Strategic Working Groups
The Strategic Working Groups program at the Townsend Center encourages innovative research foundational questions and emerging conditions in the humanities. The expectation of the program is to reconnect the fundamental questions of the humanistic disciplines with changing historical circumstances and emerging areas of knowledge; to bring basic humanistic questions to bear on a world shaped by new social and scientific developments; and to explore the ways in which dynamic historical forces in turn compel humanists to re-think fundamental questions. The program encourages selected groups to translate their work into courses, programs, and other concrete and ongoing activities that involve faculty and students at all levels.
Spring 2010 Strategic Working Group: “Old Things”: Classical Studies and Contemporary Humanities”
Strategic Working Groups
Critical Theory
Cultural Forms / Local Stakes / Global Circuits
Humanities and Human Rights
New Media
Old Things
Redress
Regeneration (Life Sciences)
Religion, Secularism, and Modernity
When is Art Research