Newhouse Center for the Humanities

Have you ever wondered what a mind actually is? Join us for a cross-disciplinary conversation about historical and contemporary attempts to answer this question.

Poets Martín Espada and Yara Liceaga-Rojas join us for readings from their latest works. This event will feature poetry and conversation in both English and Spanish.

This event will explore and highlight contributions to the education of women in Spain early in the 20th century.

Film screenings and discussions of the importance of representation in film and the opportunities independent films offer marginalized communities as they seek to tell their own stories.

Newhouse Fellow Hélène Bilis explores competing plays on the same subject by different playwrights and the lessons on authorship, influence, and literary prestige these literary contests reveal.

Professor Leah Price (Rutgers University) discusses her recent work, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019), in which she demonstrates that the death of reading has been greatly exaggerated.