What better way to stop and smell the roses than to spend an hour online with the Chicago Humanities Festival? "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and thus life be enriched." This is the motto of the University of Chicago, and we like to think it describes our mission here at the Chicago Humanities Festival pretty succinctly.
The CHF has spent that last 20+ years gathering the best and brightest--thinkers and artists, policy-makers and performers--and making a real cultural happening out of putting them together, back-to-back, in local venues. But why, we thought, should we keep this garden of ideas to ourselves? So we've decided to sow these seeds across this great big ball of dirt by recording our talks and putting them online, for free, for everybody.
There's a plaque in the UofC's social sciences quad commemorating the gift of several rose bushes that reads, "Let beauty grow from stem to stem..." Beauty, knowledge-- what's the difference? Each makes life fuller, and the more each spreads the better off we all are. In this spirit, we invite you to admire our garden. Take a look at these blooms below and feel free to cherry-pick the rest of our site (over 200 full-length talks!) above.
Knowing is perennial!
