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“Timely and timeless” is how Vivian May, director of the ���ϲ����� Humanities Center, describes “Conventions,” the theme of this year’s ���ϲ����� Symposium. In the political sense, she says a convention can be a gathering or convening, as in political…

More than 40 ���ϲ����� authors and editors—some with multiple works—are being showcased in the sixth annual Books in the Humanities celebration, hosted by the ���ϲ����� Humanities Center, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office…

Bringing seven decades of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life is the mission of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP). Co-founded by faculty director P. Gabrielle Foreman, the CCP is a scholarly and community research project focused on digitally preserving Black political activism…

As assistant director for proposal development, Sarah Workman applies her academic background to help ���ϲ����� humanities faculty develop research proposals and find funding and support to make their ideas a reality. Workman, whose position is shared between the Office…

As we collectively navigate through a global pandemic, pursue social justice on multiple fronts and seek answers to the global warming crisis, “Futures,” the theme of this year’s ���ϲ����� Symposium hosted by the ���ϲ����� Humanities Center (SUHC), offers a series…

On Oct. 22 and 23, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), housed within the College of Law, and the ���ϲ����� Humanities Center, whose home is the College of Arts and Sciences, are hosting two virtual events on disability and future…

The 18th annual ���ϲ����� Human Rights Film Festival (SUHRFF) is online from Sept. 24-26 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The film festival is part of ���ϲ����� Symposium 2020-21: FUTURES and is presented by the ���ϲ����� Humanities Center in the…

The University Lectures series celebrates its 20th season this fall with three stellar speakers: actor, producer, singer and activist Wilmer Valderrama (“That ’70s Show,” “NCIS”) on Sept. 22; Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’…

Brice Nordquist, associate professor of writing studies, rhetoric and composition and Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is a recipient of a Humanities New York (HNY) Action Grant that will fund this year’s…

As an outspoken advocate of abolition and women’s rights, Frederick Douglass gladly accepted an invitation to the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. It was events like this, and being part of the “Underground Railroad,”…