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New NHC Program Will Help Universities Develop Responsible AI Courses

The National Humanities Center announces a new initiative to bolster college-level curricula for developing responsible artificial intelligence technologies. Supported by a gift from Google, the NHC will partner with faculty from fifteen colleges and universities in the U.S. to create and implement courses to help students comprehend the myriad ways AI technologies are integrated into modern life and to think through the ethical issues involved in developing and deploying them.

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National Humanities Center Names Inaugural Leadership Council

The Center welcomes seventeen undergraduates from colleges and universities in eight states for its inaugural National Humanities Leadership Council. These students will receive professional development and mentoring from leading scholars and other humanities professionals in discussion sessions that explore the essential importance of humanistic perspectives in addressing the concerns of contemporary society.

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National Humanities Center Names 2021–22 Teacher Advisory Council

The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the selection of twenty exceptional educators as members of its 2021–22 Teacher Advisory Council. These teachers, drawn from an array of teaching environments across the United States, will work with the Center’s education program staff in piloting, evaluating, and promoting materials and professional development offerings.

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National Humanities Center Announces 2021–22 Fellows

The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 36 Fellows for the academic year 2021–22. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 16 U.S. states as well as from Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Nigeria, and Taiwan. Chosen from 638 applicants, each Fellow will work on an individual research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the Center.

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NHC Receives Award to Support Scholarly Work on Chinese History

The National Humanities Center has been awarded a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation to support the work of a scholar working in the field of Chinese history during the 2021–22 fellowship year. The award will allow the selected scholar to intensively pursue a book-length project at the Center in the company of a stimulating intellectual community while receiving the exemplary research support for which the NHC is known.

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The National Humanities Center’s Statement Condemning Anti-Asian Violence

The community of the National Humanities Center grieves the recent wave of anti-Asian violence in communities across the United States, including the mass murder of eight people in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021. We condemn these acts of violence as well as the racism and xenophobia that motivate them, recognizing how such attitudes insinuate themselves into the fabric of our society, poison it, and produce suffering for untold victims of aggression and discrimination.