Humanities

How should we decide who deserves to be honored with a statue?

Public monument expert Sanford Levinson to deliver April 13 lecture.

Graciela Sanchez, founder of San Antonio’s Esperanza Center, will deliver keynote address

Graciela Sanchez, founder of San Antonio’s Esperanza Center, will deliver keynote address.

Graduate symposium explores intersections of violence and care across disciplines

A dual graduate studies symposium on violence and care, complete with two keynotes, is slated later this month in a collaboration between Rice’s Department of English and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS)

New Big Questions courses: The botched pandemic response, and why religion matters more than you know

A recent study from Indiana University-Purdue University and the University of Oklahoma suggests Americans who “strongly embrace Christian nationalism” — which, the authors note, is nearly 25% of the U.S. population and growing — are also much more likely to refuse COVID-19 vaccination.

Cathy Park Hong on the ‘Asian American Reckoning’

The right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon reportedly has started peddling anti-Chinese rhetoric. It’s the latest in a troubling trend of anti-Asian sentiment, on the rise across America, as addressed by Rice President David Leebron in a recent message to the Rice community.

Debate teams Zoom to national championships

Hosting meetings and giving presentations via Zoom during the pandemic has been tough enough for many of us. But Rice students in the George R. Brown Forensics Society have now won national debate competitions over Zoom — and in three different categories.

Acclaimed author, alumnus Larry McMurtry dies at 84

Larry McMurtry ’60, who launched his writing career as a student at Rice University — a place he considered his “intellectual home”— and became famous for such memorable novels as “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment” among his dozens of other books and screenplays, has died. He was 84.

The questions of our time: Humanities courses encourage closer examination of daily life

Rice's Big Questions courses speak to issues that are fundamental to our experience.

A new look at ‘The Red Book,' a 1915 artifact of Black life in Houston

A midwife named Annie Hagen “came to Houston with 50 cents and through her industry and thrift … accumulated a nice bit of property” around the turn of the 20th century.

Unique topics, returning favorites and leading faculty: Humanities’ summer course offerings heat up

From environmental studies and medical humanities courses to a survey of "Star Wars," there's something for everyone this summer.

Gray/Wawro Panel examines immense impact of migration on women and vice versa

Jaclyn Dean ‘12 was the first Rice student to declare a minor in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities (PJHC).

Eddie Glaude on the moment the ‘cold civil war’ turned hot

The Princeton professor's Campbell Lecture on March 4 tackled the stakes of racial justice and the future of American democracy.

New sensation: Grad student symposium hosts international experts on five senses

‘Making Sense’ draws scholars from diverse array of disciplines March 12-13 for an international conference on humanistic research.

‘Women in Criminal Justice’ panel explores overlooked segments of incarcerated population

The Feb. 26 online conversation will convene reform advocates from across Texas.

New humanities podcast explores personal connections between life and scholarship

"Connections" was conceived as a way to explore a topic that’s long been fundamental to humanistic fields of study.