Mahindra Humanities Center

Instruments Unearthed: Bioacoustics, Bio-Sonification, and Making Plants Musical Speaker: Cana McGhee, 2025-26 MHC Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow Respondent: Deirdre Loughridge Cana McGhee is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at...

Photo Credit: Barbara Kinney THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Terry Tempest Williams Moderator: Robin Kelsey, Harvard University About the Event We are all dreamers. What happens when a particular dream becomes a vow? The vow Terry Tempest Williams made...

Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen The 2025-26 Norton Lectures | Steve McQueen: Pulse Norton Lecture Six This is the sixth and final of...

The Tanner Lectures with James Forman Jr. | University Admissions and the American Dream: Who Gets In—and Why It Matters Lecture Two: Admissions in the Crosshairs: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobility Today Speaker: James Forman Jr., Yale University...

The Tanner Lectures with James Forman Jr. | University Admissions and the American Dream: Who Gets In—and Why It Matters Lecture One: Merit, Privilege, and the American Dream: Universities Then and Now Speaker: James Forman Jr., Yale University Respondent...

The Globe is Melting: Scale, Imagination, Language Speaker: Oliver Aas, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Bruno Carvalho Born and raised in Estonia, Oliver Aas is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of environmental...

Join us for a panel discussion with Rebecca Lemov, Christian Greer, Tom O’Neill, and Benjamin Breen. About the Speakers Benjamin Breen is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz specializing in the history of science...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event A multidisciplinary conference, inspired by Hotel Nirvana, a play about Timothy Leary’s encounter with Mexico and mushrooms, brings together theater, research on drugs, law, and war with a...

Shade and the Capture of Light Speaker: Pujita Guha, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Caren Irr Pujita Guha is an artist, curator, and scholar whose research interests hover around environmental humanities, media studies, science and technology...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speaker: Dr. Martha Newson, Cognitive Anthropologist About the Event How do group dynamics in different contexts mediate psychedelic experiences? How do intense experiences work to create...