Courtney M. Cox
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2024-2025 Brown Bag Talks
- 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
- Salvation and Scandal at Michigan’s House of David - Evelyn Sterne, History
- Ozempic is the First Posthuman Drug - Darren Medeiros, Philosophy
- Lady Detectives and Women Authors: Considering the Liminal Boundaries of Sex and Sphere in Victorian Detective Fiction - Darcey Lovell, English
From Noble Savage to Tragic Chief: A Brief History of Natives in Pop Culture
Stories from the Soil: Collage, Culture, and the Black Rural Imagination
The Humanities and Popular Culture/Counterculture
Popular culture dominates our lives and deserves serious study. During the 2025-26 academic year, the Center for the Humanities is delighted to present “The Humanities and Popular Culture/Counterculture.” This yearlong series of lectures and events — on topics ranging from marching band music to basketball to Taylor Swift — will explore some of these fascinating […]
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Center for the Humanities
Fall 2024
Where the Humanities Are Thriving
The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 2, 2pm
Virtual Forum
Converting to the Cult of the Sentence – Cancelled
Jordan Scott, English
February 5, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall
2023-2024 Brown Bag Talks
- “Polvo de Gallina Negra and the Politics of Pregnant Performance in Mexico” - Erin L. McCutcheon - Department of Art & Art History
- “Planetary Drift: Flotsam as Empathic Medium in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being” - Billy Bowden - Department of English
- “Women in the Italian Resistance: Stories of Partnership between Italian Partisans and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services” - Catherine Sama - Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
- “Hashi” - Adrián Montero Moya and Moé Takamatsu - Department of Music
- “Framing the Bettelheims: Finding a new approach to an extremely colorful but fairly unknown family of the American 19th century” - Jenny Elkus - Department of History
- “To Save Humankind Kill Off the Hero’s Journey” - Holly Dunsworth - Department of Sociology & Anthropology
‘Sorry to Bother You’ Screening
September 13, 3pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall