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ABOUT THE HUMANITIES PROJECT

University of Rochester President Joel Seligman has committed $150,000 annually from the President's Venture Fund to create the Humanities Project, an interdepartmental endeavor designed to support work by Rochester faculty in all fields of humanistic inquiry. Read more >>

THE PROJECTS

Learn more about the seven projects that were selected this year and the exciting line-up of speakers, films, symposia, courses, conferences, panels and exhibitions.

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HUMANITIES AT ROCHESTER

Housed in eight departments and incorporating dozens of disciplines, the humanities at Rochester are dedicated to the critical examination of the documents and objects that reflect the meaningful past and present of humankind.

Please visit the College's Departments and Programs website and the individual Humanities Departments and Programs that it houses to learn more about the faculty, research, courses and events at River Campus.

Visit the Eastman School of Music's Academic Departments to learn more about the people and the areas of performance and scholarship on the Eastman Campus, or to learn more about upcoming performances and events see the Eastman School Concerts & Events page.

Please visit the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery to learn more about the museum's permanent collection, educational programming, and exhibition and event schedule.

Find out more about the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester's School of Medicine and Dentistry.

NEWS AND FEATURED EVENTS

Current Projects (2009-2010)

Learn more about the seven projects that were selected this year and the exciting line-up of speakers, films, symposia, courses, conferences, panels and exhibitions.

• New Ways of Seeing: New Media and the Humanities, Theory, and Practice


• Robin Hood: Media Creature


• Theorizing Black Studies: Thinking Black Intellectuals


• Film Lost and Found: The Experience of Pre- and Silent Cinema


• The Group for the Interdisciplinary Study of Political Rhetoric, Media, and Public Opinion


• Theorizing Black Studies: Gender and Race in American History


• Theorizing Black Studies: Representing African-Americans in the African Imagination