This fall, Humanities Tennessee and Vanderbilt University will once again partner to present the 38th annual Southern Festival of Books. More than 175 authors and 25,000 guests are expected at the family-friendly weekend festival, which will be held…
Humanities Tennessee (HT) today announced the winners of the 2025 Tennessee Book Awards. They are: Vic Sizemore (Maryville) in fiction for God of River Mud; Jared Sullivan (Franklin) in non-fiction…
Dr. Shawn Pitts, a McNairy County nonprofit leader, folklorist, and former Humanities Tennessee board member, recently received the Governor’s Arts Award for Folklife Heritage. Among the many folklife projects Pitts…
The festival presented by Vanderbilt University will host more than 175 authors to appear for panels, book signings, readings and discussions at the festival, Oct. 18 and 19 at Bicentennial…
Community support ensures Humanities Tennessee’s beloved literary festival continues, thanks to new partnerships and a shared commitment to the written word. Humanities Tennessee (HT) and Vanderbilt University announced today that…
Last summer, Elizabeth Merritt – the founding director of the American Alliance of Museums’ Center for the Future of Museums – created a special Tennessee edition of Dispatches from the…
Over the past year, Humanities Tennessee’s Shared Futures Lab has focused on strategic foresight – the systematic process of scanning for changes on the margins before they become major forces…
In Response to Federal Cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million Emergency Funding for Humanities Councils, including up to $250,000 for HUMANITIES TENNESSEE This investment…
This spring, two Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) teams are engaging in place-based research to ask questions and uncover answers about their Tennessee communities. Dr. Amie Thurber created the NSP framework…
How do we anticipate what could happen in the future? With so much vying for our attention, what do we focus on? What is important and what is merely noise?…
