Humanities Center Events

Light Work hosts a screening by The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a group of six feminist filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and distinctive styles who came together from around the country in…

The public is invited to a free exhibition reception and film screening exploring how painting and folktales help form community in the Mithila region, located on the Indian-Nepali border.

Following their Malmgren Concert performance (at 4pm, Hendricks Chapel), composer Kurt Erickson and poet Brian Turner discuss their works, “Here Bullet” and “Each Moment Radiant."

BioInspired Institute’s annual symposium will celebrate the excellent work our members and trainees conduct in the classroom and laboratories, while strengthening ties across campus. We are…

The Wali Lecture will be Eduardo Kac, Professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Brandon Erby (University of Kentucky) Although mainstream narratives often depict people in jails and prisons as dangerous, violent, illiterate, and disposable, Erby’s public talk will reveal how…

Brandon Erby discusses how incarcerated individuals educate and commune with podcast audiences via storytelling, charisma, emotional expression, and social analysis.

Using archival letters from the Special Collections Research Center’s Gertrude Berg Papers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Emily Nussbaum discusses fans’ parasocial relationship with Gertrude Berg.

Spears Jones is a past NEA and NYFA poetry fellow, and the author of five collections, including The Beloved Community (2023) and A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (2015), and co-editor of…

Join New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones and the YMCA Writers Voice for a craft-focused discussion, open to poets, students of poetry, and the campus community. Space is limited! To…