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Nelson Hacket Project

The Local and International Legacies of Nelson Hackett’s Flight from Slavery, 1841-1861

Learn about a single man’s incredible struggle that activated a trans-Atlantic and biracial network of activists working to undermine the institution of slavery.

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Pandemics in History, Literature, and Today

At the institute “Pandemics in History, Literature, and Today” participants will delve deeply into the global history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, discuss literature related to its cultural and personal impact, work with archival, primary source materials from front-line workers of 1918, and compare these historical, literary, and archival descriptions with histories being gathered of the current pandemic.

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Remaking Monsters and Heroines

Remaking Monsters and Heroines

This two-week virtual Summer Institute, which is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by the University of Arkansas, invites individual and interdisciplinary teams of K-12 educators to immerse themselves in learning about literary adaptation and its role in recirculating and popularizing the literary canon.

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Trish Starks

Tricia Starks is the Director of the University of Arkansas Humanities Center. She is a professor of history researching in Russian and Soviet history, gender history, and  the history of medicine.