Join us for a yearlong series of lectures in which historians and memoirists, librarians and authors, artists and public humanities practitioners, discuss the critical role that the arts and humanities play in sustaining and inspiring democratic engagement.

Brown Bag Series

Held monthly during the academic year, the series provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to share their research, teaching, and digital humanities projects.

Brown Bag Events

Humanities Festival

Each spring, we celebrate the importance of the humanities by highlighting the work of a prominent speaker or discussion panel of experts.

Past and upcoming events

Innovations in Storytelling

A lecture series devoted to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. This lecture series celebrated the Center for Humanities’ 30th year anniversary in 2024.

Lecture recordings

2024-2025 Recorded Events

• Why Black Philosophy Needs Afrosurrealism and Black Speculative Fiction - James Haile, III, Philosophy/English
• Gendered Solidarity and the Shifting Ground of the Black Feminine - Catherine A. John, Africana Studies
• Democratic Crises and Structural Change - Alex Keyssar
• Salvation and Scandal at Michigan’s House of David - Evelyn Sterne, History
• The Humanities and Civic Health in Rhode Island - Elizabeth Francis & Julia Renaud
  Colin Woodard
• Where Can We Go From Here? - Eric Gottesman, George Washington University
  
• The Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle - Shannon King, Fairfield University
• Ozempic is the First Posthuman Drug - Darren Medeiros, Philosophy
• Libraries at the End of the World - Emily Drabinski, Queens College, City University of New York
• Lady Detectives and Women Authors: Considering the Liminal Boundaries of Sex and Sphere in Victorian Detective Fiction - Darcey Lovell, English