NPR host Maria Hinojosa to deliver MLK Commemorative Address
The four-time Emmy winner and host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA and PBS’s America By The Numbers will deliver the University’s 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address on Friday, January 19.
History under a microscope
The Future(s) of Microhistory symposium brings prominent historians to Rochester to discuss one of the most influential methodologies in their field in the last few decades.
What makes Pulitzer Prize–winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich curious?
In a 1976 journal article, Ulrich coined a phrase that has become ubiquitous: Well-behaved women seldom make history. The Humanities Center hosts the feminist historian, who will speak about writing and micro-histories.
Alumni share career advice with humanities majors
“I think my studies at Rochester in theater and sociology and in the humanities—I took a lot of English, history, and philosophy—really were the best kind of preparation for work in communication and journalism,” says Charles Kravetz ’74.
Humanities Center announces public lecture series speakers
The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year’s theme of “memory and forgetting.”
Charlie Norris ’68, NBA star Byron Scott offer leadership tips
Be humble. Be a good listener. And never be complacent. The co-authors of the book Slam-Dunk Success: Leading From Every Position on Life’s Court, offered these key tips to student athletes while visiting campus.
Whose heritage do we honor when building—and destroying—monuments?
What’s the function of a monument? Who should be honored with one—and who gets to decide? Richard Leventhal, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore these questions in the second annual James Conlon Memorial Lecture.
Is it reasonable to ‘agree to disagree’?
When people disagree, and all involved in the discussion believe that theirs is the reasonable position, what’s to be done? That’s a question that underlies a lecture series in September by philosopher Richard Feldman.
University hosts International Baccalaureate World Student Conference
More than 200 high school students from around the globe visited campus for the sixth annual conference, which this year focused on the theme “Defining and Defying Boundaries.”
NFL Hall of Famer Jim Kelly to keynote dSports Summit
Former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jim Kelly will speak at UR Medicine’s day-long exploration of the latest developments in sports medicine, technology innovation, data analytics, and research.