Center for the Humanities

Writers at Grinnell enables students, faculty, and residents to interact with renowned authors.

Marlon James delivers the Annual Distinguished Author Lecture for the Writers@Grinnell series.

Yale professor, a musicologist and director of Whitney Humanities Center, will discuss what humanistic activism means.

The Grinnell Singer will collaborate with the ensemble, which includes of musicians and scholars of European and Arab musical traditions.

Artist/theorist who works at the intersections of gender, race, and technology, will offer examples of algorithms as analytic and practical tools for art and activism.

Events Feb. 11–16, 2018, include lectures, a film screening, & student research presentations

The renowned play, presented Feb. 10-11, is based on the memoir of a Gaza doctor committed to Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. The film Wrestling Jerusalem to be shown Feb. 9.

World-renowned phonologist Armin Mester will present work he has been developing with collaborators that seeks to explain the complex sound patterns in adapting a batter’s name for use in…

Damani Phillips uses musical performances to illustrate influence of African American music on the Civil Rights movement.

Aaron Rossini with Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP) will provide free public workshops throughout Grinnell as a part of "The Artist as Citizen."