Past Events

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Spring 2025 Humanities Events at Rhodes

SEARCH excursion to Black Odyssey production at Hattiloo Theatre 


January 23: AI at Rhodes: A Campus Conversation 


February 4: Jack D. Farris Visiting Writer SeriesKevin Wilson 


February 6: screening of Counted Out documentary 


February 7: “Brassroots Democracy” lecture by Benjamin Barson 


February 11: screening of Bluff City Chinese documentary 


February 13: “Arabs and Israelis: From October 7 to Peacemaking” 


February 20: Laura HeffernanRachel BuurmaThe Teaching Archive 


March 4: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Geraldo Cadava, "What's New, and What's Old, about Today's Immigration Debate?" 


March 18: Hil Malatino, “Long Tensions: Trans Advocacy, Homonormativity, and the Reed Erickson Archives” 


March 20: Danez Smith 


March 25: Judeophobia and the New Testament 


March 28-29: Midsouth Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 


March 30: Timothy Snyder, “On Freedom and Just Habits of Mind”  


March 31: Jack Kwong, philosophy lecture 


April 3: Ruffin art history lecture, Caitie Barrett 


April 10: Springfield Music Lecture Series symposium: "Sound, Text, and Movement: Black Church Cultures in Memphis" 


April 10: Gender and Sexuality Studies Symposium 


April 15: Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini, “Writing the Constitutional History of Eswatini: From Concept to Completion to Challenges” 


April 24: Former NEH Chair Shelly Lowe, “Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Humanities Today” 


April 25: Springfield Music Lecture Series: Lesléa Newman, "He Continues to Make A Difference: The Story of Matthew Shepard"