Hands crawling with ants, eyeballs slit with razors, men in nuns’ habits riding bicycles? If Hanover seems more surreal than usual next week, it’s because the international conference “Dalí, Lorca, and Buñuel in America,” which runs from Oct. 15–17, will be in town.
[more]On Oct. 16 the College will host “Catalyzing Community: A Humanities Symposium on Digital Learning and Engagement” from 1-5 p.m. in Dartmouth Hall Room 105. The symposium will address what it means to teach arts and humanities disciplines for global audiences such as those made possible by massive open online (MOOC) platforms—exploring ways both to scale learning opportunities in these disciplines to larger audiences and adapt digital learning strategies in traditional residential classroom settings.
[more]This year refugees and migrants are streaming into Europe in greater numbers than at any time since the end of World War II—more than half a million of them after dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings. The widespread suffering of those fleeing their native countries has been portrayed throughout the global media, and the European Union has been riven by disagreements over how to absorb just 160,000 of the refugees.
[more]“The humanities deal with something you literally cannot live without—the ability to tell stories and to interpret other people’s stories,” says Graziella Parati, the new director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
[more]Ten projects have won internal funding in the second year of a program designed to launch new scholarship, research, and creativity at Dartmouth.
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