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Established after World War II to prevent future world wars, the United Nations remains central to the pursuit of global harmony and stands as a symbol of democracy and human rights. However, in 2024, worldwide conflict and rising power tensions pose major challenges to multilateral cooperation, making the organization’s role in managing international peace and […]

The Free Speech Project and the Future of the Humanities Project co-hosted a virtual panel discussion about the international refugee crisis on Jan 24.  The event was part of the two organizations’ Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues series, which discussed the international misconceptions of the refugee crisis and potential solutions. Michael Scott, the...

The Free Speech Project and the Future of the Humanities Project co-hosted a virtual panel discussion about the international refugee crisis on Jan 24.  The event was part of the two organizations’ Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues series, which discussed the international misconceptions of the refugee crisis and potential solutions. Michael Scott, the...

In this lecture, Robert S. Miola will argue that Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1623) reflects local and specific contemporary stereotypes about the barbarous Scots and the civilizing English just as it interrogates racial prejudices and the myths of national identity. If positive cultural encounters acknowledge others in their otherness to build mutual communication and trust, as Pope Francis would […]

John Milton’s great epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) retells the story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve and their subsequent expulsion from the garden of Eden. In this talk Daniel Shore, professor and chair of the English Department at Georgetown University, will investigate the limits of possible experience through the motif of […]

Projects are taking place across Nevada beginning on November 1, 2022, and running through October 31, 2023.

Arts Focus discusses the 2023 Moving Words Poetry competition now accepting submissions until February 15.

In 2010, Julian Assange was thrown into the spotlight after his Wikileaks website published classified materials obtained from soldier Chelsea Manning – including footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed at least 11 civilians. Indicted in the United States on 17 espionage charges that carry a maximum prison sentence of 175 years, he […]

No one seems particularly shocked when Vladimir Putin prevents the Russian people from hearing the truth about his war in Ukraine. But many are oblivious when powerful figures in western democracies, while paying lip service to free expression, regularly and willingly cooperate with international censorship regulations in the name of commerce. Are we prepared to […]

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), a South African novelist, anti-war campaigner, and women’s rights activist, came early to the study of the thing we call progress. As a teenager, she was given a copy of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles (1862), and it came to dominate her thoughts in early years, influencing not only her freethinking regarding religion, but also […]