Digital Humanities and Media Studies

Title: Inquiry and Higher-Order Evidence

Abstract:                                                                                                                                                                                    What is the epistemic significance of higher-order evidence? Recently, philosophers have defended zetetic approaches to higher-order evidence, which appeal to factors related to inquiry and deliberation. According to these views, in response to higher-order evidence – for example, when you find out that an epistemic peer or superior disagrees with you concerning the answer to a question – you should open inquiry and deliberate upon the question further. While it can often be productive to deliberate or to double-check one’s reasoning when confronted with higher-order evidence, I argue that zetetic accounts are bound to be incomplete. They are unable to explain a range of important cases. Reflecting on these cases helps to make vivid a broader lesson concerning the relationship between inquiry and epistemic normativity. Epistemology never requires us to perform specific actions, such as evidence gathering, deliberation, or double-checking, even when these acts are required to settle the answers to our questions.

Oct. 25 will feature an exhibit tour and keynote address by curator Dr. Paulette Richards, followed by a screening of In Black, a documentary on African American puppeteers by Jacqueline Wade. There will then be a post-screening discussion with the director.

On Oct. 26, there will be three panels to highlight some of the themes related to the exhibit, including;

• “’The Marriage Agreement’: Women Artists Navigate Gendered Divisions of Labor will examine how women artists like Swann and Schmale navigated traditional gender roles. Panelists include Dr. Nancy Naples, Dr. Alissa Mello, and Jacqueline Wade.
• “Residential Segregation” will explore the progress of desegregation since the creation of Concord Park by Morris Milgram in 1954. Panelists include Dr. Stephen L. Ross, Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar.
• “Children’s Media: Literature, Television, Theater” will reflect on the influence of Swann and Schmale’s work in children’s television and how much progress has been made in diversifying children’s media today. Panelists include Dr. Vibiana Bowman, Dr. Katherine Capshaw, and Khalilah Brooks.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register to attend in person, visit: bimp.ticketleap.com. The symposium will be live streamed via Zoom. To register to attend virtually, please visit: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rQdSZJe8TOmmETxtwng3Xw.

The “Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium” is supported by a UConn School of Fine Arts Anti-Racism grant and University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Speaker, Conference, and Workshop funding; and is co-sponsored by UConn’s African American Cultural Center and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

For more information, visit bimp.uconn.edu/2024/10/07/wpt-symposium.

Oct. 25 will feature an exhibit tour and keynote address by curator Dr. Paulette Richards, followed by a screening of In Black, a documentary on African American puppeteers by Jacqueline Wade. There will then be a post-screening discussion with the director.

On Oct. 26, there will be three panels to highlight some of the themes related to the exhibit, including;

• “’The Marriage Agreement’: Women Artists Navigate Gendered Divisions of Labor will examine how women artists like Swann and Schmale navigated traditional gender roles. Panelists include Dr. Nancy Naples, Dr. Alissa Mello, and Jacqueline Wade.
• “Residential Segregation” will explore the progress of desegregation since the creation of Concord Park by Morris Milgram in 1954. Panelists include Dr. Stephen L. Ross, Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar.
• “Children’s Media: Literature, Television, Theater” will reflect on the influence of Swann and Schmale’s work in children’s television and how much progress has been made in diversifying children’s media today. Panelists include Dr. Vibiana Bowman, Dr. Katherine Capshaw, and Khalilah Brooks.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register to attend in person, visit: bimp.ticketleap.com. The symposium will be live streamed via Zoom. To register to attend virtually, please visit: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rQdSZJe8TOmmETxtwng3Xw.

The “Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium” is supported by a UConn School of Fine Arts Anti-Racism grant and University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Speaker, Conference, and Workshop funding; and is co-sponsored by UConn’s African American Cultural Center and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

For more information, visit bimp.uconn.edu/2024/10/07/wpt-symposium.

UConn’s El Instituto (Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies) awarded small seed grants to support faculty-led workshops, reading groups or other research, on any theme of relevance to Latine, Latin American or Caribbean studies in the academic year 2023. Please join us this fall semester in this 4 part series of events to hear about their research accomplishments. Light Refreshments Served. There is limited space, RSVP today!

2nd Event:

“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico,” by Dr. Robin Adèle Greeley 

In 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Mexican state to carry out a comprehensive program of reparations in the landmark case of Campo Algodonero. The Court found the Mexican state had failed to prevent the murders in 2001 of three young women in Ciudad Juárez. Part of a wave of femicides that continue to afflict women in Mexico, the Campo Algodonero murders sparked a pivotal turn in the Court’s rulings in cases of gender violence. As part of the reparations, the Court ordered the Mexican state to apologize and to build a memorial. Yet since its inauguration in 2011, the Campo Algodonero memorial has been a site not of public commemoration, but of vociferous contestation by the principal audience for which it was intended: the families of the murdered women. This talk explores why the seemingly humble State apology, delivered at the memorial site, was vehemently rejected by the victims’ families, and what this can tell us about the role of humility in practices of transitional justice.