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AUGUST 2016

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Beach Reads

Time Enough for A Good Read

Here are the titles topping our summer reading lists.

If you’re like the Mass Humanities staff and board, your vacation is still a semi-sacred space for tackling challenging books. Have we got a list for you! Choose from the titles we’ll be tackling from our backyards and beach blankets.

SEE WHAT WE’RE READING »

Common Good Reads

Talking Through It

Reading and discussion with a purpose.

Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for the raw and revealing photographic story of a Maine boy recovering from abuse. Her outstanding work is just one of the many ways you can engage with our Common Good Reads program, which uses Pulitzer-winning materials to discuss socially important topics. Host a discussion of Rinaldi’s work in your community—or choose another topic entirely; it’s up to you.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT COMMON GOOD READS »

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Upcoming Deadlines

Applying for a grant from Mass Humanities?

Mid-September is an important time in our grant cycle. Be sure to have your LOI forms submitted for discussion grants and project grants by 9/15 and 9/22 respectively!

DON’T MISS A DEADLINE »

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Twisted Tongues

Write for Mass Humanities on a challenging new topic.

As political divisions grow ever wider, we find ourselves asking: Does our language contribute to how we understand politics and culture? At what practical cost do we make ideological choices about our speech? The new theme of our blog, the Public Humanist, invites scholars to question of the nature of political speech—from the campaign trail to the classroom and beyond.

JOIN THE PUBLIC HUMANIST TEAM AND DISCUSS »

Love Between the Covers

Love Between the Covers

A new feature-length film, funded in part by Mass Humanities.

We are proud to have funded the Popular Romance Project, which resulted in last month’s release of the Laurie Kahn film Love Between the Covers. The film weaves the fascinating tale of the vast, funny, and savvy female community that has built a powerhouse industry producing romance novels.

FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN SEE THE FILM »

New board members

New Humanists

Gov. Baker makes two new appointments to our board of directors.

Jill Sullivan of Swampscott and Donna DePrisco of Boston are the newly appointed members. Jill is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and an MA in English from Salem State University. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State, and serves as Chair of the Center’s Community Board. Donna is a gemologist and business owner with stores in Boston, Wellesley and Osterville. She served previously on the boards of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts.

By statute, the Governor of the Commonwealth appoints six of the 25 members of the Mass Humanities board. The other four gubernatorial appointees are William Fowler of Reading, Frederick Hurst of Springfield, Michael Pappone of Weston, and Hilda Ramirez of Worcester.

grant workshops!

Grant Funding Sessions

Come learn more about our grant program and meet with our staff! We’ll provide refreshments, you bring your ideas for programming. If your organization uses the humanities to illuminate topics of interest and issues of concern to the people of Massachusetts, we want to meet you and discuss how to fund your work.

JOIN US IN NEW BEDFORD 8/23 »

Ideas Matter

The Future is in Their Hands

Join Pam Porter of the Charlemont Forum and Paul Taylor, former Executive Vice President of the Pew Research Institute, to learn about the political impact of millennials and about a public lecture happening in August in Charlemont, MA, on the profound demographic transformation happening today, as characterized by the Millennial and Boomer generations.

LISTEN TO IDEAS MATTER »

Mass Moments

Lizzie Borden’s Parents Murdered

The murder of the Borden family parents is an infamous event in Massachusetts history. Many can recite the poems written about the gruesome deaths, but do you know the full story?

READ THE HISTORY»

Luxury Condos

Luxury Condo Owners Remove Historic Memorial

The Cocoanut Grove fire is an integral part of Boston's history. Condo owners don't want the memorial on the new development, complaining that it increases foot traffic.

READ AND DISCUSS ON FACEBOOK »

Discuss on Twitter

1 Book, 830 Kids

NYU researchers found the availability of children’s books in low-income neighborhoods in several U.S. cities is so low that they needed a new term to describe it: “book deserts.”

READ AND DISCUSS ON TWITTER »

Humanities Calendar

We list the best humanities programming in the Commonwealth on our event calendar. See what is happening this month at Mass Humanities.

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