As the Center for the Humanities prepared to celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2024, it devoted this year’s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. Our yearlong series envisioned storytelling expansively and brought a variety of practitioners — historians and novelists, cartoonists and artists, musicians and musicologists, anthropologists and quilters — to campus to discuss the innovative ways in which they tell stories.
Submissions from 2024
Hearing the Renaissance in Video Games, Karen M. Cook
Submissions from 2023
Cute Drawings of Terrible Things: Graphic History and Visual Storytelling as a Historian and a Cartoonist, B. Erin Cole
A Poetry Reading by Kwame Dawes, Kwame Dawes
Telling Stories About the Ocean, Akeia de Barros Gomes and Jason Mancini
Music and Storytelling on Broadway, Jesse-Ray Leich and Nick Jemo
Seeing Providence Chinatown: Relational Reconstruction of Erased Histories, Jeffrey Yoo Warren