2025 - 2026 Humanities Events at 91
September 18: , “250 Years of Our Declaration of Independence: Why an Old Text Still Serves us Now”&Բ;(McNeill Concert Hall, East Campus; 6pm) (View Recording Below)
September 25: (6:30pm, McCoy Theatre)
September 25: , “” (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: , “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: , Artist’s Talk (6pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 15: , (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 16: , “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: & , (5:30pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
October 23: Curb / (7pm, Overton Park Shell)
October 30: , “A Life of Music, Healing, and Hope,” Springfield Music Lecture (6pm, McNeill Concert Hall, East Campus)
November 6: , Religious Studies/Asian Studies (2pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 6: , “What American Campuses Can Learn from South African Hate Speech Law”&Բ;(5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 12: , Creative Writing (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 13: , Art/Art History (5pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 13: , Live Rich Die Poor: Zora Awakening (5pm, McCoy Theatre)
November 17: , 100th anniversary of (5:30pm, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall)
November 18: Inaugural Asian and Asian American Studies symposium (5pm, Turley Memphis Center)
Spring 2025 Humanities Events at 91
SEARCH excursion to Black Odyssey production at
January 23:
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February 6: screening of documentary
February 7: “Brassroots Democracy” lecture by
February 11: screening of documentary
February 13: “”&Բ;
February 20: , ,
March 4: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar , "What's New, and What's Old, about Today's Immigration Debate?"
March 18: , “Long Tensions: Trans Advocacy, Homonormativity, and the Reed Erickson Archives”&Բ;
March 20:
March 25:
March 28-29:
March 30: , “On Freedom and Just Habits of Mind”&Բ;
March 31: , philosophy lecture
April 3: Ruffin art history lecture,
April 10: Springfield Music Lecture Series symposium: "Sound, Text, and Movement: Black Church Cultures in Memphis"
April 10: Symposium
April 15: , “Writing the Constitutional History of Eswatini: From Concept to Completion to Challenges”&Բ;
April 24: Former NEH Chair “Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Humanities Today”&Բ;
April 25: Springfield Music Lecture Series: , "He Continues to Make A Difference: The Story of Matthew Shepard"