The Birmingham-Bessemer Youth Ministries

Community Center

For The

Humanities

The BBYM Community Center for The Humanities is a public square for interdisciplinary discussions among Community educators, business people, religious leaders, community leaders, students, and the public.

We will sponsor:

        I.            lectures

      II.            panel discussions

    III.            readings

    IV.            conferences

      V.            workgroups

    VI.            seminars

  VII.            Speakers

 We also support informal occasions for the exchange of ideas and the sharing of scholarly and artistic work.

The Birmingham-Bessemer Youth Ministries Community Center for the Humanities will research into the historical, philosophical, literary, artistic, cultural dimensions, of the human experience.

 The Birmingham-Bessemer Youth Ministries Community Center for the Humanities seeks to foster collaborations between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences in the belief that the humanities make a unique contribution in establishing -- through interpretation and conversation -- communities of interest and climates of opinion.

            The Birmingham-Bessemer Youth Ministries Community Center for the Humanities advances the humanities through-out The Birmingham-Bessemer Communities and beyond, by attracting religious leaders, community leader, educators, business leaders, students, and the public into informed, thoughtful, and civil discourse on the political, literary, ethical, and aesthetic questions of the day. The Center’s lectures, panels, workshops, and interdisciplinary seminars encourage innovative research; illuminate new ideas; foster books and teaching innovations; and provide a critical forum for understanding what it means to be human.  

The Center is supported by the generosity of individual donors, grants from private and public foundations, corporate philanthropy, partner universities, and income from the Center’s endowment