#  Mahindra Humanities Center 

 



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The [Mahindra Humanities Center](http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/) seeks to foster collaborations between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences in the belief that the humanities make a unique contribution in establishing, through interpretation and conversation, communities of interest and climates of opinion. The Mahindra Humanities Center organizes numerous interdisciplinary lectures, panels, readings, conferences, workshops, and seminars, as well as supporting informal opportunities for ideas exchange and the sharing of scholarly and artistic work. Recent symposia related to global health include “Medicalization: Arts, Humanities and Human Rights,” and “Abortion Discourse.” Regular seminar topics include, for example: “Science, Religion and Culture” and “Culture and Humanitarian Agents.” In the words of Mahindra Center Director, Professor Homi Bhabha, “We need the humanities, as we do the atmosphere, for they allow us to draw the breath of human life and art, and in that process to aspire to the best in ourselves and others.”