Recent reports on the Humanities (issued by Harvard College and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) set the terms for a discussion of the future of the humanities within a national framework and one that to some has appeared rather defensive. With this Summit, we would like to engage in a discussion about the larger, global landscape for the Humanities, both as a field both of study and research. To that end, we have invited several prominent speakers, whose work has and continues to transform what the Humanities means. For more information, see: http://now.dartmouth.edu/2014/05/international-humanities-summit-convenes-at-dartmouth/

NANCY FRASER, The New School
ACHILLE MBEMBE, University of the Witwatersrand; Duke University
Moderated by Amy Allen, Dartmouth College

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/humanitiessummmit14.pdf

Sponsored by the Master at Liberal Studies Program, co-sponsored by the Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities, the Dean of the Faculty, the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth, and the Office of the President."