Events
These are events sponsored wholly or in part by the Center for the Humanities for 2024-2025
SEPTEMBER
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Odds Bodkin Performance
"The Iliad: Book 1"
Storyteller and musician Odds Bodkin returns to Loyola! Using a variety of intensely
real characters with ongoing music, he brings to life the most famous argument in
ancient history: Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior at Troy, against Agamemnon,
the Lord Marshall, commander of all the armies. Achilles already despises Agamemnon
for his greed and brutish ways, but when, during a confrontation over a captured Trojan
girl, the Marshall threatens to send her home, only to replace her in his tent with
a girl Achilles loves, the hate between them boils over. The rift threatens to sunder
the Greek army and waste ten years of siege at Troy’s gates. With Apollo’s plague
arrows wiping out their army, somebody has to give in. Meanwhile the Gods of Olympus,
who started all this, are watching their favorite mortals fight.
Odds Bodkin has been called “one of the great voices in American storytelling” by Wired and “a consummate storyteller” by The New York Times. Loyola audiences have given Odds standing ovations for this performance in the past. Come see why. Experience Homer’s great story in a clear, accessible way.
McGuire West
Andrew White Student Center
7:00 PM
If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
The Witness of Óscar Romero: Martyrdom as a Call to Social Transformation
Public Lecture by Dr. O. Ernesto Valiente
Dr. Valiente is Associate Professor of Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, author of Liberation through Reconciliation: Jon Sobrino’s Christological Spirituality.
McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
6:00 PM
OCTOBER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1
Center for the Humanities 40th Anniversary Celebration
Join us under the tent in the Quad to celebrate the nine departments in the Humanities
and the programs of the Center for the Humanities.
Displays, Performances, and refreshments!
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Quad and the new Humanities Cafe
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
CFH Annual Celebration of Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Humanities
Student Presentations from the CFH Summer Student Research Fellows:
Elizabeth Thompson
Evy Ryan
Jason Rowe
Gitanjali Oommen
Daniel Gaughan
Trevor Sponaugle
Catarina Broccolino
France Jimenez
Summer Study Fellows:
Liam Holden
and Student Summer Humanities Internships:
Tess Felter
Sophia Randle
Caroline Kunz
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8
WRITERS AT WORK SERIES
Karin-Lin Greenberg
Karin Lin-Greenberg's first story collection, Faulty Predictions, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by the University
of Georgia Press. Her second story collection, Vanished, won the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and was published by
the University of Nebraska Press. Her debut novel, You Are Here, was published by Counterpoint Press and was an Indie Next pick for May 2023 and
a People Magazine book of the week. Her stories have appeared in literary journals including
New England Review, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She lives in upstate New York and is
an associate professor in the English Department at Siena College. She also teaches
in Carlow University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program.
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
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, and our pilot program Digital Humanities Summer Fellows. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.
Center for Intercultural Engagement (CIE)
Student Center East 317
4:15 PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2024
The Sterlings
exhibition by Julio Gallery Artist-in-Residence, Bria Sterling-Wilson
The Julio Fine Arts Gallery will be welcoming Baltimore artist Bria Sterling-Wilson to our community in 2024-
2025 as Artist-in-Residence. There will be an exhibition at the Julio Fine Arts Gallery,
an Artist Talk and Reception, and three workshops. Sterling-Wilson is a photographer
and collage artist, whose work focuses on the manipulation of her family’s photographic
archive, weaving it together with found imagery, magazines, newspapers, and fabrics
to both forge connections to family, culture, and history, while also challenging
prevailing and dominant narratives about black families and culture. The exhibit at
the gallery will run through Friday, November 22.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16
“A Poetics of Nostalgia: Exile and Memory in Francisco Clavijero”
Public Talk by Dr. Luis Ramos
In his talk, Dr. Luis Ramos of New York University will examine how the exiled Jesuit historian Francisco Clavijero drew from his nostalgic memories of colonial Mexico to craft a novel patriotic vocabulary that anticipated its formal emancipation from Spain. His forthcoming book is Between Reason and Revolution: Mexican Jesuits on New World History, Universal Rights and Spanish American Independence (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment: Summer 2025).
Knott Hall B01
3:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16
MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES
Jackie Calmes
Jackie Calmes is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C. Before joining The Times in 2017 as White House editor, she worked at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, covering the White House, Congress and national politics. In 2004, she received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. She is the author of Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court.
McManus Theater
6:00 PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17
“Race, Relief, and Rebellion: Navigating Natural Disasters and Slavery in the French
Atlantic, 1656-1791”
lecture by Phoebe Labat, Loyola Class of 2019
Phoebe Labat, a PhD Candidate in History at Brown University, will discuss how enslaved
Black people in the French Atlantic World, particularly in Martinique and Guadeloupe
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, responded to hurricanes and earthquakes.
She will propose that enslaved people and enslavers instrumentalized natural disasters
to renegotiate local conditions of slavery. Environmental disasters were universal
ordeals, but experiences of death, famine, and violence splintered along lines of
race and caste.
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
4:30 PM
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21
“Nature and Humanity in German Romanticism: A History and Art Workshop”
co-sponsored by the German Studies Minor, the Department of History, and the Art History
Program
Learn about the work of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most famous landscape painters
in Western art, and how his work explores relationships between humanity and Nature
as characterized by the ideals of German Romanticism. Participants will then try their
hand at sketching landscape as an exercise in considering their own relationships
to Nature. Drawing materials and refreshments will be provided.
The event is open to 15 registrants and free of charge. Register on The Bridge.
Loyola Notre Dame Library Patio
Rain Location: Library Board Room (Room 3028)
4:30 - 6:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
Faculty CFH Grant Information Session
The Center for the Humanities is hosting a Faculty Grants Info Session. Come learn
about the dozen-plus grant opportunities that the Center for the Humanities has for faculty, as well as for students, along with tips for successful proposals. This info session is open to all tenured,
tenure-track, and non-tenure-track faculty. Some time will be dedicated to reviewing
the process for applying for small, medium, and large general grants. Non-humanities
faculty who are thinking of, planning, or working on a project involving the humanities
are also encouraged to attend.
Please RSVP to Bess Garrett, esgarrett@loyola.edu.
College Center Conference Room 107
2:00 - 3:00 PM
NOVEMBER
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
“Chlordecone Pollution in Martinique and Guadeloupe: Postcolonial Activism”
Talk by Dr. Heidi Shaker
3:00 PM
Language Learning Center
Maryland Hall 443
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Artist Workshops with Loyola's 2024 - 2025 artist-in-residence, Bria Sterling-Wilson.
Join Bria for an artist workshop at 6:00 PM on:
Monday, November 4
Tuesday, November 12
Tuesday, November 19
Spots are limited. Reserve yours on The Bridge.
Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, November 7
Black Box Theatre followed by a reception in the Julio Fine Arts Gallery
6:00 - 8:00 PM
All are welcome!
NATIONAL 2024 FRENCH WEEK - The Maghreb and Lebanon: French-Arabic Crossovers
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 TO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2024
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
North African Food Tasting with Lebanese Dabke band and Dancing
Fourth Floor Program Room
3:00 PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Interfaith Trip to Coptic Orthodox Church and Islamic Society of Baltimore
Meeting Point at Loyola Notre Dame Library
12:30 - 4:00 PM
Registration required on the Bridge: https://cglink.me/2hL/r2145511
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Henna Tattoos with Arabyola
Language Learning Center
Maryland Hall 443
2:30 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Film Screening: Fatima
Loyola Notre Dame Library Auditorium
6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Keynote Talk: "Cracking the Codes of Farida Benlyazid's Cinema"
Talk by Florence Martin, PhD
Dr. Martin is the Dean John Blackford Van Meter Professor of French Transnational
Studies at Goucher College.
Knott Hall B01
5:00 PM
Check loyola.edu/frenchweek for times and other details. You may also contact the Department of Modern Languages.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
“Why Museums Matter”
Talk by Dr. Daniel Weiss
Dr. Daniel Weiss, Homewood Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University
and President Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give a public lecture
on why art museums matter today.
Knott Hall B01
5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Humanities Symposium Fall Faculty Teaching Seminar - The Great Derangement
Interdisciplinary resource presentations
Faculty members are invited to attend this year's Humanities Symposium Fall Teaching
seminar. This seminar will provide information about the Humanities Student-Faculty
Colloquia, which will take place on March 12 and 13. It will also offer suggestions
and resources for teaching this year's text, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh, this year's Symposium keynote speaker.
Faculty from three different departments will share ideas about how to incorporate
this text into your spring courses. This fall's seminar will feature:
Terre Ryan (Writing)
Suzanne Keilson (Engineering)
Mark Sentesy Wagner (Philosophy)
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Bess Garrett, esgarrett@loyola.edu by November 1.
College Center Conference Room 105
12:00 – 1:00 PM
DECEMBER
JANUARY
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28
MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES
James MaGruder
Fiction Reading
MaGruder is a playwright, translator, and fiction writer. His adaptations of Gozzi, Moliére, Marivaux, Hofmannstahl, Lesage, Labiche, Giraudoux, Sidney, and Dickens have been performed on and off-Broadway, at regional theaters across the United States, and in Germany, England, and Japan. He has published four books of fiction (Sugarless, Let Me See It, Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, and Vamp Until Ready) and wrote, or co-wrote, the books to the Broadway musicals Triumph of Love and Head Over Heels. His first—and last—work of non-fiction, a chronicle of the first fifty years of Yale Repertory Theatre, was published recently by Yale University Press. He lives in Baltimore and has taught at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and Yale School of Drama.
McManus Theater
6:30 PM
FEBRUARY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3
"Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World"
lecture by Jessica Marie Johnson
Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020). Her work explores histories of slavery, African diaspora, and Black life in the Americas.
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
4:30 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM SERIES
O Rio Negro São As Pessoas (Rio Negro is Its People)
Brazilian Amazon Environmental Film
Screening & Discussion with Filmmakers
The Anavilhanas National Park, in the Rio Negro Amazon, is the environment for presenting characters living in the tenuous orbit between the city Manaus and riverside communities on the banks of this historic river. The film explores the contemporary meaning of being at and growing up by the banks of a river with the power of Rio Negro, submerged in a dense forest and surrounded by global elements of today; the need to leave, the forgotten desire to return, the choice to stay, the immensity and the time of the river, form an intuitive and imaginary narrative set to suggest deeply local stories that serve the reflection on human life.
Presented in cooperation with the Baltimore Environmental Film Series, the Humanities Symposium, the Loyola Environmental Studies Program, Visual and Performing Arts, and the Dean of Loyola College.
Register to attend.
Loyola Notre Dame Library Auditorium
6:00 PM
followed by talkback with the film's creators
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Humanities Symposium Faculty Teaching Seminar - The Great Derangement
Interdisciplinary resource presentations
Faculty members are invited to attend a Humanities Symposium Teaching seminar. The
event will run from 12:00-1:00 PM, but we have the room reserved until 1:30 PM for informal discussion. We hope to
create a space for sharing ideas and connecting with colleagues.
Faculty from three different departments will share ideas about how to incorporate
the text into your spring courses and to prepare your students to participate in the
colloquia. This seminar will feature:
Please RSVP to Bess Garrett, esgarrett@loyola.edu by Friday, January 31st.
College Center Conference Room 105
12:00 – 1:00 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7
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, and stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler, and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.
Register on The Bridge.
Writing Department Lounge
Maryland Hall 038
4:15 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Environmental Art
Artist Stacy Levy meets with students
2:30 -5:00 PM
A chance to take part in the creation of a brand new, site-specific artwork for our campus! Environmental Artist Stacy Levy is returning to campus to do a site visit and engage with the community around her upcoming Public Art piece, scheduled to be installed in mid-March.
Register to come walk the site with her and engage in discussions to begin to finalize the
plans for the environmental artwork. We need your voice--you can help shape the final
piece!
Note: You do not need to come for the entire time--please answer the question in registration to let us know when you will be there!
Co-sponsored with the Julio Fine Arts Gallery and the Humanities Symposium 2025.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13
MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES
Daniel Deudney
Daniel H. Deudney teaches political science, international relations and political theory at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a BA in political science and philosophy from Yale University, a MPA in science, technology, and public policy from George Washington University, and a PhD in political science from Princeton University. His areas of research are general international relations theory, international political theory and republicanism, and contemporary global issues (nuclear, outer space, environment, and energy). His publications include Renewable Energy (Norton, 1983), co-author; and Contested Grounds: Conflict and Security in the New Global Environmental Politics (SUNY, 1998), co-editor.
McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Douglass Day Events, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Humanities Café
- Stop by and warm up with hot chocolate, treats, and swag
- Play Frederick Douglass trivia to win Starbucks gift cards
12:00 - 3:00 PM - Humanities Café
- Celebrate Douglass's 207th birthday with treats from a local Black-owned bakery
- Make history by participating in the Transcribe-a-Thon:
- Crowdsourcing the recovery of 19th century black activism with the Center for Black Digital Research and the Library of Congress
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14
ENVIRONMENTAL ART
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Phantasmagoria!
An Evening with Magic Lanternists Melissa Ferrari and Emma Straus
Melissa Ferrari, an experimental animator and professional magic lanternist speaks about and performs her work at Loyola along with a companion talk and performance by Emma Straus (Loyola '24) who, inspired by Ferrari's example created and performed her own magic lantern show during her senior year. Straus has gone on to write about the importance of studying antique technologies such as magic lanterns in order to develop a critical awareness of our own contemporary systems of understanding.
Loyola Notre Dame Library
4:30 - 6:00 PM
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
WRITERS AT WORK SERIES: Faculty Reading and Q & A
Professors Oghenetoja Okah and Peggy O'Neill
Dr. Oghenetoja Okoh is an Assistant Professor in the History Department here at Loyola University, Maryland. Her current research focuses on the development of minority identity and citizenship in the oil-rich region of the Niger Delta, Nigeria. This research is captured in a forthcoming book, entitled Minority Identities in Nigeria: Contesting and Claiming Citizenship in the Twentieth Century, which is being published by Cambridge University Press. Her areas of expertise include the history of colonialism and decolonization, gender identity, minority politics, and 20th century cultural flows between Africa and the African diaspora.
Dr. Peggy O’Neill, a professor in the Writing department, is an active scholar and academic writer. She writes primarily about teaching writing and learning to write for other scholars and writing teachers. While she has been the sole author of many publications, she enjoys writing collaboratively and has many co-authored works. Over the last 26 years, she has co-authored three books, edited or co-edited four books, and published over 30 academic journal articles and book chapters. Her most recent book, written with Dr. Sandy Murphy from University of California Davis, is Assessing Writing to Support Learning: Turning Accountability Inside Out (2022). Beyond writing scholarly pieces for publication, she, like most academics, writes a lot of other things such as reports, grant proposals, presentations, blogs, reviews, policy statements, letters, recommendations, and all types of teaching material.
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Toxic Tour of Curtis Bay and Community-Led and Controlled Development
- Bus will depart from Loyola (Boulder stop) at 8:30 AM
- Visit to the CSX Coal Terminal and garbage incinerators
- Hear from scientists about trail cameras and air monitoring
- Meet with community organizers
- Learn about the Free Your Voice youth activist movement in Curtis Bay
- Lunch provided (Red Emma's Co-Operative)
- Learn about Land Trust and passive home
- Bus will arrive back at Loyola by 3:30 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Roundtable on Environmental Justice with Nicole Fabricant
Monday following the toxic tour, Loyola students will have an opportunity to plug into roundtable discussions about the ongoing work in South Baltimore. One table will focus on legislation and policy, another will focus on alternative housing and the third table will focus on environmental justice and youth education. These three roundtables will allow students to explore the ongoing work in South Baltimore. There will be popular education and activities to get them thinking about their own interests and talents and how this can feed into the grassroots organizing work.
If you're interested in this event, please consider registering for the Toxic Tour on Friday February 21 Attendance at both events is not required but strongly encouraged.
Nicole Fabricant is Professor of Anthropology at Towson University in Maryland. She teaches courses on resource extraction, environmental justice, and the climate crisis. Her most recent book, Fighting to Breathe Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore (University of California Press 2022) looks at the cumulative impacts of industrial stationary toxic facilities in South Baltimore, Maryland. The book follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality of industrial expansion.
Register to attend the Roundtable
Humanities Café (main floor of the Humanities Building)
6:00 - 7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
MODERN LANGUAGES TEATIME TALKS
“Of Pigs, Cows, and Men: Critique of Industrial Farming in Contemporary French Literature”
Dr. Salvador Lopez Rivera, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of French
Coffee, tea, and snacks provided!
Language Learning Center
Maryland Hall 443
3:00 PM
MARCH
MONDAY, MARCH 10
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM SERIES
"We Are Guardians"
Film Screening and Discussion
6:00 PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 11
MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES
Carlene Bauer
Bauer earned a B.A. from Loyola University Maryland and an M.A. in Nonfiction Writing from the Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars. She has worked in and around New York publishing for years. Her work has been published in The Village Voice, Salon, Elle, and The New York Times Magazine, and on the website of n + 1. She’s the author of the memoir, Not That Kind of Girl and two novels, Frances and Barnard and most recently, Girls They Write Songs About.
Fourth Floor Program Room
6:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 and THURSDAY, MARCH 13
Student-Faculty Colloquia for the 2025 Humanities Symposium
“Cry of the Earth: Cry of the Poor”
Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement:Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Two days during the official Symposium week are set aside for Loyola student/faculty colloquia. During each scheduled class period, faculty and their classes will meet with faculty and students from other classes. These colloquia have traditionally been led by panels composed of faculty members from different disciplines who lead informal discussion, posing questions to stimulate the participation of students, and to engage the Symposium text across narrow disciplinary boundaries. This year’s text is The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh.
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 13
LOYOLA'S 2025 HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
“The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change”
Amitav Ghosh
In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh explores the climate crisis
through multiple disciplinary lenses. In three short chapters: Stories, History, and
Politics, which also address art, colonialism, and Laudato Si among other topics,
Ghosh interweaves reflections on how we are constrained by our current modes of thinking
and how we might find a way forward.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. Amitav Ghosh’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. The Great Derangement was given the inaugural Utah Award for the Environmental Humanities in 2018. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. Amitav Ghosh holds four Lifetime Achievement awards and five honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood, of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2018 the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. In 2024, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Headshot credit: Mathieu Genon.
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.
MONDAY, MARCH 17
“‘Before Color Prejudice?’ The Construction of Race in Classical and Ancient Mediterranean Studies 1947 - Present”
Lecture by Dr. Najee Olya, Assistant Professor of Classics, William and Mary University
Frank Snowden of Howard University was the Black first scholar to collect the evidence
and publish on the representation of Blacks in antiquity and argued that the ancient
Greeks and Romans didn’t discriminate against skin color. Scholarship since Snowden's
publication has tended to complicate his findings. Prof. Olya, who is an acknowledged
expert in Greek art, will discuss the developments in current scholarship. Professor
Olya publishes widely on various topics concerning race in Greco-Roman antiquity.
Knott Hall B03
5:00 - 6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
“Narratives of Disasters in Sinophone Literature”
Lecture by Dr. Fang Xie, Associate Professor of Chinese at VMI
Each spring semester, the Asian Studies program collaborates with the Chines program
and/or the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures to invite a distinguished
scholar to engage with the Loyola community. This talk will explore the intersections
of media, culture, and society with a focus on environmental concerns as viewed from
the perspectives of the Sinophone community.
10:00 AM
Cohn Hall 133
followed by coffee at 11:00 AM in the Humanities Cafe
MONDAY, MARCH 31
MODERN LANGUAGES TEATIME TALKS
“Two Woman Warriors in the Changing Mulan Narrative: From Princess Dou Xianniang in
Historical Romance of the Sui and Tang to Witch Xianniang in Disney's 2020 Mulan”
Dr. Jinghua Wangling, Associate Professor of Chinese
MONDAY, MARCH 31
"Loyola's Legacy of Desegration:
Charles Dorsey: Student, lawyer, civil rights advocate"
PANEL DISCUSSION
When Charles Dorsey enrolled in Loyola College in 1949, he was the first full-time Black student to do so. Loyola graduate Ikia Robinson (class of 2024) researched and wrote about his time at Loyola and his life and career thereafter in an essay published in Untold Truths. As Loyola looks for ways to celebrate its past and chart a path for a more inclusive, anti-racist culture on campus, three of Dorsey’s children will participate in a panel discussion exploring their father’s legacy.
5:00 - 7:00 PM
APRIL
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
"Contextualizing Crisis in Gaza, Palestine, and Israel"
Dr. Kimberly Katz, Professor of History and coordinator of the Human Rights & History
Minor at Towson University, will lecture on the history of Palestine and Israel and
the development of the current crisis in Gaza.
McGuire West
5:00 - 6:30 PM
MONDAY, APRIL 7
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM SERIES
“‘Can't Stop Change’- Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines”
Film Screening and Discussion
As Florida's violent legislation dominates headlines, LGBTQ2S+ communities are also on the frontlines of accelerating climate change. Can't Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines weaves interviews with 14 LGBTQ2S+ artists, organizers, and educators across Florida (and the new Florida diaspora) into an intersectional climate justice narrative.
Amidst so much unknown, Can't Stop Change shares an emergent hope: Moments of disaster create opportunities for immense transformation,
where what once seemed impossible becomes possible. As we look towards the next hurricane
season and next legislative cycle, how can we work with the changes to come to shape
the futures we want?
Register to attend.
Loyola Notre Dame Library Auditorium
6:00 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 8
WRITERS AT WORK SERIES
Emma Dries
Emma Dries is a writer and editor, and an agent at Triangle House Literary. She has worked on bestselling and award-winning books in editorial at Alfred A.Knopf, Doubleday Books, Ecco, and Flatiron Books. She has a B.A.in History from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. She grew up in Lower Manhattan, above the Fulton Fish Market, and now lives in the Hudson Valley.
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9
2025 Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature, and Society:
“Writing Mother Nature: Global Perspectives on Literature and the Environment”
The purpose of this colloquium is to explore the relationship between the environment
and humanity in different literary traditions from the perspective of ecocriticism.
The negative effect of human actions on Nature is, undoubtedly, one of the major concerns
of our time, and ecocriticism examines our global ecological crisis through the intersection
of literature (among other cultural productions and humanities disciplines) and the
physical environment. In presenting fictional writings from different cultures that
engage with this crisis, our speakers will illustrate the variety of imaginary standpoints
from which this major change of dynamics between human beings and nature can be expressed.
11am
“Italian Fables for the Anthropocene”
Dr. Laura Di Bianco, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
2pm
“Eco-Gothic Literature Reimagined: New Perspectives from Latin America”
Dr. Ana María Mutis, Ph.D., Trinity University
3pm
“Zhuangzi's Butterfly and the Neo-Baroque: A Complex Image of Nature in Contemporary
Sinophone Speculative Fiction”
Dr. Mingwei Song, Ph.D., Wellesley College
Wednesday, April 9
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16
MODERN LANGUAGES TEATIME TALKS
"The Effects of Spanish-English Virtual Language Exchange on Student Foreign Language
Anxiety"
Sarah Tyler, Teaching Professor of Spanish
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
"Politics and Memory in the United States of Amnesia"
P.J. Brendese, Johns Hopkins University
Cohn Hall 133
4:30 PM
MAY
Contact
Bess Garrett
Program Assistant
esgarrett@loyola.edu
Dr. Peggy O'Neill
Director
Poneill1@loyola.edu