Geoffrey Harpham is president and director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the only institute for advanced study in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanities. Kathleen Woodward is Professor of English at the University of Washington and has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. They speak on the subject of “Humanities From Here: A Dialogue about the Place of the Creative Arts and Humanities at UBC”. This is part of an exploratory initiative to discuss the possibility of developing a humanities centre at UBC. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Speaker Biographies
Geoffrey Harpham is president and director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the only institute for advanced study in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanities. His longstanding scholarly interests include the role of ethics in literary study, the place of language in intellectual history, and the work of Joseph Conrad.
Kathleen Woodward, Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. She has served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2009-2013), the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance (2003-2009), and as Chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a broad-based network of scholars and leaders of cultural institutions devoted to fostering the development of campus-community partnerships (2000-2005).
Select Articles Available at UBC
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. (2012). The Posthuman: Without It, Nothing Else is Possible. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 37(2). pp. 101-112 [Link]
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. (2011). Why We Need the 16, 772nd Book on Shakespeare. Qui Parle. 20(1). pp. 109-116. [Link]
Woodward, Kathleen. (2012). Work-Work Balance, Metrics, and Resetting the Balance. PMLA. 127.4. pp. 994-1000. [Link]
Woodward, Kathleen. (2009). Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Modern Language Quarterly (Seattle). 70(2). pp. 287-290. [Link]
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