“It was 50 years ago today…”
The Institute for Popular Music will continue its “In Performance” Series with a concert and lecture series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first U.S. performance.
Check out a human “book”
A Human Library connects community members, or “readers,” with volunteer storytellers, or “books,” they would not otherwise have the chance to meet.
inspireDANCE features NYC choreographer
The InspireDANCE festival has expanded rapidly in just four years, adding a sixth day and attracting nationally acclaimed choreographers and dancers.
Open Letter Gets Art Works Grant
The literary translation press has been selected to receive an Art Works grant to expand its work in promoting emerging international authors.
Prof Wins Translation Book Award
Kathleen Parthé’s book A Herzen Reader features one hundred essays and editorials by Russian radical thinker Alexander Herzen.
Global Academic Publishing Guide Hits Press
A newly published book offers guidance to international scholars on navigating academic publication in English.
The Politics of AIDS
This Neilly Series lecture focusses on give the politics and ethics associated with HIV and AIDS. It will be accompanied by a slide show of AIDS posters from the University’s collection.
EVENT: ‘A Bright Room Called Day’
The play presents the story of a small circle of close friends impacted by the rise of Hitler.
EVENT: Challenges to Catholicism in 21st-Century America
George Weigel, noted author and NBC News Vatican analyst, will deliver the lecture “21st-Century Catholics in an Unfamiliar America” for the 2013-2014 Faith in America lecture series.
Mellon Foundation Commits $1M to Digital Humanities
Students from any of Rochester’s four humanities Ph.D. programs—English, history, philosophy, and visual and cultural studies—are invited to apply for admission to the fellowship.