Past Talks

Academic Year 2024-2025:

October 4th, 2024: Jenn Finn (Classical Studies): "Herodotus the (Culture) Hero"

October 25th, 2024: Leslie Dossey (History): "The End of the Ancient Night"

November 22nd, 2024: Jim Knapp (English): "Andrew Marvell and the Poetry of Scale"

March 28th, 2025: Olivia Stewart Lester (Theology): "Sibylline Oracles within Ancient Judaism"

Academic Year 2023-2024:

September 28th, 2023: Jenn Finn (Classical Studies): "The Past in the Present: Translating Cultural Heritage into Political Power"

October 16th, 2023: Laura Gawlinski (Classical Studies): "Personal, Local, Global: Greek Dress in Ritual Norms"

November 9th, 2023: Abby Palmisano (English): "'Did you learn with eyes or inner thought?': Epistemology and Pedagogy in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies" 

February 12th, 2024: Tanya Stabler Miller (History): "Beguin Labor in Medieval France"

March 22nd, 2024: Julie Chamberlain (English): "The Fable of Legal Personhood"

Academic Year 2022-2023: 

September 15th, 2022: Kat Lecky (English): "'Tending to wilde': Milton's Eve in Interregnum London"

October 13th, 2022: Mark Lester (Theology): "Deuteronomy and the Book"

November 10th, 2022: Ian Cornelius (English) and Kathy Young (Libraries): “Medieval manuscripts at Loyola University Chicago”

December 8th, 2022: Tanya Stabler (History): “‘More Useful in the Salvation of Others’: Beguines, Religio, and the Cura Mulierum at the Early Sorbonne”

January 26th, 2023: Jenn Finn (Classical Studies): “Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare”

February 23th, 2023: Olivia Stewart Lester (Theology): “Paraenesis and Prophecy in 1 Thessalonians: The Beginning of Pauline Pseudepigraphy?”

March 23th, 2023: Josefrayn Sánche​z-Perry (Theology): “What to Call a Nahua Tlamacazqui? Bernardino de Sahagún's Translations in the Florentine Codex”

April 20th, 2023: Brian Lee (Theology): “Eschatology, Inspired Interpretation, and Paul's Use of Philosophy in 1 Corinthians”

Academic Year 2021-2022:

December 6th, 2021: Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry (Theology): “Adaptation: Remembering Good and Bad Rituals in Colonial Central Mexico”

January 24th, 2022: Seyed Mousavian (Philosophy): “Avicenna on the Impossibilia: Philosophical Remarks on The Letter on the Unreal Forms”

February 21st, 2022: Laura Gawlinski (Classical Studies): “Loom Weights in Greek Sanctuaries: Problems and Possibilities”

March 28th, 2022: Leslie Dossey (History): “Who’s afraid of the dark? Night travel (and night terrors) in the Roman and late Roman world”

April 25th, 2022: Mark Lester (Theology): “Textual Iconicity in Deuteronomy”