WASHINGTON -- Arguments for the value of the humanities have been thick on the ground of late, as the ongoing economic stress felt by students, institutions, and governments has bolstered a cultural ...

Humanities scholars should have the nerve to remind scientists and political scientists of the importance of the individual: That appeared to be the central message delivered here on Tuesday night by ...

Internationally recognized philosopher and author Jenefer Robinson from Ohio is delivering a presentation that will explore how images might evoke human emotion. Titled “The Missing Person Found: ...

The Wolf Humanities Center table in the ARCH building on Oct. 9. Credit: Sanjana Juvvadi The Wolf Humanities Center hosted Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer at the ARCH building for a ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members are being recognized by the Mississippi Humanities Council with awards recognizing outstanding work by Mississippians in conveying insights of ...

Leon Kass, the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the College and a leading expert on moral philosophy and medical ethics, will deliver the 2009 Jefferson ...

Ken Burns, the documentary maker who brought the Civil War, the histories of baseball and jazz, and the biographies of the Roosevelts to film, had a chance Monday night to honor the National Endowment ...

The Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series held its first event on Wednesday at Helen C. White Hall. The lecture series brings distinguished scholars to Madison whose work constitutes the best ...

World-renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 1 at the John F.

UC Santa Cruz will present Writing for Living, a conference in honor of emeritus dean of humanities and literature professor Helene Moglen (1936-2018), on March 13-14 at the Humanities Division. The ...

Valerio Ferme, professor of Italian and associate dean for the Arts and Humanities, will deliver a lecture on the arts and humanities titled, "Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and the Birth of Humanism: ...