Past Events
Poet Nikkey Finney, HRC Director Dr. Denise Davidson, & seminar attendees – April 3, 2019
2022
Dana Williams and seminar attendees
March 31 – Dana Williams – Toni at Random – Lecture
April 20 – Jelena Subotić – “Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism” – Lecture
2019
Kenneth Taylor
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
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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