Photo of Natasha Korda, Professor of English, Wesleyan University, Director of the Center for the Humanities from 2018-2025, and as Chair of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies from 2009-2011.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | Meeting 1518 | Shakespeare’s Walkscapes, Presented by Natasha Korda

Event Description Natasha Korda (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1995) is Professor of English, and served as Director of...
Julia Giblin, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Quinnipiac University

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | Meeting 1517 | People, Places, and Pots

People, Places, and Pots: Exploring Meaning Making and Community Building in the Quinnipiac River Valley Region
Camille Serchuk is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Southern Connecticut State University

January 21, 2026 | Meeting 1516 | Mutation, Mediation, Meditation: Early Modern World Maps and their Frames, presented by Camille Serchuk

Examining how frames and border motifs shaped understanding and legibility of early modern world maps. 
photo of Hans G. Dam, Ph.D.

November 19, 2025 | Meeting 1515 | Unsung Ocean Heroes: Copepods, Crucial Animals to the Biosphere, presented by Hans G. Dam, Ph.D.

Unsung Ocean Heroes: Copepods, Crucial Animals to the Biosphere Copepods, tiny crustaceans, are the most abundant animals in...

October 9, 2025 | Meeting 1514 | Dionysos in the City Square presented by Milette Gaifman, PhD

Dionysos in the City Square: from Ancient Athens to the United States Presented by: Milette Gaifman, Ph.D., Andrew Downey...

May 21, 2025 | Meeting 1513 | Earl Patrick Bellinger, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University, Looking Inside of Stars: The Science of Asteroseismology

April 22, 2025 | Meeting 1512 | Sonia E. Sultan, Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science, Wesleyan University | Re-thinking the Organism-Environment Relationship: A Case Study with Plants

Sonia E. Sultan is a plant evolutionary ecologist whose research focuses on the developmental interplay between genetic and...