Congratulations to the 2021-22 Faculty Fellows cohort! Eight fellows will work in residence at the Center for the Humanities in either the fall 2021 or spring 2022 semester.
Who will be the recipient of the 2022 Washington University International Humanities Prize? Thanks to a new selection process coordinated by the Center for the Humanities, the answer is in the hands of faculty in WashU’s humanities and humanistic social sciences units. Nominations due March 15, 2021.
Two recent events at Washington University spotlighted the role of public museums and memorials in initiating and giving context to conversations about remembrance, reconciliation and prevention of violence. PhD candidate Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim reports on the broad themes of the events, including the experience of museum-going and what it means to be an “implicated” subject.
The number of COVID-19 diagnoses grows day by day, but the unequal rate of infection among Black and Latinx people and white people remains constant. Looking back at the AIDS epidemic, René Esparza, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, finds a striking similarity in the U.S.’s historical treatment of viruses that disproportionally affect minority communities.
The human fingerprint maps our identity, the ties that bind us, the lingering traces we leave on this earth. As humanists, we explore the durability as well as the fragility of the human condition — opening windows onto worlds near to home and oceans away, worlds we interpret through stories and images, poems and performance, history and narratives, sounds and silence. At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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Pursuing new scholarly ideas about the world takes funding — whether it's for a two-month tour of research sites in Japan or a two-week trip to an archive to view materials available only there — that can be hard to find via regular channels. The Center for the Humanities fills this gap with a number of funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Learn more about their stories!
The chairs and directors of Humanities departments and programs at Washington University in St. Louis have prepared this statement. In times of severe challenges, we feel that it is crucial that we avail ourselves of the invaluable resources that humanities scholarship and education offer.
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - 34th Annual Washington University Danforth Campus Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
View Event2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture - Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
View EventVirtual book club selection: ‘Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage’ by Alfred Lansing
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The humanities center facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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