The Center for the Humanities at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
is the only Center of its kind in the region and in the entire state.
The Center for the Humanities has two central objectives: to provide
visibility and focus for humanities activities at UM-St. Louis and to
attract and channel resources for the support of interdisciplinary humanistic
inquiry. To this end the Center has sponsored a variety of conferences,
symposiums, and lectures. Over the last several years, the Center has
sponsored a conference entitled "What is a City?", which examines
the structure and social environment of cities and their effects on social
and cultural diversity. The Center for the Humanities also sponsors the
Monday Noon Cultural Series throughout the academic year, which features
a variety of humanistic lectures and musical performances every Monday
at 12:00 noon. The Center also supports and coordinates the Poetry and
Reading Series, which features original contemporary authors reading
their works. In addition, the Center houses and funds the journal Theory
and Society, a refereed, interdisciplinary journal of social theory
and practices, published by Kluwer Academic in The Netherlands. The Center
disseminates information on the humanities on their web site and promotes
the development of interdisciplinary outreach courses.
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