Symposium on the Future of the Humanities - March 29, 2011
Cultural Conversations at SAIS and the Council of Independent Colleges held a daylong "Symposium on the Future of the Humanities" with experts from academia, foundations and the humanities on Tuesday, March 29.
Click here for a complete agenda, plus sympsium speeches and remarks.
Panel: "Symposium on the Future of the Humanities" Part 1 of 2
Panel: "Symposium on the Future of the Humanities" Part 2 of 2
Welcome and Overview of the Symposium
Amir Pasic, Associate Dean for Development and Strategic Planning and Acting Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Institute, The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Azar Nafisi, Executive Director of Cultural Conversations and Visiting Scholar, The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges
Why the Humanities?
Neil Rudenstine, President Emeritus, Harvard University and Chair, Board of Trustees, ARTstor
Steven Knapp, President, The George Washington University
S. Georgia Nugent, President, Kenyon College
Moderator: John Churchill, Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa Society
The Humanities, the Individual, and Society
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Victoria Mora, Dean, St. John’s College (NM)
Moderator: Matthew Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, New York University
The Humanities and Public Policy
Jean Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, University of Chicago
Douglas C. Bennett, President and Professor of Politics, Earlham College
Dana Gioia, Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture, University of Southern California, and Harman-Eisner Senior Fellow in the Arts, Aspen Institute
Moderator: Jake Schrum, President, Southwestern University
The Humanities and the Institutions that Promote Them
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library
Peter Givler, Executive Director, Association of American University Presses
Thomas F. Flynn, President, Alvernia University
Moderator: Dorothy Kosinski, Director, The Phillips Collection
