Spring 2025 Schedule

  • Dr. Amy Blair, Department of English, Marquette University
    Tasting and Testing Books: "Good Housekeeping," Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading (Book Launch)
    Thursday, January 23, 4 p.m., Cudahy 118
  • Dr. Sergio González, Department of History, Marquette University
    Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (Book Talk)
    Thursday, February 27, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105
  • Dr. Javiera Perez Gomez, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
    Wednesday, April 9, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105

Fall 2024 Schedule

  • Dr. Douglas E. Christie, 2024-25 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar & Professor Emeritus, Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University **
    •  "Thinking Like a Mountain: Contemplative Ecology in the Anthropocene,"
        Tuesday, October 1, 4 p.m., Beaumier Suites, Raynor Library, and  
        via Teams                                                  
    •  "Contemplative Practice in an Age of Distraction" (Discussion),
       Wednesday, October 2, 2 p.m., Lalumiere 232

     ** Co-sponsored by Marquette's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Center
          for the  Advancement of the Humanities, the Marquette Core Curriculum,
          the University Honors Program, and the Departments of English and
          Theology.       

  • Rev. Joseph Simmons, S.J., D.Phil.
    Department of Theology, Marquette University
    Thursday, October 24, 4 p.m., Marquette Hall 105, and via Teams
    "A Pope's Hope for the Humanities: Reading Francis's Love Letter to Literature"