Events

The Department of Classics welcomes Professor of Classical Studies Jonathan Ready from the University of Michigan for a talk titled "Euripides' 'Orestes' and Postcritique."

Drawing on the Black freedom struggle and the lived work of educators, Hasan Kwame Jeffries argues that teaching honest history is not a partisan act but a democratic necessity—and that what is at stake is nothing less than the future of American democracy.

The Departments of Economics and Sociology welcome Gabriel Lade from OSU and Stephen Scanlan from Ohio University to discuss the environmental, economic and human consequences of the renewable energy transition for rural Americ.

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University Adina Feinstein will visit campus to discuss her work studying young planetary systems.

Mr. Philip R. Scinto, Senior Technical Fellow at Lubrizol Corporation, visits campus as part of the Marquardt Memorial Industrial Speakers Program to discuss his work as a statistician in industry.

“Theory.” In literary studies and sociology, theories not only guide how we do the practical work of interpreting texts and data, but they also offer critiques of the here and now and contain our hopes for a better future. Abstract yet fundamental, complex yet elegant, opaque yet clarifying: these contradictions make learning and arguing about theory its own confounding and pleasurable exercise.

The Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) welcomes Lily Geismer, professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.