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In today’s interconnected world, cultural competency, critical thinking and innovative problem solving are important proficiencies that are highly sought after by employers. The Institute for the Future predicts that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not…

The ���ϲ����� Humanities Center supports innovative faculty and graduate student researchers exploring a number of pressing social issues. Each spring, the center offers up to four highly competitive faculty fellowships—three from the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), including one…

Reparations for slavery. Environmental justice. Reproductive justice. Students, faculty, staff and the general public are invited to engage with these urgent topics and more throughout the spring semester thanks to the ���ϲ����� Humanities Center’s ���ϲ����� Symposium. The lineup of…

Organized around the theme of “repair,” the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and Humanities Center are excited to announce, in conjunction with the ���ϲ����� Symposium, “Active Repair: Works from the Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA),” running now through Friday, Feb. 17,…

The ���ϲ����� Humanities Center celebrates ���ϲ����� Symposium’s 19th year with a diverse selection of public events exploring “repair” in the context of medicine, religion, the environment and more. Through a lineup that includes a film festival, lectures, workshops, exhibitions…

The ���ϲ����� Human Rights Film Festival (SUHRFF) celebrates 20 years of programming with outstanding films about human rights and social justice from around the world. SUHRFF takes place Sept. 22-24, and is part of ���ϲ����� Symposium 2022-23: REPAIR. It…

From COVID-19’s transformative impact on people’s daily lives to the global reckoning against histories of colonialism and racism, norms are constantly evolving. The ���ϲ����� Humanities Center’s yearlong ���ϲ����� Symposium [PDF], entitled Conventions, explores the ever-changing political, social and cultural…

“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…

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’ acclaimed “The 1619 Project,” will be the next guest of the University Lectures series on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. She will be interviewed by Rawiya Kameir,…

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…