Welcome to the Humanities Center
Founded in 2003, the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon promotes and support scholarship and research that actively engages with culture and human production across the disciplines. Both a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement with the traditional questions addressed by the humanities are essential at a university historically focused on science, technology, and the arts. Through lectures, panel discussions, conferences, and public outreach in our Faces Film Festivals, we demonstrate the value and interest of the humanities on and off campus.
News & Events
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Raiford analyzes why activists chose photography over other media, explores the doubts some individuals had about the strategies, and shows how photography became an increasingly effective, if complex, tool in representing black political interests. MORE
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Monday, March 4, 2013
Natalie Phillips, Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University, specializes in 18th-century literature, the history of mind, and cognitive approaches to narrative. MORE
Neuroscience and the Literary History of Mind: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Attention in Jane Austen
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This talk features the work of our 2012-2013 CMU Humanities Center Senior Research Fellow, Leshu Torchin. MORE
Too Big to See: The Visual Culture of Economic Rights
Friday, November 9, 2012
Do you know what the NBC comedy The Office has in common with the HBO series, The Wire? The idea that in a hierarchy every employee rises to his or her level of incompetence. MORE
When Homeland Terror Passes for Bureaucratic Security: The Wire Meets The Office
Monday, October 8, 2012
Brooke Gladstone is managing editor and co-host of On the Media. After working in print media, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of Weekend Edition. MORE