The university is a place charged with imagining our collective future. We turn to the humanities to craft the values that will shape that future, and to guide us as we face the challenges ahead.
How do we know what we know? What does the truth look like? Consider these questions and more at our exhibition
Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge
William Benton Museum of Art
January 17–March 10, 2023
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This exhibition is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Image: Blazing the Trail to the Distant Past by Arthur A. Jansson, used with permission from the American Museum of Natural History.
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What does it mean to be human?
UConn Humanities
We turn to the humanities to craft the values that will shape our future, and to guide us as we face the challenges ahead. What will it mean to be human in the face of technological and ecological upheaval? How does art and culture enable us to anticipate trends we want to embrace, and help us to avoid ancient pitfalls?
The mission of the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) is to catalyze, facilitate, and promote research on these questions, and advocate for that research on local and global stages. By hosting annual fellowships to support scholarship at here UConn and across the world, by supporting humanities-focused programming, and by facilitating an interdisciplinary space for scholars to think, collaborate, and create, UCHI serves as a creative laboratory for scholars and students dedicated to foregrounding human values.
Humanities Institute Success
Established, with the help of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the first-ever New England Humanities Consortium, bringing together both ivy-league and state-sponsored institutions.
Chosen to be an affiliate partner with the Yale Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. UCHI Director Anna Mae Duane will co-direct a two-year seminar convening an international group of leading scholars of the history of slavery.
Awarded a three-year grant of $750,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) Faculty of Color Working Group (FOCWG).
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NEW DATE: Faculty Talk: Julian Schlöder on the Inauthentic Self
Julian Schlöder (Philosophy) explores a conception of selfhood as meaning-making, where one’s self-narrative creates meaning from bare facticity and is hence is not just something we tell about ourselves, but it is how we articulate our very self. March 27, 3:30pm. UCHI Conference Room and on Zoom.
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Elizabeth Della Zazzera will discuss how early 19th-century French poetry almanacs marketed toward women shifted the almanac’s relationship to locality and to time, not only because of their content and format, but also because of how they were used. March 20, 3:30pm.
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The UConnPopCast, hosted by UCHI Associate Director Stephen Dyson and Professor Jeff Dudas, features scholarly analyses of popular culture and interviews with prominent scholars.
Why We Argue features conversations with scholars, artists, and scientists about topics related to truth, science, art, political conviction, and more.