When and why were humanities centers founded? How do these centers function now? How can or should they function in the new millenium? How do their missions differ inside and outside the USA? What do we now mean by "the humanities?" Is humanities education a threatened enterprise in the new global academy? What new opportunities have been created for the pursuit of the humanities by new visual and electronic media? How is research in the humanities being altered by electronic resources? What place does traditional humanistic study retain in the academy and the public sphere? What values now sustain humanistic education? What now counts as "literacy?"

To chart a course for the newly founded Dartmouth Humanities Center, leading novelists, cultural critics, and humanities center directors from the US and abroad have been invited to give their answers some of these questions at a symposium to be held on October 20-21, 2000.

This event will coincide with with performances, on Oct. 20th at 8 and 10 pm, of L'Universe, an experimental performance-piece devised at MIT and staged by the Flying Karamazovs.

For further information, please contact Sandy Gregg at 603-646-3756.
For performance by the Karamazovs, visit the Hopkins Center.