2025
Classics Day
November 21, 2025 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
2024
Classics Day
November 15, 2024: “Technology — Friend or Foe?” (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
“Hands-On Cultural History: An Opportunity for Experiential Learning”
May 3, 2024 (co-sponsored with Department of Spanish and Latino Studies and HOLA [Oral History of the Latinos and Digital Archive]).
2023
“How to Dress: Textiles and Weaving in Antiquity”
February 21, 2023
Classics Day
October 23, 2023 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
2022
“How to Be Happy: Fostering Well-Being through Ancient Philosophy”
Drs. Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, Prudence Jones, and Tim Renner, February 23, 12.00-2.00 p.m. (co-sponsored with the Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies and the CHSS Dean’s Office).
“How to Handle Money: Ancient Coins and their Designs”
March 17, 2022, Alan M. Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University (co-sponsored with the Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies and the CHSS Dean’s Office).
“How to Nourish Your Body: Status and Social Conflict in Ancient Foods”
Dr. Charles Feldman, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, April 24, 2022
“A Conversation with Roosevelt Montás”
Roosevelt Montás, Columbia University, April 26, 2022, 2022 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities and the CHSS Dean’s Office).
Classics Day
Friday, October 28, 2022 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
“Discovering Classical New York”
Matthew McGowan, Fordham University, October 13, 2022 (via Zoom) (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
2021
“The King’s Docile Body? The Role of Maps, Games, and Globes in the 17th and 18th Centuries in France”
May 5, 2021, Dr. Ting Chang, University of Nottingham, UK (co-sponsored with the Department of World Languages and Cultures, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar).
“John Cotton Dana and a Modern Vision of Cultural Heritage”
Dr. Deborah Chatr-Aryamontri, September 28, 2021 (co-sponsored with the Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies)
Classics Day
October 29, 2021 (via Zoom) (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
2020
“Is God Funky or What?: The Dynamics of Power, Music, and Black Healing”
April 16, 2020 (canceled due to Covid-10) (co-sponsored with Department of Religion).
Classics Day
October 30, 2020 (via Zoom).
“Humanities Graduates and the Tech Industry”
Thursday, November 19, 2020 (via Zoom).
2019
Classics Day
November 1, 2019 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
“When Democracy Requires Violence: the Political Problem of Post-Independence Gabon”
November 18, 2019, Dr. Daniel Mengara (co-sponsored with Department of World Languages and Cultures).
2018
Classics Day
October 26, 2018 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
2017
“The Thing’s “the thing”
April 24, 2017, Dr. Jim Harris, Andrew Mellon Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, Dr. Senta German, Department of Classics & General Humanities
Classics Day
October 27, 2017 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
World Cultures Day: “Universal Voices”
December 1
2016
Classics Day 2016
November 4, 2016 (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics & General Humanities)
World Cultures Day, 2016
November 18, 2016
2014-2015
Classics Day, 2014
October 31, 2014
Spanish Day, 2014
November 21, 2014
Philosophy in Schools/Religions of the World Day
December 5, 2014
French Day
February 6, 2015
World Mythologies Day
April 10, 2015
Why Learn? To Make a Living or Make a Life?
April 29, 2015
2013-2014
Classics Day, 2013
October 25, 2013
Philosophy in the Schools/Religions of the World Day
“Born Free? Ideas, Beliefs, and Self-Expression in the World(s) We Live in”
November 15, 2013
“American Dream, American Reality”
February 28, 2014
French Day
March 21, 2014
Spanish Day
March 28, 2014
“Nature? Or Nurture?”
April 9, 2014
2012-2013
Classics Day, 2012
October 19, 2012
Philosophy in the Schools/Religions of the World Day
“What are you made of . . . mind, reason, body, passion?
Program Description
December 7, 2012
“The Dystopic Vision: Nightmare Worlds”
January 25, 2013
French Day, 2013
March 1, 2013
“HEART of the News”
May 1, 2103
2011-2012
Classics Day, 2011
October 21, 2011
Humanities in the Schools Day, 2011
“Old Made New; Dialoguing with the Past”
December 2, 2011
“The Frankenstein Factor, Culture and Context”
February 3, 2012
Philosophy in the Schools Day
“The Examined Life: Ethics and Knowledge in Action”
February 10, 2012
“The Many Faces of Hercules”
March 2, 2012
World Cultures Day
“It’s a Small World: The Impact of Global Communication on the 21st Century”
October 21, 2011
2010-2011
Classics Day, 2010
Humanities in the Schools Day, 2010
“What Kind of People Should We Be? An Ethical Issue Across the Disciplines”
December 3, 2010
“The Great Gatsby and the ‘Roaring Twenties'”
February 4, 2011
The Wilmington Ten 40th Anniversary Commemoration
February 24, 2011
World Cultures Day
“National Diasporas: the Scattering of Seed”
March 25, 2011
2009-2010
Classics Day, 2009
October 30, 2009
“Coming of Age: A Humanistic Perspective”
December 3, 2009
“Colonial America and the Literary Imagination”
February 4, 2010
World Cultures Day, 2010
“In the Beginning…Origin Stories and Social Identity”
March 26, 2010
Teaching Mythology: Beyond the Basics
“Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts”
April 29, 2010
2008-2009
Classics Day, 2008
October 24, 2008
Mediating Presidential Politics
October 28, 2008
Humanities in the Schools Day
“Carpe Future: Visions of the Future”
December 12, 2008
“Teaching Mythology: Beyond the Basics”
February 5, 2009
“World Cultures Day, 2009: Gender Roles in a Global Context”
March 27, 2009