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 p.m.
Thomas A. Tweed (University of Texas, Austin)
"Crossing and Dwelling: Reflections on a Transnational Theory of Religion"
Glasscock Center Library, Glasscock Building, Room 311

24 March 2010, Wednesday, 4 p.m.
Roxanne Euben (Wellesley College)
"Travel, Comparative Knowledge, and Muslim Cosmopolitanism"
Glasscock Center Library, Glasscock Building, Room 311

Digital Humanities Lectures