Date: April 29th, 2019 Time: 2-4pm Location: Cressman Library, Cedar Crest College,100 College Dr, Allentown, PA 18104 An exhibition featuring the video documentaries and audio podcasts created by the students of Dr. Elizabeth Ortiz and Dr. LuAnn Fletcher’s co-taught course on…
Category: Course Development & Enhancement
“Devising Community”: New Course Comes to Muhlenberg with LVEHC Sponsorship
With sponsorship from the LVEHC Mellon Grant, Muhlenberg professors Leticia Robles-Moreno and Matt Moore co-taught a new course this semester called “Devising Community.” This course explored the intersections of community engagement, performance making and ethnography. Students researched the lived histories…
Connecting “Ethnic American Literature” Course to Lehigh Valley Communities
Connecting “Ethnic American Literature” Course to Lehigh Valley Communities A Course Enhancement Reflection by Dr. Andrew Uzendoski In the fall of 2018, I taught the course English 135: Ethnic American Literature at Lafayette College. The course surveys twentieth-century literature…
A Reflection on New Course Exploring History of the Allentown Band
The Allentown Band: Final Reflection by Susan Falciani, Anthony Dalton, Kate Ranieri Faculty and students from Muhlenberg College recently collaborated on a new course merging Documentary Fieldwork and Essentials of Archives, which brought together principles of oral history, documentary fieldwork, storymaking,…
New Course at Lafayette Explores Documentary Photography in the Lehigh Valley
In Fall 2018, Greta Bergstresser introduced a new course at Lafayette College, sponsored by an LVEHC Course Development grant. This course introduced students to the history and techniques associated with Documentary Photography and asked them to each create a documentary…
Survey of Local Oral Histories Culminates in Lehigh Valley Oral History Directory
Early on in the development of the LVEHC, it became clear that there was a convergence of interest regarding oral history projects. The energy around oral history projects was reinforced throughout Year 1 of the grant across several events, including…
DOC 370: A Reflection by Dr. Aggie Bazaz
On Wednesday May 9, 2018 at the Multicultural center at Muhlenberg College, our class, DOC 370: Documentary Capstone, hosted an exhibition of documentary works produced in this, the course’s inaugural year. DOC 370 is the culminating class in the LVAIC Documentary Storymaking Minor,…
First LVEHC Mellon Grant Awards Announced
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium (LVEHC) is pleased to announce its first award recipients. We are excited to follow these wonderful projects as they develop; we hope that you will follow their progress on our…
Welcome to the LVEHC!
Hello and welcome to the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium (LVEHC) website. Here, we will be posting periodic updates on the status of the grant, featuring blogs and gallery entries from grant participants, and posting upcoming events related to the…