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.
Renaissance of the Earth
Founding Director
Shakespeare Unbound: Campuswide Special Exhibit 2023-2024
Program Organizer & Co-Curator
Anthropocene Lab
Research Team Member
Interdisciplinary approaches for transformative change and just futures
Artists in Residence
Founding Director
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 Ari Friedlander, Gavin Hollis, and Stephen Spiess.
Knowledge Relations: Historical Epistemologies, Emerging Methodologies, Contemporary Practices.
University of Michigan 2025
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
GROUNDED KNOWLEDGE
Organizer