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2025 Humanities Symposium: Living Digitally, February 19-21

The Center for Public Humanities is pleased to invite proposals for the 2025 Humanities Symposium on "Living Digitally"

As the Center takes up the theme of Living Digitally this year, the Center for Public Humanities is eager to provide a forum for the University community and the wider public to engage in meaningful and transformational conversations.

Toward this end, the CPH executive committee invites you to contribute with your disciplinary knowledge, experiences, and creative capacities to our conversation on “Living Digitally.”

We welcome individual or collaborative proposals for symposium sessions or events from all departments, faculty members, campus offices, community members, college alumni and student groups. Past presentations have included faculty-student conversations, interdisciplinary and departmental panels, poster sessions, multimedia presentations and artistic performances such as dance, film, concerts, poetry readings, exhibitions, and the list goes on.

Proposals for individual student presentations of any of the types listed above require a faculty sponsor. Student presentations other than posters should be 10-15 min long.

All proposals can be submitted here. Proposals will be expected to provide a description of the proposed presentation and how it relates to the specific theme of the Symposium. Deadline for submission is Thursday, November 14, 2024.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your ideas for a proposal, please feel free to contact CPH Director, Pete Powers at ppowers@messiah.edu.

2025 Humanities Symposium Keynote Address

Maryanne Wolf

“Deep Reading's Contributions to Humanity in a Digital Culture: The Preservation of Empathy, Critical Thinking, and the Contemplative Function”

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Virtual Lecture
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Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and the former John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. She has authored over 170 scientific publications; Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (15 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital Culture (12 translations; HarperCollins, 2018). She is co-author with Martha Denckla of the RAN/RAS naming speed tests, a universal predictor of dyslexia, and the creator of the RAVE-O Intervention Program for all struggling readers. She has received multiple awards for her contributions to the neuroscience of reading; the major awards from the International Dyslexia Association and the Einstein Award from the Dyslexia Foundation for her dyslexia research; and the Walter Ong Award and the Alfred Korzybski Award for her work on the effects of different mediums on the intellectual development of the species. Most recently, she was elected a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.

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