Miami Humanities

https://hbr.org/2024/04/why-engineers-should-study-philosophy

Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy The ability to develop crisp mental models around the problems you want to solve and understanding the why before you start working on the how is an increasingly critical skill, especially in the age of AI. Coding is one of the things AI does best and its capabilities are quickly improving. However,...

Join us today for Elizabeth Rush's lecture "Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth" in Armstrong Pavilion C at 5pm.

Join us today for Julie Sze's lecture, "Climate Justice as Freedom" in the Shriver Center Heritage Room at 5pm. A Coffee and Conversation hour will take place beforehand at 3pm in Bachelor 337.
https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/event/climate-justice-as-freedom

Join us today for LaToya Ruby Frasier's Gallery and Conversation Hour at the Richard and Carole C***s Art Museum at 3pm, followed by her talk "Art as Transformation: Using Photography to Effect Change" at 6pm in Armstrong Student Center, Pavilion C.
https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/event/art-as-transformation-using-photography-to-effect-change

LaToya Ruby Frazier's short film Flint is Family is currently on view in the Richard and Carole C***s Art Museum’s exhibition The World in Which We Live: the Art of Environmental Awareness.

Frazier will be here on February 29 from 3-4:30 PM for a screening of the short film and to engage in conversation about her work in the context of the special exhibition The World in Which We Live. Read more here:
https://sites.miamioh.edu/art-museum/2024/02/celebrating-black-history-month-the-story-of-artist-advocate-latoya-ruby-frasier-and-flints-family/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Check%20out%20the%20latest%20blog%20story%20on%20Latoya%20Ruby%20Frazier.&utm_campaign=Enews%20Jan24

"I’m convinced that consuming culture furnishes your mind with emotional knowledge and wisdom; it helps you take a richer and more meaningful view of your own experiences; it helps you understand, at least a bit, the depths of what’s going on in the people right around you."

Opinion | How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society Consuming culture gives us the emotional knowledge that can make us better people.

Madelyn Detloff, Professor of English, and Miami University philosophy graduate student Kennedy Hughes, appeared recently on “Cincinnati Edition” to discuss challenges to the humanities. Read more about it and access the interview here: https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/news/professor-madelyn-detloff-leads-discussion-about-humanities-programs-on-cincinnati-public-radio

Council Post: How Aristotle’s Advice On Friendship Is Relevant In The Modern Workplace Ancient wisdom about friendship, simple as it sounds, can help build professional and purposeful relationships.

Congratulations to Jordan Fenton and co-authors for their success in winning an NEH Exhibition Implementation Grant for the internationally traveling art history exhibition, "New Masks Now: Artists Innovating Masquerade in Contemporary West Africa". Read more here: https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/news/jordan-fenton-receives-neh-exhibition-implementation-grant-as-co-author

Happening Tomorrow: Sandra Steingraber's lecture "To Sin by Silence: The Legacy of Rachel Carson in an Age of Climate Emergency" at 7pm in Armstrong Pavilion C. Join us for a Coffee and Conversation hour before at 3pm in Bachelor 337.
https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/event/to-sin-by-silence-the-legacy-of-rachel-carson-in-an-age-of-climate-emergency

New Books at Miami will take place Wednesday Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. in King 320 followed by a reception in the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at 5 p.m. Faculty and staff will present "micro-talks" about their recently published books.
https://www.lib.miamioh.edu/2023-10-09-new-books-at-miami-slated-for-nov-15

Congratulations to Humanities Center Fellow Mollie Duffy who earned recognition for her civic engagement work! Read about it here: https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/news/humanities-center-fellow-mollie-duffy-recognized-for-civic-engagement