2025 Tucson Humanities Festival
The humanities are everywhere, surrounding us and defining us. The humanities examine how we love, hope, dream, console, confront challenges, triumph and remember. The study of human cultures, ideas and languages is the study of how we communicate, engage and share, across different traditions and experiences. The humanities are woven throughout all other fields of study, providing the context necessary to see meaning in the world around us. Join the College of Humanities in exploring how the humanities provide insight in unexpected places and surprising ways. Indeed, the humanities are everywhere.
AROUND THE WORLD: Humanities Abroad Fair & Café
Description
A humanities education is a passport to the world! Students droppped by for activities and information about the world of possibilities at the College of Humanities, such as our faculty-led study abroad programs in destinations across the globe and the variety of scholarships available for humanities students to make those trips possible.
THE HUMANITIES ARE EVERYWHERE: Faculty Salon & McCauslin-Smith Gardens Opening
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To celebrate the opening of the new McCauslin-Smith Gardens at the Helen S. Schaefer Building, College of Humanities faculty members will give brief presentations highlighting their exciting global research and teaching. After presentations, guests will have an opportunity to mingle and engage in dynamic conversations with these faculty and others who are at the top of their field. Meet the scholars who are global leaders in innovative humanities teaching and research!
Jiang Wu
Regents Professor, East Asian Studies; Director, Center for Buddhist Studies
Aurélia Mouzet
Associate Professor, French & Italian
Beppe Cavatorta
Professor, French & Italian
Jasmine Linabary
Assistant Professor, Public & Applied Humanities
Bhakti Mamtora
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies & Classics
POETRY IN PERILOUS TIMES: A Reading with Tracy K. Smith
Description
In her latest book, former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to love, dream, question and engage across diverse cultures and backgrounds. By reimaging and reexamining the age-old art form, Fear Less is a warm invitation to find meaning, consolation and hope through poetry. A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor and translator, Smith is the author of eight books and served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-19, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress and created The Slowdown podcast.