Discovery & Inspiration

Discovery & Inspiration asks “What can we learn by talking to scholars about their research? What makes them so passionate about the subjects they study? What is it like to make a new discovery? To answer a confounding question?”

For over 40 years the National Humanities Center has been a home away from home for scholars from around the world—historians and philosophers, scholars of literature and music and art and dozens of other fields.

Join us as we sit down with scholars to discuss their work—to better understand the questions that intrigue and perplex them, the passion that drives them, and how their scholarship may change the ways we think about the world around us.

Discovery & Inspiration’s tracks

• Nancy F. Cott, “Accidental Internationalists: American Journalists Abroad Between the World Wars” by Discovery & Inspiration
• Paul S. Sutter, “Public Health and the Panama Canal” by Discovery & Inspiration
• Paul Ushang Ugor, “Socially Responsible Cinema: Femi Odugbemi’s Artistic Vision” by Discovery & Inspiration
• Maggie M. Cao, “Imperial Painting: Nineteenth-Century Art and the Making of American Empire” by Discovery & Inspiration