The Center for the Humanities

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• Tracy Daugherty: Passion for poetry & stars drove 'Dante's Astronomer'
• Mark Porrovecchio: Pragmatism with Schiller more honest & useful
• Hung-yok Ip: Mohist nonviolence requires 'letting of of self'
• Ben Mutschler: Citizenship debate helped define 'disabled'
• William Robbins: 'A better place because of this good man'

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• Novelists found treasure in agony columns, shipping news
• White suburbanites painted as heroes & victims
• Debate over consciousness goes back centuries
• Tracing ‘Strike’ in U.S. Intellectual History
• Feminized Jew a potent subject and symbol

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• New biography reveals major role for poet's mother
• Bad art may have philosophical lessons to teach
• Brain research raises political questions
• 'Freegans' & foragers form new foodways
• How to define 'environmental justice' in china
• A way of working, a way of being

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• Study follows frustrated patients in chatrooms
• Civil society is alive in Russia but it is not well
• No true Russian word for wilderness
• New breed of digital 'pirates' challenges film industry
• Old Spanish Main provides lesson in colonialism
• Romantic literature helped form British identity as global power
• Emerson Society celebrates Center director
• Weston book leads to documentary film

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• Roll over New york Review - Make way for Danny Yee
• Tea growers provide insights into Zimbabwe social justice issues
• Colonial culture a 'cause' of illness
• Stalin's book, 'sacred' to Mao, provided short cut to uniformity
• Football literatures deserves better