University) to discuss Lemony Snicket’s 2004 short story, “The Lump of Coal.” Listen to their conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Happy New Year! The first event in our spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series will be a talk by Dan Sinykin (Emory Univ.) on "How We Got Our Books: The Conglomerate Era in Publishing." We hope you can join us in person at the Denbo Center or online via Zoom @ 3:30pm EST on Feb. 3!

DCHA Faculty Fellow Salvador Bartera (Classics) has a visiting scholar residency at the American Academy in Rome, where the play he is editing was produced and staged, this December.

Our Director's new book comes out early in the new year from @dukepress.bsky.social ! 🎉👏 The edited collection features essays by 20 scholars, including Pulitzer winners and authorized Delaney & Baldwin biographers, with 32 color plates. Get the introduction free at dukeupress.edu/speculative-...

Congratulations to Kaitlin Simpson, one of our outstanding 2023-2024 graduate student fellows, who was hooded in today's graduation ceremony!

Congratulations to our fabulous former graduate assistant, Michael Sutherlin, who completed his dissertation this past summer and was hooded at today's graduation ceremony!

Come in out of the snow — the Denbo Center is warm & cozy! Write on Site is open today (12/11) to arts & humanities faculty and grad students from 9-4.

A farewell to poet and Knoxville native Nikki Giovanni, who has passed away at the age of 81. www.knoxtntoday.com/farewell-to-...

The Denbo Center is providing funding for a week-long course at the 2025 Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the Université de Montréal in Canada. The DCHA will cover the course registration fees for 5 UT attendees & provide a stipend of $1500 per attendee to help cover travel & lodging.

Due to popular demand, we are extending our end-of-term Write on Site hours! The Denbo Center will be open to UT arts & humanities faculty and graduate students for Write on Site from 9-4 daily for the rest of this week (12/4–12/6) as well as Monday–Wednesday, December 9–11.

Today is #GivingTuesday! If you would like to contribute to supporting the Denbo Center's mission, please reach out to us or make a donation through our website. The Denbo Center thrives thanks to the many types of contributions made by our arts & humanities community!

Thank you for joining the talk today! Our next speakers will be Marcy Norton (UPenn) and Fabrizio Baldassarri (Warburg/Villa I Tatti)—stay tuned! @guysechrist.bsky.social

Today at the @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social at Noon (EST), come join @duyguyildirim.bsky.social and I - either in person, or via Zoom - to hear Daniel Margocsy talk about Maritime Technologies in the Dutch East India Company.

We will be closed for Thanksgiving from November 27-29. We wish everyone a happy and restful holiday!

DCHA Grad Fellow Kyle Vratarich (History) presented today on his dissertation about Orville Babcock & political scandals in the era of US Civil War & Reconstruction. You can help support our grad students's research during Big Orange Give! www.givecampus.com/campaigns/51...

Make a gift to the Denbo Center today! bigorangegive.utk.edu Search for "humanities" in the drop-down menu and you should find us (possibly listed under our old name, UT Humanities Center).

Make a gift to the Denbo Center today! bigorangegive.utk.edu Search for "humanities" in the drop-down menu and you should find us (possibly listed under our old name, UT Humanities Center).

Big Orange Give, UT's annual day of giving, is November 13! This year, we're offering you the opportunity to join a Chandler Seminar research presentation (usually only open to DCHA Fellows). Join us online @ 11:30 AM EST. Register for the Zoom link at tiny.utk.edu/Vratarich bigorangegive.utk.edu

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#BigOrangeGive, UT's annual day of giving, is November 13! Two generous donors have offered a matching challenge: Help us turn $15,000 into $30,000 by donating to the Denbo Center at bigorangegive.utk.edu. Gifts of any amount make an impact! #BOG2025 #ItTakesAVolunteer

Big Orange Give, UT's annual day of giving, is November 13! This year, we're offering you the opportunity to join a Chandler Seminar research presentation (usually only open to DCHA Fellows). Join us online @ 11:30 AM EST. Register for the Zoom link at tiny.utk.edu/Vratarich bigorangegive.utk.edu

Hello, new followers! We're hiring an Assoc. Dir. of Transdisciplinary Programs to develop & implement research & public arts/humanities programs, supporting efforts to increase funding & innovate programming through grants & program initiatives. Details: humanitiescenter.utk.edu/news-item/ad...

Big Orange Give, UT's annual day of giving, is Wednesday, November 13! This year two anonymous donors have offered matching challenges in support of gifts made to the Denbo Center. Gifts of all sizes make an impact! bigorangegive.utk.edu