Chairs: Sari Edelstein, Joseph Rezek

Showcases new work by scholars engaging with well-established and emergent methodologies in the history of American culture, politics, and aesthetics.... Read more about American Literature and Culture

Chairs: Kiku Adatto, Michael Sandel

Explores the interplay of the arts, political culture, and civic life. Our goal is to provide a vibrant, international forum for the exchange of ideas and ongoing projects.... Read more about Art, Political Culture, and Civic Life

Chairs: Janet Gyatso, James Robson

Provides an opportunity for faculty, students, and participants to discuss approaches to Buddhist Studies that are as diverse as philology, philosophy, intellectual history, anthropology, art history, literary studies, and religious studies.... Read more about Buddhist Studies Forum

Chair: Tom Conley

Explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities.... Read more about Cartography

Chairs: Catherine McKenna, Joseph F. Nagy, Natasha Sumner

Topics include aspects of Celtic literatures and cultures from ancient to modern times, with an emphasis on new approaches to these topics.... Read more about Celtic Literature and Culture

Chairs: Thomas Kelly, James Robson, Xiaofei Tian

A forum for exploring the whole span of Chinese experience before the modern era.... Read more about China Humanities

Chairs: Irene Peirano Garrison, Naomi Weiss

Through consideration of topics reflecting the entire range of Classical studies, the seminar examines Greek and Roman literature, philology, history, religion, archaeology, and philosophy... Read more about Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chairs: Emily Greenwood, John Hamilton, Adrian Staehli, Richard F. Thomas

Investigates the reception, elaboration, and revaluation of ancient and classical traditions from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to modernity and postmodernity.... Read more about Classical Traditions and Receptions

Chairs: Sari Altschuler, Amy Boesky, David Jones

Provides a space for vibrant interdisciplinary conversation about health-related topics from a humanities perspective.... Read more about Critical Health Humanities

Chairs: Jess Keiser, Robert Lehman, Samantha Matherne

Every academic year, the Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities seminar hosts a weekly reading group on a work relevant to our theme.... Read more about Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities

Chairs: Nicole Aljoe, Susan Lanser, Ruth Perry

A forum for new research and perspectives on the many cultures of the "long" eighteenth century (1660-1820).... Read more about Eighteenth-Century Studies

Chairs: Verena Conley, Annabel Kim, Usha Reena Rungoo

The sense of a globe that is interconnected within and beyond the nation has a long history in literature and culture.... Read more about France and the World

Chairs: Peter Burgard, John Hamilton

Through a comparative study of German conceptions of the Kulturwissenschaften and American versions of “German studies,” the seminar aims to initiate a new phase in the debate on the function and scope of interdisciplinary approaches to the field.... Read more about German Studies: New Perspectives

Chairs: Ann Blair, Alex Csiszar, Deidre Lynch, Hannah Marcus

Considers the production, circulation, and reception of texts.... Read more about History of the Book

Chairs: David Stern, Saul Zaritt

Highlights diverse approaches to the study of Jewish cultures and societies throughout the entire span of Jewish history, bringing together for discussion scholars and scholarship from a wide variety of disciplines and across intellectual boundaries.

Chairs: Vassiliki Rapti, Eric Gordon

The Ludics Seminar is animated by the concept of play as humanistic inquiry and beyond. It constitutes an open forum where scholars and practitioners from a variety of humanistic and scientific disciplines, ranging from art, design, architecture, dance, and politics, all the way to psychiatry and physics, are invited to deeply consider why play matters.... Read more about Ludics

Chairs: Sean Gilsdorf, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

A forum for the presentation and discussion of scholarly work in Medieval Studies, emphasizing comparative and interdisciplinary approaches.... Read more about Medieval Studies

Chair: Panagiotis Roilos 

Performs transhistorical and cross-disciplinary explorations of aspects of Greek literature, societies, politics, and culture from the twelfth century to postmodernity.... Read more about Modern Greek Studies

Chairs: Samuel Alexander

Brings together faculty, students, and members of the public to explore perspectives on cultural artifacts, primarily literature, of the long twentieth century.... Read more about Modernism

Chairs: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Alejandro Madrid

"Musics Abroad" will take a global and comparative approach to music and mobility in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to music and musicians within new diaspora communities established in recent decades.... Read more about Musics Abroad