When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know ...

Until a couple of years ago, Emma Thompson thought she would study theatre or music in university. She had been involved in musical theatre and decided to attend a specialized Toronto arts high school ...

Are the arts and humanities still needed as universities retrench staff and cut costs? Patty Raun explains why curtailing or ...

In 2019, humanities student Teresa Sammut, writing in the University of Victoria’s Martlet student newspaper, wrote an article entitled “Thoughts on the decline of a ‘human’ education.” “The ...

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Humanities departments are suffering from a decade of declining majors and enrollments, plus “formidable” new pressures stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for effective strategies to ...

Harvard’s Arts and Humanities Division and the Mahindra Humanities Center will launch two new programs in fall 2021 to help promote undergraduate humanities research and collaboration across fields.

The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery make clear that black lives are not safe in the United States. Despite decades of efforts to eradicate it, racism continues to ...

The Humanities Program offers students the opportunity to intensify and expand their undergraduate study by writing an Honors Thesis, which is an independent study with the goal of graduating with ...