Join us for the Humanities Center's bi-weekly lunchtime seminar featuring the in-progress works of our fellows and affiliates. Lunch will be provided, no RSVP is required. 

This year's speakers include:

•    9/18 – Cilas Kemedjio: “Frederick Douglass’s Legacies: Humanitarian Fallacies, Intertextual Networks and Pan-Africanist Solidarities in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie”

•    10/1- Daly Arnett: “When a Creature Draws: the Anti-Cultural in Postwar Francophone Thought”

•    10/16 – Richard Fadok: “Architecture’s Ornithologics: Bird-Friendly Design and the Ethics of Indexicality”

•    10/29 - Anu Ahmed: “Recovering (through) a Counter-Ethics in ‘Mad’ Repetitions”

•    11/13 – Tingting Xu: "A Screen So Grand: Coromandel Screens from the Perspective of Scale"

•    12/3 – Jon Catlin: "Germany After Gaza: Race, Religion, and the Failures of Holocaust Memory"

•    2/4 – John Givens: "The Anxiety of Belief in Russian Cinema"

•    2/19 - Stefanie Dunning: "The Third Life of Zora Neale Hurston: Tracking the Unspoken in Black Women's Archives" 

•    3/4 - Ben Baker: “The Jacob Collier Problem? The Curious Case of an Online Musical Maximalist”

•    3/19 - Melanie Chambliss: "Access and Agency: Early Twentieth-Century Black Libraries and a New 'Epoch' in the Diffusion of Knowledge"

•    4/1 - Tanya Bakhmetyeva: "The Politburo Goes Hunting: Masculinity and Power Among the Soviet Political Elite"

•    4/16 - Nader Sayadi "The Art of “Non-Western Civilizations” and Soft Imperialism in Rochester, NY, 1954-1961"

•    4/29 – Meliora Scholars (James Kinde, "Vice Versatile: Female to Male Transsexuals Before Transgender Liberation", Spencer Dittelman, "Reactionary Writing: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Anthony Trollope")