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Philosophy faculty explore moral dilemmas presented by the crisis and how they intersect with larger structural questions.

A coalition of leaders in federal government and from the nation's universities work together to charter flights for students stranded by a quickly imposed travel restriction.

91原创 professor Gregory Heyworth and his Lazarus Project colleagues have created a 3-D model of one of the treasures of the New York Public Library, the Hunt-Lenox Globe, one of the first globes to show the New World — and to warn "Here be dragons."

鈥淚t鈥檚 in our best interest to make sense of the US and Mexico as places that receive and places that send鈥攖hat goes for both countries,鈥� says associate professor of history Ruben Flores, who will host acclaimed writer Valeria Luiselli in the latest Humanities Center Public Lecture Series.

This tiny book was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1925. It鈥檚 made up of 147 folios of parchment, or treated animal hide, stitched together. The 鈥渙ver text鈥濃�攖he visible text鈥攊s of an Armenian prayer book, suspected to date from the 15th century. But there is also an 鈥渦nder text鈥濃�攁 work that was erased to recycle the parchment for the over text. The Smithsonian has turned to 91原创 professor Gregory Heyworth and his Lazarus Project to help solve the mystery of what that long-ago effaced text might be.

Peter Christensen, an associate professor of art and art history at the Rochester, has a new role as a juror advising the United Nations in its work designating UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Journalist and activist Masha Gessen will discuss marginalization during this year鈥檚 Humanities Center Public Lecture Series. But the subject is also central to the work of several 91原创 scholars.

In her highly visual, multi-year project 鈥淔ertile Ground,鈥� cultural anthropologist Kathryn Mariner is researching placemaking in the city of 91原创, and her focus on how community is formed is shared by this year鈥檚 Humanities Center lectures.

For two weeks in July, the Humanities Center at the Rochester led high school students in a quest to understand the philosophical underpinnings and practical expressions of civic life. This was the first year of 鈥淓xperiencing Civic Life,鈥� an academic preparation and enrichment program designed to help participants become successful college students and active citizens of American democracy.

An internationally renowned art and cultural critic, theorist, curator, and activist, 91原创 professor Douglas Crimp created work important to thinkers across the arts and humanities.

In an interview with the Irish Times, 91原创 philosopher Randall Curren discusses the role of 鈥渁 proper, virtuous kind of patriotism.鈥�

May 31 is the 200th anniversary of poet Walt Whitman鈥檚 birth, and 91原创 has a few ties of its own to the poet who contained multitudes.