This year the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s public events series will explore the forces that shape boundaries, the energies that collect around them, and the urgencies that spur their crossing. Under certain conditions, movement across boundaries can liberate, empower, and stimulate creativity, while under different conditions, it can cause trauma, anxiety and loss. Crossings + Boundaries will consider diverse experiences and phenomena of boundary crossing — institutional, political, cultural, artistic, gendered, psychological, and more.