About Humanitas

Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the Programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with the support of a series of generous benefactors and administered by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities in Oxford. Read more on About Humanitas »

2012 - 2013

Forthcoming events

Lecture: The Salzburg Festival - circa 100 years after Hofmannsthal’s idea about the festival
Opera Studies
Gerard Mortier
Thursday, 6 June, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:00

T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College
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In conversation 'Mozart, our contemporary'
Opera Studies
Gerard Mortier
Saturday, 8 June, 2013 - 15:00 - 16:30

T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College
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In conversation: 'Music theatre between opera and drama - Contemporary opera, modern staging, bad or good public.'
Opera Studies
Gerard Mortier
Saturday, 8 June, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:30

T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College
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William Kentridge announced as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art

William Kentridge is one of South Africa’s pre-eminent artists, internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and Opera productions. Last year he delivered the prestigious Norton Lectures at Harvard University and exhibited in The Tanks at Tate Modern in London. Read more on William Kentridge announced as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art »

Recent Humanitas Lectures now online

To view recent podcasts of lectures, symposium and workshops relating to the Visiting Professors in Economic Thought and Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion please go to the Oxford University Podcast site or if you have iTunes on your computer you can view them on the Humanitas feed there.