Humanities Institute
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Fight Like a Girl: How Women’s Activism Shapes History
Alice Embree doesn’t know what came over her the first time she stood up against injustice. She just knew it was the right thing to do. Along with her friends Karen and Glodine and the rest of the Austin High School drill squad, Embree had just sat down to order at a restaurant in Corpus…
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Sick: The Poetics of Modern Health Care
…And all the while, I kept thinking about that great old Whitman poem… ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.’I…I don’t know it.Anyway…Well, can you recite it?Pathetically enough, I could. With some encouragement from Walt, Gale continues:When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts…
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Exploring the Unorthodox
UPDATE: Unfortunately the performance of Landfall by Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet scheduled for this Wednesday, October 16, at Bass Concert Hall has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. The “Conversation with Laurie Anderson” on Thursday, October 17, has been canceled as well. Texas Performing Arts will reschedule the performance during the 2014-2015 Texas Performing…
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“Landfall” Exhibition Features Artist-in-Residence Laurie Anderson, Performance by Kronos Quartet
In partnership with Texas Performing Arts and the Visual Arts Center, the Humanities Institute welcomes Laurie Anderson as the C. L. and Henriette Cline Centennial Visiting Professor in the Humanities. During her residency this fall, Anderson will meet with students, faculty, and the public, and present a musical performance and exhibition, “Landfall.” Composed by Anderson…
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Physician, Humanitarian Paul Farmer Addresses Human Healthcare Rights
Dr. Paul Farmer, a world-renowned medical anthropologist and physician, spoke about social medicine, global health and healthcare as a human right at an April 22 campus event hosted by the Humanities Institute. Farmer, who holds the Humanities Institute’s sixth C. L. and Henriette Cline Centennial Visiting Professorship in the Humanities, addressed a packed ballroom in…
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Q&A: Beauty and Social Justice
A staunch defender of beauty, Harvard University professor and award-winning author Elaine Scarry shows how appreciating aesthetic pleasures can press us toward a greater concern for social justice in her book “On Beauty and Being Just.” Drawing inspiration from writers and philosophers – as well as her own personal experiences – Scarry shares some provocative…
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Breaking Down the Walls
Interdisciplinary faculty seminar brings University’s resources to the public As one of the worst environmental disasters in history unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico this spring, it was only fitting that the Humanities Institute’s Faculty Fellows Seminar was completing a year of studying “Intellectual Life at Moments of Crisis.” To promote intellectual exchange across disciplines,…
