Humanities Symposium
An annual event since 2002, The Belmont Humanities Symposium is a week-long celebration of and deep dive into special topics of interest to various fields within the humanities. Each symposium features academic talks from invited guest speakers as well as Belmont faculty and students.
Browse the contents of Humanities Symposium:
- 2025 - Neighbors
- 2024 - Babel Origins & Ends of Language
- 2023 - Humor and Humanity
- 2022 - The Haunted South
- 2021 - Reading As A Radical Act
- 2020 - A More Perfect Union
- 2019 - Mankind And The Moon
- 2018 - The Present and the Future of the Past
- 2017 - Making it Home
- 2016 - Machines Made of Words Technology, Progress and the Humanities
- 2015 - Many Tables Fayre: Cuisine in Culture & Community
- 2014 - Worlds Enough and Time
- 2013 - Encountering Otherness
- 2012 - Civility and Its Discontents
- 2011 - Liberating Voices
- 2010 - Giving Shape to Airy Nothings: Inventing Communities, Creating Identities
- 2009 - Nature and the Human Spirit
- 2008 - Debate, Dissent & Dialogue
- 2007 - Transforming Travel: Rewriting the World As We Know It
- 2006 - Fairy Tales: Told and Retold, Reread and Reinterpreted
- 2005 - Benjamin Franklin’s World
- 2004 - Translation and Other Acts of Cultural Interpretation
- 2003 - The Many Faces of Storytelling
- 2002 - Murder In The Mansion: The Historical Mystery
