Every fall since 1974, Vermont Humanities has explored a humanities topic in depth at our annual fall conference, re-imagined in 2022 as the Fall Festival of the Humanities. Browse videos below recorded at our 2024 “50 Forward” Fall Festival.
Katheryn Wright, Program Director of Digital Humanities at Champlain College, reflects on the intimate relationship forming between humans and artificial intelligence, our newest digital companion. She introduces the emerging field of Digital Humanities, which uses digital methods to address important questions about culture, identity, and ethics.
Erica Heilman’s podcast Rumble Strip encourages listeners to fall in love with strangers and to discover how we are often more alike than we are different. Recent episodes included conversations with Vermonters about class, produced with Vermont Public. In this Fall Festival video, join Heilman for a discussion on making the show and trying to build community in an increasingly divided society.
Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger made her “Stuck in Vermont” video series for 17 years, during an era when video journalism has exponentially grown in influence. Eva reflects on what lies ahead for this video series—and possibly for Vermont—in the coming years. Go behind the scenes into her video making process, hear about the importance of telling local stories, and even get some tips for making your own content.
Artist and scholar Ace Lehner has taken the motif of the barbershop and created a space for queer world-making through their installation and social practice performance piece, “Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure.” Lehner discusses how their piece reimagines and “queers” the traditional images and experiences of barbershops.
Our seasonal “Words in the Woods” program allows Vermonters and visitors to enjoy our state’s natural beauty while listening to and reading literature in the outdoors.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported the Chandler Center for the Arts’ Global Connections Youth Outreach program, which highlights artists from around the world.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
