The DePaul Humanities Center, founded in 1999, serves as a site for discussion and research in the arts and humanities at DePaul University. Bringing together faculty, staff, students, scholars, community leaders, and artists, the center engages our communities in the powerful and empowering discourses of the humanities. The center initiates and encourages the consideration of contemporary problems and solutions from the vantage point of the best humanistic scholarship and thinking. Central to the center's community engagement is the exchange of ideas across disciplines and specializations, the communication of interests and questions to broader publics through active outreach, and the chance to learn from these publics in turn by providing a space for voices from outside the academy. Our goals are to: Support and nourish humanities scholarship and teaching throughout the university; Support interdisciplinary work in the humanities; Increase public visibility of work in the humanities conducted by university faculty, staff, and students; Initiate and encourage the consideration of contemporary problems and solutions from the vantage point of humanistic thinking; Build and strengthen links with other institutions, community groups, and educators.