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The Humanities Center at Great Basin College seeks to collect, curate, and cultivate the humanities to create a greater cultural and historical understanding to demystify human difference, celebrate diversity, and build an engaged citizenry to enhance the well-being of rural Nevada.

Humanities Crossroads

An online portal to showcase the rich history and cultural diversity of our region through creation and archiving of original and multimedia content.

Humanities in Action

An annual initiative organized around selected themes to provide the entire GBC community with opportunities to engage in civic conversation around significant issues of culture, place, and society.

Humanities Teaching Toolkit

An interdisciplinary space for GBC faculty to explore the use of the humanities content in their classrooms.

Featured Collection

Tortoise Talk

Tortoise Talk is the student journal of the Great Basin College Nature Club.

Featured Exhibit

Great Basin Indian Archives @ VHC

The Great Basin Indian Archives @ VHC is a collaborative digital exhibition of Western Shoshone oral histories, language and cultural...

Recently Added Items

Artist Talk with Evi Buell

Artist Evi Buell talks about her creative process and shows examples of the cameras she used to create some of the photographs in the exhibit "Another…

Film Review: First Cow

Film Title: First Cow
Reviewer Name: Russ Minter

Film Review: In the Mood for Love

Film Title: In the Mood for Love
Reviewer: Josh Webster

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Featured Item

Great Basin College, Nevada Humanities, and the Western Folklife Center hosted humanities speaker Derek Knapp's talk, "Accepting the Gift that is the Horse" presented on January 30, 2020 with a video recording hosted by MediaSite.