Special Collections & Archives is a designated “lab site” for the Center for the Arts & Humanities initiative at Colby. Archival labs can range from a single class visit to multiple sessions over an entire semester and they may also connect with the Humanities theme selected each year (the 2021-2022 Humanities theme is Freedom & Captivity). The Center’s web site provides details about its mission and activities. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you on new Humanities labs in Special Collections!
See the Center’s films spotlighting Professor Ben Lisle’s Mapping Waterville class; Professor Elizabeth Leonard’s History of Colby College class; Professor Sagaser’s Shakespeare in 19th Century America class; and Professor Tanya Sheehan’s Photography and Migration class.
Select Humanities Labs that have collaborated with Special Collections & Archives include:
EN493: 17th-century Literature and the Natural World; SP346: Race, Rights, and Land in the Americas; AM221: Mapping Waterville; EN120: Inventing Nature in New England; WG120: Race, Gender, and Sport; AY232: Oral History Ethnographic Research Lab: Waterville Main Street; EN397: Poetry Remixes; HI241: History of Colby College; IT397 Zine! A Practical Introduction to Contemporary Poetry; CI298: Visual Storytelling: Found Materials and the Archive; EN239: Literature Against Distortion; AR358: Photography and Migration; HI352 Asian Migrations