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Arizona State University’s Humanities Lab and the School of International Letters and Cultures have announced the Humanities Lab’s new administrative affiliation as part of the School of International Letters and Cultures collective. The Humanities Lab, launched on ASU’s Tempe campus in fall 2017, is an academic initiative that offers students team-taught, problem-focused, humanities-based interdisciplinary courses […]

Discovering the Humanities Lab As a global health major, I am interested in the big picture problems– how can we improve health on a greater scale? Or, what are the root causes that underlie key issues like HIV, malaria, or cardiovascular disease? My interests are broad, and my education the past four years at ASU […]

The Why is the Amazon Burning?  Humanities Lab was pleased to welcome Torie Bosch, editor of Future Tense – a project of Slate, New America and Arizona State, as a guest collaborator in the Lab today. Bosch partnered with students via a question/ answer session and offered feedback on story pitches students had pre-crafted related to […]

In fall 2018, Arizona State University professors Sujey Vega and Christiane Reves joined forces to team-teach an interdisciplinary Humanities Lab called Facing Immigration. The course was a hit, culminating in several student-led outcomes, including a mural that now blankets an exterior wall across from the downtown Phoenix YMCA. A second Facing Immigration Lab taught by other faculty followed in […]

 What does immigration mean to you? What do our immigration stories say about current U.S. collective society and our capacity to belong? What immigration stories have yet to be shared? Humanities Lab students pondered these important questions in the Facing Immigration I lab this fall semester at ASU. Our lab team – Angelica Panuelas, Zhulin […]

The Sound and Well-Being Humanities Lab course hosted a sound bath on January 28, 2020. The small event helped the class recognize the health benefits of these wellness sessions, and experience firsthand how sounds can affect our well-being. Kimberly Marshall and Lisa Lippincott, who led the sound bath, said it has been shown to help […]

The Humanities Lab is very pleased to welcome Juliann Vitullo as its new Humanities Lab Co-Director. Vitullo is a faculty member with the School of International Letters and Cultures where her publications and teaching span many facets of Italian culture ranging from medieval to contemporary times with a concentration on relationships between textual traditions and […]