Humanities Center

Humanities at Richmond

At UR, we think about the humanities less as a set of majors or departments than as a cluster of practices that shape how we perceive, make sense of, and respond to an ever-changing world.

These practices are at the core of the scholarship in traditional humanities majors, as well as in our vibrant interdisciplinary programs, but they also get taken up in places that aren’t traditionally thought of as humanities: there is no such thing as education, or social living, that does not require the practices we hone in the humanities, practices that largely derive from ancient traditions. The University of Richmond Humanities Center offers a range of public events and intensive programs that bring our community together, whatever our majors or departments.