Features

Mark Usher
alumni profile

Adaptation

Classics professor Mark Usher stitches together an unorthodox career.
faculty projects

A Series of Fortunate Events

How book series and their faculty editors shape, define, and defend their fields.
graduate students

The Social Scientists of Music

Ethnomusicology students blend art and science in their research.
Illustration from The Plum in the Golden Vase
emeritus faculty

A Lifetime Fascination

David Tod Roy finishes his translation of a once-banned Chinese classic.

News in Brief

philanthropy
Emmett Dedmon, AB'39

Discovery and Adventure

The Dedmon Visiting Writers program unites the scholarly and the creative.
on campus

New Faculty Fall 2013

New hires build on strength throughout the division.
events
Let Your Mind Waner

Let Your Mind Wander

The 35th annual Humanities Day is October 19, 2013.
humanities at work
Paintings at the Fisher Art Foundation in San Francisco.

Mission Critical

Four alumni find homes as humanists in the nonprofit sector.

Featured Events

Thu.
Apr. 24		WORKSHOP: The 2014 David Kipper Ancient Israel Workshop
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall
Thu.
Apr. 24		Gender and Philosophy Workshop
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Other Location (see description)
Thu.
Apr. 24		Tea Time Concert Series
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Fulton Hall
Thu.
Apr. 24		2014 Gossett Lecture: Marianne HIrsch and Leo Spitzer - 'Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of Transnistria'
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Classics Building, Room 110
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