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.
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 WoodardWhere 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