{"id":95,"date":"2025-08-11T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:49:19","slug":"annual-theme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/annual-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Bound, Bind, Bonds<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 these interrelated terms have long shaped humanities scholarship, offering frameworks to explore socio-cultural, historical, and economic relationships.\u00a0Binding<\/em>, for example, may<\/em> describe bodily modifications that align inner identity with outward appearance. To be bound<\/em>\u00a0can evoke temporal stuckness or dissonance, or signal connection to structures that guide but also constrain, while Bondage<\/em>\u00a0names systems of confinement and exclusion. Yet these terms also gesture toward affective ties\u2014community, intimacy, and solidarity.<\/p>

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This year\u2019s theme invites reflection on the various ways we are bound and unbound, as well as the shifting forms that binding and bonds can take.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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ANNUAL THEME 2025-2026 Un\/Bound Bound, Bind, Bonds\u00a0\u2014 these interrelated terms have long shaped humanities scholarship, offering frameworks to explore socio-cultural, historical, and economic relationships.\u00a0Binding, for example, may describe bodily modifications that align inner identity with outward appearance. To be bound\u00a0can evoke temporal stuckness or dissonance, or signal connection to structures that guide but also constrain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37303,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}