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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Mendelsohn, a humanities professor at Bard College, gave a lecture Monday about his experience translating Homer’s ...

At UNC Asheville this week, the answer is water — and a new lecture series connecting science, storytelling and Southern Indigenous survival.

Pepper Stetler, associate professor of art history and associate director of the Humanities Center at Miami University, recently organized the Laptop Lectures series to keep people engaged in the ...

Nationally renowned novelist and author Viet Thanh Nguyen will deliver the West Virginia Humanities Council’s annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities at Capitol Theater in Charleston this Thursday, ...

Several years ago, members of the University of Kansas’s Hall Center for the Humanities were brainstorming ways to share ...

Professors at Reed College cancelled the first lecture of a mandatory first-year course because of interruptions by student protesters. For a year, members of the student activist group, Reedies ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is being honored by one of Washington's cultural institutions. On Monday night, the Academy Award winning film director delivered the 2013 Jefferson ...

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 ...