The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard brings insights from deep, patient, and immersive work in the humanities to bear on the most urgent questions of our time.
About
Director's Letter
Greetings! Welcome to the Mahindra Humanities Center. I hope you are all gearing up for a splendid summer. After two years of online-only events, this academic year marked a return to in-person activities. I have savored each in-person event and time spent with colleagues. A big thank-you to all of you who joined the Mahindra Humanities Center as audience members, and who have brought us your wisdom and insights as speakers, moderators, and chairs of the seminar series.
Our History
The Mahindra Humanities Center began in 1984 as the Center for Literary Studies. It became the Humanities Center in 1996 and was renamed in 2011 following a generous gift from Anand Mahindra, Harvard College ’77, in honor of his mother Indira. Anand Mahindra was a concentrator in Visual and Environmental Studies—now Art, Film, and Visual Studies—at Harvard.
