{"id":2062,"date":"2016-09-28T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?page_id=2062"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:40:02","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Humanities and Popular Culture\/Counterculture<\/h1>

A yearlong humanities speaker series<\/p>Series Events<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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During the 2025-26 academic year, the Center for the Humanities is delighted to present “The Humanities and Popular Culture\/Counterculture,” a yearlong series of events on topics ranging from marching band music to basketball to Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brown Bag Series<\/h2>

Held monthly during the academic year, the series provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to share their research, teaching, and digital humanities projects.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Brown Bag Events<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Humanities Festival<\/h2>

Each spring, we celebrate the importance of the humanities by highlighting the work of a prominent speaker or discussion panel of experts.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Past and upcoming events<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sustaining Democracy<\/h2>

A lecture series devoted to demonstrating the critical role that the arts and humanities play in sustaining and inspiring democratic engagement.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Lecture recordings<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Check back soon for next year’s events!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the 2025-26 academic year, the Center for the Humanities is delighted to present “The Humanities and Popular Culture\/Counterculture,” a yearlong series of events on topics ranging from marching band music to basketball to Taylor Swift. Check back soon for next year’s events!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}