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2023-24 Events

Fall 2023 Schedule

In Fall 2023, the Humanities Research Colloquium is co-sponsoring a series of panels with the Graduate School and the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society related to the nature, value, and limits of generative Artifical Intelligence.  Please save the following dates; more information will be posted soon!

  • "Exploring Large Language Model-Based Chatbots and Generative AI Use on Campus," Thursday, September 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Beaumier Suites BC, Raynor Memorial Library, and via Teams.

    A panel discussion with Dr. Michael Zimmer, Director, Center for Data, Ethics, and Society and Professor of Computer Science; Dr. Melissa Shew, Associate Director of Teaching Excellence, Center for Teaching and Learning; Dr. Gerry Canavan, Chair and Professor, Department of English; Dr. Jacob Riyeff, Director, Academic Integrity Office and Teaching Associate Professor, Department of English; and Dr. Larry Xu, Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication and Director, Ai4Ai Lounge.
  • "Engaging with Large Language Model-Based Chatbots and Generative AI Use on Campus," Thursday, November 30, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Beaumier Suites, Raynor Memorial Library.

    A panel discussion with Dr. Lilly Campbell, Associate Professor of English and Director of Foundations in Rhetoric; Dr. Gerry Canavan, Chair and Professor of English; and Dr. Larry Xu, Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication and Director, Ai4Ai Lounge.

Spring 2024 Schedule

  • Dr. Gabriel Velez
    Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, Marquette University
    "Thinking Through School-Based Restorative Justice and Identity: Practice, Research, and Challenges"
    Thursday, February 1, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams
  • Dr. Joshua Burns
    Department of Theology, Marquette University
    "Shabbat as Defiance of Roman Law"
    Wednesday, April 17, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams  (*note new date!)

2022-23 Events

Fall 2022 Schedule

  • Ganesh Sitaraman**
    New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law, Vanderbilt Law School, and 2022-23 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
    "The Future of Supreme Court Reform"
    Thursday, September 29, 4 p.m., Lunda Room, AMU

    **co-sponsored by Marquette's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Civic Dialogues Program, and the Departments of Political Science and Social and Cultural Sciences
  • Kate Ward
    Department of Theology, Marquette University
    "Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck: Moral Growth in an Age of Inequality"
    Wednesday, November 2, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105
  • Laura Matthew
    Department of History, Marquette University
    "Two Bigamists in Tehuantepec"
    Wednesday, November 30, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105

Spring 2023 Schedule

  • Samantha Majhor
    Department of English, Marquette University
    "Native American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities"
    Wednesday, February 8, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams
  • Maxwell Gray, Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University, and
    Elizabeth Wawrzyniak, Foley Library, Gonzaga University,
    "Developing a Digital Critical Edition of Tolkien Fanzines"
    Wednesday, March 29, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams
  • Drew Kim
    Department of Theology & Director, Center for the Advancement of the Humanities,
    Marquette University
    "Addiction and the Humanities"
    Wednesday, May 3, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams  [*note the new date!]

 

2021-22 Events

Fall 2021 Schedule**

  • Melissa Shew
    Department of Philosophy/Center for Teaching and Learning
    "Women and Intellectual Empowerment: Reflections on a TEDx Talk"
    Monday, October 18, 4 p.m., via Teams  
  • Anya Degenshein
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
    "Speculative Justice: How Digital Surveillance is Used to Adjudicate the Future"
    Monday, November 1, 4 p.m., via Teams
  •  Alison Efford
    Department of History
    "Queering Nineteenth-Century Romantic Friendship: Mathilde Franziska Anneke and Mary Booth, 1859-1865"
    Thursday, December 2, 4 p.m., via Teams

    **Please note:  All talks will be held virtually in Fall 2021.  To obtain the meeting links, please email cfah@marquette.edu.

Spring 2022 Schedule

The Colloquium is co-sponsoring the "Showcasing the Humanities" Lecture Series this semester:

  • Jessica Wolfendale
    Department of Philosophy
    "Philosophy and State Violence"
    Thursday, February 3, 5 p.m., Haggerty Museum of Art
  • Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
    Department of Theology
    “Gluttony in Christian Theological Imagination”
    Thursday, March 31, 5 p.m., Jewish Museum Milwaukee
  • Scott Dale
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    “The Innovative Spanish Enlightenment”
    Thursday, April 7, 5 p.m., Haggerty Museum of Art

2020-21 Events

Fall 2020 Schedule

  • Michael Zimmer
    Department of Computer Science
    "Data Ethics During a Pandemic"
    Thursday, September 17, 5 p.m., via Teams   
  • Tosin Gbogi
    Department of English
    "In the Belly of the Earth: Place and Displacement in Modern Nigerian Poetry"
    Wednesday, October 7, 4 p.m., via Teams
  • Jennifer Finn
    Department of History
    "The Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and Its Failures"
    Thursday, November 12, 4 p.m., via Teams

Spring 2021 Schedule

  • Jesse Cheng
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
    "Advocacy within Violence and Vulnerability"
    Monday, February 8, 4 p.m., via Teams  
  • Robert Smith, Theresa Tobin, Darren Wheelock, and Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio
    Departments of History, Philosophy, & Social and Cultural Sciences
    "The Education Preparedness Program: Reimagining the University's Role in Decarceration"
    Wednesday, March 3, 4 p.m., via Teams
  • Heather Hathaway
    Department of English & Program in Africana Studies
    "Japanese American Writing during Incarceration"        
    Monday, April 19, 4 p.m., via Teams

2019-20 Events

Fall 2019 Schedule

  • Elizaveta Strakhov
    Department of English
    “Canonizing Chaucer in the Hundred Years War"
    Wednesday, September 18, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Stephanie Rivera Berruz
    Department of Philosophy
    “Writing Belonging: An Antillean Conversation Between Luisa Capetillo and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta”
    Thursday, November 7, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Conor Kelly
    Department of Theology
    “The Fullness of Free Time: Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life”
    Wednesday, December 4, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105

 Spring 2020 Schedule

  • Sarah Gendron
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    "Learning, Inc.: Big Business and Education in the United States"
    Thursday, January 30, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Angela Sorby
    Department of English
    "Vikings in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry: Whiteness, Archaeology, and the Deep Past"
    Wednesday, February 26, 5 p.m. (*Please note new time.*)
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Jennifer Finn
    Department of History
    "The Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and Its Failures"
    [Thursday, March 26, 5 p.m.]   **Postponed**
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Michael Zimmer
    Department of Computer Science
    [Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m.]   **Postponed**
    Marquette Hall 105

2018-19 Events

Fall 2018 Schedule

  • Timothy McMahon
    Department of History, Marquette University
    “Shifting Visions of Union: The Borders of What is Past, Passing, and to Come”
    Thursday, September 20, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Sarah Wadsworth
    Department of English, Marquette University
    “Growing Up and Growing Old in an Awkward Age”
    Wednesday, October 31, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Michael McCarthy
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
    “The Master’s Tools: Finance against Capital”
    Tuesday, November 27, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105

Spring 2019 Schedule

  • Jeffrey Coleman
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Marquette University
    “The Necropolitical Theatre: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage”
    Thursday, February 14, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Jessica Wolfendale
    Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
    “The Ethics of Torture”
    Thursday, February 28, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Deirdre Dempsey
    Department of Theology, Marquette University
    “Ibn at-Tayyib and his Commentary on Genesis”
    Wednesday, April 3, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Cedric Burrows
    Department of English, Marquette University
    “Rhetorical Crossover, R&B Music, and Dinah Washington”
    Wednesday, April 24, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105

2017-18 Events

Fall 2017 Schedule

  • Tara Daly
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    “Aymara Futurism in Bolivia: Freddy Mamani’s Architecture and Alison Spedding’s Science Fiction”
    Tuesday, October 17, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Corinne Bloch-Mullins 
    Department of Philosophy & Program in Cognitive Science 
    “Getting Real about Similarity: A Theory of Categorization for the Pluralist Realist”
    Thursday, November 9, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Ainehi Edoro 
    Department of English
    “The Work of Pleasure”
    Wednesday, November 29, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105

Spring 2018 Schedule

  • Bryan Rindfleisch, Department of History
    “’My Land is My Flesh’: Silver Bluff, the Creek Indians, and the Transformation of Colonized Space in Early America, 1700-1800”
    **Wednesday, February 7, 5 p.m.**
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Mark Berlin 
    Department of Political Science
    “The Role of Technocratic Legal Experts in the Global Spread of National Criminal Laws against Human Rights Atrocities”
    Wednesday, February 28, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Michael Cover
    Department of Theology
    “The Divine Comedy at Corinth: Paul, Menander, and the Rhetoric of Resurrection”
    Thursday, March 22, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Jennifer Vanderheyden
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    “Julia Kristeva and Denis Diderot’s ‘Excursion into the Heart of Belief'”
    Thursday, April 19, 5 p.m.
    Cudahy 128

2016-17 Events

Fall 2016 Schedule

  • Amelia Zurcher
    Department of English and Honors Program, Marquette University
    “Gender and Nation in Intellectual-Affective Networks in the Seventeenth Century:
    The Case of the Irish-English Boyle Siblings”
    Wednesday, September 21, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Ericka Tucker
    Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
    “Spinoza’s Biconditionals; Reducing Good, Right, Freedom and Virtue to Degrees of Power”
    Thursday, October 27, 5 p.m.
  • Gordon Hutner
    Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    “The World of Scholarly Publishing”
    Thursday, November 17, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105

Spring 2017 Schedule

  • Kristen Foster
    Department of History, Marquette University
    “Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Ball of Liberty’: Some Thoughts on How
    the Haitian Revolution Changed the Course of American Equality”
    Thursday, January 26, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Dawn Scher Thomae
    Curator of Collections, Milwaukee Public Museum
    “Bending Gender: From Joan of Arc to Hua Mulan (and Beyond)”
    Wednesday, February 15, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
    “Trace/Body/Voice:  Cultural Narratives of Sexual Assault Prosecution in the Post-Forensic U.S.”
    Wednesday, March 1, 5 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Melissa Range
    Department of English, Lawrence University
    “Scriptorium: A Poetry Reading”
    Tuesday, March 21, 12:30 p.m.
    Haggerty Art Museum

2015-16 Events

Fall 2015 Schedule

  • Sarah Wadsworth
    Department of English, Marquette University
    “The Mysterious History of the First American Novel; or, The Clue in the Diary”
    Thursday, September 24, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Amy Blair, Department of English, Marquette University, and
    Ruby Thompson ’16, Writing-Intensive English Major, Marquette
    “Tasting and Testing Books: Reading Advice in Good Housekeeping Magazine”
    Wednesday, October 28, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Janie Kim
    Marquette University Law School
    “Racial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality”
    Thursday, November 19, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105

Spring 2016 Schedule

  • Eugenia Afinoguénova,
    Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Marquette University
    “Mapping the Written Worlds”
    Thursday, February 11, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Ryan Hanley, Department of Political Science, Marquette University; 
    Anthony Lanz, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Marquette University;
    Darren Nah ’15, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Yale University
    “The Experience and Significance of the Kantian Dinner Party”
    Thursday, March 3, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105
  • Jason Puskar
    Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    “Machine Interiority: Toys, Buttons, Subjects”
    Thursday, April 7, 4 p.m.
    Marquette Hall 105