Vivian Nun Halloran
@vivianhalloran.bsky.social
Puerto Rican born and raised. Caribbeanist. Literary food studies scholar. Lover of postmodern & contemporary ethnic & world literature. Museum nerd. Views my own.
I really enjoyed presenting a paper today at the American Studies Association Meeting as part of the panel “Julia Alvarez: Histories of Lives(Un)lived”
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I really enjoyed presenting a paper today at the American Studies Association Meeting as part of the panel “Julia Alvarez: Histories of Lives(Un)lived”
Bad Bunny’s headlining the Super Bowl half-time show of 2026 will be his 2nd appearance on the Super Bowl stage. In 2020, he shared the stage with co-headliners Shakira and JLo. For my close reading of the 2020 show, read Chapter 6 of my book, ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging
Analyzes an archive of contemporary cultural artifacts to show how Americans of Caribbean heritage narrate and celebrate their contributions to politics, art, and activism.
ohiostatepress.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bad Bunny’s headlining the Super Bowl half-time show of 2026 will be his 2nd appearance on the Super Bowl stage. In 2020, he shared the stage with co-headliners Shakira and JLo. For my close reading of the 2020 show, read Chapter 6 of my book, ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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The Fragile Joy of Staying – If Only in Song: On Bad Bunny’s Residency
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September 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Game on.
“The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.”
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“The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.”
apple.news/As3JsZG1xSYm...
Defying RFK Jr., pediatric group urges covid shots for young kids — The Washington Post
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children ages 6 months to 23 months old receive a coronavirus vaccine as federal officials move to roll back recommendations.
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August 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Game on.
“The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.”
apple.news/As3JsZG1xSYm...
“The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.”
apple.news/As3JsZG1xSYm...
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Opinion | The art-history classroom is a place where divergent worldviews are brought into a kind of mutual coexistence and productive tension. chroni.cl/4oK0Qkb
Opinion | Want to Save Democracy? Teach Art History.
Visual comparison cultivates thinking skills that are vital to political life.
chroni.cl
August 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Opinion | The art-history classroom is a place where divergent worldviews are brought into a kind of mutual coexistence and productive tension. chroni.cl/4oK0Qkb
Tomorrow evening, Executive Dean Rick Van Kooten and I will do a faculty talk-back after this dramatic reading of Cat’s Cradle. Hope to see some of you there!
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Tomorrow evening, Executive Dean Rick Van Kooten and I will do a faculty talk-back after this dramatic reading of Cat’s Cradle. Hope to see some of you there!
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Trans rights are human rights
Thousands gather in London to support trans rights following UK ruling over definition of woman
Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London, days after the U.K.‘s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from...
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April 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Trans rights are human rights
Images from my time in Kokomo, IN yesterday with Stellan the dog.
April 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Images from my time in Kokomo, IN yesterday with Stellan the dog.
March 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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🌍 👀 An interactive map of global medical & health humanities institutes, centres & networks! We are excited to launch this new resource to help raise the visibility & connectivity of researchers in the field. medhumsplatform.org/global-medic...
Global Medical Humanities Map
An accessible database of the world’s medical and health humanities research organisations, institutions, and centres.
medhumsplatform.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🌍 👀 An interactive map of global medical & health humanities institutes, centres & networks! We are excited to launch this new resource to help raise the visibility & connectivity of researchers in the field. medhumsplatform.org/global-medic...
Happening this evening! A timely and relevant public humanities event.
March 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Happening this evening! A timely and relevant public humanities event.
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#ICYMI this #NEHgrant-supported exhibition was named one of the best of 2024 by The Washington Post. Organized by The Clark Institute in partnership with the Louvre in Paris, Guillaume Lethière sheds light on Caribbean artists in France during the late 18th & early 19th centuries. ow.ly/mQsm50UGSHv
January 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#ICYMI this #NEHgrant-supported exhibition was named one of the best of 2024 by The Washington Post. Organized by The Clark Institute in partnership with the Louvre in Paris, Guillaume Lethière sheds light on Caribbean artists in France during the late 18th & early 19th centuries. ow.ly/mQsm50UGSHv
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Today at 1:45! Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop ow.ly/4QE350UB0oG #MLA25
January 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Today at 1:45! Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop ow.ly/4QE350UB0oG #MLA25
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"The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is working with government agencies, nonprofit and faith-based partners and others to respond to the fires throughout Los Angeles County."
Greater Los Angeles Wildfires Update | LA Regional Food Bank
Read updates about the Greater Los Angeles Wildfires that began in January of 2025.
www.lafoodbank.org
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is working with government agencies, nonprofit and faith-based partners and others to respond to the fires throughout Los Angeles County."
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Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal.
Deadline January 31st!
#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
Deadline January 31st!
#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research
Call for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research.
www.cambridge.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal.
Deadline January 31st!
#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
Deadline January 31st!
#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
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And so manye cheeres for kyndenesse and decencye and people just tryinge to helpe:
www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...
www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...
L.A. restaurants offering shelter, discounts and food to fire evacuees and first responders
These L.A. restaurants and coffee shops are staying open to shelter evacuees, offering discounts and, in some cases, free food to evacuees and first responders to the numerous ongoing fires in Souther...
www.latimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
And so manye cheeres for kyndenesse and decencye and people just tryinge to helpe:
www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...
www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
The College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington promotes and supports professional development in AI and encourages College faculty to consider participating in the ICHE's 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference which will take place on our campus on February 7th.
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Indiana Commission for Higher Education on LinkedIn: Registration is now open for the 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference on…
Registration is now open for the 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference on Friday, February 7, at Indiana University Bloomington. The 2025 Faculty Leadership…
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January 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington promotes and supports professional development in AI and encourages College faculty to consider participating in the ICHE's 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference which will take place on our campus on February 7th.
www.linkedin.com/posts/iche_r...
www.linkedin.com/posts/iche_r...
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Working on the revised paperback edition of “Puerto Rico: A National History” coming out later this year with @PrincetonUPress.
January 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Working on the revised paperback edition of “Puerto Rico: A National History” coming out later this year with @PrincetonUPress.
As a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, I'd like to remind folks of the Jan. 15 deadline for article submissions for the Spring volume on the theme Solidarity: www.midwest-mla.org/current-call...
Current Calls for Submissions
www.midwest-mla.org
January 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, I'd like to remind folks of the Jan. 15 deadline for article submissions for the Spring volume on the theme Solidarity: www.midwest-mla.org/current-call...
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NEWS: “A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power.” - AP
Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year's Eve
A blackout has hit nearly all of Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory prepares to celebrate New Year’s.
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December 31, 2024 at 6:38 PM
NEWS: “A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power.” - AP
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New funding opportunity: #NEHgov has issued a call for proposals to produce K-12 curricular and educational resources on the history of government-sponsored boarding schools for Native American children in the U.S. Deadline is Jan. 15, 2025.
For more information, visit ow.ly/ZnZ850UvXwN
For more information, visit ow.ly/ZnZ850UvXwN
December 30, 2024 at 7:13 PM
New funding opportunity: #NEHgov has issued a call for proposals to produce K-12 curricular and educational resources on the history of government-sponsored boarding schools for Native American children in the U.S. Deadline is Jan. 15, 2025.
For more information, visit ow.ly/ZnZ850UvXwN
For more information, visit ow.ly/ZnZ850UvXwN