Archive of Brown Bags

The Brown Bag Talk Colloquim Series began in 1997. Many scholars have presented their work over the years, and some have graciously allowed us to share their presentations with our community. Please click on a talk to see its video.

Fall 24 Brown Bags

September 10, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Bruce Russell Title: Truth and Rationality
November 12, 2024 12:30pm Speakers: Joshua Duchan and Eric Freedman Title: Please Buy My Last Paper, I Want to Go Home: Portrayal of Newsboys and Newsgirls in 19th and 20th Century Music
November 22, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Sylvia Taschka Title: A Different Shade of Green: Environmentalism and the Radical Right in Germany
December 11, 2024 12:30pmSpeaker: Rahul Mitra Title: Why Should We Care about Microplastics? How Local Communities Understand Emerging Environmental Health Risks

Fall 23 & Winter 24 Brown Bags

September 20, 2023 12:30pm Speaker: Karren Yurgalite Title: Putting it all together: Combining historical research, municipal documents, and social history to discover the story of an early twentieth century Black women's home in Detroit
November 3, 2023 12:30pm Speaker: renee hoogland Title: Fugitive Sites/Sights: Cynthia Greig's Digital Tranformations of Art Space
November 13, 2023 12:30pm Speaker: Carlos Hernandez Title: A Prologue to Paradise: The Mayab, Quintana Roo, and Isla Cancun
December 4, 2023 12:30pmSpeaker: Beth Fowler Title: Frances Williams Preston and Gender Politics in Popular Country Music, 1958-86
January 18, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Diane Cress Title: Demon metal or essential nutrient?
January 25, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Valerie Sweeney Prince Title: Laundry: How dirt, water, and cleaning clothes became the real work of America
February 6, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Stephen Chrisomalis Title: Dorothy Demetracopoulou Lee: Language, Values, and Freedom in Detroit and Beyond
February 19, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Layla Saatchi Title: Epistemic Fragility and Color-Blind Reasoning
March 6, 2024 12:30pm Speaker: Mark Satta Title: Orwell and Philosophy of Language
March 20, 2024 12:30pmSpeaker: Michelle Jacobs Title: Detroit Reentry Photovoice

Fall and Winter 2022-2023

For talks delivered before academic year 2022-23, please check out our Brown Bag Talk Archive.

Fall 22 Brown Bag Schedule.pdf

October 12, 2022-Theodoto Ressa "Disability Culture and Barriers and Opportunities in Higher Education" YouTube Link
October 19, 2022- Muhammad al-Sharkawi "Emergence of Classical Arabic: A Case for Language Contact" YouTube Link
November 9, 2022- Carly Overfelt "Honest to Goodness American Speech": Early Linguistic and the Myth of the Midwest Radio English YouTube Link
November 16, 2022- Evan Pavka "Nonmonogamous Interiors: Doubles, Dopplegangers and Open Relations"
November 30, 2022- John Brender "Millennial Expats in China: Experiences and Observations" YouTube Link
December 7, 2022- Kathleen Hanlon Lundberg "Rising Maternal Mortality in the US: Naturalized Technologies and Embodied Inequalities" YouTube Link
January 11, 2023- Jose Cuello "Universities Can Play a Key Role in Mitigating the Global Ecological Crisis " YouTube Link
January 18, 2023- Walter Lucken "We Are Here to Stay: Lampedusa in Hamburg and the Oceanic Rhetorics " YouTube Link
January 25, 2023- Sarah Swider "Love During the Pandemic: The Politics of Intimacy and Belonging" IN-PERSON; FAB 2339
February 1, 2023- Eun-jun Katherine Kim "Protest as Exit Strategy from a Partial State of Nature" IN-PERSON; FAB 2339
February 8, 2023- Kurt Troutman "Cultural Humility: The Hunt for an Evaluation Framework" IN-PERSON; FAB 2339
February 15, 2023- Lawrence Lombard "What is metaphysics, and how is it possible? " IN-PERSON; FAB 2339 YouTube Link
February 22, 2023- Emily Spunaugle "For the benefit of: British Women's Benevolent Publication in the Long Eighteenth Century " VIRTUAL YouTube Link
March 1, 2023- Layla Saatchi "The Islamic Republic of Iran is neither Islamic nor a Republic, it's just Iran." IN-PERSON; FAB 2339
March 8, 2023- Adrienne Jankens & Clay Walker "Collaborative Research in the Humanities" YouTube Link
March 22, 2023- Steven Winter "The Made and the Made-Up" HYRID; FAB 2339 YouTube Link
March 29, 2023- Ty Partridge "The role of school-based health centers in addressing the needs of adolescent mental health" HYBRID; FAB 2339 YouTube Link
April 5, 2023- Haiyong Liu "The effect of animacy on Mandarin Chinese"
April 12, 2023- Joshua Wilburn "Nice White People and the Epistemology of Ignorance in Langston Hughes"
April 19, 2023- Lance Gable "The Future of Wastewater Screening for the Public's Health"
April 26, 2023- Barrett Watten "Can We Still Teach the Beats?: Holism, Antagonism, Poetics and Pedagogy"