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鈥檚 gates. With Apollo鈥檚 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 鈥渙ne of the great voices in American storytelling鈥� by Wired and 鈥渁 consummate storyteller鈥� by The New York Times. Loyola audiences have given Odds standing ovations for this performance in the past. Come see why. Experience Homer鈥檚 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 脫scar 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鈥檚 Christological Spirituality.
McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
6:00 PM
OCTOBER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1
Center for the Humanties 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鈥檚 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, an exhibition by 2024-2025 Julio Gallery Artist-in-Residence, Bria Sterling-Wilson
Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, October 24
Julio Fine Art Gallery
6:00 - 8:00 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鈥檚 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
NOVEMBER
NATIONAL 2024 FRENCH WEEK - The Mahghreb and Lebanon: French-Arabic Crossovers
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 TO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2024
details to follow!
Check loyola.edu/frenchweek for times and other details. You may also contact the Department of Modern Languages.
DECEMBER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
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, 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.
Writing Department Lounge
Maryland Hall 038
4:15 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture
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). One of Granta magazine鈥檚 Best Young American Novelists, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, and she was a finalist for the JW Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, 叠辞辞办濒颈蝉迟鈥檚 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. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and has held the Gerald Weinstock 今晚六合彩开奖结果ing Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard.
McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
7:00 PM
For more information about the history of the Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture, including past speakers, please consult the Celebrating the History of Cardin webpage.
If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Douglass Day Events
Educate and gather:
Transcribe-a-thon
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鈥橬eill, 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
MARCH
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鈥檚 text is The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh.
The colloquia will be in-person. Faculty from all disciplines are invited to bring
their classes to our student-faculty colloquia March 12 and March 13 to discuss the
book as a group.
McManus Theatre
9:00 - 4:30 PM on both days
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2025
LOYOLA'S 2025 HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Amitav Ghosh
Novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh will deliver the 2025 Humanities Symposium keynote
address.
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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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
Keynote Registration
For more information, please consult the Symposium webpage.
If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.
APRIL
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
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"
Speakers:
Dr. Mingwei Song, Professor of Chinese at Wellesley College
Dr. Laura Bianco, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Ana Mar铆a Mutis, Associate Professory of Spanish at Trinity University
MAY
Contact
Bess Garrett
Program Assistant
esgarrett@loyola.edu
Dr. Peggy O'Neill
Director
Poneill1@loyola.edu