The Humanities Center provides a physical home as well as intellectual, financial, and organizational support for Lehigh students, faculty, and staff.
The Humanities Center provides a physical home as well as intellectual, financial, and organizational support for students, faculty, and staff who wish to come together to participate in humanistic inquiry, understood in the broadest possible terms. We seek to enrich the work of existing academic departments and programs in the humanities, by stimulating a wide range of activities that move beyond
and across disciplines, urging members of the community to consider in the freest and fullest ways what humans are or have been, what humans have produced and are producing. We seek to break down the division between work and play, between the classroom and the rest of life
We aim to foster vibrant intellectual inquiry, and to diffuse the energies of such inquiry into the broader culture of the Lehigh campus. We choose a theme for each year (Creativity, The Public Intellectual, Waste, Just Globalization, New Bethlehem, Speaking Bodies are examples) and bring a series of scholars, intellectuals, artists, writers, activists, and visionaries to address related issues. We sponsor interdisciplinary curriculum, including team- taught courses. We also host conferences, co-sponsor visiting speakers, support reading groups, and organize a works-in-progress series. The Humanities Center also hosts a wide range of informal activities to create lively, unstructured humanistic community.
The English Department's Literature and Social Justice Committee (headed by Seth Moglen) organized a free screening (as part of the Communities Film Series) at the Banko Cinema of the documentary film, "Anita" as part of the leadup to Hill's lecture on Feb. 7. Panelists were (standing from left) U.S. congresswoman Susan Wild, Eng Dept faculty member Suzanne Edwards, Bethlehem City Councilwoman Olga Negron, Zoellner Arts Center Artistic Director Deborah Sacerakis -- and seating, Bethlehem NAACP President, Esther Lee.
Sparking a Dialogue | Acumen Digital Magazine
Suzanne EdwardsLehigh’s Humanities Center sits modestly on a slope off West Packer Avenue. Notwithstanding its porch, tea selection and inspiration from the busts of Aristotle, Plato, Hippocrates and Homer, the center is more than a charming space—it is where creative sparks can fly from the int...
11/12/2018
Come listen to a public reading of Hilda Doolittle's work on Wednesday at Bethlehem City Hall Rotunda. Lehigh University English Department Lehigh University South Side Initiative Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Mock Turtle Marionette Theater
10/30/2018
A reminder that TOMORROW is the culmination of the Frankenreads program that Beth Dolan has organized, so head out to the Bethlehem Area Public Library and hear Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN read aloud!
FRANKENREADS (costumes encouraged!!)
Wednesday, October 31, 10-8 BAPL
Members of the public and of Lehigh University read Frankenstein aloud in 10 minute blocks.
Co-sponsored by the Lehigh University Humanities Center and the BAPL.
10/25/2018
Congratulations Mary!
10/25/2018
SPARKING A DIALOGUE
Sparking a Dialogue | Acumen Digital Magazine
Suzanne EdwardsLehigh’s Humanities Center sits modestly on a slope off West Packer Avenue. Notwithstanding its porch, tea selection and inspiration from the busts of Aristotle, Plato, Hippocrates and Homer, the center is more than a charming space—it is where creative sparks can fly from the int...