The Contemporary: The Humanities Today

Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and author of The Superhumanities and How to Think Impossibly

Please join us in exploring the intersections of the human, the superhuman, and the study of mind and culture.

A roundtable on why the humanities matter, and how they should change. Lecture followed by responses from Gabriella Safran (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Elaine Fisher (Religious Studies), and Matthew Wilson Smith (German Studies), moderated by Amir Eshel (Comparative Literature).

Co-sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; The Contemporary; Stanford's Medical Humanities; and the Stanford Humanities Center