Geoffrey Galt Harpham to discuss wealth and abundance during Messiah College Spring Humanities Symposium
January 30th, 2013
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GRANTHAM, Pa. (Jan. 30, 2013) — Geoffrey Galt Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, N.C., will join Messiah College during its annual Spring Humanities Symposium, Feb. 18-22. Harpham will deliver the keynote address, “Wealth: The Promises and Perils of Abundance,” on Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. in Parmer Hall, located in the newly constructed Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts. The event, sponsored by the Messiah College Center for Public Humanities, is free and open to the public.
About Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Harpham, the fifth president and director of the National Humanities Center, received training as a literary scholar before publishing several distinguished books. His first title, “Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature” (1982) set the stage for a career of diverse work, including 10 editions of “A Glossary of Literary Terms” (2011). Harpham’s literary interests include the role of ethics in literary study, the place of language in intellectual history and the work of Joseph Conrad, an English novelist and short-story writer. In recent years, Harpham has become a prominent historian and advocate for the humanities, ultimately receiving fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About the Humanities Symposium
Since 2004, the Center for Public Humanities at Messiah College has sponsored an annual School of Humanities Symposium devoted to the discussion of a common theme. Past symposium themes have included community and belonging, the human imagination, and technology and humanity; keynote speakers have included James Leach, Alan Wolfe and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Over the past nine years, history faculty and students have regularly contributed to the Humanities Symposium.
About Messiah College
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.
