by Jenae Cohn | Jul 3, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
A question we’ve been asking since this institute began is, “What is a book?” This question has been almost impossible to answer since Day 1. The thing most of us think of when we think of a book are pages bound together by glue inside of a hard...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
As I titled this post, I wondered what day it was. “Is this Day 13 or 14?” I actually asked aloud as I had to click back to my archives to double check. To my astonishment, I find myself on Day 14, halfway through this journey of an NEH institute. Halfway...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 29, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
As a student, I often dreaded group projects. The idea of giving up my own individual control over something that I turned into my instructor made me uncomfortable because I didn’t necessarily have faith that everyone would do the project the way that I would...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 26, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
Over lunch today, I got into a conversation with several of my colleagues here at the institute about teaching and improvisation. One person brought up the popular improv game, “yes, and…” where the actors involved never say “no” to any...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
My brain is my most precious organ. Whenever I bike to work during my daily commute at home, I affix my helmet tightly around my head (my coworkers often make fun of me for the bike helmet lines that remain on my forehead for at least a half hour after I’ve...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
What happens when you get a group of people in a room together who all love to talk about and think about what it means for the book to be a form of technology? An immediate answer is simple: you get a generative collaborative of people who are eager to work together...
