2025 - 2026 Humanities Events at Rhodes
September 18: Danielle Allen, “250 Years of Our Declaration of Independence: Why an Old Text Still Serves us Now” (McNeill Concert Hall, East Campus; 6pm) (View Recording Below)
September 25: Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship (6:30pm, McCoy Theatre)
September 25: Dan Sinykin, “Close Reading and Artificial Intelligence” (6pm, University of Memphis, Bluff Room)
September 27: Multilingual Memphis Coffee Chat (9-11am, Spence Wilson Room, Briggs Hall)
September 30: Panel discussion of “Justice Without Execution” (5:30pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 6: Michael Lamb, “Character and the Constitution: What the Founders Can Teach Us about How to Keep Our Republic” (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall; 4:15pm reception)
October 14: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Artist’s Talk (6pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 15: Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, “I eat, therefore I am: Asian Foodways in Migration” (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 16: Juliana Claassens, “Glad Tidings of Divine Fury? The Value of Trauma Theory for Facing the Warrior God in Nahum 1” (6pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 20: Rachel Buurma & Laura Heffernan, The Teaching Archive (5:30pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 23: Curb /Rhodes Night at the Shell (7pm, Overton Park Shell)
October 30: Arn Chorn-Pond, “A Life of Music, Healing, and Hope,” Springfield Music Lecture (6pm, McNeill Concert Hall, East Campus)
November 6: Adeana McNicholl, Religious Studies/Asian Studies (2pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 6: Mark Oppenheimer, “What American Campuses Can Learn from South African Hate Speech Law” (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 12: Sarah Perry, Creative Writing (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 13: Evonne Levy, Art/Art History (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 13: Ann C. Perry, Live Rich Die Poor: Zora Awakening (5pm, McCoy Theatre)
November 17: Kirk Curnutt, 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby (5:30pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 18: Inaugural Asian and Asian American Studies symposium (5pm, Turley Memphis Center)
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 Series, Kevin 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 Heffernan, Rachel Buurma, The 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"