The Humanities Collective promotes, coordinates, and highlights faculty and students’ humanities research, events, and programming at Trinity University and in the larger San Antonio community.

The Humanities Collective serves as Trinity’s  hub for the humanities and  supports the students, faculty, and staff of the nine humanities departments as well as humanities-adjacent programs. Each year the Humanities Collective will organize events, workshops, and opportunities that focus on an annual theme. 

We aim to foster humanistic learning and enable meaningful action through programming that supports the scholarship of humanities faculty and students; engages partners on campus and in the community to advance the public humanities; and calls attention to the relevance of the humanities in contemporary society.

We encourage you to tag @humanitiesTU on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook so we can share your news, events, and updates!

On Nurturing

Building upon our past themes of Building and Sustaining, the 2024-25 Humanities Collective theme is Nurturing. To nurture implies both caring for what has been established–as the collective continues to be a site of community building and sharing of research–as well as the encouragement of further growth. To nurture also implies a process, and this year will highlight our coordination and on-going support of the inaugural “Nurturing Hope” Student Leadership Academy which will engage a select group of Trinity humanities students in a citywide conversation about the role of the arts and humanities in times of deep division and conflict as they develop the skills to explore how trust and hope can be nurtured in personal, academic, community and political life.

Stay tuned here for more updates on our new student fellows and their work!

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The Humanities Collective sends three newsletters per semester with relevant updates, opportunities, and event announcements.

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Our Programs

 

Humanities Scholarship

We support the scholarly activities and pursuits of Trinity faculty and students:

  • Public Humanities Faculty Fellows
  • Undergraduate Research Symposium

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Humanities in the Community

We gather and promote humanities events for students, faculty, and the broader San Antonio community.

Our events include public lectures, seminars, film screenings, and a variety of other showcase opportunities.

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Humanities in Practice

Each October Humanities Day features alumni who share their personal career journeys and provide advice to current and prospective humanities majors.

Beginning in Fall 2024, the Nurturing Hope Student Leadership Academy brings together students from Trinity University, UTSA, and Alamo Colleges to consider how the humanities can nurture self-expression, collaborative cultural exchange, and community building. The program culminates in student-organized campus and community events.

In the News

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