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Center for the Humanities

  1. Johanna Meehan

    College Mourns Professor Johanna Meehan

    Jan 26, 2024
    Prof. Meehan was loved not only by her colleagues and students but also by her invaluable administrative assistants, friends in Grinnell, and scholars around the country who remember her encouragement and support of their scholarly work through the years.
  2. Tim Arner and David Neville in front of Ribe Viking Museum

    NEH Grant Supports Immersive Virtual Reality Project

    Jan 13, 2023
    This grant will support the creation of an immersive virtual reality experience for visualizing a Viking longship, and understanding the social, linguistic, cultural, political, and economic roles that the longship played in the Viking Age.
  3. Scholars’ Convocation: Jennifer Ho

    Feb 18, 2022
    Join Jennifer Ho, director, Center for the Humanities & Arts, University of Colorado, for her presentation "From Public Libraries to American Girl Doll: My Story as a Public Humanities Intellectual." The event will be available via Zoom on Thursday, March 3, at 11 a.m. CT.
  4. human hand reaches toward digital hand

    The Rise of the Machines

    Oct 08, 2021
    Professor of Sociology Karla Erickson explores artificial intelligence in her research and teaching and involves students throughout.
  5. Jarvis Givens

    Scholars’ Convocation: Dr. Jarvis Givens 

    Sep 21, 2021
    Givens will present "The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power" at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room A1231.
  6. Latona Giwa

    #BlackBirthMatters

    Nov 06, 2020
    Reflections on Health Humanities and the Birth Justice Movement by Latona Giwa ’09, a leading figure of the American Birth Justice movement, at noon, Nov. 12, 2020
  7. Toni Morrison

    Celebrating and Honoring Toni Morrison

    Feb 19, 2020
    Public talk by Professor Shanna Benjamin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, and inscription unveiling at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.
  8. Man, woman and child

    Jean-Ulrick Désert on the Creative Art of Being Conspicuously Invisible

    Feb 18, 2020
    Berlin-based artist Jean-Ulrick Désert will discuss his multi-media and multi-dimensional artistic practice of the past 20 years at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020.
  9. Ruben Espinosa

    Shakespeare, Race, and Latinx Invisibility

    Feb 07, 2020
    The Center for the Humanities hosts Ruben Espinosa for a public talk at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11, 2020.

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