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.
Upcoming Events
- Land Grant Universities and Cultural Dispossession - Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
September 26, 3pm
Hardge Forum, MSSC; in person only - A Conversation with Poet and Memoirist Javier Zamora - Javier Zamora
October 3, 4pm
Hope Room, Higgins Welcome Center, & Livestreamed - Gendered Solidarity and the Shifting Ground of the Black Feminine - Catherine A. John, Africana Studies
October 16, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall & Livestreamed - Democratic Crises and Structural Change - Alex Keyssar
October 23, 3pm
Hardge Forum, MSSC, & Livestreamed - Salvation and Scandal at Michigan’s House of David - Evelyn Sterne, History
November 13, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall & Livestreamed - The Humanities and Civic Health in Rhode Island - Elizabeth Francis & Julia Renaud, Rhode Island Humanities
Colin Woodard, Nationhood Lab, Salve Regina University
December 5, 5pm
Hope Room, Higgins Welcome Center & Livestreamed - Converting to the Cult of the Sentence - Jordan Scott, English
February 5, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall - Ozempic is the First Posthuman Drug - Darren Medeiros, Philosophy
March 5, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall & Livestreamed - Lady Detectives and Women Authors: Considering the Liminal Boundaries of Sex and Sphere in Victorian Detective Fiction - Darcey Lovell, English
April 2, 1pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall & Livestreamed