JHU SAIS and CIC to Host Conference on Future of the Humanities

The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) will hold a daylong conference, “Symposium on the Future of the Humanities” on Tuesday, March 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The symposium is hosted by Cultural Conversations at SAIS and CIC, the national service organization for independent colleges and universities. The event will bring together many original and thoughtful leaders in humanities scholarship and education and aims to add to the understanding of the potential for humanities to enrich and inform people’s lives in both their civic and personal dimensions, by formulating moral challenges and drawing historical lessons. Experts from academia, foundations and the arts will speak at the following sessions:

8:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks by Azar Nafisi, executive director of Cultural Conversations at SAIS and Foreign Policy Institute visiting fellow, and Richard Ekman, president of CIC
9 a.m. Panel 1: “Why the Humanities?”
10:45 a.m. Panel 2: “The Humanities, the Individual and Society”
1:30 p.m. Panel 3: “The Humanities and Public Policy”
3:15 p.m. Panel 4: “The Humanities and the Institutions That Promote Them”
4:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks by Ekman and Nafisi

Admittance to this conference is by invitation only. However, the event is open to the media for coverage. The conference will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

SAIS also will host a live Webcast of the symposium accessible at www.sais-jhu.edu.

Media who want to cover the event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].