Society & Culture

The InspireDANCE festival has expanded rapidly in just four years, adding a sixth day and attracting nationally acclaimed choreographers and dancers.

The literary translation press has been selected to receive an Art Works grant to expand its work in promoting emerging international authors.

Kathleen Parthé's book A Herzen Reader features one hundred essays and editorials by Russian radical thinker Alexander Herzen.

A newly published book offers guidance to international scholars on navigating academic publication in English.

This Neilly Series lecture focusses on give the politics and ethics associated with HIV and AIDS. It will be accompanied by a slide show of AIDS posters from the University's collection.

The play presents the story of a small circle of close friends impacted by the rise of Hitler.

George Weigel, noted author and NBC News Vatican analyst, will deliver the lecture "21st-Century Catholics in an Unfamiliar America" for the 2013-2014 Faith in America lecture series.

Students from any of Rochester's four humanities Ph.D. programs—English, history, philosophy, and visual and cultural studies—are invited to apply for admission to the fellowship.

The study tested the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy, a short-term depression treatment that has worked with more advantaged populations. The comparison was clear: home-based, interpersonal psychotherapy lifted depression much more effectively than standard care.

Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel, The Sentimentalists, won Canada's most prestigious literary award in 2010.

Aaron Hughes will give his first lecture as the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics.