RPW Events

March 1: Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture

Feb. 28, 2024—

Jan. 11, 2024—Aashi Gurijala is a 2023-24 Humanities in the Real World Fellow. This year’s undergraduate cohort are blogging their interviews with professionals who majored in the humanities. “I was born to be a wanderer,” Cat said boldly. As a humanities major, it’s hard to ignore the power of words and their ability to change us. What...

“An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Himalaya,” Mabel Gergan, December 4

Dec. 1, 2023—

Year-End Celebration

Oct. 23, 2023—

Harry Howard Lecture: April 4, Cal Flyn, “Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape”

Mar. 28, 2023—

“Postcards from the Vanishing Point,” February 22

Feb. 21, 2023—

2023 Black Atlantic Lecture: February 2, “Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola”

Jan. 23, 2023—

“Mending and Transforming” at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books

Oct. 6, 2022—Serenity Gerbman, Director of Literature and Language Programs at Humanities Tennessee. After two years online during the pandemic, Humanities Tennessee welcomes back authors and audiences for an in-person Southern Festival of Books October 14-16. We are back. But we are not the same. And we know you’re not either. We hope you will join us...

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities