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 2023 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

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October 4, 2023 12:30pm-Rescheduled to Winter 2024; Date TBD

Speaker: Bruce Russell

Location: FAB 2339

Title: Truth and Rationality

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November 3, 2023 12:30pm 

Speaker: renee hoogland

Location: FAB 2339

Title: Fugitive Sites/Sights: Cynthia Greig's Digital Tranformations of Art Space

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November 13, 2023 12:30pm RSVP to this Hybrid Event Here

Speaker: Carlos Hernandez

Location: FAB 2339

Title: A Prologue to Paradise: The Mayab, Quintana Roo, and Isla Cancun

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December 4, 2023 12:30pm RSVP to this Hybrid Event Here

Speaker: Beth Fowler

Location: FAB 2339

Title: Frances Williams Preston and Gender Politics in Popular Country Music, 1958-86

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Winter 2024 Brown Bag Schedule

January 18, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Diane Cress

Location: TBD

Title: Demon metal or essential nutrient?

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January 25, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Valerie Sweeney Prince

Location: Virtual

Title: Laundry: How dirt, water, and cleaning clothes became the real work of America

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February 6, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Stephen Chrisomalis

Location: F/AB 2339

Title: Dorothy Demetracopoulou Lee: Language, Values, and Freedom in Detroit and Beyond

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February 19, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Layla Saatchi

Location: F/AB 2339

Title: Epistemic Fragility and Color-Blind Reasoning

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March 6, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Mark Satta

Location: F/AB 2339

Title: Orwell and Philosophy of Language

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March 20, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Michelle Jacobs

Location: F/AB 2339

Title: Detroit Reentry Photovoice

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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

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• October 19, 2022- Muhammad al-Sharkawi "Emergence of Classical Arabic: A Case for Language Contact" YouTube Link

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• November 9, 2022- Carly Overfelt "Honest to Goodness American Speech": Early Linguistic and the Myth of the Midwest Radio English YouTube Link

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• November 16, 2022- Evan Pavka "Nonmonogamous Interiors: Doubles, Dopplegangers and Open Relations" 

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• November 30, 2022- John Brender "Millennial Expats in China: Experiences and Observations" YouTube Link

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• December 7, 2022- Kathleen Hanlon Lundberg "Rising Maternal Mortality in the US: Naturalized Technologies and Embodied Inequalities" YouTube Link

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• January 11, 2023- Jose Cuello "Universities Can Play a Key Role in Mitigating the Global Ecological Crisis " YouTube Link 

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• January 18, 2023- Walter Lucken "We Are Here to Stay: Lampedusa in Hamburg and the Oceanic Rhetorics " YouTube Link

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• January 25, 2023- Sarah Swider "Love During the Pandemic: The Politics of Intimacy and Belonging" IN-PERSON; FAB 2339

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• February 1, 2023- Eun-jun Katherine Kim  "Protest as Exit Strategy from a Partial State of Nature" IN-PERSON; FAB 2339

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• February 8, 2023- Kurt Troutman  "Cultural Humility: The Hunt for an Evaluation Framework" IN-PERSON; FAB 2339

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  February 15, 2023- Lawrence Lombard  "What is metaphysics, and how is it possible? " IN-PERSON; FAB 2339 YouTube Link

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  February 22, 2023- Emily Spunaugle  "For the benefit of: British Women's Benevolent Publication in the Long Eighteenth Century " VIRTUAL YouTube Link

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  March 1, 2023- Layla Saatchi  "The Islamic Republic of Iran is neither Islamic nor a Republic, it's just Iran." IN-PERSON; FAB 2339

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• March 8, 2023- Adrienne Jankens & Clay Walker "Collaborative Research in the Humanities" YouTube Link

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• March 22, 2023- Steven Winter  "The Made and the Made-Up" HYRID; FAB 2339 YouTube Link

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  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

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• April 5, 2023- Haiyong Liu "The effect of animacy on Mandarin Chinese"

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• April 12, 2023- Joshua Wilburn  "Nice White People and the Epistemology of Ignorance in Langston Hughes"

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• April 19, 2023- Lance Gable  "The Future of Wastewater Screening for the Public's Health"

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   April 26, 2023- Barrett Watten "Can We Still Teach the Beats?: Holism, Antagonism, Poetics and Pedagogy"

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