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Welcome to the Humanities Center at Carleton

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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 2: Faculty Research Exchange, Thursday, October 22 at 4:30pm

September 22, 2009

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