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 Ă“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’s 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’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 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. 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 .
Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, November 7
Black Box Theatre followed by a reception in the
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:
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
Knott Hall B01
5:00 PM
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.
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
FEBRUARY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3
O Rio Negro SĂŁo As Pessoas
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.
Loyola Notre Dame Library Auditorium
6:00 PM
followed by talkback with the film's creators
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Humanities Symposium Faculty Teaching Seminar - The Great Derangement
Interdisciplinary resource presentations
Faculty members are invited to attend this year's Humanities Symposium 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.
College Center Conference Room 105
12:00 – 1:00 PM
more details to follow.
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
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
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’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
Students will have an opportunity to see, to hear, to witness the environmental violence
of 77+ stationary toxic facilities in Curtis Bay. Due to the cumulative impact of
stationary toxic facilities, this community has some of the highest cases of respiratory
illnesses in the entire country.
We will go back in time to 2012 when youth from the community heard about a plan to build the nation's largest trash to energy incinerator a mile from their high school. This youth group has grown from stopping one polluting industry to now thinking about longer term community-led and controlled development.
9:00 am - Start at the Curtis Bay Recreation Center - 1630 Filbert Street, Baltimore
MD
10:00 am - Walk to where we can see the CSX terminal and coal piled up
11:00 am - Fairfield and Wagner's Point where Shashawnda Campbell (SBCLT organizer)
will talk through early days of free your voice and the Incinerator struggle
12:30 pm - Lunch @ SBCLT office 145 W. Ostend Street
1:30 pm - Hear about the Land Trust homes and visit the first passive home
Bus transportation will be provided. Details about registration will follow.
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. 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.
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.
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Humanities Café (main floor of the Humanities Building)
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’s 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’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
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 MarĂa 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