“So Ruff, So Tuff”: Legacies of Black Midwestern Art and Struggle with Professor Nicole Fleetwood

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The Center for the Humanities promotes the cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and public humanities across and beyond the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We support traditional and new forms of inquiry in the humanities and engage the public through reciprocal partnerships that broaden the ways that knowledge circulates.

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Our research programs provide unique opportunities to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and to pursue innovation in writing, teaching, and scholarship.

 

 

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Our partnerships with schools, museums, libraries, nonprofits, and cultural organizations demonstrate the value of the humanities inside and outside of the university.

 

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Our events inspire audiences. They are always free and open to the public, invigorating cultural and civic life across Madison.

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Great World Texts in Wisconsin

Launched in 2005, Great World Texts in Wisconsin engages high school students and teachers across the state through the shared reading of a novel.

During the 2023-2024 program, high school teachers and students throughout the state will read Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive, a fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends.

Lost Children Archive in Wisconsin

View a slideshow below from last year’s Great World Texts student conference, in which we read Tommy Orange’s novel There There.