I will present this paper paper as part of the Maritime History from below conference at The Huntington, which will be held on Nov. 3-4, 2023. This two-day conference offers new stories of humankind’s relationship to the sea, including the experiences of sailors, transported prisoners, enslaved people, and Indigenous Americans.

Image: Edward Moran, A Valley in the Sea off the Coast of Great Britain. 1862. oil on canvas. 40-1/2 x 64 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Martha Delzell Memorial Fund, 70.5

Earth Day Art Model (https://earthdayartmodel.org/) is an online, interactive, global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day.

This presentation will explore the concept of an “Anthropocenic consciousness” and the ways that it helps us conceptualize historical understandings of environmental change.

Granfalloon 2022 will be presented concurrently with the Indiana University Writers Conference and the Bloomington Handmade Market. Events will take place in venues on campus and around downtown Bloomington. The festival offers engaging creative experiences from art and theater to film, live music, crafts, writing, puppets, a Nature Tour of the Century, and more.

On Friday, January 28, 2022 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Professor Kelly will give a virtual presentation about his work on “Transdisciplinarity, Public Scholarship, and the Anthropocene.” In this presentation, Professor Jason Kelly will discuss the necessity of reimagining scholarly collaboration and public scholarship in and for the Anthropocene. In doing so, it argues for the importance of a transdisciplinarity rooted in self-reflexivity, critique, and community engagement—and the implications for the 21st-century university.

Since March, over 150 archivists, faculty, staff, students, teachers, and public history practitioners and organizations have been working together on an international COVID-19 digital archive called A Journal of the Plague Year (JOTPY). As of August 2020, we have over 8,000 crowdsourced objects in our archive, and we anticipated accelerated growth this fall as K-20 instructors use the archive in their classrooms, many with modules we’ve created. This roundtable offers transparency about our process and decision-making and creates the opportunity for open peer-review.

This presentation examines the Worcester election of 1747. Putting the poll book, the registry of freemen, a manuscript map, petitions, porcelain, and prints in dialogue, it elucidates the complex ways that party rivalry played out at midcentury and the broader political culture of the West Midlands.

“Telling COVID's Stories: Implications for the Field” panel at the Oral History Association.

Quarantine(d) Conversations is a weekly series of A&H talks and presentations about COVID-19 and related phenomena. The program is designed to show how the arts and humanities can provide useful perspectives and frameworks for understanding and addressing the current historical crisis. The talks will cover everything from the disease itself to its historical, cultural, social, and experiential dimensions. Each one will begin with a significant object (a poem, painting, a city, a mask, an egg carton, etc.) and expand from there. This object-based approach will give our public audience a much-needed hook to access the ideas in the talk and potentially discuss and share them with others.

This presentation examines the networks of knowledge exchange between British and Italian artistic institutions during the 18th century. Using social network analysis, it provides a new framework for understanding the sociocultural milieu of artists and patrons during the age of the Grand Tour.

The Museum of the Anthropocene (MoA) is an experimental and interactive program that creates short-term, interactive, and networked exhibitions in communities around the globe. Bringing together knowledge from across the disciplines, MoA installations explore the ways in which new knowledge emerges when scientists, social scientists, humanists, and artists work together with local communities. This presentation will discuss the theoretical framework for thinking about a museum in the Anthropocene as well as introduce the audience to its current project, The Decomposition Symphony.

This special session will focus on the conceptualization and implementation of water museums across the globe. Presenters will focus on the water museum from its theoretical conceptualization through its implementation. A special focus will be placed on multi-local and international networks and collaborations in both creating and sustaining water museums.

The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and the British School at Rome (BSR) will host the conference The Roman Art World in the 18th Century and the Birth of the Art Academy in Britain, to be held in Rome between 10 and 11 December 2018. The conference will focus on the role of the Roman pedagogical model in the formation of the British academic art world in the long 18th century.

This presentation will be a hands-on workshop to examine both the ways that the Anthropocene presents new challenges for education and to discuss the tools and techniques for responding to this challenge. This presentation will focus on the importance of open knowledge, open access, “commoning,” and public scholarship in developing new modes of formal and informal education for the Anthropocene.

In this presentation, Dr. Kelly weaves together the histories of science, art, literature, and politics to tell a global story about Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. Moving from the battlefields of Napoleonic Europe to the volcanoes of the Pacific to the riverbanks of the Yangtze to the farmlands of North America, the audience will see how Frankenstein reveals close ties between these seemingly disparate places how the world within the novel is itself a product of these global connections.

This event is part of the Indiana Humanities One State / One Story: Frankenstein program and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Crossroads Symposium will bring together Crossroads performers, IU experts, and Bloomington community members to share and create innovative projects inspiring sustainable behavior change.  Attendees will hear from keynote speakers and engage with a panel of Crossroads performers and creators.  In addition, the Symposium will include an opportunity to workshop innovative proposals with experts spanning diverse disciplines.