20th anniversary celebration 1994-2014

Acknowledging our 20th anniversary milestone, the Center would like to build on our strengths of acknowledging the past to understand our future. Our keynote speaker, author and historian Dr. Denise Spellberg will discuss her book titled “Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders.” This exploration of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an provides a timely look at the ideals that existed in […]

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International Women’s Day 2014

Please click here to find out more about URI’s second annual celebration of International Women’s Day, featuring 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature nominee Dacia Mariani! Events will take place on February 27 & 28, 2014.

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Learn to search funding database for grant opportunities!

The Office of Research Development will offer a workshop Friday 2/14 on how to search SPIN, the comprehensive funding database to which the university subscribes. SPIN contains more than 40,000 grant opportunities. In this session, you will learn to create an account and conduct a simple funding search. You also will learn how to sign up for […]

URI Third Annual Spring Humanities Festival

The Arts and Humanities in the New Economy Photo credit (C) 2010 Sam Morrisey, Planet Parking Lot. Wednesday & Thursday, March 27 – 28th, 2013 Click here for Festival poster Click here for detailed program Keynote Speaker – The Honorable Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities. Keynote Concert – Bill Harley, two-time Grammy Award […]

Dragons of the North: Viking Longships

Friday, March 1, 2013 at 5:30pm Kirk Auditorium Dr. John R. Hale Flyer for this Presentation – PDF

“In the workshop of the mind: scholars and their assistants.”

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 5:00pm Lippitt Hall 402, Auditorium Professor Ann Blair, Department of History, Harvard University Flyer for this Presentation – PDF

Rhetorical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rise of Religious Tolerance in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 5:00pm Hoffmann Room, Room 154 Rosaleen Keefe, Ph. D. Candidate, English Flyer for this Presentation – PDF

Tropic of Orange

Monday, September 24, 2012 at 4:00pm Hoffmann Room, Swan Hall “Nikes Get In. People Don’t: Corporate Personhood and Mobility in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange” Assistant Professor Gina Valentino English, URI Flyer for this Presentation – pdf Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Department of English

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 5:00pm

Hoffman Room, Swan Hall   “Reading the Palimpsest of Race: Medieval Traces in Modern Discourse” Professor Lisa Lampert – Weissig  UC San Diego Flyer for this Presentation – pdf Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Departments of English, History, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, and […]

Engaging the World

  URI Spring Humanities Festival Engaging the World Photo credit (C) 2012 Kaitlyn Lamb (kaitlyn_lamb@my.uri.edu) Thursday & Friday, March 29 – 30th, 2012 Flyer for this presentation – pdf Keynote speaker - Lynn Pasquerella, President, Mount Holyoke College