Humanities News

The Humanities Center is pleased to announce the recipients of winter break Student Research Partnerships awards. Congratulations to all! Barbara Allen (Political Science) and Drew Garcia ’22, Moses Jehng ’22, Amber…

The Theater of Public Policy Event: “Let’s Talk (and Improv) About Sex!” is Rescheduled (originally April 10) for this Wednesday, May 15 in Kracum Hall from 8-10 p.m.

The Humanities Center is pleased to announce the recipients of summer break Student Research Partner (SRP) awards for 2019.

The Humanities Center is delighted to announce the Faculty Fellows for the 2019–20 Humanities Center Faculty Research Seminar, “Rethinking the Emotions,” to be led by Timothy Raylor, Professor of English, and Clara Hardy, John E. Sawyer Professor of Liberal Learning. 

The April 26-27 event showcases Latin America as a site of innovative scholarship and creative lived experiences.

Carleton College and the Theater of Public Policy, a nationally touring improv comedy group, will bring together a state legislator and leaders from Planned Parenthood and The HOPE Center for a live, unscripted conversation about what sex education looks like today and how it could look in the future.

Cecilia Cornejo, Instructor in Cinema and Media Studies, has been awarded an Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Fund for the Arts in support of her project The Wandering House. This year NALAC awards will provide funding to 26 Latinx artists and collectives and 17 Latinx arts organizations throughout the U.S.

Ross Elfline, Associate Professor of Art History, presented a paper titled “Common Ground: Haus-Rucker-Co’s Food City and Collaborative Design Practice” at the annual meeting of the College Art Association on February 14.

Akex Knodel, Assistant Professor of Classics, had his book Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity (co-edited with Tom Leppard, Equinox 2018) reviewed in the New Book Chronicle of the journal Antiquity.

George Shuffelton, Professor of English, published an article titled “School Ties: The Evidence of Alumni Friendships in Later Medieval England” in History of Universities 31.2. The article explores how in the centuries before the existence of alumni societies, newsletters, and reunions, alumni of medieval Oxford and Cambridge kept their friendships alive through letters, meals in college dining halls, and exchanges of books.