2024 National Humanities Conference

The National Humanities Conference (NHC), will take place in Providence, RI from November 13 – 17, 2024. Registration is now open! Click here for details.

This national conference is organized by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance, in partnership with Rhode Island Humanities. The NHC will draw hundreds of attendees from across the country—providing a unique opportunity to highlight the dynamic public humanities ecosystem in the Ocean State.

With NHC 2024 taking place in the Ocean State, the connection between water and human communities, behavior, and decisions over millennia inspires the conference’s theme of Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change.

The conference will include topical sessions highlighting connections across humanities and other disciplines and practices that incorporate the theme of water, making waves through public humanities, and navigating currents of change.

There will also be a series of offsite sessions and tours which will take place outside of the conference hotel and will introduce participants to an aspect of the Providence or Rhode Island humanities landscape or to a type of humanities program that is best understood beyond the hotel and convention center walls.

Schedule details and registration information are available here. Registration deadline is November 1. All rates and deadlines can be found here.

*Note that there is a special rate for session coordinators/presenters, K-12 teachers/students, and for one day registration if you can only attend a single day of the conference.

All conference presenters (including offsite presenters) are expected to register for the conference at a discounted rate ($350).