Mission Statement
In fulfilling its mission to the University and to the field of humanities, the Cogut Center:
- Supports and maintains Brown's stellar reputation in the humanities.
- Encourages and supports interdisciplinary and cross-cultural work and groundbreaking intra-disciplinary work in the humanities.
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Sustains and nurtures international perspectives at Brown in an era of increasing globalization: exploring the relations between the local and the global; investigating the fate of the concept of the nation and of nationalism; and pursuing issues of cultural translation..
- Explores the public role of the humanities, the various crises it has witnessed in the past decade, and the pressures confronting the humanities in the current economic and political climate.
- Interrogates the relation between various disciplines in the humanities and the growth of technologies of information and visualization: questions of the archive (what a culture conserves and how it is conserved); the viability and role of the humanities in an era of increasing prestige of the sciences; the impact of digitization and digital media.
- Nurtures relations between the humanities and the studio and performing arts.
- Reinvigorates the concept of “critique” and the role of critical theory in the disciplines of the humanities.
- Explores the re-emergence of pressing issues of ethics and aesthetics in the humanities.
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