The UW-Madison 2009-'10 Year of Humanities will continue on campus this semester with events beginning as early as next week.
The program, which began last fall, was created to raise awareness of the humanities departments at UW-Madison and to celebrate several milestones of humanities organizations on campus, such as the 50th anniversary of the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
""The first semester went well. We had a good turnout at the events and a good balance of public and academic programs,"" said Steven Nadler, co-chair of the council in charge of planning the Year of Humanities. ""There are even more high-profile public events this semester.""
The first event scheduled for this semester is a panel discussion titled ""Humanities in the 21st Century,"" which will include several national humanities scholars, including Chancellor Biddy Martin, and will take place Feb. 3.
Students can visit humanities.wisc.edu/yearofhumanities for information about upcoming Year of Humanities events.
