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Humanities on the Edge is a speaker series co-founded by Dr. Marco Abel and Dr. Roland Végső. Founded in 2010, the series is now in its 16th year, and its mission remains the same: to promote cross-disciplinary conversation and theoretical research in the Humanities.
Currently, the series is coordinated by Dr. Luis Othoniel Rosa (Modern Languages and Literatures and Institute for Ethnic Studies), Dr. Katie Anania (School of Art, Art History and Design), Erin Hanas (Curator of Academic Programs at the Sheldon Museum of Art), and Dr. Marco Abel (English).
2026-27: "On Fascism"
All events 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.
Free of charge and open to the public.
| Oct 8 | “From Fascist Agitation to ‘Metapolitics’ : Genealogies of the New Right” Johannes von Molke Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Department of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan |
| Nov 19 | “‘Concepts Completely Useless for the Purposes of Fascism’: Walter Benjamin and the Trolls" Roland Végső Professor of English, University of Georgia |
| Mar 4 | “The Fascism in Us All” Tim Dean Frank Hodgins Chair in American Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Apr 22 | “Neurofascism: Digital Capitalism, the Fundamentalization of Identity, and the Obliteration of the Other” Irmgard Emmelhainz Author of The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexican Postneoliberal Conversion (SUNY, 2023) and Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures, Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt 2022) |
2025-26: "Trans* Ecologies"
All events 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.
Free of charge and open to the public.
Sept 18
“Sex, Science, and Forms of Defiance”
Dr. Jeanne Vaccaro
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
University of Kansas
Nov 13
“Whatever I Tell You I’m Going to Do Is Never Going to Happen – So Trans Out, Bro”
Allucquere Rosanne ‘Sandy’ Stone
Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) with Marjorie Vecchio, filmmaker; and Megan Malone, comedian
Feb 12
“The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Transcreations of Opacity”
Dr. Alex Brostoff
Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies
Georgetown University
Apr 2
“Anguila Translations and Slippery Gender Practices”
Dr. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature,
University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez
Co-founders: Dr. Marco Abel and Dr. Roland Végső
"We have reached a historical turning point, and [...] we must assume full responsibility for the direction of our futures."