2025 Annual Humanities Festival

“Democracy and Populist Rage in Recent American History” with Jefferson Cowie

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The Annual Humanities Festival, hosted each spring, celebrates the importance of the humanities by highlighting the work of a prominent speaker or panel of experts.

“Democracy and Populist Rage in Recent American History”

The 2025 Annual Humanities Festival featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Jefferson Cowie.

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Past Festivals:

2024

A Conversation with Novelist Ruth Ozeki

2023

A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winner Elizabeth Kolbert

2022

On Juneteenth: The Essential Story of Freedom Day and its Importance to American History with Annette Gordon-Reed

2021

The Humanities in Action: A Writer's Perspective on the Border with Luis Alberto Urrea

2019

Celebrating 25 Years of Furthering Excellence in Faculty Research

2018

Leaving Yourself Behind: Entangled Histories of Partition in British India, Margaret Bourke-White and Zarina

2017

Public Threads in the Humanities

2016

I Want to Know What Love Is: Hellish and Heavenly Loves, from Dante to The Walking Dead

2015

A keynote by Dr. Peniel Joseph and a panel discussion with URI faculty entitled Post Racial America.

2014

A keynote by Dr. Denise Spellberg and a movie in celebration of our 20th Anniversary