BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14637-7e5820631554b2248d3993b953a9be99@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260910T230744Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T160000 SUMMARY:Annual Celebrate the Humanities Event DESCRIPTION:\nThe humanities have been beset with crises for decades. Do es their persistence provide insight into current crises of the universi ty and strategies for survival? Drawing upon research in the “World Huma nities Report\,” particularly on the humanities in China\, Russia\, and India\, this talk focuses on the forms of persistence in the humanities and their usefulness in a time when “universities are the enemy.”\n\nSar a Guyer is the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of Arts and Humanities and Pro fessor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her term a s dean began in September 2021 following a career devoted to advancing t he humanities\, with special attention to interdisciplinary research pro grams\, the public humanities\, and institutional collaborations across the globe. Guyer is also director of the World Humanities Report\, a lar ge-scale project with over a dozen research teams on six continents and former president of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers a nd Institutes.\n\nGuyer’s scholarship encompasses the fields of romantic ism\, Holocaust studies\, critical theory\, and the humanities itself. S he is the author of Romanticism after Auschwitz and Reading with John Cl are: Biopoetics\, Sovereignty\, Romanticism\, and coeditor of the book s eries Lit Z.\n\nThere will be a reception following the talk.\n\nFor mor e details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/celebrate-the-humanities-sp25 / X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The humanities have been beset with crises for decades. Does their persistence provide insight into current crises of the university and strategies for surviva l? Drawing upon research in the “World Humanities Report,” particularly on the humanities in China, Russia, and India, this talk focuses on the forms of persistence in the humanities and their usefulness in a time wh en “universities are the enemy.”

Sara Guyer is the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at the Unive rsity of California, Berkeley. Her term as dean began in September 2021 following a career devoted to advancing the humanities, with special att ention to interdisciplinary research programs, the public humanities, an d institutional collaborations across the globe. Guyer is also director of the World Humanities Report, a large-scale project with over a dozen research teams on six continents and former president of the internation al Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

Guyer’s schola rship encompasses the fields of romanticism, Holocaust studies, critical theory, and the humanities itself. She is the author of Romanticism after Auschwitz and Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sover eignty, Romanticism, and coeditor of the book series Lit Z .

There will be a reception following the talk.

For more det ails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/celebrate-the-humanities-sp25/

LOCATION:110 Robb Hall, Hintz Family Alumni Center END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR