The Humanities Institute supports individual and collaborative humanistic research across all disciplines, departments and programs at the UofM.
05/02/2023
May News at UM and the Humanities Institute! -
May News at UM and the Humanities Institute! The University of Montana's Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History, Richard Drake, published a piece in Diplomacy and Statecraft exploring the nuanced public intellectual and historian Charles Austin Beard. Through his journalistic writings, Beard explored a variety of political topi...
04/04/2023
April News at UM and the Humanities Institute! -
April News at UM and the Humanities Institute! The Humanities Institute invites you to a two-part event, co-hosted with Soft Landing Missoula. Kari Hong, seasoned immigration attorney and current adjunct professor at UM, will lead a lecture to illuminate the many immigration pathways created in recent years and their consequence. A panel convers...
03/09/2023
March News at UM and the Humanities Institute! - https://mailchi.mp/9cc8f27781cb/july-news-at-um-and-the-humanities-institute-17040255
02/08/2023
February News at UM and the Humanities Institute! - https://mailchi.mp/6e57514cdcaf/july-news-at-um-and-the-humanities-institute-17018207
01/12/2023
January News at UM and the Humanities Institute! - https://mailchi.mp/1a92b30f8c4f/july-news-at-um-and-the-humanities-institute-17012427
12/14/2022
Our director, Gillian Glaes, was recently quoted in a Missoulian article about climate disaster, climate-related migration, and its impact on Montana. Check it out!
Disaster report names Montana safe haven for climate migrants “I think when we look at climate events, it’s safe to say people will be looking for places that feel safer.”
12/07/2022
December News at UM and the Humanities Institute! -
December News at UM and the Humanities Institute! Dr. Fernando Sanchez is an assistant professor of Native American Studies and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Elouise Cobell Land and Culture Institute. His academic interests put the emphasis on understanding the human dimensions of the environment, supporting Indigenous uses of informat...
Our director, Gillian Glaes, recently sat down with Lauren Korn at Montana Public Radio to discuss what we’ve been up to & what’s coming up at the UM Humanities Institute. Check it out!
11/02/2022
November News at UM and the Humanities Institute! -
November News at UM and the Humanities Institute! Dr. Vanita will join the Humanities Institute to discuss her recently published collection, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna [Caste], and Species. This book examines how male and female characters in the ancient Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayan...
10/05/2022
October News at UM and the Humanities Institute! -
October News at UM and the Humanities Institute! Please join us for the Fall 2022 Making Humanities Public Lecture with Dr. Christopher Schaberg, the Dorothy Harrell Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for Editing and Publishing, Loyola University, New Orleans. Dr. Schaberg will present a lecture entitled, "The End...