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The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century.

Listen above to the Director's description of the Center's mission at Ted Gup's lecture featured on MPBN Radio.

Craig McEwen

Solving Problems, Resolving Disputes and Finding Justice
2/27/2012 - 6:00 PM US EST
WCHP Lecture Hall, Portland Campus

Historian Jerold Auerbach argued in 1983 that “where community ends, law begins” and critiqued “misguided enthusiasm for alternative dispute ... Read More

Emily Martin

Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
3/26/2012 - 6:00 PM US EST
WCHP Lecture Hall, Portland Campus

In this illustrated lecture, Professor Martin will explore psychiatric categories involving emotion through ethnographic fieldwork in the ... Read More

Nabil Matar

Europe Through Arab Eyes: Encounters in the Early Modern Period
4/30/2012 - 6:00 PM US EST
WCHP Lecture Hall, Portland Campus

The seminar examines various forms of interactions between Arabs and Europeans in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources from Aleppo, ... Read More

Michael F. Bérubé

Bioethics: Too Important to be Left to Bioethicists
9/24/2012 - 6:00 PM US EST
WCHP Lecture Hall, Portland Campus

Drawing on his work in disability studies and his experience as a father of a child with Down syndrome, Bérubé will argue that an ... Read More

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2011 CGH Scholar Reception

On May 2nd, 2011, the Center for Global Humanities hosted a reception at the UNE Art Gallery for seven CGH Scholars who completed two semesters of the Seminar series.

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