On Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m., Carleton College will host a public panel discussion on the ethics of healthcare access in America.  Entitled “Healthcare as a Human Right: Access & Barriers,” this event will take place in the College’s Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236, and is free and open to the public.

Renowned writer Uday Prakash, considered one of contemporary Hindi’s most important voices, is visiting Carleton College for the month of May as the Lindesmith Distinguished Lecturer and Writer in Residence. During his residency, Prakash will present a number of public lectures and film screenings; these events are free and open to the public.

Carleton political science professor Mihaela Czobor-Lupp will present a lecture entitled “Foucault on Biopower and Governmentality” on Monday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public.

Carol Donelan, associate professor of cinema and media studies, will present a narrated tour through re-created episodes in Northfield's early movie-going history at the Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. In addition to Donelan's presentation, entitled "Living Electric Theater: Cinema Emerges in Northfield," the event will feature early short films and a stellar cast of local musicians and performers, transporting the audience back to the early years of cinema in Northfield. Come experience the movies as they once were! This event is free and open to the public.

The Global Knowledge seminar series at Carleton College, an initiative of the Humanities Center, will present “Against Globalization: Superstudio's Critique of International Style Architecture” on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Part of a series of faculty presentations in the humanities, the lecture will be presented by Ross Elfine, an assistant professor of art and art history. This event is free and open to the public.

Last Wednesday, professors and students gathered in the Weitz Center as the Humanities Center unveiled the submissions to its contest, which judged student submissions of artwork.

University of Minnesota professor Jim Foley, an expert on the interactions between human beings and complex ecological systems, will present a public forum on ecology and food systems on Monday, Jan. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum. His presentation, entitled “Can We Feed the World, Without Destroying the Planet?” will be held at 4:30 p.m in the Gould Library Athenaeum, and is free and open to the public.

WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! Thank you all for your submissions to the contest!
The Humanities Center at Carleton is delighted to have a new space! After years of being a “Virtual Center”, we are now a Center with a physical center: the Humanities Center office in Weitz 223! Our new space is wonderful in every way... except one: there are some very bare wall expanses in Weitz 223! SO – we are issuing a challenge to the Carleton Student Body ($ prize will be awarded to winner): Can you create a work of art that represents your vision of the humanities? 

Dr. Abraham Sela of the Hebrew University in Jersusalem, an expert on the Arab world and currently a visiting scholar at Carleton College, will present a public lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in the College’s Gould Library Athenaeum. Focused on the underlying causes of the revolutions that have overtaken the Arab world and the future of politics in countries such as Egypt and Syria, Sela’s lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Entitled “Understanding the Arab Spring,” this presentation is free and open to the public.

Carleton professor of history Adeeb Khalid, an expert on the history of Central Asia, will present the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Asian Studies and History Professorship Public Talk on Thurs., Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum on the Carleton College campus. Entitled “Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Making of Central Asia,” Khalid’s presentation is free and open to the public.

Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler, a “passionate advocate of wonder” and writer of creative nonfiction works, will deliver a pair of presentations at Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity on Monday, Oct. 17. Weschler’s appearance is in conjunction with the exhibit, “Seeing is Knowing: The Universe,” currently on display in the Perlman Teaching Museum at the Weitz Center for Creativity. Both events, as well as admission to the exhibit, are free and open to the public.

Carleton’s three-year-old virtual Humanities Center is about to get physical. Since the start of the 2011-2012 school year, the innovative center that was designed to foster the college’s intellectual and cultural life now has a tangible office in the Weitz Center for Creativity.