Welcome to the Humanities Center at Carleton
Our Mission Statement
The Humanities Center at Carleton cultivates the intellectual and cultural life at the College
- by providing a locus for innovative research and interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty and students
- by fostering, coordinating, and publicizing diverse programming on campus
- by engaging students in the practice of the humanities, and
- by interrogating the relationship between humanistic study and artistic, ethical, and political issues in the contemporary world.
Humanities News
Dialogos 1 - Faculty Research Exchange, Thursday, October 1 at 12:00 noon
"Contending Truths" - Humanities Center Faculty Seminar
“The Life I was Supposed to Have: Explorations in Truth, Authority and the Presentation of the Self in Academia”
Co-Sponsored with the LTC
Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon - 1:15 p.m.
Join us for presentations by faculty colleagues, lunch, and discussion:
Beth Kissileff, Religion, with comments from Clara Hardy, Classics, and William North, History
Dialogos 2: Faculty Research Exchange, Thursday, October 22 at 4:30pm
Contentious Contemplatives: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Thursday, October 22 – 4:30 p.m., Gould Library Athenaeum
"One of the Thirty-Two Reasons Monks Fell into Hell: Buddhist Debate in Medieval Japan"
Asuka Sango, Religion
"Cowled Cold Wars: Reflections on the Dynamics of Institutional Antagonism in Twelfth-century Europe"
William North, History
Moderator: Greg Marfleet, Political Science
"Popular Sex and Popular Culture," Monday, November 9 at 3:30pm
Holt Parker, University of Cincinnati, an award-winning classicist specializing in Gender Studies,Literary Theory, Augustan Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Roman Comedy, and Linguistics.
Gould Library Athenaeum