Humanities Symposium Archives

Please visit the following pages for information about past Humanities Symposia:

• 2012 Spring Humanities Symposium:  The Transforming Book
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University, Fellow of the British Academy and President of the American Historical Association
  

• 2011 Spring Humanities Symposium: Friendship
  Keynote Speaker: The Honorable James Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

• 2010 Spring Humanities Symposium: Memory
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Henry Louis gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University

• 2009 Spring Humanities Symposium: Faith and the Public Square
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alan Wolfe. Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

• 2008 Spring Humanities Symposium:Eyes Wide Open: Engaging Technology with our Humanity
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edward Tenner, noted scholar and writer on technology and culture

• 2007 Spring Humanities Symposium: Globalization
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kent Hill, Senior Administrator of the Bureau of Global Health, US AID

• 2006 Spring Humanities Symposium: The Power of Human Imagination
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Wendy Wright, author and writer on spiritual formation

• 2005 Spring Humanities Symposium: E Pluribus unum or The Two Americas?
  Keynote Speaker: David McCullough, celebrated American historian

• 2004 Spring Humanities Symposium: Culture, Community, and Belonging
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jean Kilbourne, noted media critic