Humanities Events Archive 2025-2026

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Sep 4

Susan Ewing: Miniature to Monumental

Sep 10

The Reading Project Discussion

Sep 11

Clive Moloney: Between Trees

Sep 12

Curating Embodied Resistance Through Social Media: The Role of Virtual Audiences in the Fight for Social Justice

Sep 15

Russia's War in Ukraine: Testimonies from the Occupied Regions

Sep 15

The Rise of Executive Power and the Decline of Everything Else

Sep 16

Faculty Lunch Forum with Kristen Hoganson

Sep 16

The Heartland: An American History

Sep 17

Grayson Kirk Lecture Series

Sep 18

Dave Coverly: Sitting On Your Butt Thinking of Cartoon Ideas and Drawing Them All Day Every Day Under a Ridiculously Tight Deadline: A How-To

Sep 22

Soviet Propaganda in the Interwar Era

Sep 22

Humanities Engagement Social

Sep 23

Explorations in 19th Century Deaf America

Sep 25

Sorab Mohebbi : 2025 Miami University Young Sculptors Competition Juror

Sep 26

What is Kant's Ethics?

Oct 1

The Reading Project: Session #2

Oct 2

Starting Small: Nikolai Berdyaev and the Russian Philosophy of Personalism

Oct 2

Akemi Martin: Working Collaboratively in the Medium of Handmade Paper

Oct 6

Soviet Perceptions of America: Ilf and Petrov’s 1935 Road Trip

Oct 7

Buckeye Muslims: Recovering the Lost History of Islam in Ohio

Oct 8

Proust's Error

Oct 9

Dr. King for the 21st Century

Oct 13

Soviet Propaganda in Kazakhstan

Oct 14

How Can Language (Awareness) Make The World A Better Place?

Oct 15

Brendan Kiely ('99) on Young Adult Storytelling

Oct 16

“‘To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause’: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement”

Oct 16

Laurie Hogin: Wild Things: Monkey Brains, Mad Bunnies an Other Mutants

Oct 20

Soviet Satire, Condoned and Condemned

Oct 23

Business in Latin America: From Chiquita to Sunopta: A Business Talk with Brian Kocher, CEO of Sunopta

Oct 23

Jonpaul Smith: Woven Together

Oct 29

Slavic Halloween

Oct 29

From Corn Belt to Flyover: The Midwest in the American Imagination

Oct 30

Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

Oct 30

The Conceptual Scaffolding of Collective Intentionality

Nov 3

Lessons from a Career in Language Revitalization

Nov 3

Vitaly Komar: "A Lesson in History"

Nov 5

Works in Progress: Shapes of Exile: Ovid in Russian Literary Imagination

Nov 5

A Book Talk with KJ Cerankowski

Nov 6

New Books at Miami

Nov 6

Civic Cinema: Fiction, documentary, and experimental shorts by Miami professors and students

Nov 10

Annual Havighurst Lecture: Andrey Kurkov

Nov 10

The Reading Project: Session #3

Nov 11

Reading Instruction in an Age of AI: Guardrails and Scaffolds

Nov 12

The Beginning of the End of Art: Sterne, Diderot, Fried

Nov 12

Past Lessons from a Future Historian

Nov 13

Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt

Nov 13

Tina Gutierrez: Ideas and Activism

Nov 13

An Evening with Brandy Schillace, PhD

Nov 17

Soviet Propaganda in Lithuania: Humor, Satire, and Soft Power

Nov 18

Plutarch and Shakespeare as Teachers of Leadership

Nov 19

The Mud Film Screening and Director Q&A

Nov 19

What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Leadership

Nov 20

Franklin and Twain as Teachers of Leadership

Nov 20

Whitney Lea Sage: Land/Marks of Home

Feb 2

Maksym Butkevych: The Principle of Hope

Feb 3

It Can’t Only Be 'Get Big or Get Out': An Entrepreneurial Vision to Revitalize our Midwest Rural Economy

Feb 9

Conspiracy Theories and Democratic Attitudes in Eastern Europe

Feb 16

The Spirit of '76: A Historian's Journey with the Founding Fathers and a Latin American Revolutionary

Feb 17

Screening of "2000 Meters to Andriivka"

Feb 23

Mass Mobilization and Demobilization in Declining Democracies

Feb 24

Writing the History of 19th Century Russian-American Relations after 2022: A Conversation

Feb 24

Fra Angelico and the Library of San Marco Secular Viewers and Sacred Art in Cosimo de’ Medici’s Florence

Feb 24

This Isn’t Flyover Country: Challenging the Power Structure of Place

Feb 25

The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration. A talk by Brianna Nofil

Mar 2

How to Speak When Words Can Harm: Trauma Journalism and Conversations in Moments of Irreversible Loss

Mar 6

Colloquium: Reversibility in Rhetorical Spaces: The Problem of the Self in Communicative Praxis

Mar 12

An A. T. Hansen lecture: "Biography of a Navajo Poem: On Sheep, Clans and the Life of Language"

Mar 12

'If You Build It...': The Sports Experience Economy and Heartland Dreams

Mar 30

Uncivil Society and Polarization in Eastern Europe

Mar 31

Speech Evaluation and Human Interaction with “AI”-based Systems

Apr 3

Camões: Embodied Lyrics — A Research-Based Project

Apr 6

Cities and Democratic Resilience during Autocratic Waves

Apr 6

Making Reading Visible: Supporting Student Reading with Social Annotation

Apr 7

"Pong Ping Pong" an expanded cinema experience by Bill Brand

Apr 7

Artist Talk by Bill Brand On His Piece "Pong Ping Pong"

Apr 9

Liberty's Echoes: Global Reverberations of the Declaration of Independence

Apr 9

2026 Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: Philosophy For/Against Techno-Fascism

Apr 14

Reflections on America@250 from the New York Times Bestselling Biographer of George Washington

Apr 14

The Michael J. Colligan History Project: Richard Brookhiser

Apr 15

Works-in-Progress: "Towards a Gay Communism: Perversion, Queer Materialisms, and 1970s Italy"

Apr 16

The Last Soviet Artist

Apr 20

Humanities Engagement Social

Apr 21

Alex and Lena Casper Memorial Lecture

Apr 23

2026 Miami Digital Humanities Forum

Apr 23

Three Novellas: A Reading to Celebrate 20 Years of the Miami University Press Novella Prize

Apr 24

Reading Project Faculty Forum

Apr 27

Paradoxes of Democratic Accountability in the Age of Democratic Backsliding

Apr 27

Rewriting Museum Narratives: Lalla Essaydi and Kehinde Wiley

Apr 29

Screening of Bittersweet: Black College Life at a PWI

Apr 30

John Altman Symposium: MidWest

Apr 30

Midwestern Myths, Midwestern Realities

May 1

John Altman Symposium: MidWest

May 1

Pipeline Opposition and Midwest Regional Identities

May 1

Humanities in Place: Personal, Literary, Historical

May 9

Miami and Slavery Student Symposium

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