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
The Media are a Force…but for What?
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Roundtable on the Origins of Occupy Wall Street
Thursday, April 26, 2012
In response to the “Imagining Planetarity” project, Anne Balsamo will address one of its key questions: “how might the world to come be thought into existence constructively?” MORE
Anne Balsamo Lecture
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Beneficiary: Cosmopolitanism and Inequality
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Right to Look; Or, Why We Occupy
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Critical Strangeness: Art, Displacement and Parrhesia
Friday, October 14, 2011
The Ecology of Everyday Life
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Imagining Connectivity: World Picturing in Contemporary Cultures
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
As part of its program for 2011-2012 on the them of Imaging Planetarity, the Humanities Center will a host the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Arts of the Planet: National Conference, October 27-30, 2011
As part of its program for 2011-2012 on the them of Imaging Planetarity, the Humanities Center will a host the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present