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.

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

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

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