Humanities Interdisciplinary Strategic Initiatives

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Our interdisciplinary strategic areas represent transformative arenas of connective humanities. Each seeks to overcome the disciplinary silos within the Humanities but also foster new collaborations among and between the schools at Rice. If, as a recent British daily proclaimed, “humans need the humanities” in a social world that is increasingly fragmented, atomized, and polarized, the Humanities at Rice can constitute the hub of intellectual exchange, the connector, the source of new ideas and programs that are specifically designed to conjoin faculty and students from across campus.

Each seeks to overcome the disciplinary silos within the Humanities but also foster new collaborations among and between the schools at Rice. If, as a recent British daily proclaimed, “humans need the humanities” in a social world that is increasingly fragmented, atomized, and polarized, the Humanities at Rice can constitute the hub of intellectual exchange, the connector, the source of new ideas and programs that are specifically designed to conjoin faculty and students from across campus.