#  Mahindra Humanities Center 

 



##  Watch Past Event Recordings 

 [ Visit the MHC YouTube Channel arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.youtube.com/@MahindraHumanitiesCenter) 

 

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##  Upcoming Events 

 



  [### Writers Speak | A Conversation with Douglas Stuart

 ](/event/writers-speak-douglas-stuart?occ_id=0)October 6, 2026

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 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT 

 

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   ![Douglas Stuart](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-07/Douglas-Stuart-shot-1_036-%28c%29-Desiree-Adams%20%5BLO%20RES%5D.jpg?h=984e47af&itok=X7k87UA1) 

 



 

 

   [### The Environment Forum with Kyle Harper | The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth

 ](/event/environment-forum-kyle-harper?occ_id=0)December 1, 2026

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 6:00PM - 7:30PM EST 

 

 In Person 

 

   ![Kyle Harper](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-07/Kyle%20Harper%20%28credit%20Joyce%20SFI%29.jpg?h=09f044c6&itok=6LWPtifi) 

 



 

 

  

 

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##  Featured News 

 



  [### Mahindra Humanities Center Leadership Updates

 ](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/news/2026/06/june-2026-mahindra-humanities-center-leadership-updates)June 11, 2026

We are delighted to share the news that Suzie Clark has been reappointed as director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and that Robin Kelsey has agreed to serve as interim director beginning on July 1, 2026.



 

   ![Suzie Clark, left, and Robin Kelsey, right](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Untitled%20design.png?itok=84Y-ePzn) 

 

 

 

  [### Sri Lankan Novelist Anuk Arudpragasam Reflects on War, Guilt, and Fiction

 ](http://thecrimson.com/article/2026/3/3/rudpragasam-war-and-guilt/)March 3, 2026

Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam argued that fiction can give moral weight to lives shaped by civil war — and to the guilt of surviving it.



 

   ![Anuk Arudpragasam and Tara K. Menon, mid-conversation](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/015558_1384300.jpg.1500x1125_q95_crop-smart_upscale.jpeg?h=aee48956&itok=ODOzm19T) 

 

 

 

  [### Steve McQueen could lecture you, but he’s got other plans

 ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/steve-mcqueen-could-lecture-you-but-hes-got-other-plans/)October 1, 2025

‘I think the audience needs more, and I feel I need to give more,’ says award-winning filmmaker — presenter of this year’s Norton talks



 

   ![Steve McQueen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/100125_Steve_McQueen_07%20%281%29_0.png?h=70a80297&itok=46KSmATI) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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