PPEH programs, research initiatives, workshops, seminars, performances, and public engagement projects are designed around a central topic. Click through below to explore annual topics:
Climate and Democracy (2023-2024)
Topic Director: Bethany Wiggin
Presented with the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Past Topics
Listening for the Anthropos-not-seen (2022-2023)
Topic Director: Kristina Lyons
![Painting of a tree, water, a person in a boat by Pedro Ruiz 1957](/sites/default/files/inline-images/Pedro%20Ruiz%201957%20-%20Colombian%20painter%20-%20Tutt%27Art%40%20%2813%29_0.jpg)
Transition/Transformation (2020-2021)
Topic Director: Daniel Barber
Elements (2019-2020)
Topic Director: Nikhil Anand
Places of Language; Languages of Place (2018-2019)
How Did We Get Here? (2017-2018)
Topic Director: Etienne Benson