"Humanitas has enabled us to inspire, enthuse and, above all, discuss some of the most pressing issues of the day."
Professor Simon Goldhill, Director, CRASSH, University of Cambridge
"The wonderful thing about this Humanitas occasion is that we can take a little time to exchange."
Vanessa Redgrave, Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, University of Oxford
Humanitas
Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Cambridge and Oxford intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities, and aimed at making these lectures available to a world-wide audience.Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with the support of a series of generous benefactors, and co-ordinated at Cambridge by the university’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and at Oxford by the Humanities Division.
The aim of the Humanitas programme is to stimulate fresh thinking and new partnerships in a broad range of subjects: from architecture, literature and the performing arts, through to international relations and human rights. The lectures are open to the public, and available online. Click here to watch Humanitas lectures via ISD's YouTube Channel. Click here to read the Humanitas Annual Report 2011-2012.
Recent Events
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chinese Studies
Professor Chen Yung-fa, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
21 - 30 May 2013
University of Camridge
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Classical Music & Music Education
Imogen Cooper, Concert Pianist
13 - 14 May 2013
University of Oxford
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, Emeritus Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge
9 - 14 May 2013
University of Oxford
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans, AC QC FASSA (Chancellor of the Australian National University)
8 - 14 May 2013
University of Cambridge
All Humanitas events
Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Members of the Phoenix Network at a meeting hosted by ISD with the Three Faiths Forum and the British Council, March 2012
Journalists Edward Lucas, Deborah Rayner and Nabila Ramdani talking to ISD's Weidenfeld Scholars, June 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman Google, January 2013
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Art, Philippe de Montebello, University of Cambridge, November 2012
Dr Suraya Dalil, Afghan Minister of Health, speaking at the Weidenfeld Debate, Oxford, May 2013
The Inaugural Hoffmann Lecture with Jim Leape, Director General of WWF International, February 2013
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in the History of Ideas, Professor Lorraine Daston, January 2013
European Leader Series, with Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of Russia, February 2013, London
Meeting of the Turkey Task Force, Istanbul, 13-14 April 2013
The 19th Plenary Meeting of the Club of Three, 17th and 18th of May, FCO Office, London
Participants watch a presentation during ISD's second Social Media and Intolerance workshop, July 2012
Meeting of the Energy Expert Group to discuss energy issues of mutual concern to Turkey,USA and the EU
Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Swedish National Defence College addressing the Counter-terrorism and Communities Workshop, September 2012
Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music 2012, Robert Levin, University of Cambridge, October 2012
Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012-2013
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, University of Cambridge, March 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chinese Studies
University of Camridge, 21 to 30 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Classical Music & Music Education
University of Oxford, 13 to 14 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography
University of Oxford, 9 to 14 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy
University of Cambridge, 8 to 14 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries
University of Oxford, 6 to 9 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art
University of Oxford, 6 to 9 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature
University of Oxford, 30 April to 9 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Interfaith Studies
University of Oxford, 29 April to 2 May 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Film and Television
University of Oxford, 23 to 24 April 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights
University of Cambridge, 4 to 11 March 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama
University of Oxford, 11 to 14 February 2013
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