Humanitas

Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Cambridge and Oxford intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities, and and aimed at making these lectures available to a world-wide audience.

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 co-ordinated at Cambridge by the university’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and at Oxford by the Humanities Division.

The aim of the Humanitas programme is to stimulate fresh thinking and new partnerships in a broad range of subjects: from architecture, literature and the performing arts, through to international relations and human rights. The lectures are open to the public.

For more on the inaugural lecture series, click on the links below:

Mathias Döpfner on Media

Athol Fugard on Drama

Norman Foster on Architecture

Professor Hew Strachan on War Studies

Nancy Fraser on Women's Rights

Thomas Struth on Contemporary Art

Glenn Lowry on Museums, Galleries and Libraries

Alfred Brendel on Chamber Music