CSU Chico Humanities Center

CSU Chico Humanities Center 2023-2024 Theme: Water Events will highlight interdisciplinary humanities research and creative activity on this year’s theme.

The 2022-2023 Humanities Center theme, Soundscapes, explores perceptions and interpretations of acoustic environments in their respective cultural, political, and spatial contexts. Ranging from the sounds of nature to a multitude of expressive forms such as music, poetry, dance, and storytelling, every culture has created distinctive soundscapes that shape our daily experiences and mediate our rel

ationships to the world. Founded in 1999, The Humanities Center in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at CSU, Chico creates and nurtures an interdisciplinary culture of ideas. Each year a theme is selected, and prominent scholars and artists are invited to give presentations on campus. The Center has been successful in bringing eight Presidential Scholars to campus, philosophers Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, historians Anthony Grafton, Edward J. Larson, and James McPherson, novelist Richard Powers, architect and writer Witold Rybczynski, and aesthetician Elaine Scarry. In addition to talks by outside speakers, the Center regularly hosts informal talks, debates and panel discussions. Since its creation, the Humanities Center, unique in the CSU system, has become an important and indispensable part of the intellectual life of CSU, Chico.

02/25/2025

Join us on Thursday, 27 February (7:30 p.m. in ARTS 150), for a poetry reading by Sarah Pape! Free & open to the public.

Related to last week's WIP, now on PBS.
04/13/2024

Related to last week's WIP, now on PBS.

Now streaming

03/22/2024

Today, on , we recognize the vital connection between water and Indigenous Peoples. Water is our relative- and our relationship to water is reflected in our Indigenous languages. Protecting our waters also means protecting our knowledge systems, where our worldviews flow like rivers, carrying forward wisdom and traditions.

02/15/2024

Thanks to a generous donation from Carol Burr, all gifts to The Humanities Center: University Film Series will be matched 2:1! For example a $10 gift, is matched with $20 making $30 of impact! The University Film Series (UFS) hosts 2-4 free film screenings on campus a se...

Works-In-Progress SeriesApril Kamp-Whittaker: “Conciliation and Community Archaeology at a WWII Japanese American Intern...
10/03/2023

Works-In-Progress Series
April Kamp-Whittaker: “Conciliation and Community Archaeology at a WWII Japanese American Internment
CSU Chico Humanities Center
Friday, October 6th
12:00 PM, Humanities Center, PAC 113

University Film Series: PonyoTuesday, September 19th6:00 PM, Rowland Taylor Recital Hall - PAC 134This film is FREE and...
09/11/2023

University Film Series: Ponyo
Tuesday, September 19th
6:00 PM, Rowland Taylor Recital Hall - PAC 134
This film is FREE and open to students, faculty, and staff only.

(Japan, 2008) 101 minutes. Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Introduced by Dr. Nathaniel Heggins Bryant.

Calling all Studio Ghibli fans! Playing at the edge of the sea, five-year-old Sōsuke comes across a small goldfish trapped in a glass jar. Unbeknownst to him, this goldfish is Brunhilde, who prefers to be called Ponyo, the headstrong daughter of a powerful magician named Fujimoto who lives under the ocean and who resents land-dwelling humans continually polluting and overfishing his realm. Drama and magic ensues in this animated feature, the eighth film Hayao Miyazaki directed for Japan's most famous animation studio, Studio Ghibli. Ponyo quickly became the fifth-highest grossing anime ever and still sits in the top-ten. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, declaring "There is a word to describe Ponyo, and that word is magical. This poetic, visually breathtaking work by the greatest of all animators has such deep charm that adults and children will both be touched. It's wonderufl and never even seems to try: It unfolds fantastically."

This film would be of particular interest to those working in Japanese anime and manga; animation; and environmentalism and critical ocean studies.

Be sociable and share with your colleagues, students, staff, campus clubs, and organizations who might be interested - the screening is free!

Their Chico concert is Tuesday February 28 at 7:30PM. As a part of the annual CSUC New Music Symposium, the three compo...
02/27/2023

Their Chico concert is Tuesday February 28 at 7:30PM. As a part of the annual CSUC New Music Symposium, the three composers (along with music director Etienne Gara) will come talk to the students/public the following morning (Wednesday, 3/1 @ 10:30am) in PAC 134. This event is FREE.

GET YOUR TICKET FOR THE PREMIERE OF TREELOGY!- Los Angeles, CA - February 23rd, 20...

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Founded in 1999, The Humanities Center in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at CSU, Chico creates and nurtures an interdisciplinary culture of ideas. Each year a theme is selected, and prominent scholars and artists are invited to give presentations on campus. The Center has been successful in bringing eight Presidential Scholars to campus, philosophers Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, historians Anthony Grafton, Edward J. Larson, and James McPherson, novelist Richard Powers, architect and writer Witold Rybczynski, and aesthetician Elaine Scarry. In addition to talks by outside speakers, the Center regularly hosts informal talks, debates and panel discussions. Since its creation, the Humanities Center, unique in the CSU system, has become an important and indispensable part of the intellectual life of CSU, Chico.