Join VCU Libraries and the Humanities Research Center for an event with Maria Sachiko Cecire, Ph.D. program officer for Higher Learning at the Mellon Foundation.
Cecire's talk proposes that in a time of overlapping anxieties about AI, climate, inequality, and other crises the humanities are uniquely positioned to help us understand who we are, the futures we want and how to get there. Drawing on her experience as a funder at a leading national philanthropy and her background as a scholar of popular culture, fantasy, and media Cecire will discuss the reparative and creative potential of the humanities for individuals, institutions, and societies.