Humanities Center Seminar

The Humanities Center provides a locus for interdisciplinary discussions among Harvard faculty, faculty from other area institutions, graduate students, undergraduates, and the public. Cultural Agents sponsors a seminar series where engaged humanists and artists reflect on the relationship between aesthetic and political effects. As cultural agents both contribute to positive social change through arts, interpretation, and teaching. The Cultural Agents Series during 2007-08 will include conversations on "Visible Rights: Photography as Art and Agency;" Eric Slauter on the U.S. Constitution as a collective work of art; African Hip Hop and HIV; Roberto Jacoby on militant happiness in Argentina, Eryn Johnson relate her experience in Guatemala with ArtCorps Additionally, we also plan to host a series on “Fashion For the Future: Designers Collaborate with Indigenous Artisans”, beginning with Mexican artist Carla Fernández.

Previous Sessions

The Americas with Anaida Hernández
Arte Público: Cultural Agency in Late Populism
Biblioteca y libro en Colombia: Notas sobre alfabetismo y democracia
Augusto Boal
Buenos Aires in Black and White: Art as Agency
Colombian Youth Dance Group: Culture as Agency
Community Engagement in America
Community-Based Service Learning and the Curriculum
The Gatekeeper
Música, raíces, y patria nueva
Photography in Guatemala
Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts
Reframing Conflict: Building Peace Through Participatory Media
Rethinking Borges
Mayra Santos Febres, reads from her works
Terapia de Arte para ninos maltratados. Sociedad y Arte
Youth and Music for a Change: Zumix

 

Unaffiliated Academic Opportunity: Landscape and Human Rights Workshop