Founded in 1959, the Center for Humanities at Wesleyan University is among the oldest in the United States. In celebration of the Center's 50th year, we seek to reflect upon the category of "the human" in the humanities.
On the occasion of the Center's anniversary, we must ask ourselves a series of questions. How has the "human" been figured over the last fifty years? How has our understanding of what it means to be human changed? What is the relationship between the animal and the human? Is the human a singular kind? How have the substantial even revolutionary challenges to long-established views of human nature influenced our commitment to understand the human condition?
