Programs and Events

The Center for the Humanities supports a variety of ongoing events and programs, including our colloquium series, the Comparison Project and the Susan Glaspell Writers Critics Series along with awards for both faculty and students.

Humanities Colloquium Series

Drake Faculty undertaking research in the humanities offer insights into their current work as the basis for discussion during occasional Fridays. For more information contact Inbal Mazar, Associate Professor of Spanish.

The Center has also committed substantial support to several ongoing events and programs:

The Comparison Project

Affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Religion, TCP is an experimental effort in philosophy of religion that is historically grounded and religiously diverse. The Comparison Project features a series of lectures by scholars of religion, interfaith dialogues by Drake students and local religious leaders, and panel discussions by philosophers of religion. For more information contact Dr. Timothy Knepper, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion.

Susan Glaspell Writers & Critics Series

Hosted by the Drake University English Department and sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Writers and Critics Series brings established fiction writers, poets, essayists, historians, and scholars to the Drake Campus to give public talks and readings, meet with students, and attend classes.