What We Brought with Us is an exhibit featuring photographs of the things that Academy in Exile fellows took with them when fleeing, and most recently traveled to University of Cincinnati’s Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery.

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Global South, Indigeneity, Membership Activity Fund

Exploring Community-Based Tourism in the Yucatán Peninsula

Learn about how the University of Minnesota's Institute of Advanced Studies organized its recent collaboration with Co’ox Mayab, a union of cooperative societies committed to supporting community-based tourism in the Yucatán peninsula.

Digital Humanities, Administration, Membership Activity Fund, Publishing

The Future of Humanities Publishing Workshop

A summary of a conversation on the shifting landscape of humanities publishing across the interconnected perspectives of humanities centers, university presses, and libraries, hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in association with UW Milwaukee Libraries.

Environment, Global South, Conference

Morocco earthquake: why traditional earthen architecture is not to blame for the destruction communities have endured

In the wake of the earthquake in Morocco this past September, Louise Cooke discusses how modernity disrupts long-established local knowledge and skill transmission and results in changing patterns in the repair, maintenance and renewal of traditional buildings. Cooke was part of a CHCI delegation to the 21st General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) from 4-8 September 2023.

Research, Borders, Europe

The Legacies of Colonialism at Linnaeus University

A focus on the legacies of colonialism—this is the mission of a new CHCI member organization from Linnaeus University in Sweden. Interim director Kristina Gustafsson shares the center's programs, aims, and greatest political challenges.