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

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

Spring Events

• The “Knowledge Business”? - Vincent Colapietro, Philosophy
  April 8, 12pm
  Galanti Lounge, Carothers Library & Livestreamed
• Why Shakespeare? - Jeffrey R. Wilson
  April 23, 5pm
  Hope Room, Higgins Welcome Center & Livestreamed