2024 Annual HI Spring Symposium May 2nd

Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium (404) and Room 403
Keynote Lecture: “Always Deprovincialize: the Humanities and the Ethos of Cosmopolitanism”
Dr. Ignacio Sánchez Prado

You are invited to join us for the Annual Humanities Institute Spring Symposium. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, May 2nd, beginning at 2:00pm.

The program will include presentations on and discussion of the faculty projects the Humanities Institute supported during the 2023-2024 academic year. This portion of the symposium will take place in Room 403 of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

Following the presentations, we will feature the Keynote Lecture, “Always Deprovincialize: the Humanities and the Ethos of Cosmopolitanism,” by Dr. Ignacio Sánchez Prado at 4:00pm in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium (Room 404). Dr. Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis where he is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies program and the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities.

A closing reception will follow the keynote lecture in Room 403 at 5:00pm. 

This year, we are asking that faculty register for this event.
Please click here for the registration link.

Please contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, with questions.