Research-Creation

Public Humanities Projects & Transdisciplinary Exchange

The word “synergy” enters the English language in the early17th century.
It signifies dynamic cooperations, joint actions, and partnerships that affect conversions among all those who collaborate.

Committed to developing collaborative models for innovative cross-disciplinary research and public humanities exchange,
I have founded and partnered on a number of long-term scholarly and artistic projects.

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Renaissance of the Earth

Founding Director

Anthropocene Lab

Research Team Member

Interdisciplinary approaches for transformative change and just futures

Artists in Residence

Founding Director

Tipping Points by Suzette Marie Martin

Artists are catalysts for interdisciplinary programming at the Kinney Center and play a central part in the Renaissance of the Earth project. Three artists a year are selected by a Board of Advisors to create original work that draws upon and opens conversations onto the archival materials in the Kinney Center collections and the terrestrial diversity of our 28 acre landscape. During their residency, artists develop and share their work, offer masterclasses, performances, and exhibits; engage students, researchers, and the public; and create space for creative inquiry and collaborative relationships to flourish.

Dramaturge. Robert Daborne’s, A Christian Turn'd Turk (1612).
The Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre & Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto. Performance dates: April 19-22, 2012

❦ Performance Video
❦ https://www.marjorierubright.com/a-christian-turnd-turk

Organizer. "Shakespeare, Race, and America . . . not necessarily in that order." A collaborative series of arts programming with Mt. Holyoke College featuring Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor (Nov 7 – 14, 2018). Performance, Artist Campus Residency, Public Talk, Actor’s Studio & Scholarly Round Table. Keynote: Kim F. Hall. Curator. Special Exhibit at the Kinney Center. Fall 2018.
❦ https://www.marjorierubright.com/american-moor

Conference and Workshop Organizer

Co-organizer with Nick Terpstra. Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees 1400-1700, International Conference.

Co-Chair with Nick Terpstra. The Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group: Early Modern Exiles (2010-2012) University of Toronto. http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/WG11-12Exiles

Early Modern Conversions

Collaborator

Early Modern Conversions project, an international team of scholars and artists studying the first great Age of Conversion, 1400-1700.
McGill University, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, SSHRC, Canada Foundation for Innovation & other partners.

The Refinery

Organizer
College of Humanities and Fine Arts @ The Kinney Center

The Refinery is a forum for advanced graduate students and early career scholars across disciplines to share work-in-progress with an invited scholar whose scholarship is currently shaping their thinking.