The Center for the Humanities at Diego Portales University, part of the Global Humanities Network, is a space for the exchange of ideas and collaborative work between the world of academia and various cultural actors at work beyond the university. It aims to generate dialogue and confluences between different disciplines and professions, and between those who produce creative works and those who reflect on them, in order to energize intellectual life in its expressive and critical aspects. The Center for the Humanities has a group of collaborators ranging from philosophers, journalists and historians to visual artists, architects and writers. In the context of today’s university, marked by the intense specialization of research and the consequent withdrawal of academic debate from external audiences, the Center for the Humanities represents an effort to strengthen the public dimension of thought and cultural criticism.