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 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

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

Speaker: Bruce Russell

Location: FAB 2339

Title: Truth and Rationality

November 3, 2023 12:30pm

Speaker: renee hoogland

Location: FAB 2339

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

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

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

Winter 2024 Brown Bag Schedule

January 18, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Diane Cress

Location: TBD

Title: Demon metal or essential nutrient?

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

February 6, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Stephen Chrisomalis

Location: F/AB 2339

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

February 19, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Layla Saatchi

Location: F/AB 2339

Title: Epistemic Fragility and Color-Blind Reasoning

March 6, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Mark Satta

Location: F/AB 2339

Title: Orwell and Philosophy of Language

March 20, 2024 12:30pm

Speaker: Michelle Jacobs

Location: F/AB 2339

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"