Earlier this year, Erin Benay, associate professor of early modern art and director of undergraduate studies and Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies and professor of bioethics, were named ...

From Japanese geishas to African anti-colonialists, this year’s Humanities Week lectures will explore various shades of female empowerment throughout history. Starting Monday afternoon in the Dorothy ...

This year, the West Virginia Humanities Council is looking back to American basics for inspiration during the nation’s 250th ...

Ruth Wisse, Yiddish literature professor emerita at Harvard University and a distinguished senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund, cautioned against the rise of “adversarial ideas,” stating that American ...

Members of the UA community gathered in the Poetry Center to listen to a German studies professor speak about the importance of love to life and learning on Tuesday evening, as the College of ...

The playwright Arthur Miller used the 30th annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on Monday night to deliver a stinging attack on George W. Bush, Al Gore, the Supreme Court, and the reporters who ...

Brigham Young University philosophy professor K. Codell Carter will deliver the annual P.A. Christensen Humanities Lecture Thursday, Feb. 16, at 11 a.m. in B092 Joseph F. Smith Building. Admission is ...

Thomas Jefferson’s skepticism about the ability of African-Americans to produce poetry and art prompted black authors to prove their equality in literature, Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Friday as he ...

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 ...