Welcome

We talk a lot at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. 

A liberal arts education grows out of the free-flowing exchange of ideas. The Institute exists to foster that exchange in a variety of forms and to a variety of purposes.

Intellectual community is good for its own sake, but it also makes faculty at Carolina better teachers and more innovative scholars. We think of the Institute as the university’s public square, the gathering place where ideas are tested, challenged, refined and developed.

The faculty comes to the Institute to share its ideas with others: colleagues, students, the larger public. A good conversation energizes and revitalizes, expanding the horizon and upsetting settled habits. In short, it educates all its participants. 

Come to the Institute and see what all the talk is about.  Even better: Join the conversation.

John McGowan
Director