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Capping an eventful year at the University\u2019s new home for the humanities, Joan Shelley Rubin was formally installed as the inaugural Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center<\/a><\/strong> in May, in a ceremony at Rush Rhees Library. Rubin is the Dexter Perkins Professor in History <\/a><\/strong>and has directed the center since its creation in 2015.<\/p>\n

The directorship is named in recognition of the support of University Trustee Ani Gabrellian \u201984 and her husband, Mark Gabrellian \u201979. The couple also established the annual Hagop and Artemis Nazerian Lecture Series, named for Ani Gabrellian\u2019s parents and directed by the center.<\/p>\n

Rubin joined the University faculty in 1995 and specializes in 19th<\/sup>– and 20th<\/sup>-century American history. She says that her work with the center flows naturally out of research to which she\u2019s long been devoted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a historian of the dissemination of the humanities, fundamentally,\u201d she says. A cultural and intellectual historian, she\u2019s the author of The Making of Middlebrow Culture<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 1992) and Songs of Ourselves: The History of Poetry in America<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2007), among other projects.<\/p>\n

Ani Gabrellian has called Rubin\u2019s immediate vision for the center one grounded in an experimental approach. \u201cWe like that flexibility and open-mindedness,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Joan Shelley Rubin, center, poses with Mark Gabrellian \u201979 and Ani Gabrellian \u201984, who lauds Rubin’s “experimental approach” to the center. (University photo \/ Deron Berkhof)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last October, the center moved into its Rush Rhees Library home, a bright, inviting space designed to foster conversation and collaboration among center fellows, faculty, students, staff, and the public. In the next school year, the center will also function monthly as a performance space for undergraduates, featuring music, art, dance, film, poetry reading, drama, and other activities.<\/p>\n

The center hosts and sponsors a wide variety of activities, including seminars, public lectures, workshops, and small-group activities. It\u2019s also building relationships with a variety of local cultural institutions. The 2017\u201318 theme for programs is \u201cMemory and Forgetting,\u201d and a companion film series is being developed with the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum<\/a><\/strong>, as well as related collaborations with Writers and Books<\/a><\/strong>, a literary center in Rochester, and the Memorial Art Gallery.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The center is also taking a role at Rochester’s East High School<\/a><\/strong>\u2014a public school that the University has managed for the past two years\u2014by including East High students in events at the center, supporting a humanities club, and sponsoring a two-week program next summer on the humanities and civic life.<\/p>\n

And this\u00a0fall, a new undergraduate curricular initiative for the humanities will launch, with the support of a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.<\/p>\n

Rubin aspires to a wide reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want our center to touch the life of every Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ undergraduate,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a lofty goal but an important one, because I firmly believe that an appreciation for the humanities and an understanding of human culture are central to what it means to be an educated citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the Humanities Center, visit http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/humanities\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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