The Leslie Center for the Humanities’s 25th anniversary celebration continues this month with the third installment of its ‘Humanities Work’ institute.
The series of free talks, panel discussions, and films explores how the humanities create knowledge and enhance the human experience. The first two sessions focused on methods and impacts, respectively. The third session, which takes place May 12 to 15, showcases humanities careers.
A goal of the institute is to empower students to understand the value of a humanities background in achieving success in any field, says professor Rebecca Biron, who directs the Leslie Center.
The careers session kicks off on Monday, May 12, at 5:30 p.m. with a talk by Scott Muir, director of undergraduate initiatives at the National Humanities Alliance, on career opportunities for humanists. Muir hosts the podcast What Are You Going to Do With That?, which explores students’ decisions to study the humanities and their pathways to fulfilling careers.
On Tuesday, May 13, at 4:30 p.m., scholar and Montgomery Fellow Orit Halpern, chair of digital cultures at Technische Universität Dresden, delivers a talk on AI and the humanities. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design.
Finally, on Wednesday, May 14, at 5:30 p.m., Joe Catrino, executive director of Dartmouth’s Center for Career Design, will discuss leveraging your humanities focus into “big lives” and careers in a variety of fields with Joseph Gerakos ’90, Bakala Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business. Catrino joined Dartmouth in February to expand the Center for Professional Development into a best-of-its-kind resource for students to chart their future beyond campus.
Catrino was most recently the founding executive director of career and life design at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Previously, he served as associate dean of career development at Quinnipiac University’s School of Communications and associate director of admissions and marketing for Quinnipiac University Online.
In addition to public events, Humanities Work events also include seminars for three dozen faculty and students fellows.