Zócalo Receives Major Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Two-Year Event and Editorial Series Will Launch in October 2021

Zócalo Public Square, a creative unit of Arizona State University, is honored to be the recipient of a grant of $250,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a two-year event and editorial series exploring the question, “How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?”

The Mellon Foundation has awarded grants since 1969 to support a variety of initiatives centered on strengthening the humanities, arts and higher education. This grant, from the foundation’s Humanities in Place program, is its first to Zócalo.

“This project is a major opportunity for Zócalo and Arizona State …

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Here’s How to Join ‘How Can Humans Coexist With Monster Wildfires?’

Click here to join the conversation, airing tonight at 6:30 PM PDT. To watch the discussion with captioning provided, click here. (Please note that live chat participation is available only …
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Zócalo’s 2020 Summer Reading List Suits a Time Devoid of the Usual Escapes

From Why We Started Calling Ourselves ‘America’ to Brains With a Mind of Their Own, These 15 Books Examine Essential Questions About Who We Are

We at Zócalo have always been contrarians when it comes to what constitutes a summer reading list. Our idea of a perfect “beach read” has never been your usual summer …

Ancient Greek Demagogues Might Sound Familiar in 2016

At “How Does Democracy Survive Demagoguery?”, a Zócalo/Getty Villa “Open Art” event at the Getty Villa in Malibu, Eric Robinson, an Indiana University historian of ancient Greece and Rome, describes …