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looping video of glacier ice melting and dripping.
Society & Culture
September 11, 2024 | 03:52 pm

On thinning ice

A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.

topics: climate change, Department of History, global engagement, Humanities Center, research finding, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver, sustainability, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva,
Man in cage reaches up toward piano player in scene from Paper Pianos.
The Arts
May 8, 2024 | 01:49 pm

Musical documentary with Rochester roots gets a Pulitzer Prize nod

Paper Pianos, a live-performance musical documentary written and co-created by the International Theatre Program’s Nigel Maister, tells the story of an Afghan musician and refugee Milad Yousufi.

topics: alumni, awards, Department of English, Eastman School of Music, Humanities Center, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, School of Arts and Sciences,
Bykov smiling while seated at seminar table with students seated around him.
From the Magazine
May 1, 2024 | 03:35 pm

Dmitry Bykov: Satirizing Putin

The Russian poet, journalist, and literary critic is teaching and lecturing at Rochester as part of the Humanities Center’s Scholar in Exile program.

topics: Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, global engagement, Humanities Center, School of Arts and Sciences,
Peter Christensen and Lainie Ross standing next to each other against lit wall.
From the Magazine
May 1, 2024 | 03:03 pm

Healing arts and letters

A new Medical Center department teams up with the Humanities Center to foster collaboration on both sides of Elmwood Avenue.

topics: Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, Humanities Center, Lainie Ross, Peter Christensen, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Student uses VR glasses and is pictured through a rainbow prism
In Photos
March 29, 2024 | 11:24 am

March 2024 in Photos

March ushered in spring and a wealth of activities across the University of Rochester. Take a brief look back at how we spent the month.

topics: community, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Humanities Center, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry,
script written on paper with headshot of jeff baron overlayed on top.
Campus Life
December 13, 2022 | 10:07 am

New award sends humanities graduate students abroad

Four Rochester doctoral candidates will research in archives in a dozen countries as recipients of the Meliora Global Scholars grant.

topics: Department of History, featured-post-side, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, humanities, Humanities Center, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences,
portrait of Amitav Ghosh.
Society & Culture
March 30, 2022 | 01:23 pm

Amitav Ghosh: geopolitics are key to understanding the climate crisis

This year’s Distinguished Visiting Humanist says humanists have a vital role in reframing the climate crisis as rooted in history and culture as much as technology and economics.

topics: climate change, Distinguished Visiting Humanist, events, featured-post-side, Humanities Center,
barbed wire fence.
Society & Culture
September 7, 2021 | 02:01 pm

Yearlong research project explores social and political nuances of migration in the Americas

Rochester scholars in the humanities and social sciences will study human migration as part of a “temporary research center” supported by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant.

topics: Daniel Reichman, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, humanities, Humanities Center, Joan Shelley Rubin, migration, research funding, Ruben Flores, School of Arts and Sciences,
Two provided headshots side by side: left is Mia Alafaireet in color, right is Ricardo Milhouse in black and white.
University News
March 31, 2021 | 10:54 am

Frederick Douglass Institute announces two postdoctoral fellows

Mia Alafaireet and Ricardo Milhouse will join the University for the 2021–22 academic year to teach and continue their research.

topics: African American Studies, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, Humanities Center, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,