Eric Hayot | How to Defend the Humanities in Five Steps

 This talk does what it says on the box: it aims to give students, faculty, and academic administrators useful language for defending the humanities, the idea of a liberal arts education, and the university.

Lunch at 11:45 a.m. for in-person attendees

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About the Speaker

Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State University. He is the author of five books, including On Literary Worlds (2012), The Elements of Academic Style (2014), and Humanist Reason (2021). He is the co-creator of the Against AI and Humanities Works websites, the co-translator of Peter Janich’s What Is Information?, and the co-editor of collections on modernism, East/West comparison, and information studies.