Division of the Humanities

 

 
Jan–Feb/15

Lawrence Lessig inaugurates the Berlin Family Lectures with a study of institutional corruption.

Fall 2011/Winter 2012

Integrating the social sciences and the humanities.
July–Aug/13

Spring quarter, like any other, offered an encyclopedia of public talks on campus, illuminating topics art historical, zoological, and most everything in between. At 11 of those talks, the Magazine staff were there. Here’s what we learned.

06.14.2013

The latest Colloquium is an unlikely anthology, say its editors, and they couldn’t be prouder.

12.12.2012

Many humanities graduates want to get published. This crew decided to become publishers.

Nov–Dec/12

Peter Selz, AM’49, PhD’54, looks back on a life in modern art through the works that most inspired him.

05.31.2012

A scholar uncovers the social history of chai, and develops a taste for it along the way.
May–June/12

An interview with writer and tale-teller Robert Coover, AM’65.

May–June/12

Believing that fairy tales have lost their magic, Renaissance scholar Armando Maggi, PhD’95, calls for a new kind of happily ever after.

04.23.2012

An evening of Brazilian song debuts the Logan Center penthouse.

Nov–Dec/11

Nina Burleigh, AM’87, covered Italy’s Amanda Knox case and the global obsession with the beautiful “female monster.”