Join colleagues on Thursday, September 23, from 3-5 in 157 Bernhard for the first in a year-long series of conversations about the nature of the humanities in a modern education and the shape of a future Center for the Humanities at Western Michigan University.  Provost Tim Greene, Dean of Arts and Sciences Alex Enyedi, and Dean of Fine Arts Margaret Merrion will talk about their ideas for building the Center and engage in a discussion about the value of the liberal education.  We will continue the conversation at a reception to follow.

The theme for the pilot year is “Placing the Humanities at the Center.”  Over the course of the fall semester, the group will read Martha Nussbaum’s Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities in preparation for her keynote campus visit in January.  Copies of the book will be given out at the meeting.

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