2025 Annual Humanities Festival

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

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.

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