Events

These are events sponsored wholly or in part by the Center for the Humanities for 2025-2026

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• December 
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• February 
• March 
• April 
• May 

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Celebrate the Humanities!
CFH Annual Celebration of Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Humanities

Nachbahr Award and Presentation
2025 recipient Dr. Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, professor from department of Modern Languages & Literatures

2025 Teaching Faculty Excellence Award
Dr. Aaron Palmore, professor from Classics department

Student Presentations from the CFH Summer Student Research Fellows:
Yassy Ayala
Caitlin Cottril
Fisk Fisk
Liam Holden
Moulai Njie
Elora Paul-Martin
Stephanie Piscal
Melissa Raymond
Eva Retford

Student Summer Humanities Internships:
Ari Acevedo
Evelyn Donovan
Alex Preusser

Digital Humanities Summer Institute student fellows will make a joint oral presentation about a new CFH initiative which funded their participation in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Montreal this past summer:
Catherine Blanch
Abigail Gaughan
Steven Guy
Anthony Loia
Conor Lynch

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session

Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! 

We will discuss Student-led Seminars, Summer Research Fellowships, stipends for Summer Study programs, stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships, Digital Humanities Summer Fellows, and Humanities Student Conference Grants. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.

Center for Intercultural Engagement (CIE)
Student Center East 317
4:15 PM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13

“The German Iron Curtain: Landscape, Tourism, and Memory”
Public lecture by Dr. Astrid Eckert

October 2025 marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of German reunification in 1990. Dr. Eckert explores the impact of the intra-German "Iron Curtain" border that divided Germany, from the creation of East and West Germany in 1949 to reunification in 1990 (and beyond). Dr. Eckert will focus on the environmental issues caused by this heavily militarized border, including issues of pollution, changes to the landscape, and the post-unification reclamation of this space as a “Green Belt” through the center of Germany.

Fourth Floor Program Room
5:00 PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

Jerome S. Cardin Lecture

“In the Haunted Present: Dara Horn's Dream for Living Jews” 

Talk by Dara Horn, Award-winning Author and Journalist.
Dara Horn is the author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. 

McGuire Hall
Andrew White Student Center
 7:00PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

WRITERS AT WORK SERIES

R. Eric Thomas

Eric Thomas is a screenwriter, playwright, and national bestselling author. He is also the Eric of Asking Eric, the popular nationally syndicated daily advice column found in over 100 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun. He wrote for the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson (AppleTV+) and Better Things (FX) and is currently developing his own projects for film and TV. His memoir, Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, which Lin-Manuel Miranda hailed as “pop culture-obsessed, David Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny”, was featured on Today as a Read With Jenna club pick.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM

NOVEMBER

NATIONAL 2025 FRENCH WEEK  - French Out Loud: the Power of the Spoken Word

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 TO SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

 

Check loyola.edu/frenchweek for times and other details. You may also contact the Department of Modern Languages.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES

Zoë Schlanger

Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She previously covered the environment at Quartz and Newsweek. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Time, NPR, and elsewhere. Schlanger was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award.  She published The Light Eaters in 2024 to wide acclaim.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:30 PM

DECEMBER

JANUARY

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

WRITERS AT WORK SERIES

Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado's latest book, Time’s Agent, about a disgraced time agent on one last mission for redemption to save a world destroyed by capitalism and her own actions forty years previous, won the Phillip K. Dick Award and was one of Amazon Editors’ and Book Riot’s best books of August. Her genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters—featuring Latina girlhood, basement ghosts, alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones—was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature's best books of 2021. Her stories have won a Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize; inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Small Fiction, and Best Microfiction anthologies; and other awards. She teaches fiction at the University of South Florida.

Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
6:00 PM

FEBRUARY

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session

Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! 

We will discuss Student-led Seminars, the new Student Conference Grants, Summer Research Fellowships, stipends for Summer Study programs, stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships, Digital Humanities Fellowships, and the new Humanities Student Conference Grant. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler, and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.

Writing Department Lounge
Maryland Hall 038
4:15 PM

MARCH

MONDAY, MARCH 9

MODERN MASTERS READING SERIES

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara began her career as a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later launched, edited and wrote for the business section of the New Yorker’s website. Since then, she has also both written and edited for The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. She writes for other publications as well, including Businessweek, where she is a contributing writer. She is also a 2025 Omidyar Network Reporter in Residence. Her latest book is Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a work of journalism and memoir about how big technology companies exploit human communication and how we’re complicit in this. 

Time and location TBA.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 and THURSDAY, MARCH 12

The colloquia will be in-person. Faculty members should register their classes on The Bridge.

For more information about the colloquia and registration, please consult the Symposium webpage.

McManus Theatre
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM on both days

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

LOYOLA'S 2026 HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

For more information, please consult the Symposium webpage.

If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.

APRIL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

2026 Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature, and Society:

“Literature and Authoritarianism”

 
The rise of authoritarian leaders around the world in recent years is one of the major concerns of our time, constituting a threat not only to the democratic traditions of individual countries but also to the geopolitical stability of the world as a whole. This seminar will explore ways in which literary works from a variety of global traditions have addressed the issue of authoritarian rule from within their own cultural and political contexts. 
 
Wednesday, April 8
Fourth Floor Program Room
Andrew White Student Center
10:30 AM to 5:00 PM

MAY