Spring 2024 Commencement -- Friday May 10

Oct. 4, 2022

The Humanities Program invites you to come celebrate our 2024 Humanities Graduates! The celebration will take place on Friday May 10, 2024, in UMC 235. There will be a reception from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. followed by a commencement ceremony from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. We hope to see you there!

"Artmaking and Late Modernity: Ineffability, Compulsion, Difficulty"

The Humanities Program (HUMN) presents a talk on Friday, September 30 at 4pm in Eaton Humanities 1B80 by Michael Gallope Associate Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature University of Minnesota "Artmaking and Late Modernity: Ineffability, Compulsion, Difficulty" Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable In this talk Professor Gallope...

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Annjeanette Wiese's Narrative Truthiness releases Oct. 1

Sept. 28, 2021

Humanities faculty member Annjeanette Wiese's book Narrative Truthiness: The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction releases October 1.

Humanities Program Statement on systemic racism

Please follow this link to the Humanities Program statement on systemic racism.

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JLF Colorado event: Anti-Racism In A System Built Upon Racism

You're invited to attend this FREE Event: Anti-Racism In A System Built Upon Racism Join Colorado writers and scholars of color in a conversation about structural racism and how America can dismantle this system. Sunday, June 14, 2020 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM MDT Natalie Avalos: Professor of Ethnic...

Prof. Catlos to be featured author at Jaipur Literary Festival, 22–27 January

Dec. 23, 2019

Prof. Brian A. Catlos will be a featured author at the Jaipur Literary Festival taking place from 22–27 January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur, India. In a session sponsored by the Agha Khan Foundation he will be interviewed by best-selling author, William Dalrymple, regarding Catlos’s recent book, Kingdoms of...

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Humanities Faculty in the News: "Play Therapy"

Nov. 10, 2019

Read the CU Boulder Today article about Associate Professor Oliver Gerland's play "Play Therapy," running from Nov. 7-10! Inclusive casting brings all abilities on stage for ‘Play Therapy’ From the article: “I’ve found that creating theater with people whose minds work differently than typical and who come into the room...

Brian Catlos’s Kingdoms of Faith

April 26, 2018

Brian Catlos’s Kingdoms of Faith. A New History of Islamic Spain to Brian Catlos’s recent book Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic: 2018) has just been published in Spanish as Reinos de fe. Una nueva historia de la España musulmana by Pasado y Presente, with a...

Faculty News: Brian Catlos awarded Haskins Medal

Feb. 1, 2018

The 2018 Haskins Medal is awarded to Brian A. Catlos for his monograph, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Committee members: Richard W. Kaeuper (Chair); Jocelyn Wogen Brown; Alastair Minnis. Awarding the coveted Charles Homer Haskins Medal to Brian Catlos for his Muslims of...