As the Center for the Humanities prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2024, it devotes this year’s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. Our yearlong series envisions storytelling expansively and brings a variety of practitioners — historians and novelists, cartoonists and artists, musicians and musicologists, anthropologists and quilters — to campus to discuss the innovative ways in which they tell stories.
All events in the series are free and open to the public.
Upcoming Fall Events
A Poetry Reading by Kwame Dawes - Kwame Dawes
Thursday, October 5th, 4pm
Higgins Welcome Center & Livestreamed
Telling Stories About the Ocean - Akeia de Barros Gomes and Jason Mancini
Wednesday, October 11th, 5pm
Higgins Welcome Center & Livestreamed
Music and Storytelling on Broadway - Jesse-Ray Leich and Nick Jemo
Sunday, October 15th, 3pm
Edwards Hall Auditorium & Livestreamed
Seeing Providence Chinatown: Relational Reconstruction of Erased Histories - Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Thursday, November 2nd, 4pm
Higgins Welcome Center & Livestreamed
Previous Fall Events
Cute Drawings of Terrible Things: Graphic History and Visual Storytelling as a Historian and a Cartoonist - B. Erin Cole
The Center for the Humanities is grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Rhode Island Sea Grant, the Office of Research and Economic Development, and the Kingston Chamber Music Festival for generously co-sponsoring this series.