Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair inaugurates the 2016-2017 Mellon Sawyer Seminar on April 20, 2016
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Global Humanities project is an interdisciplinary research initiative linking Tufts’ and other Boston-area faculty across the humanities and interpretive social sciences with scholars at international universities. The seminar builds on traditional humanities knowledge in comparative literature, comparative religion, world history, and anthropological studies, while offering alternative research models that go beyond the study of cultures as bounded units analogous to one another.
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