How MTV Helped End Apartheid
I first discovered what being a global citizen meant when I was just thirteen and a part of the MTV Generation. MTV debuted in 1981, but in rural...
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My Humanities Moment occurred in 2005, the year that hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. I lived in New Orleans pre-and-post Katrina and lost my house to the...
View ArticleWhy I Read YA
I was born and grew up in rural Southern Appalachia. Books and stories were my pathway out of the holler and into a world of hope and possibility....
View Article“Fern Hill”: The Fleeting, Eternal Magnificence of Innocence
I could do several Humanities Hours out of Humanities Moments – there are so many passages and ideas that have animated my imagination. I first find myself drawn...
View ArticleThe Farewell: Teaching and Talking about Ethnocentrism as an Asian-American
The guiding question for my Humanities Moment pertains to the most recent film that I cannot stop talking about with my peers, friends, family and strangers. As a...
View ArticleScottish Highlands
I’ve always loved to travel, and one of my favorite parts is getting to have a connection to the place that in our classrooms we refer to in...
View ArticleHumans Give Meaning to the World
While discussing N. Scott Momaday’s novel A House Made of Dawn, Professor Bowden introduced a new concept – geosophy. It was an unexpected moment during an undergraduate geography...
View ArticleThe Power of Myth
Ron Eisenman shares how a PBS television series encouraged him to pursue his passions and turn to the humanities to help him make sense of the world around...
View ArticleComing Into My Feminist Consciousness
My Humanities Moment occurred during my Junior year in college, when I attended an evening session with Gerda Lerner, the author of The Creation of Feminist Consciousness and...
View ArticleGod in Music Form: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
My mother received her undergraduate degree in Art History after her three children had graduated. As siblings with the label first generation college students, we like to think...
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