EIU Humanities Center

Talks & Presentations Archive

2018

Christopher Hanlon, “Friendships Gone Cold: Emerson’s Coldness and the Warmth of Margaret Fuller” (4 December 2018)

Scott Samuelson, "Kicking the Bucket List: Death and the Art of Shining" (25 September 2018)

Anne Stiles, "Dissecting Piece by Piece: Experimentalism in Late-Victorian Fiction" (29 March 2018)

2017

Ron Himes, "Black Theatre: Filling the Void" (28 November 2017)

Michelle Faubert: "The Zong Slave-Ship Massacre: A New Discovery in the British Library" (14 November 2017) 

2016

Ted Underwood: "How Well Do We Already Understand Literary History?" (5 October 2016)

Chris Higgins. "The Death Spiral of Contemporary Higher Public Education." (22 March 2016)

Sarah Seidman. ""Black Panthers in Red Cuba: Race, Radicalism, and the Struggle for International Solidarity." (14 April 2016)

2015

Michael Dowdy: "Ascendance and Abjection: Reading Latina/o Literature in the Age of Trump." (14 Oct 2015)

Matthew Basso: "Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front." (4 Nov 2015)