MU Honors Humanities Sequence

Thanks to honors humanities faculty and resident violinist Julie Rosenfeld a new humanities study abroad trip to Vienna and Budapest is coming!!!

Encouraging the Next Generation of Musical Experts As this year's Honors Faculty Fellow, Julie Rosenfeld will lead a study abroad experience to Vienna, Austria, and Budapest, Hungary, after the spring semester. Rosenfeld, an associate professor of violin in the School of Music, has taught in the Humanities Sequence in the past and will be more heavi...

We may be reading a 16th century text in humanities this week, but we're pretty excited that a ~12th century BCE text is getting some 21st century love!

A.I. Is Helping Scholars Decipher the Epic of Gilgamesh The Fragmentarium does A.I. cuneiform translation, bringing to light newly discovered sections of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Anyone want to build a medieval castle?

Building a medieval castle from scratch In the forests of Burgundy in central France, there's a bold effort underway to build a medieval castle, as they would have in an era before electricity, usi...

For every humanities student who just wrote on the Mona Lisa on their final exam.

Mona Lisa's mysterious background decrypted by art-loving geologist — Reuters Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unravelled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world's most famous works of art.

I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –

Emily Dickinson, 1862

For all who celebrate!

What’s the difference between an historiated initial and a zoomorphic one? A catchword and a gloss? These folks know! Thanks to Mizzou Special Collections and Archives for a great medieval and early modern book scavenger hunt!

Wherein all 100 of us in the Honors Humanities Sequence go to the opera!

Taylor Swift is related to famed poet Emily Dickinson and now it all makes sense | CNN Turns out Taylor Swift was spot on naming her forthcoming album “The Tortured Poets Department.”

This probably wasn't Roland's sword, but it's still kind of cool.

The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour for 9 centuries Durandal (or Durandarte) was the famous sword of Roland, the Frankish knight who died at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass on 15 August 788 by attack of the Basques. The accounts of that battle and the subsequent fate of the sword are plagued with mythical stories with little or no historical or archa

How many creatures can you find on the Sutton Hoo helmet?

Sue Takes on the Sutton Hoo Helmet | Curator's Corner S6 Ep5 #CuratorsCorner #SuttonSue #TheDig You didn't think Sue only did swords did you?The excavations at Sutton Hoo during 1939 were unique for a number reasons. We're not sure the exact number of r...

It may be freezing in Columbia, but Augustine's heart is still on fire.🎨 Saint Augustine, by Philippe de Champaigne, 1650.

A big humanities thank you to Mizzou Special Collections and Archives for conducting Ancient Writing Lab workshops this semester for all the students in 2111H, Epic Destinies Individual Journeys. We ❤️ Special Collections!

Humanities students performed a scene from Lysistrata during Ted Tarkow's Greek Drama lecture. So, so good--both Ted's lecture and the students!

What's in your attic?

Iconic female artist's lost painting is found, hundreds of years after it was created Susanna and the Elders, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi in the late 1630s, was commissioned by a queen — but it was later lost. It's now back on display, after being restored.

"[Dante's Inferno] is a poem about a person who's wandering through this sort of underworld space, and in each Circle, they meet with a new person who shares their grievance, their pain, their experience. That was something I allowed myself to play with a little bit — that each song starts with my voice, but it allows into itself and the license to just let the song grow to where it needs to be. Let the voice explore the idea that it needs to explore."

Inside Hozier's 'Unreal Unearth': How The Singer Flipped Dante's 'Inferno' & The Irish Language Into His Latest Album As Irish singer/songwriter Hozier releases his third album, he details how he channeled his pandemic experience into a 14th century tale — and tapped into a creative side he'd never unleashed before.

How often do YOU think about ancient Rome?

How often do men think about ancient Rome? Quite frequently, it seems. Videos shared on TikTok and Instagram as part of a new trend reveal that many men think about the Roman Empire frequently. But why?

We're reading Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey in humanities this week! Please enjoy her spirited reading of Book 1.

Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation, Book 1, read by Emily Wilson Emily Wilson reads a section from her translation of The Odyssey, Book 1. Characters featured: Narrator; Athena, with mighty spear, and in disguise, with su...

If you know Manet's Olympia, you should know Victorine Meurent.

Perspective | She was always the object. And then she painted herself. After Victorine Meurent posed for Manet’s “Olympia,” she took art classes and painted this fascinating self-portrait

"The idea of longing and escape is central to his music, especially his forthcoming project, the ambitious Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?, named after the trilogy of novels from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the writer Dixon has described as “the greatest rapper ever.”

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (Full Album Stream) McKinley Dixon's latest album 'Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?' is out now via ! Listen/order the vinyl here: https://mckinleydixon.lnk.to/BelovedParadis...

In honor of our reading of García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold this week, we're remembering the related legal case from 2011: "Mr Miguel Reyes Palencia could never have told the story as the writer Gabriel García Márquez did, and could never have employed the literary language that was actually used. The work is characterised by its originality."

Nobel author Gabriel García Márquez wins 17-year legal fight over murder classic Colombian court rules against man who claimed author used his life story for main character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“Murder's never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it's usually sooner.”

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It’s International Women’s Day AND a humanities lecture day on Billie Holiday.

From a former Honors Humanities Sequence certificate holder, fellow seeker, and now journalist the LA Times.

Commentary: Go ahead and major in English. You'll be fine! The English major on college campuses is dying, but English majors remain alive and well.

"Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What connects it together, I'm not so sure. . . . One was left, however, with some strong emotion. The Waste Land, it is called; & Mary Hutch[inson], who has heard it more quietly, interprets it to be Tom's autobiography—a melancholy one." —Virginia Woolf, diary entry for 23 June 1922.

Happy Valentine's Day, humanities nerds!

It's Nietzsche Week in humanities!

Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) [Official Video] Kelly Clarkson's official music video for 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)'. Click to listen to Kelly Clarkson on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/KClarkSpot?IQi...