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HUMANITIES EVENTS

Kristin Hoganson

The Heartland: An American History

September 16, 2025
5:00 pm
Heritage Room, Shriver Center
Former Governor Tom Vilsack

It Can’t only be Get Big or Get Out - an Entrepreneurial Vision to Revitalize our Midwest Rural Economy

February 3, 2026
5:00 pm
Wilks Theater, Armstrong Student Center
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2024-2025

august 2024

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september 2024

11
Dark Waters: Behind the Environmental Legal Battle Exposing Corporate Cover Up
12
Future-Proofing the Humanities
12
Faculty Lunch Forum with Joy Connolly, President of the ACLS
12
Humanities Center Fall Reception
18
Posture Myths and Truths: The Scientific Origins of Our Health Beliefs About Slouching
19
Paths to Research
23
Cattle, Horses, and Reindeer: The Origins of Eurasian Pastoralism
26
Foreseeable Futures in the Humanities
26
Faculty Lunch Forum with Michael Bérubé and Pepper Stetler
30
Arctic Security in an Era of Geopolitical Competition

october 2024

2
BRIGHTENing Career Thinking for Linguists and Others Who Study Language, Culture, and Communication
7
Toward Gender Equality in the Arctic
14
Can College Courses Make Us Happier? A Proposal for Transforming Campus Life
14
Faculty Lunch Forum with Meghan Sullivan
16
Paths to Research
17
Jacques Derrida's Faith in Democracy
17
Info Session for the Humanities Engagement Certificate Program
17
August Clarke Reading
18
On Freedom: Timothy Snyder in conversation with Stephen Norris
18
SPE: Markets of Unreal Estate: Property transfers and social stratification in Hyderabad's slums
22
An Evening with Steven Bognar
23
Ukraine, War, Love: Stories of Donetsk and Odesa
23
Westboro Baptist Church: the Inside Scoop
28
The Arctic Council in Arctic Governance
29
The City At War: Everyday Life in Kharkiv 2022 – 2024
30
The Humanities and Artistic Creation in the Age of Automation
30
Faculty Lunch Forum with Barry Lam

november 2024

4
Partners in Knowledge: What Are We Learning from Arctic Communities for Our Common Sustainable Future?
6
New Books at Miami
7
"Poetry as Life Form: From Derrida to Baudelaire” - A Works-in-Progress Lecture
7
Author Reading and Discussion: Pepper Stetler and Nik Money
11
‘Samoyeds’ and Ethnic Shows: At Least Two Historicities
13
Transforming Gender Norms: Opening Small Spaces for Big Change in Rural Mali and Ecuador
14
Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture A Relational Approach to Community Development: Experiences in Ecuador and Mali
14
Color Blind Literature: Fiction in the Age of Identity Politics
18
Under the Shadow of a Mushroom Cloud: An Indigenous Nenets Hunter, the Tsar Bomba, and Entangled Sovereignty on a Russian Arctic
19
Out of the marshes and into the nuclear age: the politics of modernisation in late Soviet Belarus, 1965-1980
20
Hope, Humanities, and the Future of Democracy
20
Teaching Truth in a Populist Age
20
Coffee and Conversation with Sarah Stitzlein
22
Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth: A Conversation with Dr. Rodney Coates

december 2024

2
Living Codices: Student Life Through Mesoamerican Eyes
6
SPE: Ottoman Militarization and Society before World War I

January 2025

21
Book Proposal Workshop
24
The Research Methods Workshop

february 2025

12
Humanities Student Collective
13
The Music Was Never Supposed to Stop: Reflections on The Left Academy
17
Ecocinema & Ecopedagogy: A Down-to-Earth Introduction
18
Dwelling with Digital Damage: Repair Beyond the Environmental Technofix
19
Humanities Engagement Social
19
Doing Democracy in Our Everyday Lives
19
The 2025 Arthur C. Wickenden Lecture
20
Inside Scholarly Book Publishing
27
POSTPONED: The Humanities after Humanism

march 2025

7
Colloquium Lecture: The Space of Utopia in Thought and Practice
12
Reading in Bad Times
13
Paradoxes, Tensions, and Dilemmas: The Humanities in Higher Education History
13
Crisis Management in Higher Education: A Lunch Forum with Charles Dorn

April 2025

3
The Natural History of Sex: Philosophical-Botanical Reflections
3
SPE: "Doppelgangers: Anarchism, Libertarianism, and Henry David Thoreau in the 1960s."
8
The World Food Made
9
Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It
9
From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity
10
Why Can't Machine Vision See the Past? Analog Art History and the Future of the Humanities
10
Altman Program Symposium: ‘Humanities Futures’
11
On Black Media Philosophy
11
Altman Program Symposium: ‘Humanities Futures’
12
Christianity, Capitalism, and Socialism
14
The Post-Soviet Cultural Mélange: Looking for the Missing Ingredient in Russia and Beyond
17
Bittersweet: Black College Life at a Predominantly White Institution
22
Interview and Book Signing by Narine Abgaryan
24
New Music, Meaning and Context with American Wild Ensemble
24
Miami Digital Humanities Forum
24
Teaching Within the Law: A Conversation
25
2025 McComb Creative Writing Conference

may 2025

2
SPE: "Revising the Past: Approaches to History Education in the Late Ottoman Empire”
7
Democracy, Human Rights, and a Just Peace in Ukraine
8
Coffee & Conversation with Judd Klinger
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