About Us

The HumanitiesCenter provides a physical home as well as intellectual, financial, and organizational support for students, faculty, and staff who wish to come together to participate in humanistic inquiry, understood in the broadest possible terms.  We seek to enrich the work of existing academic departments and programs in the humanities, by stimulating a wide range of activities that move beyond and across disciplines, urging members of the community to consider in the freest and fullest ways what humans are or have been, what humans have produced and are producing.  We seek to break down the division between work and play, between the classroom and the rest of life.   We aim to foster vibrant intellectual inquiry, and to diffuse the energies of such inquiry into the broader culture of the Lehigh campus.  Specifically, we sponsor interdisciplinary curriculum, including team- taught courses.  We choose a theme for each year (Creativity, The Public Intellectual, Waste, Just Globalization, New Bethlehem are examples) – and bring a series of scholars, intellectuals, artists, writers, activists, and visionaries to address related issues.  We also host conferences, cosponsor visiting speakers, support reading groups, and organize a works-in-progress series.  The Humanities Center also hosts a wide range of informal activities to create lively, unstructured humanistic community.

Announcements

Friday, November 6th at 12 noon
Summer Grant Presentation by
Colleen Martell
Graduate Student, English
"The Roots You Need Are Where You Are Now: A Celebration of Tillie Olsen"
Soup and bagels provided!

SPEAKING BODIES
Fall, 2009 - Spring, 2010 Lecture Series
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Fall, 2009 - Spring, 2010

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