To see our past schedules, please use the drop-down menu below.
Fall 2022 Schedule
- Ganesh Sitaraman**
New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law, Vanderbilt Law School, and 2022-23 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
"The Future of Supreme Court Reform"
Thursday, September 29, 4 p.m., Lunda Room, AMU
**co-sponsored by Marquette's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Civic Dialogues Program, and the Departments of Political Science and Social and Cultural Sciences
- Kate Ward
Department of Theology, Marquette University
"Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck: Moral Growth in an Age of Inequality"
Wednesday, November 2, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105
- Laura Matthew
Department of History, Marquette University
"Two Bigamists in Tehuantepec"
Wednesday, November 30, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105
Spring 2023 Schedule
- Samantha Majhor
Department of English, Marquette University
"Native American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities"
Wednesday, February 8, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams
- Maxwell Gray, Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University, and
Elizabeth Wawrzyniak, Foley Library, Gonzaga University,
"Developing a Digital Critical Edition of Tolkien Fanzines"
Wednesday, March 29, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams
- Drew Kim
Department of Theology & Director, Center for the Advancement of the Humanities,
Marquette University
"Addiction and the Humanities"
Wednesday, May 3, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams [*note the new date!]
Fall 2021 Schedule**
Spring 2022 Schedule
The Colloquium is co-sponsoring the "Showcasing the Humanities" Lecture Series this semester:
- Jessica Wolfendale
Department of Philosophy
"Philosophy and State Violence"
Thursday, February 3, 5 p.m., Haggerty Museum of Art
- Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
Department of Theology
“Gluttony in Christian Theological Imagination”
Thursday, March 31, 5 p.m., Jewish Museum Milwaukee
- Scott Dale
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
“The Innovative Spanish Enlightenment”
Thursday, April 7, 5 p.m., Haggerty Museum of Art
Fall 2020 Schedule
- Michael Zimmer
Department of Computer Science
"Data Ethics During a Pandemic"
Thursday, September 17, 5 p.m., via Teams
- Tosin Gbogi
Department of English
"In the Belly of the Earth: Place and Displacement in Modern Nigerian Poetry"
Wednesday, October 7, 4 p.m., via Teams
- Jennifer Finn
Department of History
"The Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and Its Failures"
Thursday, November 12, 4 p.m., via Teams
Spring 2021 Schedule
- Jesse Cheng
Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
"Advocacy within Violence and Vulnerability"
Monday, February 8, 4 p.m., via Teams
- Robert Smith, Theresa Tobin, Darren Wheelock, and Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio
Departments of History, Philosophy, & Social and Cultural Sciences
"The Education Preparedness Program: Reimagining the University's Role in Decarceration"
Wednesday, March 3, 4 p.m., via Teams
- Heather Hathaway
Department of English & Program in Africana Studies
"Japanese American Writing during Incarceration"
Monday, April 19, 4 p.m., via Teams
Fall 2019 Schedule
- Elizaveta Strakhov
Department of English
“Canonizing Chaucer in the Hundred Years War"
Wednesday, September 18, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Stephanie Rivera Berruz
Department of Philosophy
“Writing Belonging: An Antillean Conversation Between Luisa Capetillo and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta”
Thursday, November 7, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Conor Kelly
Department of Theology
“The Fullness of Free Time: Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life”
Wednesday, December 4, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
Spring 2020 Schedule
- Sarah Gendron
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
"Learning, Inc.: Big Business and Education in the United States"
Thursday, January 30, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Angela Sorby
Department of English
"Vikings in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry: Whiteness, Archaeology, and the Deep Past"
Wednesday, February 26, 5 p.m. (*Please note new time.*)
Marquette Hall 105
- Jennifer Finn
Department of History
"The Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and Its Failures"
[Thursday, March 26, 5 p.m.] **Postponed**
Marquette Hall 105
- Michael Zimmer
Department of Computer Science
[Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m.] **Postponed**
Marquette Hall 105
Fall 2018 Schedule
- Timothy McMahon
Department of History, Marquette University
“Shifting Visions of Union: The Borders of What is Past, Passing, and to Come”
Thursday, September 20, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Sarah Wadsworth
Department of English, Marquette University
“Growing Up and Growing Old in an Awkward Age”
Wednesday, October 31, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Michael McCarthy
Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
“The Master’s Tools: Finance against Capital”
Tuesday, November 27, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
Spring 2019 Schedule
- Jeffrey Coleman
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Marquette University
“The Necropolitical Theatre: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage”
Thursday, February 14, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Jessica Wolfendale
Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
“The Ethics of Torture”
Thursday, February 28, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Deirdre Dempsey
Department of Theology, Marquette University
“Ibn at-Tayyib and his Commentary on Genesis”
Wednesday, April 3, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Cedric Burrows
Department of English, Marquette University
“Rhetorical Crossover, R&B Music, and Dinah Washington”
Wednesday, April 24, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
Fall 2017 Schedule
- Tara Daly
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
“Aymara Futurism in Bolivia: Freddy Mamani’s Architecture and Alison Spedding’s Science Fiction”
Tuesday, October 17, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Corinne Bloch-Mullins
Department of Philosophy & Program in Cognitive Science
“Getting Real about Similarity: A Theory of Categorization for the Pluralist Realist”
Thursday, November 9, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Ainehi Edoro
Department of English
“The Work of Pleasure”
Wednesday, November 29, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
Spring 2018 Schedule
- Bryan Rindfleisch, Department of History
“’My Land is My Flesh’: Silver Bluff, the Creek Indians, and the Transformation of Colonized Space in Early America, 1700-1800”
**Wednesday, February 7, 5 p.m.**
Marquette Hall 105
- Mark Berlin
Department of Political Science
“The Role of Technocratic Legal Experts in the Global Spread of National Criminal Laws against Human Rights Atrocities”
Wednesday, February 28, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Michael Cover
Department of Theology
“The Divine Comedy at Corinth: Paul, Menander, and the Rhetoric of Resurrection”
Thursday, March 22, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Jennifer Vanderheyden
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
“Julia Kristeva and Denis Diderot’s ‘Excursion into the Heart of Belief'”
Thursday, April 19, 5 p.m.
Cudahy 128
Fall 2016 Schedule
- Amelia Zurcher
Department of English and Honors Program, Marquette University
“Gender and Nation in Intellectual-Affective Networks in the Seventeenth Century:
The Case of the Irish-English Boyle Siblings”
Wednesday, September 21, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Ericka Tucker
Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
“Spinoza’s Biconditionals; Reducing Good, Right, Freedom and Virtue to Degrees of Power”
Thursday, October 27, 5 p.m.
- Gordon Hutner
Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The World of Scholarly Publishing”
Thursday, November 17, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
Spring 2017 Schedule
- Kristen Foster
Department of History, Marquette University
“Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Ball of Liberty’: Some Thoughts on How
the Haitian Revolution Changed the Course of American Equality”
Thursday, January 26, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Dawn Scher Thomae
Curator of Collections, Milwaukee Public Museum
“Bending Gender: From Joan of Arc to Hua Mulan (and Beyond)”
Wednesday, February 15, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla
Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
“Trace/Body/Voice: Cultural Narratives of Sexual Assault Prosecution in the Post-Forensic U.S.”
Wednesday, March 1, 5 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Melissa Range
Department of English, Lawrence University
“Scriptorium: A Poetry Reading”
Tuesday, March 21, 12:30 p.m.
Haggerty Art Museum
Fall 2015 Schedule
- Sarah Wadsworth
Department of English, Marquette University
“The Mysterious History of the First American Novel; or, The Clue in the Diary”
Thursday, September 24, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Amy Blair, Department of English, Marquette University, and
Ruby Thompson ’16, Writing-Intensive English Major, Marquette
“Tasting and Testing Books: Reading Advice in Good Housekeeping Magazine”
Wednesday, October 28, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Janie Kim
Marquette University Law School
“Racial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality”
Thursday, November 19, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
Spring 2016 Schedule
- Eugenia Afinoguénova,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Marquette University
“Mapping the Written Worlds”
Thursday, February 11, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Ryan Hanley, Department of Political Science, Marquette University;
Anthony Lanz, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Marquette University;
Darren Nah ’15, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Yale University
“The Experience and Significance of the Kantian Dinner Party”
Thursday, March 3, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105
- Jason Puskar
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Machine Interiority: Toys, Buttons, Subjects”
Thursday, April 7, 4 p.m.
Marquette Hall 105