The 2010-2012 theme for the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is “Sustenance.” 

The Glasscock Center’s investigations will embrace some of the following (and other topics as well):

images of sustenance in literature, art or music
historical conditions that prompt new technologies of sustenance or discourse on sustenance
narratives of health and well-being; philosophical approaches to sustaining life or culture
ethical issues surrounding sustainable and unsustainable modes of human being in nature
emerging rhetoric and social practices around sustainability
changing definitions of livelihood
approaches to food and eating; modes of spiritual sustenance
sustaining the life of the mind in a digital world.

19 November 2009, Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Thomas A. Tweed (University of Texas, Austin), Title TBA, Glasscock Building, Room 311.

24 March 2010, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Roxanne Euben (Wellesley College), Title TBA, Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Digital Humanities Lectures