Humanities Institute

Participants: Dr Andre Bergegere (Composer and Independent Scholar) Fernanda Negrete (Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages) John Bewley (Chief Music Librarian and Archivist) James Currie (Associate Professor, Department of Music). This roundtable discussion is to celebrate the opening of John Bewley's new exhibition on the composer Henri Pousseur, who composed his seminal "Votre Faust" in […]

Irus Braverman, Professor of Law, will preview her forthcoming book, Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink.

Peter DeGabriele is Associate Professor of English at the Mississippi State University, and the author of -Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political- (Bucknell University Press, 2015). Professor DeGabriele specializes in the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture; his research explores the relationship between literary texts and the political […]

There is an increasingly obvious conflict between the culture of a genuine cosmopolitanism, originating in the qualitative creativity of local contexts yet in communication with a worldwide Republic of Letters, and globalization, with its quantitative anti-culture of commodification, cost-benefit, and publicity motivated by monetary profiteering. Of this conflict, Pierre Bourdieu, in Firing Back (2001) wrote: […]

Insights on Writing Successful Grants: Dr. Glenna Bett, Vice Chair for Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology, will guide students and faculty through the basics of writing a successful proposal.