EHCN's logo which has an abstracted 'E' with a grey 'H' inside of it. Alongside this, is the text Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
EHCN's logo which has an abstracted 'E' with a grey 'H' inside of it. Alongside this, is the text Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.

Welcome to The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network

Research Threads



Imaging

Courses, events, projects, and working groups relating to imaging technology -- including photography, drone imagery, 360 photography, virtual/augmented reality, and photogrammetry.

A student in headphones holds a microphone up to her interviewee. Both smile.

Rooted /متجذرون: Photography Panel and Exhibition

WIRWIR Photography Exhibition

Blacktivations Poster. Image is a glittering body - painted black and speckled in white paint, bound in bright white strings.

Blacktivations: Black Imagination at Bard (Day 1)

Poster for the talk: European Humanities University logo, "Our Stadium" A talk by artistic duo Marija Nemčenko and Anna Tüdős. July 12, 5 PM. Blue text over a black and white photo of a man jumping, arms and legs spread like a starfish.

"Our Stadium"

Poster. Neon line drawing of a person wearing VR glasses. Text reads: Augmented Reality Workshop. A hands-on session aims to help you gain the most of the technology with the best tools and applications available. AQB College. Monday 10, January. 11:00AM-12:10PM. 15 seats only. Three day workshop: seats are limited.

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Workshop

Oral History

Projects, events, courses, & working groups that relate to the topic of Oral Histories.

Poster. Text reads: Bawh (بوح) podcast launch. Monday, October 18. 11am-12pm. ST-119. بوح / Bawh taps into the transformative power of everyday people and their life stories. Every Monday, we tune into Palestine in all its shapes, sizes, sounds, and textures. Join us on Monday, October 18th during common to listen to our first episode and celebrate the launch of our brand-new podcast. Episode 1: To Teach a Soldier. Aseel, an aspiring English teacher, decides to complete her student teaching in an Israeli school. In this episode, we follow her journey as she grapples with her most earnest hopes and her worst fears. Episode 1 was produced by Amani Zaher. Sound design and music by Majd Aburrob.

بوح (Bawh) Podcast

YAMAN website homepage. YAMAN logo. Text reads: YAMAN. Your Audiovisual Material Archival Network. What is YAMAN?

YAMAN Digital History

Poster. Text: TEXHODEMIA. Image of a blue humanoid head and shoulders with one blue eye open, in front of a blue circle of light. A red orb with a yellow center floats in front of the figure.

Podcast TEXHODEMIA

Blue poster reading “Challenging the Passport Privilege. Some obstacles are bigger for others.” Graphic of two pairs of legs, one much larger than the other, both walking across the poster”

Third Country National Discrimination

Drawing Blood: Hands Holding Scalpels in Front of Statue

Drawing Blood Podcast

Broadcasting from the 5th Floor -- Season 1

A podcasting mic in front of a laptop with a recording software open.

Podcasting Workshop with Radio Plato

Poster. Text reads: Sound Practice: Exploring Audio Archives with Danielle Riou. Graphics of colorful pastel cassette tapes on a mint green background.

Sound Practice: Exploring Audio Archives

Poster for the Soundwalk. Text reads: Humans and the Environment Symposium. A week-long (plus) symposium addressing issues of food justice, climate change, and environmental awareness. Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. Soundwalk (Asynchronous). In this project, students, faculty, and staff from across the OSUN network are encouraged to attend to their surroundings aurally by making a 20 minute recording of the sounds they encounter in a space or environment of their choice. Recordings (with a brief reflection) will be uploaded to a network archive. Contact merriam@bard.edu for information about contributing your sound reflection to the archive.

Soundwalk

Poster. Text reads: join Laine Kaplan-Levinson from NPR’s Throughline. Image of Kaplan-Levinson.

Exploring Podcasts

Lockdown Diaries + Performing Pankow poster. Purple image of a phone on a selfie stick recording.

Performing Pankow Presentation

Audience at the Our Palestine symposium.

Our Palestine /فلسطيننا

A student plays a piano with a small TV monitor and a lit candlestick on its top

(Post)Pandemic Theatre in Berlin and New York

Ecology

Projects, working groups, events, and courses that relate to ecology, climate, and the environment.

Poster. Text reads: Want to learn skills for environmentally-friendly living, and meet other like-minded folks at CEU? Join us in kicking off the CEU Virtual Ecovillage. The CEU Ecovillage is a collaborative student project and social experiment in building virtual, sustainable community. Join us for a two day kick off event to participate in a collaborative mapping workshop, get access to an interactive resource library (hosted on Discord), and learn more!

Central European University (CEU) Virtual Ecovillage

Poster with QR codes. Graphics of a water jug, microphone, and a piece of paper. Text reads: The Environ-mental on: recycling plastic, recycling paper.

Environ-mental: A Podcast Series

Poster for the Humans and the Environment Symposium: A 10-day symposium addressing issues of food justice, climate change, and environmental awareness. Bard College Annandale (USA), Arizona State University (USA), Al-Quds Bard (Palestine), Birkbeck (Great Britain), Central European University (Austria), Hampton University (USA). Sponsored by the Open Society University Network.

Humans and the Environment Symposium

Poster. Text reads: Want to learn skills for environmentally-friendly living, and meet other like-minded folks at CEU? Join us in kicking off the CEU Virtual Ecovillage. The CEU Ecovillage is a collaborative student project and social experiment in building virtual, sustainable community. Join us for a two day kick off event to participate in a collaborative mapping workshop, get access to an interactive resource library (hosted on Discord), and learn more!

CEU Virtual Ecovillage: First Collaborative Mapping Workshop

Poster for the lecture. Text reads: Cohabitation Strategies How to Begin Again: Towards a New Urban Practice

Cohabitation Strategies: How to Begin Again: Towards a New Urban Practice

The hiking group stands and sits together going up a trail.

Eco-Hike in Battir/Makhrour and Biodiversity Lecture

Poster for the March 10th Fermentation Workshop. Text reads: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. Humans and the Environment Symposium. Fermentation Workshop with Gabriel Perron. Thursday, March 10, 4:00-5:30 PM. New Annandale House. Questions: merriam@bard.edu

Fermentation Workshop with Gabriel Perron, Associate Professor of Biology

Naming

Projects, events, and initiatives around how names are created and used to shape, reshape, and sometimes mis-shape, our worlds and identities.

A family photo, brother, sister, and mother and father, in front of a bonfire and larger gathering of people.

My Name, My Story

A child’s face collaged into three planes: forehead and mouth photo negative, their eyes sepia.

To Be – Named

Students working at their computers at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology.

Broadcasting from the 5th Floor -- Season 2

Students working at their computers

Desktop Cinema

Poster for the Cultural Politics of Naming Symposium

The Cultural Politics of Naming Symposium

Community Justice

Projects and events committed to establishing equity, restorying narratives, and redistributing resources.

Purple poster. Text reads: Pankow against Racism. Join neighbors and BCB to create the Pankow Banner of Diversity! Fri, March 26, 17-19h. Meet between W16 and Park Intelligenzburg. We invite you to take to the streets for diversity and democracy, against discrimination and racism! Be creative with paint and markers for diversity in Pankow. Use chalk to spread the message of anti-racism. Speak out against racism in Pankow. Visit mini exhibit “Through our Eyes” by SHORE project. Mach mit! #pankowgegenrassismus

Pankow Rally for Diversity

Poster. Headshot of Dr. Vasil Navumau. Text reads: Webinar. Political Concord or Digital Divide? Repertoires of Civic Activism in 2020 Belarus. Invited speaker: Dr. Vasil Navumau. May 24, 1:30 PM. Vilnius time.

Political Concord or Digital Divide? Repertoires of Civic Activism in 2020 Belarus

Volunteers packing SolarSPELL hardware cases.

From Discussion to Action: Building Offline Digital Libraries as an Action-Oriented Community Event to Frame Our Shared Global Future

Our Palestine Symposium poster

Our Palestine / فلسطيننا Symposium

Five students work on a painting composed of many fingerprints, in the colors of the Palestinian flag.

Exhibition of Palestinian Resistance

Decolonising Archives, Decolonising History: Roundtable Conversation

Poster for the roundtable event

Local Community as a Factor of Politics in Belarus

Gif poster. Image of an octopus alternating with pink circles and text on a pink background. Text reads: Charlotte-Malterre-Barthes, Dubravka Sekulić, Khensani de Klerk. Parity Front: Activism in Design Institutions

Parity Front: Activism in Design Institutions

Critical Urbanism

Experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and re-imagining cities.

Symposium: Urban-Industrial Entanglements in Crisis

Poster for the lecture. Text reads: Cohabitation Strategies How to Begin Again: Towards a New Urban Practice

Cohabitation Strategies: How to Begin Again: Towards a New Urban Practice

Poster for the lecture. Text reads: Struggle/Rupture Joy. Public Lecture Series 20-21. Neyran Turan: Architecture as Measure

Neyran Turan: Architecture as Measure