Each month, the Humanities Center invites faculty members and grad students to gather for lunch and discussion of important issues.
Each lunch forum is hosted by a faculty member, who selects a relevant short reading or creates an original one-page summary of the topic. Typical topics include emerging fields of study, the state of the humanities, curricular issues, teaching challenges, and broad questions about university policy. They occasionally focus on career-stage challenges, such as the tenure dossier, how to balance research and teaching, and promotion to full professor.
The center makes readings available a week in advance on this page. Participants are encouraged to read in advance but also welcome to come enjoy lunch and catch up on the fly.
Faculty interested in hosting a session are welcome to contact the director of the center, Tim Melley.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 12:00 pm to 1 pm, BAC 1031, with Denise McCoskey, Professor of Classics, titled "How Scholars Engage with Popular Culture".
