July 28, 2009
York College’s annual Humanities Lecture Series will this year explore the humanities in a global context. A panel discussion featuring York College faculty members at 3:30 p.m., Sept. 22, in Room 218 of the Humanities Center, will open the series.
Traditionally, the “humanities” are the values, works, and philosophies that are concerned with human culture. Initially, studia humanitatis referred to or was limited to the culture of the classical Western world represented by Athens and Rome, but, today, the humanities are understood more broadly as the global collective expression and exploration of what it means to be human in art, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, rhetoric, and writing.
York College’s Global Humanities Lecture Series will throughout the year offer wide-ranging presentations on such topics as “Global Christianity,” “Gandhi and Thoreau,” “Gender in the Global Context,” “The Body in a Global Context,” “Post-colonialism in Africa and Latin America,” and “Moral Philosophy and Globalism.”
The opening panel – Drs. Gabriel Abudu, Colbey Reid, Gerald Siegel, Victor Taylor, and Dennis Weiss – will discuss the importance of thinking about the humanities in a global context. Panelists will address the significance of cultural, literary, philosophical, and historical approaches to the concept of globalization and its relationship to the human situation as it is expressed and explored in the humanities. They will also discuss the global humanities in the context of international education, language study, literature, philosophy, and religion.
All events in the Global Humanities Lecture Series are open to the public free of charge.
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