The Pittsburgh Humanities Festival brings together internationally-renowned academics, artists, and intellectual innovators offering interviews, intimate conversations, and performances focused on art, literature, music, science, policy, politics and more. Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University, the fifth annual Pittsburgh Humanities Festival will take place March 20-22, 2020 at locations throughout the Cultural District.
This year’s Festival consists of Featured Events, featured performances and presentations in Cultural District Theaters; Core Conversations, intimate interviews, presentations, and conversations featuring internationally recognized thought leaders, artists, and academics; and a Public Open Call, which provides a chance for new voices to be heard at the Festival through web-based auditions open to anyone interested in presenting or performing. To view the full schedule, visit TrustArts.org/SmartTalk.
This year, the Festival features several distinguished authors:
Blair Imani, author of the critically acclaimed books Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History and Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and The Black American Dream, examines how The Great Migration affected, and continues to affect, Black identity and America as a whole in her talk Making Our Way Home.
WQED’s Rick Sebak and Brian Butko, whose research and writing analyzes American popular history since the 1980s, explore in conversation the layers of Kennywood’s history that tell of changing architecture, entertainment, and regional history.
“The quietly most interesting bioethicist of our time” Jonathan D. Moreno examines why it is that Americans today pay more in health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation in his talk Everyone Wants to Get to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die. His renowned book of the same name, co-authored with University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, offers an eye-opening look America’s unprecedented revolution in health care and the problem with America’s wanting everything that medical science has to offer without debating its merits and limits.
Robert “Faruq” Wideman discusses his collection of essays and other writings Life Sentences: The Amazing Journey of Walking Out of an American Prison and his amazing journey of walking out of prison after 44 years. He will share moments of joy after reuniting with family and the trials and struggles of reintegrating into life outside of prison after so many years of being incarcerated.
Tickets are now on sale for all Core Conversations and Featured Events. Tickets for Core Conversations can be purchased for $5 per Conversation. Ticket prices for Featured Events vary. For more information regarding events, pricing, and to purchase tickets, visit TrustArts.org/SmartTalk. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Box Office at Theater Square, or by phone at 412-456-6666.
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