And just like that, another year has come and gone. 💙
Safe travels to all of our Rice Owls heading home, abroad, or just up the road, and happy commencement!
Model: Anna Julia, @arthistoryrice Department Administrator
Event: Humanities and Arts Staff Social
Thank you @valhallariceu for taking such good care of us at our end-of-year social!
With commencement only days away, AJ Shin’s Rice experience shows what happens when you follow what fascinates you, from monastery life in Nepal to building community through conversation on campus. And he’s just getting started! 🎓
Still not over this 😭📺✨
Linsey and I on French TV today (!!) on C pas si loin… like HOW is this real??
All this for the glory 💅🏾🔥 and to uplift the French Antilles and French Guiana 🇲🇶🇬🇵🇬🇫 — we love to see it ❤️
Tired, happy, slightly shook… but mostly proud to be part of the story ✨ #FrenchTV #FrenchAntilles #FrenchGuiana #CaribbeanVoices RepresentationMatters #AcademicLife
It's been a great year for RISOGRAPH prints at @arts.rice in the @ricehumanities ⚫️ Exhibitions included Prague's @lustrfestival and @the_suburban_exhibitions in Milwaukee and upcoming at the @holbein_art gallery in Osaka, Japan, in July. We even visited the @risokagaku HQ in Tokyo! Congrats to all the students and visiting artists - like @suecoeart - who produced amazing Risograph prints. Can't make it to Osaka for the Risograph exhibition? Stop by our display wall in Sarofim Hall on the @riceuniversity campus to see some of the work that is heading to Japan!
Great teaching happens every day at Rice, and graduate students are a big part of that.
These awards from the Center for Teaching Excellence recognize the work happening behind the scenes and in the classroom — from course design to student mentorship to leading full courses.
Congrats to this year’s recipients 👏
#RiceUniversity #RiceGradSchool #TeachingExcellence #GradLife #HigherEd
The Houston heat didn’t stop us yesterday (though it came pretty close)!!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat with Humanities & Arts faculty and staff about upcoming courses—and to pet Dr. Hill’s doggo 🐶
We’re keeping the good times going with a Humanities Hangout + course preview in Duncan Hall TODAY at noon!
Come by to:
• Chat with Humanities & Arts faculty
• Explore upcoming courses
• Grab a Chick-fil-A sandwich 👀
See you there :)
All in a day’s work.
We started the morning in front of what felt like a mountain: 200 people to stand up for the Humanities and Arts Excellence Fund, and 75 more to put their names next to a new Creative Writing MFA. It’s a lot to ask of a day.
Halfway through, we paused and gathered to recognize the big wins that land small in the face of twenty-four seemingly endless hours (and to play Texas trivia to take the edge off). We celebrated the effort.
And then, on our way, we witnessed that 75th donor cross the line for the Creative Writing MFA, unlocking a $150k gift from one of our own, Dr. Jeffrey Michel ‘85. *Deep breath*
One foot in front of the other. Every hour. Every day. Every week. That is how we build things in the Humanities.
To everyone who put their hand on the rope with us: thank you.
Slide 1: our Director of Development promoting the 24-Hour challenge with donuts and zines @ 8AM.
Slide 2: Zines made by English and Creative Writing students <333
Slide 3: Our monthly Humanities and Arts staff social on the Lovett balcony
Slide 5: The Humanities tackling Texas trivia. We learned a lot.
Slide 6: surpassing our 75 donor goal for the Creative Writing MFA fund. 🎉
Slide 7: English & Creative Writing Professor, Ian Schimmel, dazzling us all with his smile
Slide 8: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Demons. Depression. Divine madness. Medieval iconography. The Paris catacombs.
In Demons, Mental Illness and Medicine, Professor Niki Kasumi Clements traces 2,500 years of history from ancient philosophy to modern mental health, asking how cultures have understood, stigmatized and represented depression and the demonic.
Half your time at the Rice Global Paris Center.
Half your time inside the city itself.
Think Notre Dame. Think stained glass and shadow. Think haunted histories and how meaning gets constructed over centuries.
This D1 course is part of the Paris Fall Semester Program, which also includes:
• RELI 124 – Religion and the Art of Happiness (D1)
• POLI 379 – Gender and War (D2)
• POLI 211 – Introduction to International Relations (D2)
• BIOS 301 – Biochemistry I
• BIOS 341 – Cell Biology (D3)
Application deadline: March 1. Don’t wait. Details + application info via the link in our bio!
#RiceGlobal #Paris #RiceGlobalParisCenter #RGPC
Humanities NOW
Radical Art: Abstraction and Black Life — A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt
Monday, March 9
12 PM
Kraft Hall 130
Join us for a conversation with Leslie Hewitt, associate professor of Art, moderated by Eve Dunbar, Professor of English, on art as a radical practice of looking, of remembering and of rethinking history.
Register at link in bio.
The Dept. of @baylor_history welcomed Dr. Nana Osei-Opare from @ricehumanities for the 2026 Black History Month Lecture, Socialist De-Colony: Black & Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War 🌍📚
Held in Moody Memorial Library, the lecture explored Ghana’s independence movement and the global connections that shaped its socialist and decolonization efforts, offering students and attendees a deeper understanding of Black international history and the Cold War era.
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"The screens constantly get in the way..." says Professor Parris at Rice University. We discuss his no-tech classroom policy with student Abbie Proell.
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Can ancient ethics solve modern conflict?
Thursday, Feb. 5
7 PM
Anderson Clarke Center, Hudspeth Auditorium
Shi’a Muslim traditions contain a strong emphasis on peace, without ignoring the demands of justice. Most Shi’a jurists forbid aggressive warfare, allowing only the defense of the community. In the law of this tradition, even defensive warfare is bound by strict rules of conduct, including a prohibition on harming innocent noncombatants, and therefore against the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) — a seemingly radical demand in today’s times.
Join us for an evening with Juan Cole, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan @uofmichigan , as he explores the profound emphasis on peace within the Shi’a Muslim tradition.
Professor Cole will dive into the ethical frameworks that shape Shi’a Muslim history—from the strict prohibition of aggressive warfare and WMDs to the millenarian dream of a world filled with harmony. In a time of global uncertainty, these ancient juristic rules offer a vital perspective on modern justice.
🔗 Register at the link in our bio
