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The Arts
March 15, 2019 | 01:30 pm

Keeping Leonard Bernstein alive for the current generation

Jamie Bernstein, writer, broadcaster, and narrator, will discuss her father’s legacy as part of a series of events celebrating “Leonard Bernstein and American Musical Theater.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Eastman Community Music School, Eastman School of Music, events, Humanities Center, Humanities Project, Kim Kowalke, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
December 21, 2018 | 02:03 pm

‘Lewis Henry Morgan at 200’ reintroduces a landmark scholar

A new digital project and exhibitions on and off campus mark the bicentennial year of one of the founders of social and cultural anthropology.

topics: Department of Anthropology, events, Humanities Project, River Campus Libraries, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
October 8, 2018 | 01:53 pm

Rochester premieres recovered landmark opera

In its day, the comic opera Love in a Village was performed more often than Shakespeare’s tragedies. Now the Humanities Project brings it back, with the first performance since the 18th century of the full production with its original score.

topics: events, Humanities Center, Humanities Project,
The Arts
March 28, 2017 | 12:24 pm

Irish actor tells a story with God Has No Country

Rochester will host the U.S. premiere of God Has No Country, a one-man play written and performed by Donal Courtney. The drama tells the story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who used his Vatican connections to harbor Jews, ultimately saving more than 6,500 lives.

topics: Department of History, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Department of Religion and Classics, events, Humanities Project, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
University News
February 1, 2017 | 12:38 pm

Events celebrating black history

W. Kamau Bell, sociopolitical comedian and host of the Emmy-nominated CNN show United Shades of America, highlights a month of lectures, films, performances, and exhibits.

topics: Black History Month, events, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, Humanities Project, Susan B. Anthony Center, We're Better Than That,
The Arts
September 28, 2016 | 10:26 am

Class, symposium explore ‘New Approaches to Poetry and Song’

In music professor Matthew BaileyShea’s class, students share lyrics from favorite songs, then work to uncover complexities in the text. An upcoming Humanities Center symposium organized by BaileyShea will further explore new ideas about text-music interaction.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Eastman School of Music, events, Humanities Center, Humanities Project, Matthew BaileyShea, School of Arts and Sciences,
University News
June 3, 2016 | 11:24 am

Rochester Italianist receives honorary professorship

This spring, the University of the Pacific in Lima, Peru, conferred an honorary professorship on Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio, associate professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, in recognition of her scholarly contributions to the field of Dante studies.

topics: Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio, global engagement, Humanities Project, Peru, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
October 16, 2015 | 10:39 am

Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance

The University’s Humanities Project will present a solo performance of The Sundance Kid is Beautiful, a rarely shown work by visual artist Christopher Knowles. Knowles is often regarded as being an outsider whose work is explained through his autism.

topics: Arts and Humanities, Christopher Knowles, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Humanities Center, Humanities Project, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
September 23, 2014 | 03:57 pm

Symposia, exhibit, opera look behind the veils of Salomé

The story of Salomé has been recreated in popular culture for more than 2,000 years. On Oct. 8-11, her evolving role in religion, society, and the arts will be explored in a two-day symposia and series of events titled The Veils of Salomé, at both the River Campus and the Eastman School of Music.

topics: announcements, Department of Religion and Classics, Eastman School of Music, Emil Homerin, George Eastman House, Humanities Project, Program for Jewish Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,