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 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.

The Weidenfeld Visiting Chair of Comparative European Literature brings a distinguished scholar to Oxford University.  The Weidenfeld Chair delivers six to eight one hour lectures and holds two seminars on a wide range of comparative literature.

Organised in association with St. Anne’s College, The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize rewards the translation of a work of fiction into English from a living European language. The winner is chosen by a selection board drawn from various members of the language and literature faculty of Oxford University and an assessor from another university.