{"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":"2026-05-13T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:18:27","slug":"annual-theme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/annual-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2025\/08\/CHAT-Banner-Logo.png\" alt=\"Center for the Humanities at Temple Logo\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ANNUAL THEME<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025-2026 Un\/Bound<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bound, Bind, Bonds<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 these interrelated terms have long shaped humanities scholarship, offering frameworks to explore socio-cultural, historical, and economic relationships.&nbsp;<em>Binding<\/em>, for example, <em>may<\/em> describe bodily modifications that align inner identity with outward appearance. To be <em>bound<\/em>&nbsp;can evoke temporal stuckness or dissonance, or signal connection to structures that guide but also constrain, while <em>Bondage<\/em>&nbsp;names systems of confinement and exclusion. Yet these terms also gesture toward affective ties\u2014community, intimacy, and solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>\n\n\n\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2025\/08\/Bound_CHAT_2025_26_Letter-_poster-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1657\" height=\"2560\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tu_humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br>Instagram<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNUAL THEME 2025-2026 Un\/Bound Bound, Bind, Bonds&nbsp;\u2014 these interrelated terms have long shaped humanities scholarship, offering frameworks to explore socio-cultural, historical, and economic relationships.&nbsp;Binding, for example, may describe bodily modifications that align inner identity with outward appearance. To be bound&nbsp;can evoke temporal stuckness or dissonance, or signal connection to structures that guide but also constrain, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/annual-theme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Annual Theme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":47,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/484"}],"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}]}}