成人抖阴

These are events sponsored wholly or in part by the Center for the Humanities for 2025-2026

• September 
• October 
• November 
• December 
• January 
• February 
• March 
• April 
• May 

SEPTEMBER

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

WRITERS AT WORK SERIES

Faculty Reading: Dr. Frederick Bauerschmidt and Dr. Andrea Thomas

Dr. Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at 成人抖阴 and a deacon assigned to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen and the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore. He has a master鈥檚 degree from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate from the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. His research has focused on both medieval theology and contemporary Catholic theology, particularly questions of the interactions of theology and culture. Among his scholarly works are over fifty journal articles and book chapters, as well as several books for academic audiences and non-academic audiences. His book, The Love That is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith (Eerdmans 2020), was the winner of the 2023 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing.

Dr. Andrea Thomas is in an Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at Loyola. She received her PhD in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University in 2008. Her first book, 尝补耻迟谤茅补尘辞苍迟, Subject to Interpretation, was published by Brill/Rodopi in 2017. She is currently working on a book project about Franco-Belgian relations, publishing and censorship during the Second Empire.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:00 PM

OCTOBER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Celebrate the Humanities!
CFH Annual Celebration of Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Humanities

Nachbahr Award and Address
2025 Nachbahr recipient Dr. Ram贸n Espejo-Saavedra, professor from department of Modern Languages & Literatures, will deliver the Nachbahr address on the life of the mind, "What Are You Reading? Literature as Engagement with the World."

2025 Teaching Faculty Excellence Award
Dr. Aaron Palmore, professor from Classics department

Student Presentations from the CFH Summer Student Research Fellows:
Yassy Ayala
Caitlin Cottril
Fisk Fisk
Liam Holden
Moulai Njie
Elora Paul-Martin
Stephanie Piscal
Melissa Raymond
Eva Retford

Student Summer Humanities Internships:
Ari Acevedo
Evelyn Donovan
Alex Preusser

Digital Humanities Summer Institute student fellows will make a joint oral presentation  their participation in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Montreal this past summer:
Catherine Blanch
Abigail Gaughan
Steven Guy
Anthony Loia
Conor Lynch

Plus there will be an opportunity to learn more about a new program, the Humanities Student Conference Grant, which reimburses students up to $1,500 to attend conferences or other similar academic meetings related to the humanities.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

"The Passion of Perpetua: A Timeless Text from the Past to the Present"
Public Lecture by Dr. Joyce Salisbury

Dr. Salisbury is Professor Emerita of Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of many books including Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman.
The Theology 201 Common Text for Fall 2025.

McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session

Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! 

We will discuss Student-led Seminars, Summer Research Fellowships, stipends for Summer Study programs, stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships, Digital Humanities Summer Fellows, and Humanities Student Conference Grants. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.

on the Bridge.

Center for Intercultural Engagement (CIE)
Student Center East 317
4:15 PM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13

鈥淭he German Iron Curtain: Landscape, Tourism, and Memory鈥�
Public lecture by Dr. Astrid Eckert

Drawing on her book West Germany and the Iron Curtain, Dr. Eckert will explore the history of the inter-German border during the four decades Germany was divided, highlighting lesser-known aspects of this Cold War border, such as tourism and the fence鈥檚 effects on landscapes.

Fourth Floor Program Room
5:00 PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

Jerome S. Cardin Lecture

鈥淚n the Haunted Present: Dara Horn's Dream for Living Jews鈥� 

Talk by Dara Horn, Award-winning Author and Journalist.

Dara Horn is the author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist鈥檚 Best 25 Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle鈥檚 Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. 

The event is free and open to the public but is required.

If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.

McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
 7:00PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

WRITERS AT WORK SERIES

R. Eric Thomas

Eric Thomas is a screenwriter, playwright, and national bestselling author. He is also the Eric of Asking Eric, the popular nationally syndicated daily advice column found in over 100 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun. He wrote for the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson (AppleTV+) and Better Things (FX) and is currently developing his own projects for film and TV. His memoir, Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, which Lin-Manuel Miranda hailed as 鈥減op culture-obsessed, David Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny鈥�, was featured on Today as a Read With Jenna club pick.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28

"Countering Information Manipulation: A Social Change Approach"
Special Guest Speaker: Deanna Troust
Co-Speaker: Mallory Sofastaii

Propaganda and disinformation are polluting our digital spaces and fueling our divisions as a society. Even casual conversations can feel fraught in these times. People care deeply about these realities but often don鈥檛 know what to do about them.
As part of Media Literacy Week (MLW),Social change and communications strategist Deanna Troust will explore these dynamics and share simple but powerful ways each of us can be part of
the solution set in addressing them. 
Mallory Sofastaii, WMAR-2's consumer investigations reporter known for the "Matter for Mallory" series, will join Deanna and share about her process for reporting on real estate and other scams that have trapped Baltimore residents. 

The event will include a Q&A period with both speakers.

Loyola Notre Dame Library Auditorium,
7:00 - 8:30 PM

NOVEMBER

NATIONAL 2025 FRENCH WEEK  - French Out Loud: the Power of Spoken Word

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 TO FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Griot Performance: Pape Demba Samb and Super Ngewel

Master hand drummer, Pape Demba "Paco" Samb, is an internationally known musician born in Dakar, Senegal who has performed with many major musicians based in Senegal and the Gambia including Youssou N鈥橠our Cultural Group, Marie Samuel N鈥橠iaye Group, Laba Sosseh, Moussa Ngom, and Bala Sidib茅. Paco is also a renowned griot. He comes from the Samb family that has been the keepers of the ancestral history, stories, and music of his native Wolof peoples in Senegal for hundreds of years. He performs both traditional and contemporary Senegalese music. Paco's performance group, 鈥淪uper Ngewel,鈥� includes 5 West-African master drummers and 3 West-African dancers. Together, they perform a high-energy, dynamic ensemble of storytelling, dance, and song that includes audience participation.

McManus Theater
7:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Film Screening: Entre Les murs [The Class]
Loyola Notre Dame Library, Ridley Auditorium
7:00 PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Accents and Slang Expressions Around the Francophone World

The French club will host a trivia challenge activity that exposes students to short clips with a wide variety of accents and slang from around the French and Francophone world. The goal of this event is to familiarize students with the phonetic differences of French accents and different French expressions spoken around the world in a celebration of the diversity of orality.  

Language Learning Center, Maryland Hall 443
6:30 PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

French Conversation Hour
French club will facilitate a French conversation hour to promote communication in its oral form on campus. 

Language Learning Center, Maryland Hall 443
3:00 PM

Check loyola.edu/frenchweek for times and other details. You may also contact the Department of Modern Languages.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

TH 201 COMMON TEXT PANEL

"Contemporary Witness in Light of Perpetua"
a conversation with Marie Dennis and Craig Hovey

Dr. Robin Landrith of Loyola's Theology department will moderate a conversation between Marie Dennis (director of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, co-President of Pax Christi International) and Dr. Craig Hovey (Professor of Religion, director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University).

McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES

Zo毛 Schlanger

Zo毛 Schlanger is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She previously covered the environment at Quartz and Newsweek. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Time, NPR, and elsewhere. Schlanger was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award.  She published The Light Eaters in 2024 to wide acclaim.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

"Student Activism: Connections to Slavery"

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:00 - 8:00 PM

DECEMBER

JANUARY

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

WRITERS AT WORK SERIES

Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado's latest book, Time鈥檚 Agent, about a disgraced time agent on one last mission for redemption to save a world destroyed by capitalism and her own actions forty years previous, won the Phillip K. Dick Award and was one of Amazon Editors鈥� and Book Riot鈥檚 best books of August. Her genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters鈥攆eaturing Latina girlhood, basement ghosts, alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones鈥攚as named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature's best books of 2021. Her stories have won a Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize; inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Small Fiction, and Best Microfiction anthologies; and other awards. She teaches fiction at the University of South Florida.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:00 PM

FEBRUARY

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session

Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! 

We will discuss Student-led Seminars, the new Student Conference Grants, Summer Research Fellowships, stipends for Summer Study programs, stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships, Digital Humanities Fellowships, and the new Humanities Student Conference Grant. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler, and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.

Writing Department Lounge
Maryland Hall 038
4:15 PM

MARCH

MONDAY, MARCH 9

MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara began her career as a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later launched, edited and wrote for the business section of the New Yorker鈥檚 website. Since then, she has also both written and edited for The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. She writes for other publications as well, including Businessweek, where she is a contributing writer. She is also a 2025 Omidyar Network Reporter in Residence. Her latest book is Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a work of journalism and memoir about how big technology companies exploit human communication and how we鈥檙e complicit in this. 

Time and location TBA.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 and THURSDAY, MARCH 12

The 2026 Humanities Symposium will address the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence paired with "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass. On March 11th and 12th, classes in which professors elect to participate will gather during their regularly scheduled class times to discuss the readings.

The colloquia will be in-person. Faculty members should register their classes on The Bridge.

For more information about the colloquia and registration, please consult the Symposium webpage.

McManus Theatre
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM on both days

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

LOYOLA'S 2026 HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Life, Liberty, and the Unfinished Work of Democracy

Keynote Speaker: David Blight

A renowned scholar and public historian, David W. Blight is the Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom and has written extensively on slavery, the Civil War, and historical memory. 

Dr. Blight is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He previously taught at Amherst College and has held distinguished fellowships at Cambridge University, the Huntington Library, and the New York Public Library. In 2020, Yale President Peter Salovey appointed him as chair of the Yale and Slavery Working Group. With his Working Group colleagues, Blight authored the book Yale and Slavery: A History, a narrative study of Yale鈥檚 historic involvement and associations with slavery and its aftermaths, published by Yale University Press in February 2024. He has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the Society of American Historians, and continues to shape public history through his books, public lectures, advisory roles, and consulting for documentary films.

McGuire Hall
6:30 PM

For more information, please consult the Symposium webpage.

If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.

APRIL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

2026 Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature, and Society:

鈥淟iterature and Authoritarianism鈥�

 
The rise of authoritarian leaders around the world in recent years is one of the major concerns of our time, constituting a threat not only to the democratic traditions of individual countries but also to the geopolitical stability of the world as a whole. This seminar will explore ways in which literary works from a variety of global traditions have addressed the issue of authoritarian rule from within their own cultural and political contexts. 
 
Wednesday, April 8
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
10:30 AM to 5:00 PM

MAY