Past Events

2023


- April 14, Derrick Darby, Henry Rutgers Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University spoke about his recent book “A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight”
- Feb. 9, Michael A Gomez, Professor of History at New York University
“Slavery, Elite Formations, and Reconfigured Sexualities in Imperial Songhay”
Professor Gomez is Director of the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at New York University, where he is also the Silver Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
2022


Dana Williams and seminar attendees, April 1
- September 29 – Wendy Chun – “From Discriminating Data to Digital Democracies: Why We Need to Work Across Disciplines” – Lecture
- April 20 – Jelena Subotić – “Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism” – Lecture
- Dana Williams, Professor of English and Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University offered the 2022 Plummer Lecture on March 31
2019

Kenneth Taylor

Kwame Anthony Appiah
- October 16 – Stephen Greenblatt – Survival Strategies: Shakespeare and Renaissance Truth-Telling – Lecture
- September 27 – Kenneth Taylor – The Robots are Coming: The Ethics of AI – Lecture
- April 15 – David George Haskell (College of Arts & Sciences Annual Plummer Lecture) – Life is Made of Community: Lessons from Trees in Cities and Forests
- April 3 – Nikkey Finney – Seminar “On Being a Poet of One’s Time”
- March 13 – Stephen J. Harris – The Algorithms of Poetry – Lecture
- March 6 – Robert K. Nelson – Reckoning with Redlining and Renewal – Lecture
- February 7 – Kwame Anthony Appiah – Cosmopolitanism – Lecture
- February 6 – John A. Burrison – Poetic Jars – Lecture
2018

Dr. Kendi lectured at GSU about his work, Stamped from the Beginning, which won the National Book Award.
- November 8 – Noah Isenberg – We’ll Always Have Casablanca – Lecture
- September 12 – Nikky Finney – Found: The Empty Freckle Cream Jar of Amelia Earhart – Lecture
- August 30 – Marilynn Richtarik – Grant Writing – Workshop
- April 17 – Andrew Jason Cohen – Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived – Book Launch
- April 12 – Ibram X. Kendi – Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America – Lecture
- March 30 – Steve Stitch – Moral Sentimentalism and the Boundaries of Morality – Lecture
- March 22-23 – The Post-Obama Ethos: The Transnational U.S. in the Aftermath of Hope – International Interdisciplinary Symposium
- February 28 – Maryemma Graham – Effective Research Strategies for Humanists – Workshop
- February 21 – Antje Rávic Strubel – Queer Identities in German Literature – A Reading & Discussion