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The Humanities and Popular Culture/Counterculture

A yearlong humanities speaker series

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During the 2025-26 academic year, the Center for the Humanities is delighted to present “The Humanities and Popular Culture/Counterculture,” a yearlong series of events on topics ranging from marching band music to basketball to Taylor Swift.

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
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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

Sustaining Democracy

A lecture series devoted to demonstrating the critical role that the arts and humanities play in sustaining and inspiring democratic engagement.

Lecture recordings

Upcoming Events