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

Check back soon for next year’s events!