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Humanities Center
California State University, Chico
400 W. First St.
Chico, CA 95929–0800

Contact the Director
Erin K. Kelly
ekkelly@csuchico.edu

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General History

Following public discussions during the 1998-99 academic year, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts determined to develop a Humanities Center in Trinity Hall beginning fall 1999. The college sees the center as a stimulus, focus, and home for interdisciplinary discourse, growth, and achievement in the humanities—the heart of a working intellectual community—and as a public venue for formal discussions, presentations, and celebrations of the humanities in the life of the university, and an inviting space for daily and periodic interchange among faculty.

The Humanities Center is led by a director in a two-year term chosen by the Humanities Center’s advisory board and approved by the dean.

An advisory board, of loosely ten HFA faculty representing the various departments, is chosen by the dean and existing advisory board, usually for two-year terms.

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  • 2021-2022 Art and Social Change

    Director
    Rachel Middleman

    Board
    Heather Altfeld
    Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
    Hannah Burdette
    Rob Davidson
    Chiara Ferrari
    Troy Jollimore
    Erin K Kelly
    William Nitzky
    Lauren Ruth
    Hope Smith
    Corey Sparks
    Daniel Viedlinger
    Najm al-Din Yousefi
    Ex-officio
    Joseph Alexander
    Tracy Butts
    Laura Nice
    Visiting Scholars
    • Stephanie Sparling Williams, "Black Feminist Critique and Ontological Reconciliation in Artist Lorraine O'Grady's Diptychs"Julie Sze, “Environmental Justice as Freedom”
    • Diana Taylor  "Reparative Memory: Trauma, Memory, Accountability, and Repair"Canceled: Jessica L. Horton, "Earth Diplomacy: Diné (Navajo) Arts of Reciprocity, 1966-1968"
    • Mimi Onuoha,  "The Hair In The Cable."
    • Usha Iyer, "Indian Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Media Intimacies across Creolized Geographies"

    University Film Series
    • Powwow Highway (directed by Jonathan Wacks)
    • The Color of Pomegranates (directed by Sergei Paradjanov)
    Work-In-Progress Series
    • Alisa Wade,"Wives, Widows, Executrixes: The Familial Politics of Elite Women’s Inheritance in Early National New York City"
    • Luz Bermúdez, "Social History through the Act of Naming San Cristobal de Las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico)"
    • Misgav Har Peled, "Resistance, Bodies Politic and Extermination: Roman Emperors, Anguished Rabbis and Circumcision"
    Digital Humanities
    • Willis Monroe: "Introducing the Database of Religious History"
    • Amanda Henrichs: "Embroidered Tales: Remediating Mary Wroth"
    • Jennifer Underwood: "Storytelling in Video Games: Narrative Devices and Gameplay"
    • Beverly McGuire: "More than Mindfulness: Buddhist-Inspired Apps with Ethical Aims"
  • 2019-2020 Environmental Humanities

    Director
    Daniel Veidlinger

    Board
    Heather Altfeld
    Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
    Hannah Burdette
    Rob Davidson
    Chiara Ferrari
    Troy Jollimore
    Erin K Kelly
    Rachel Middleman
    William Nitzky
    Hope Smith
    Corey Sparks
    Najm al-Din Yousefi
    Lauren Ruth
    Ex-officio
    Joseph Alexander
    Tracy Butts
    Laura Nice
    Visiting Scholars
    • Jeffrey Cohen, “Noah’s Arkive: Utopia, Failure and Climate Change”
    • Julie Sze, “Environmental Justice as Freedom”
    • Anna Tsing, “Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene”
    • Canceled: Jessica L. Horton, "Earth Diplomacy: Diné (Navajo) Arts of Reciprocity, 1966-1968"
    Tertulias
    • Mark Stemen, “The Narrative of Climate Change”
    • Erin Kelly, “Social Identity and the Human Animal Divide in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost”
    • Heather Altfeld, “(Im)permafrost in Siberia”
    • Sarah Pike, “Climate Strikes as Rituals to Save the Earth”
    • Vernon Andrews “African American Culture and the Natural Environment: From Camping to Burning Man”
    University Film Series
    • 13th (directed by Ava DuVernay)
    • The Lure (directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska)
    • Nanook of the North (directed by Robert J. Flaherty)
    • Genocide/War of the Insects (directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu)
    • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli) (directed by Ermanno Olmi)
    • Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso) (directed by Felipe Cazals)
    Work-In-Progress Series
    • Rob Davidson, "Beyond 'Errand': Raymond Carver and the Art of Homage"
    • Teresa Traver, “Reading Victorian Children’s Sunday Books as Hybrid Genre”Bruce Grelle, “Observations on the ‘Religion of the Market’”
    • Katia Samilova, "Varieties of mental control"
    • Ariane Bélanger-Vincent, "'Gender Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Disarmament Treaties: the Case of the Mine Ban Convention"
    • Eran Zelnik, “A Tale of Two Clowns: The Black Minstrel, the Frontier Jester, and the Making of Jacksonian America”
    • Postponed: Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, “¡Transfeminista! A Cartography of Transfeminist Activisms Across the Americas”
    • Postponed: Jason Nice, “History Art, History Printmaking: Cross-Referencing the Earl Haig Memorial on Whitehall, London”
    Digital Humanities
    • Matthew Looper, "Speaking Stones: New Approaches to Analyzing Maya Hieroglyphic Writing"
    • Laura Sparks, "'Scrolling is Inevitable, Like Falling': Digital Rhetoric in Human Rights Activism”
    • Kim Jaxon, "Making as an Epistemic Practice: Inviting Students to Make"
    • Postponed: Panel Discussion by Alyssa Daniels, Daniel Veidlinger, Corey Sparks, "Making the Digital Humanities at Chico State"
    Panel Discussions
    • “Climate Change and the Existential Crisis: A Panel on Ethics and Actions” (Mark Stemen, Geography and Planning Department; Troy Jollimore; Philosophy Department; Randy Larsen, Philosophy Department; Haley Adams, AS Sustainability)
  • 2015-2016 Play

    Director
    Sarah Pike

    Board
    Heather Altfeld
    Hannah Burdette
    Laird Easton
    Troy Jollimore
    Rachel Middleman
    Laura Nice
    Hope Smith
    Corey Sparks
    Daniel Viedlinger
    Wai-hung Wong

    Ex-officio
    Joseph Alexander
    Robert Knight

    Guests

    • Bill Johnson and Cynthia Lammel (Music and Theatre), “Playing/Players/Plays”
    • L. M. Bogad (UC Davis), “Tactical Performance: On the Theory and Practice of Serious Play”
    • Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Playing with Religion and Video Games”
    • William Campbell (University of Memphis), “Playing Indian, Europeans, First Peoples, and Struggles for Hegemony in Early North America”
    • Lisa Yun Lee (University of Illinois at Chicago), “From Hull-House to Hip-Hop: On the Fierce Urgency of Play in Social Movements”
    • Sergio M. Pellis (University of Lethbridge, Alberta), “Fairness, uncertainty and the role of play fighting in making and using the social brain”

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Dennis Rothermel (Philosophy), “The Game and the Business: Four Films About Baseball”
    • Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy), “Play as an Objective Value”
    • Laird Easton (History), “God, Father, Sex: Some Themes in the Life and Thought of Lou Andreas-Salomé”
    • Sarah Pike (Comparative Religion) and Rachel Middleman (Art and Art History), “Play in Political Art and Protest: a Discussion”
    • Reading Group: Huizinga and Caillois
      James Karman (Emeritus, Humanities), “Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet”
  • 2014-2015 Food and Culture

    Director
    Troy Jollimore

    Board
    Geoffrey Baker
    Rob Davidson
    Laird Easton
    Robert Herhusky
    Troy Jollimore
    Laura Nice
    Char Prieto
    Hope Smith
    Daniel Veidlinger
    Wai-hung Wong

    Ex-officio
    Robert Tinkler
    Robert Knight

    Guests

    • A Talk and Taste of Slow Food with Lori Weber (Political Science)
    • Feast and Famine: One Thousand Years of Russian Food—A Humanities Center talk with Darra Goldstein (Russian, Williams College)

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • When Humans Attack—A tertulia on hunting ethics and cultures. Robert Jones (Philosophy) and Sarah Pike (Comparative Religion)
    • Anthropology of food—A tertulia with Jesse Dizard (Anthropology)
  • 2013-2014 Translation

    Director
    Sarah Pike

    Board
    Geoffrey Baker
    Rob Davidson
    Laird Easton
    Robert Herhusky
    Troy Jollimore
    Laura Nice
    Char Prieto
    Hope Smith
    Daniel Veidlinger
    Wai-hung Wong

    Ex-officio
    Robert Tinkler
    Robert Knight

    Guests

    • Panel on "Translating the Dharma in Buddhist Asia featuring guest Paul Harrison (Co-Director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford), Daniel Veidlinger (Comparative Religion) and Jason Clower (Comparative Religion)
    • Forrest Gander
    • Peggy Shumaker Poetry Reading
    • "Translating the Realist Body: Naturalism's Nervous Mimesis." Christopher Hill (Associate Director of the European Institute at Columbia University)
    • Guest poet and translator Meryl Natchez and Kate Transchel
    • Race, Species and Nature in a Multicultural Age. Claire Kim (Political Science, U.C. Irvine)
    • Street Chants and Violins, Politics and Race in Venezuela T. M. Scruggs (University of Iowa)

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Translation Reading Group, Edith Grossman, excerpt from Why Translation Matters (please contact Sarah Pike for a pdf of the chapter from Grossman’s book)
    • “Paying Off Debts to Ourselves: Inspiration, Imitation, and the Art of Homage in Picasso, James, and Carver,” Rob Davidson (English)
    • Katie Whitlock (Music and Theatre) discusses her adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance text The Tragic History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus, for a contemporary audience.
    • “Translating the Alien.”, Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    • Professor Joel Rogers with students from the Department of Music and Theatre discuss “Spring Awakening,” by Duncan Sheik
    • “Looking Both Ways: Translation in the Literary & Visual Arts”, A panel discussion with Pat Collentine, Peter Jodaitis, Susan Larsen, and Peggy Shumaker. Hosted by Rob Davidson (English)
    • The Indeterminacy of Translation, Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)
    • "'I swim in Homer': Northern Irish writers since 1965 'translate' Ancient Greek", Laura Nice (Humanities)
    • Translating Max Weber’s “Politics as Vocation”, Dagmar Waters (Teaching International Languages) and Tony Waters (Sociology)
    • The Art and Perils of Translating Culture, Julia Kobrina-Coolidge, Sara E. Cooper, Rony Garrido, Brunella Windsor
    • Translating a Translation of the Bible: Emilio Villa’s Genesis, Dominic Siracusa (UCLA)
  • 2012-2013 Revolutions

    Director
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)

    Board
    Geoffrey Baker (English)
    Jessica Clark (History)
    Jason Clower (Religious Studies)
    Rob Davidson (English)
    Laird Easton (History)
    Robert Herhusky (Art and Art History)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    Kyle Killian
    Asa Mittman (Art and Art History)
    Laura Nice
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Robert Tinkler (Associate Dean)
    Joel Zimbelman (Dean)

    Guests

    • Dr. Roland S. Kamzelak, “The Treasures of the German National Literary Archives”
    • Daniel Alarcón
    • Tracy Butts (English), "I wanted to write / a poem / that rhymes / but revolution doesn't lend / itself to [Hip Hopping]"
    • Andrew Flescher, "Should Health Care be Considered a Right in the United States?: Re-examining the Ethics and Constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act”
    • Martin Puchner (Harvard University), "How to Write a Revolution.” “Revolutions”
    • Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy), "Revolution in the Head: The Disappearing '60s"
    • Fred Arroyo, fiction reading
    • Sara Cooper (Foreign Languages and Literatures) “The Fate of (Cuban) Revolutionary Idealism: Translating ‘The Bleeding Wound.’”
    • Laird Easton (History), The Adventure of Adventure: History of an Obsession in Western Culture
    • Najm Yousefi (History) Revolution in Shia Political Thought and the Making of the Islamic Republic of Iran
    • Alan Gibson (Political Science), Dan Edelstein (Stanford University), “James Madison and the American Revolution of 1787.”
    • Robert Jones (Philosophy), In the Name of Revolution; Animal Liberation at 40.

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Zanja Yudell (Philosophy), "Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions—50 Years Later."
    • Reading group tertulia on Martin Puchner, “The Formation of a Genre,” a chapter about the Communist Manifesto from Puchner’s book Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
    • Discussion of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
    • Rony Garrido (International Languages), Luz Méndez de la Vega's Struggle With Faith in Her Collection of Poetry Eva sin Dios (Godless Eve): A psychodynamic Perspective
    • Kristen Mahlis (Multicultural and Gender Studies), The Haitian Revolution in the Transatlantic Imagination
    • Panel discussion with Geoff Baker (English), Laird Easton (History) and guests Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania) and Marion Kant (University of Pennsylvania and Pembroke College, Cambridge University) on Modernism as a Revolution
    • Geoff Baker (English), ‘For Love of Clarity’: Émile Zola and the Political Aesthetic of Realistic Literature.

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Lynn Criswell and Michael Bishop, “It is not that different but it really is”
    • Gone to Ground: photographs by Wayne Barrar.
  • 2011-2012 China and the West

    Director
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)

    Board
    Geoffrey Baker (English)
    Jessica Clark (History)
    Jason Clower (Religious Studies)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Rob Davidson (English)
    Robert Herhusky (Art and Art History)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    Michael Mazur (Theatre Arts)
    Asa Mittman (Art and Art History)
    Jason Nice (History)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies) Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)
    Joel Zimbelman (Dean)

    Guests

    • Lecture Series on Japan Kimihiko Nomura, Foreign Languages, on the history of karaoke singing
    • Tim Tatton-Brown, Archaeological Consultant to Salisbury Cathedral, "The Making of a Medieval Masterpiece: Construction of Salisbury Cathedral (1220–1258)" and "On the Construction of the Tower and Spire of Salisbury Cathedral"
    • Chunyan Song, Sociology, "Feeding China's Little Emperors in the Age of Globalization"
    • Katie Post, Public Affairs and Publications and CJFC, on mental and philosophical dimensions of the art of "Budo"
    • Xiaoze Xie, Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University, "Chinese contemporary art"
    • Jason Clower, Religious Studies, "Buddhism in Japan"
    • Wai-hung Wong, Philosophy, "Demystifying Chinese Kung Fu"
    • George Keithley, Writer's Voice Reading
    • Sandra Collins, History, Reading Culture of Edo Japan
    • Yoshio Kusaba, Emeritus, Art History,The Art of Tea as an Aesthetic Experience
    • Steve Edwards, Writer’s Voice Reading
    • Troy Jollimore, Writer’s Voice Reading
    • Guest speaker writer Yiyun Li, “China and the West”
    • Camille T. Dungy, Writer's Voice Reading
    • Guest speaker Xi Lian, "The Rise of the Christian Movement in Modern China"
    • Michel Czehatowski, "Acupuncture in Chinese Culture: From Prehistory to the Present"
    • Joyce Grimm, "Listen, respond, invent…repeat"
    • Rob Davidson (English), Writer's Voice Reading

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Peter Hogue (Emeritus, English)
    • Asa Mittman (Art and Art History) and Jason Clower (Religious Studies), On the Very Idea of 'East and West'
    • Sandra Collins (History), "Screening Modern China in Film"
    • “What Remains” Roundtable on the Silk Roads with Jason Clower (Religious Studies), Sandra Collins (History), Yoshio Kusaba (Art and Art History), and Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    • “Periods and Types”; China and the West Reading Group on Yiyun Li’s short story “Prison"
    • Humanities Center tertulia: “Frames” "Patterns"
    • Reading from Xi Lian's Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China, facilitated by Jason Clower
    • Robert O'Brien (English) discusses Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Why Creative People Shouldn't Try to Make Movies
    • Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies) talks about religion and the Internet
    • Geoff Baker (English) looks at the varied uses of Chinese characters by major European novelists in the 19th century.

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Artist talk by Niana Liu in conjunction with It's All Your Fault, an exhibit at the University Art Gallery
    • Peter Hogue (Emeritus, English) Ballpark Figures/ Cahiers du Fotoplay
    • Chunhong Chang
    • Xiaoze Xie (Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University), "Affinities, Parallels and Differences: Contemporary Chinese Art and Its Western Counterpart," "China and the West" guest speaker;
    • Black and White in Black and White: Selections From the Douglas Keister Collection of Glass Plate Negatives
    • Edward Zimmer (Historic Preservation Planner for the City of Lincoln), Lincoln in Black and White 1910-1925
    • "The Last Jews of Yemen", Make It Work: Remade and appropriated objects produced by Cameron Kelly
    • Design SI 2009–2012: Recent Work by Rouben Mohiuddin; Joyce Grimm, Listen, respond, invent…repeat.
  • 2010-2011 Chance

    Director
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)

    Board
    Geoffrey Baker (English)
    Tracy Butts (English)
    Jessica Clark (History)
    Jason Clower (Religious Studies)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Rob Davidson (English)
    Robert Herhusky (Art and Art History)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    Michael Mazur (Theatre Arts)
    Asa Mittman (Art and Art History)
    Jason Nice (History)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)
    Joel Zimbelman (Dean)

    Guests

    • Department of History Lecture Series, Stephen E. Lewis, "Mexico's 'Fiesta of Bullets'"
    • Andrew M. Flescher, Stony Brook University, "Is There Any Chance in Hell? Psychopathology and the New Manichean Challenge to Moral Agency"
    • Department of History Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture Series, Joan Waugh, UCLA, "U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth"
    • Department of History Roundtable, "The Politics of Economic Decline"
    • Writer's Voice Reading: Creative Writing Students, CSU Chico
    • Watershed Literary Magazine Reading
    • Department of History Lecture Series, James Matray, "Lessons of Pork Chop Hill"
    • Department of Religious Studies Lecture Series, Louis Greenspan, McMaster University, "Whither the Secular City"
    • Department of Religious Studies Lecture Series, Rebecca Moore, San Diego State, "Contested Knowledge: What Conspiracy Theories Are Telling Us"
    • Department of Religious Studies Lecture Series, Mygoen Steve Stucky, San Francisco Zen Center
    • Center for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE), Joseph Mazur, Marlboro College, "The Psychology and Ethics of Gambling"
    • Jackson Lears, Rutgers University, "The Trigger of History: Rethinking Capitalism and Modernity"
    • Writer's Voice Reading: Sally Ann McNall, CSU Chico
    • University Art Gallery's Guest Juror, Annual Student Exhibition: Kevin Chen, Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco), "These Things Take Time"
    • John Milbauer, University of Arizona, "Chance" concert including Cage, Stockhausen, Boucourechliev, Scarlatti, and Mozart

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Peter Hogue (English)
    • Mike Mazur (Theatre)
    • Rob Davidson (English)
    • Katie Whitlock (Theatre)
    • Louis Greenspan, McMaster University
    • Bill Campbell (History)
    • Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    • Nancy Carter + Neil Schwertman (Mathematics + Statistics)

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Karen Westheimer Dogs I Have Known...And A Few Stray Cats
    • Jean Gallagher Balance
    • Jonathon KeatsSpace Race
    • Rodolfo Salgado Jr Expands to Over Five Times Its Size
    • J. Pouwels LookUp; Cal-Ling Equilibrium
    • Brenden PriceSpeculation
    • Sienna Orlando What Remains
    • Maria I. Navarro Inscapes
    • Jerril Dean Kopp Characters in My Play
    • Cameron Crawford Field Notes
    • Amie Rogers + Ruby Rudnick Under the Thicket
  • 2009-10 Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins

    Director
    Troy Jollimore (Fall, Philosophy)
    Sarah Pike (Spring, Religious Studies)

    Board
    Russell Burnham (Music)
    Tracy Butts (English)
    Jason Clower (Religious Studies)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Rob Davidson (English)
    Laird Easton (History)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    Michael Mazur (Theatre Arts)
    Asa Mittman (Art and Art History)
    Jason Nice (History)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)
    Joel Zimbelman (Dean)

    Guests

    • Philosophy Colloquia: Alva Noë (UC Berkeley), Darko Sarenac (Colorado State), Gavin Lawrence (UCLA)
    • Department of History Inaugural Lecture Series, Jason Nice, "The Prophecy of Merlin on the Via di Monserrato"
    • Department of History's Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture, Daniel Walker Howe, "What Hath God Wrought"
    • Department of History Roundtable "The Fall of Communism: Twenty Years Later"
    • History Club (PhAThHC) Book Sale
    • Robin Ekiss, Poetry Reading co-sponsored with Writer's Voice
    • Writer's Voice Graduate Writers' Workshop 100
    • Watershed Literary Magazine Reading
    • Department of History Inaugural Lecture Series, Sandra Collins, "Olympic Failures: The Missing 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games"
    • Matt Matsuda (Rutgers) "Never Reaching the End: Memory at the Turn of Two Centuries," Humanities Center Theme Guest
    • Sandra Gilbert (UC Davis), "Modern Death, Millennial Mourning," Humanities Center Theme Guest
    • 2nd Annual Far East Fusion, "Art of Food & Fashion I: Tea Ceremony & Kimono Auction," "Art of Food & Fashion II: Sushi Demo & Contest of Sushi as Art"
    • Giovanni Maddalena, co-sponsored with the Center for the International Exchange of Scholars, Council of Arts and Letters, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and Department of Philosophy
    • Raphael Israeli, Visiting Scholar and Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem "The Uyghur Muslims in China"
    • Meg Shiffler Guest Juror Lecture, 55th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, University Art Gallery
    • Rebecca Skloot, co-sponsored with Department of Philosophy
    • James Richardson (Princeton), "'All Work Is the Avoidance of Harker Work': Proverb, Aphorism, Poem," co-sponsored with Writer's Voice

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Asa Mittman (Art and Art History)
    • Kyle Killian (Anthropology)
    • Russell Burnham (Music)
    • Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    • Peter DiFalco (Technology and Learning Program)
    • Laird Easton (History)
    • Elise Archias (Art and Art History)
    • Sarah Pike (Religious Studies) with Jenni Spangler (Art/Butte College)

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Tom Patton Spectator/Spectacle
    • Nancy Scott Patton Recent Work
    • Debra Koppman, I Saw the Strangest Things
    • Sue Richardson, Once Upon a Time
    • Ann Pierce, Umbrian Corridors and Others
    • Trevor Lalaguna, Co-Motion
    • Lynette Krehe+John Ferrell, Tuesday, Thursday
    • Lawrie Brown, Trashscapes
    • Janice Yudell Naked Corporate Power in a Nutshell
    • Sal Casa The Three Graces
    • Kijeong Jeon Something Green
    • Brad Thiele run on sentence
    • Ruben Heredia The Mystery Series Retrospective
    • Laura Kling Days of Our Lives
    • David Fuller Recent Work
    • Dennis Lee Coleman Portage
  • 2008-09 Beauty

    Director
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)

    Board
    Tracy Butts (English)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Rob Davidson (English)
    Laird Easton (History)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    Michael Mazur (Theatre Arts)
    Asa Mittman (Art and Art History)
    Jason Nice (History)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)
    Joel Zimbelman (Interim Dean)

    Guests

    • Department of History’s roundtable: “The Legacy of 1968”
    • Michael Adams and Byron Wolfe, lecturers for Ansel Adams exhibit (UAG)
    • Michael Bitz and Koichi Watanabe, lecturers for Manga exhibit
    • Stephen Berry, University of Georgia, Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture
    • Elaine Scarry, Harvard, Presidential Scholar and “Regarding Beauty” theme
    • Manuel Paul Lopez, poetry, Writer’s Voice
    • Tim Miller, performer
    • Jessica Clark, Department of History inaugural lecture
    • Peggy Shumaker, poetry, Writer’s Voice
    • Cadence of Hooves, Yarroway Mountain Press, poetry, Writer’s Voice
    • William Campbell, Department of History inaugural lecture
    • Alexander Nehamas, Princeton, “Regarding Beauty” theme
    • Kevin Prufer and Troy Jollimore, poetry
    • Michele Shover, Political Science, lecturer for Chinese-American exhibit (UAG)
    • Kyle Killian, “Regarding Beauty” theme
    • “Writer’s Workshop,” Writer’s Voice

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Andy Flescher (Religious Studies)
    • Kyle Wiley Pickett (Music)
    • Mike Mazur (Theatre)
    • Elise Archias (Art History)

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • You Are What You Eat Dylan Tellesen
    • Apropos Appropriation Marion Bronson, Richard Whitehead, Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, Darice McGuire and David Sutherland
    • PHOTOS (untitled) Peter Hogue
    • Small Collections Jason Tannen
    • Manga Power! The World Through a Child’s Eyes plus  Far East Fusion! Art of Food and Fashion I+II: Tea, Kimonos, and Sushi as ArtMasami Toku
    • David Johnson@Eighty: A Retrospective (1947-2008)
    • Plywood on Paper Klutch Stanaway
    • Piecemeal Robin Indar
    • Selected Works Lynn Criswell
    • to map the inner see Kathleen Nartuhi
    • Plastic on Paper Dean Kessmann
    • Recent Work Amanda Riner
    • Recent Work Josh Olivera and Sandi Escobar
  • 2007-08 The Book

    Director
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)

    Board
    Tracy Butts (English)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Rob Davidson (English)
    Laird Easton (History)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    Michael Mazur (Theatre Arts)
    Jason Nice (History)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)<
    Joel Zimbelman (Interim Dean)

    Guests

    • Gerald Haslam, fiction writer and retired professor from Sonoma State
    • Binh Danh, visiting artist
    • Naomi Schneider, executive editor at the University of California Press
    • Lucy Puls, chair, Department of Art and Art History, UC Davis
    • Michael Les Benedict, faculty emeritus from Ohio State and the year's Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecturer
    • Carole Oles, poet and English faculty emerita, Chico State
    • Jo Babcock, visiting artist
    • Steve Wasserman, literary editor and managing director for Kneerim & Williams literary agency
    • Joan Frank, fiction writer
    • Masami Toku, scholar and art education professor, Chico State
    • James Scully, poet and essayist
    • Sarah Pike, scholar and religious studies professor, Chico State
    • Writers from  Watershed, Chico State's literary magazine
    • John Milbauer, pianist and music faculty at University of Arizona, with Paulina Zamora, pianist and music faculty at Escuela Moderna de Musica/Santiago
    • Thomas Kren, curator, Department of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum
    • Bruce Grelle, scholar and religious studies professor, Chico State
    • Troy Jollimore, poet and director of the Humanities Center and philosophy professor, Chico State
    • Steven Church, fiction writer and essayist
    • Molly Tenenbaum, poet, musician, and teacher
    • Linda Dalrymple Henderson, professor and scholar, University of Texas-Austin
    • Presidential Scholar Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam Professor of History at Princeton and prolific writer
    • Michael Taylor, curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    • Val Gray Ward, actress, producer, and cultural activist
    • Diana Daniels, assistant curator, Crocker Art Museum
    • Jed Wyrick, scholar and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Chico State
    • Michael Schwager, curator, scholar, and art faculty, Sonoma State
    • Rob Davidson, scholar, fiction writer, musician, and professor of English, Chico State

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Andy Flescher (Religious Studies)
    • Beth Spencer (English)
    • Andy Flescher (Religious Studies) with Daniel Worthen (Psychology)
    • Mahan Mirza (Religious Studies)
    • John Traver (English)

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Grand-Dearie’s Death Castle Christine Fulton
    • Frankel Family Festival
    • Desire Patrick Collentine and Susan Larsen
    • Cryptomnesia Sue Whitmore
    • Drawn on Thirty-Three Peter Jodaitis
    • Books Michelle Davis
    • Wunderkammer: Natural Curiosities Eric Richter
    • Meaning Matters: Projects from PreNeo Press Kent Manske and Nanette Wylde
    • Taking Notes: Drawings, Doodles, and Engraved Desktops Jeremy Golden and Chris Ficken
    • Re: Group Eileen Macdonald and 10 Other 2001-2003 Graduates of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC)
    • Carcinogenic Carla Resnick
    • You Are What You Eat Dylan Tellesen
  • 2006-07 The Built Environment

    Director
    Laird Easton (History)

    Board
    Amy Bloch (Art and Art History)
    Jeanne Clark (English)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy, on leave 2006-07)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History, on sabbatical spring 2007)
    John Milbauer (Music)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Sue Whitmore (Art and Art History)
    Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)

    Ex-officio
    Sarah Blackstone (Dean)
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)

    Guests

    • President’s Visiting Scholar, architect/historian/critic Witold Rybczynski
    • Richard Keely, artist and professor at San Diego State
    • Author and graphic designer Leonard Koren
    • Alan Taylor, professor of history at UC-Davis and winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in History
    • Troy Jollimore, poet, philosopher, and CSU-Chico professor
    • Heath Schenker, professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at UC Davis
    • David L. Pike, professor of comparative literature at American University
    • writer Sharman Apt Russell, Western New Mexico University and Antioch University, Los Angeles
    • Allan Jacobs and Elizabeth Macdonald, noted Bay Area architects and city planners
    • Vincent Craig Wright, professor at Southern Oregon University and fiction writer
    • Kate McCarthy, Religious Studies, CSU Chico.

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Amy Bloch (Art and Art History)
    • Rob Davidson (English)
    • Andrea Lerner (English)
    • Daniel Schindler (Theatre Arts) and Annaliese Baker (Theatre, CSU Fresno)
    • Geoff Baker (English)
    • Lynn Marie Houston (English)
    • Daniel Veidlinger (Religious Studies)
    • Daniel Veidlinger and Andy Flescher (Religious Studies)
    • Kijeong Jeon (Art and Art History)
    • Sarah Blackstone (Dean)

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Luminescence Weston Thomson
    • Claire Jauregui; Listening Lines Mabrie Ormes
    • You and What Army and  The Occupied Territory Blake Christopher Britton
    • Drawing on Classicism Karl McDade
    • Sympathy, Janice Porter
    • SOS (Search Out Space) Dingily Dangly art students, Chico State
    • Two Wools Dan Wooldridge and Susan Wooldridge
    • Transparent Longings Belinda Hanson
    • The Strange and Wonder-Full World of Meister Rabenschnabel Achim von Boxberg
    • Meet Me at the Fair, Eros & Death! Wayne Pease
    • Liquified Excrescence Rodolfo Salgado, Jr
    • Grand-Dearie’s Death Castle Christine Fulton
  • 2005-06 War and Culture

    Director
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)

    Board
    Amy Bloch (Art and Art History)
    Jeanne Clark (English)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Laird Easton (History)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    John Milbauer (Music)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Char Prieto (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Sue Whitmore (Art and Art History)

    Ex-officio
    Sarah Blackstone (Dean)
    Donald Heinz (Religious Studies)
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)

    Guests

    • Martha Nussbaum (President's Visiting Scholar), author and philosopher, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor chair at the University of Chicago
    • Patricia Henley, novelist and professor of English at Purdue
    • Nancy Mirabal (history), Teresa Carillo (la Raza studies), Jillian Sandell (women’s studies), three visiting scholars from San Francisco State
    • Patricia Cline Cohen (Joanna Dunlap Cowden Lecture), chair of history at UC Santa Barbara
    • Trina Robbins, U.S.A. girls' comics writer and researcher, and Tomoko Yamada, Shojo manga researcher and curator of the Kawasaki City Museum
    • Samuel Scheffler, professor of philosophy, UC Berkeley.

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • More Stuff (Jesus Ramirez)
    • Cynthia Schildhauer, Claudia Steel, Found Love and  The Sky Is Falling (Cristina Nehring)
    • Margot Quan Knight
    • Shojo Manga Power! Girl Comics from Japan (Masami Toku)
    • Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly (Steve Miranda Byer)
    • Veil Dressing Room (Giety Epting)
    • Vague Questions Seeking Answers (Dennis Coleman)
    • Points of Contention (Trevor Koch)
    • Works on Paper (Eileen Macdonald)
    • Solana (Lynette Krehe)

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Stephen Lewis (History)
    • Wai-hung Wong (Philosophy)
    • James Matray (History)
    • Laird Easton (History)
    • Jason Tannen (Art and Art History)
    • Troy Jollimore (Philosophy) with Fitz Smith (Wittenberg University)
    • Timothy Sistrunk (History)
    • Pilar Alvarez-Rubio (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    • Becky White and Susanna Boxall (Philosophy)
    • Rob Davidson (English)
    • Jeanne Clark (English)
  • 2004-05 War and Culture

    Director
    Laird Easton (History)

    Board
    Jeanne Clark (English)
    Sara Cooper (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    John Milbauer (Music)
    Robert O'Brien (English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    J. Fitz Smith (English)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Sue Whitmore (Art and Art History)

    Ex-officio
    Sarah Blackstone (Dean)
    Donald Heinz (Religious Studies)
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)

    Guests

    • James McPherson (President's Visiting Scholar, Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture), Pulitzer Prize winner, professor of history at Princeton
    • James Sterba (President's Visiting Scholar, 1 st Annual Peace Institute), professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, member of Joan B. Kroc International Peace Institute
    • Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of social and political ethics at the University of Chicago
    • Christoff Wolff (Third Annual Bach Festival), professor of music at Harvard
    • Wolfgang Schivelbusch, German social historian
    • John C. Hampsey, professor of English, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Visions of Northern California (Anthony Dunn)
    • What's Plumb, What's True, What's Square (Robert Herhusky)
    • Moving Targets: The Art of Resistance (in conjunction with University Art Gallery)
    • German Days (curator Christine Goulding)
    • Please Accept This Cup I Have Made as a Gift (Ehren Tool)
    • Day of the Dead (community celebration)
    • Spitting Image (Marilyn Moore)
    • Public Culture / Personal Space: Photographs from the Street (Jason Tannen)
    • Small Colored Squares (Electronic Arts Program students)
    • ebaybies: Genuine & Lasting Friends (Nanette Wylde)
    • The City & Other Suites (Tom Patton and Nancy Scott Patton)

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Andrew Flescher (Religious Studies)
    • Ken Rose (History)
    • Candace Slater (Humanities, Humanities Center, UC Berkeley)
    • Ron Hirschbein (Philosophy)
    • Sara Cooper (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    • Robert Tinkler (History)
    • Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    • J. Fitz Smith (English)
    • Sarah Blackstone (dean, HFA)
    • Kathleen McPartland (Public Affairs and Publications)
    • Sharon May (MFA, English, CSU Chico)
    • Chris Fosen (English)
    • David Martins (English)
    • Michael Bishop (Art)
    • Laird Easton (History)
  • 2003-04 Science and the Aesthetic Imagination

    Director
    Laird Easton (History)

    Board
    Sara Cooper (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    John Milbauer (Music)
    Robert O’Brien (English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    J. Fitz Smith (English)
    Robert Tinkler (History)
    Sue Whitmore (Art and Art History)

    Ex-officio
    Sarah Blackstone (Dean)
    Don Heinz (Religious Studies)
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)

    Guests

    • Gavin Campbell, professor of American history and culture
    • Doshisa University, Kyoto, and music critic
    • Robert Osserman, professor emeritus of mathematics, Stanford, and special projects director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    • James Kincaid, professor of English, USC
    • Richard Powers, novelist and professor of creative writing, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 

    Co-sponsored

    • Francoise Waquet, intellectual historian and director of research, Universite de Paris IV
    • Maureen Gosling and Les Blank, documentary filmmakers
    • John Butt, musicologist and organist

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Paint Matters (Mabrie Ormes)
    • Peripheral Landscapes (Patricia K. Kelly)
    • New Works (Cameron Crawford)
    • German Days (Christine Goulding, curator)
    • Women and Children (Peter Jodaitis)
    • Cozy (Sue Whitmore)
    • Day of the Dead (community and university celebration)
    • Ira Latour: A Retrospective (Ira Latour)
    • Costume for the Stage: A Retrospective (Sandra Barton, curator)
    • Eileen Macdonald’s students’ print sale;  Trial by Fire (Sue Whitmore’s students’ ceramics)
    • Progress (Mike Murphy)
    • New Works (Lars Rasmussen)
    • Visions of Gotham (Jason Tannen)
    • TranceZendental Aria (Davin Skonberg and David Sutherland)
    • dis place (Sheri Simons)
    • A Life of Theatre (Marty Gilbert)
    • New Works (Pat Collentine and Susan Larsen)
    • 3 Monkeys Stopped to Show (Sisko, Jeb Sisk, and Onnah Sisk)

    Symposia/Tertulias

    • Wai-Hung Wong (Philosophy)
    • Margaret Owens (Math)
    • George Keithley (English)
    • Sarah Blackstone (Dean, HFA)
    • Peter Hogue (English)
    • John Milbauer (Music)
    • Fitz Smith (English)
    • Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    • Chris Gaffney (Physics)
    • Andrew Flescher (Religious Studies)
    • James McManus (Art and Art History)
    • Cynthia Lammel (Theatre Arts)
    • Sally McNall (Honors Program)
    • Robert O’Brien (English)
    • Louis Buccholtz (Physics)
  • 2002-03 The Two Cultures Revisited: Science and the Humanities plus Eros and Culture

    Director
    Laird Easton (History)

    Board
    Sara Cooper (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Anthony Graybosch (Philosophy)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    James Kuiper (Art and Art History)
    Jeff Livingston (History)
    John Milbauer (Music)
    Magda Mueller (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Michael Schwartz (English)
    Jason Tannen (Art and Art History)

    Ex-officio
    Sarah Blackstone (Dean)
    Don Heinz (Religious Studies)
    Thomasin Saxe (Director of Special Projects)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)

    Guests

    • Edward J. Larson, historian
    • Alan Ryan; political scientist
    • Cristina Nehring, essayist and cultural critic

    Co-sponsored

    • JoAnne Erickson, museum docent
    • George Crumb, composer
    • Christoph Wolff, musical scholar
    • Les Blank, filmmaker

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Paint (Jason Adkins)
    • Images of Amami Islands (Makoto Koshima)
    • German Days (Christine Goulding, curator)
    • Photography from Zambia (Lisa Foster)
    • Alignments: Stonehenge to Sutro (Peter Jodaitis)
    • Day of the Dead (community and university celebration)
    • Surviving: Native Style (Daraxa Mattice, curator)
    • Transition + Transformation (Cal Ling)
    • kolorbar.com (Pat Collentine and Susan Larsen)
    • Transition + Transformation II (Cal Ling)
    • Bric-A-Brac (Rebekah Morse)
    • Colors of Chico (Christa Seybold-Haynes and Renee Suzanne Muir)
    • Window Dressing (Sisko)
    • Figure Prints (David Hoppe)
    • On the Way to Guitarro (Lynette Krehe)
    • St. Petersburg (Leningrad) under Brezhnev and under Putin (1972-77 and 2002) (Jiri Tondl)

    Symposia

    • Jason Tannen (Art and Art History)
    • Don Miller (Foreign Languages and Literature)
    • Kate McCarthy (Religious Studies)
    • Lois Bueler (English)
    • Rony Garrido (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    • Lawrence Bryant (History)
    • Micki Lennon (Religious Studies)
    • Christian Fosen (English)
  • 2001-02 The Role of the Public Intellectual

    Director
    Laird Easton (History)

    Board
    Sara Cooper (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Marcel Daguerre (Philosophy)
    Anthony Graybosch (Philosophy)
    Karen Hatch (English)
    Peter Hogue (English)
    Troy Jollimore (Philosophy)
    Magda Mueller (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Jason Tannen (Art and Art History)≈ Kate Transchel (History) 

    Ex-officio
    Sarah Blackstone (Dean)
    Don Heinz (Religious Studies)
    Thomasin Saxe (Assistant to the Dean)

    Guests

    • Richard Rorty, philosopher
    • Susan Haack, philosopher
    • Russell Jacoby, historian 

    Co-sponsored

    • Daven Gee, filmmaker
    • Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian
    • Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, art historian
    • Mark Poster, historian
    • Rudy Giscombe, photographer and musician
    • Crispin Sartwell, philosopher
    • Foreign Languages and Literaturesâ 
    • Many Faces of Humor Colloquium

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • New Works (Aaron Cuthbertson)
    • Colors of Cultural Crossing (Christa Seybold-Haynes)
    • Posters from Germany (Christine Goulding, curator)
    • Spindrift (Lynette Montgomery)
    • Shared Space (Klutch Stanaway)
    • California North: An Homage to Ansel Adams at 100 (Juri Brilts, Cris Guenter, and Michael Simmons)
    • Reward Structure (Klutch Stanaway)
    • Elizabeth Newman Kuiper (Elizabeth Newman Kuiper)
    • Plant Whispers (Paula Busch)
    • What Makes It Good (Beth Macias)
    • Get Your Own Blankety-Blank (Tom Brockman)
    • Aesthetic Analysis (Jason and Elaine Esteban)
    • CDES Graphic Design/Photography Juried Show 2002
    • Marks on Place: American Landscapes (Catherine Jennings)
    • Book of a Polish Pilgrimage: Silesia 1999-2002 (Joe Marsh)
    • Amanda Zella Riner (Amanda Zella Riner)

    Symposia

    • Yoshio Kusaba (Art and Art History)
    • Christine Goulding (German)
    • Magda Mueller (German)
    • James Karman (English)
    • Tracy Butts (English)
    • Sheri Simons (Art and Art History)
    • Terri Elliott (Philosophy)
    • Robert Tinkler (History)
  • 2000-01 Whither the Humanities?

    Director
    Rob Burton (fall, English)

    Board
    Mark Blackwell (English)
    Anthony Graybosch (Philosophy)
    Susan Green (History)
    Laird Easton (History)
    Matt Looper (Art History)
    Magda Mueller (German)
    Robert O’Brien (Spring, English)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)
    Kate Transchel (History)

    Ex-officio
    Don Heinz (Dean)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Fall, Associate Dean)
    Thomasin Saxe (Assistant to the Dean)

    Guests

    • Joseph Margolis, philosopher
    • Roger Shattuck, literary critic and scholar

    Co-sponsored

    • George Ayittey, economist
    • Daven Gee, filmmaker
    • John McDermott, philosopher
    • Stephen Murray, art historian
    • Peter Steiner, cartoonist

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • As a Woman (Veronica Dondero)
    • Town and Country (Jason Tannen)
    • Making Meaning: Banners & Icons(Kent Manske)
    • Blackened Soul a la Carte (Davin Skonberg, Rene Stephens, Dave Sutherland)
    • CSU Summer Arts (curated by Michael Bishop; Michael Charley, Jessica Efstratis, Robert Herhusky, Laurie Simbro, Amy Zempel, A.J. Reed, Sarah Hogue, Julian Martin, Atsushi Iwai, Alexander Johnson, Christina Seashore, Bryan Machowsky)
    • James Kuiper: New Work
    • Native Roots (curated by Daraxa Mattice for Indigenous Nations Alliance
    • Junie Mattice, Billy Hawk Enos, Charlie Burns, Farrell Cunningham, Tony Smith, Cody Lucich)
    • Jason Long: B.F.A. Exhibit
    • Junk and Disorderly (Steve Miranda Byer)
    • Wei Hsueh: New Work
    • Origins: Origens (Cristina Rosa)
    • Book in Common (curated by Nanette Wylde)
    • The Homeless Collection (Robert J. Ash)

    Symposia

    • Sara Cooper (Spanish)
    • Lisa Gannett (Philosophy)
    • Charles Geshekter (History)
    • Ken Rose (History)
    • Jill Swiencicki (English)
    • Kyle Wiley-Pickett (Music)
  • 1999-00

    Director
    Rob Burton (English)

    Board
    Maryanne Bertram (Philosophy)
    Mark Blackwell (English)
    Sarah Caldwell (Religious Studies)
    Susan Green (History)
    Laird Easton (History)
    Matt Looper (Art History)
    Magda Mueller (German)
    Sarah Pike (Religious Studies)

    Ex-officio
    Don Heinz (Dean)
    Brooks Thorlaksson (Associate Dean)
    Thomasin Saxe (Assistant to the Dean)

    Guests

    • Lynn Freed, South African novelist
    • Frances Mayes, best-seller non-fiction writer

    Co-sponsored

    • Kira Hall, linguistic anthropologist
    • Maria Herrera-Sobek, Chicana cultural critic and poet
    • Huston Smith, religious scholar
    • Kazuaki Tanahashi, Buddhist painter and activist

    Gallery Exhibitions

    • Black Inventors Museum (traveling exhibit)
    • Cars and Chicks (Sarah Hogue, Cynthia Yurosko, Brooke Williams)
    • Jesus Ramirez y Ernesto Paul: Paintings; Rhythms and Myths (Cristina Rosa)
    • Valentine’s Day: Exhibit in Mixed Media (Steve Miranda Byer)
    • Varian Fry Exhibit: Assignment Rescue (traveling exhibit, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

    Symposia

    • Borders and Frontiers: Magda Mueller (German), Patricia Salzman-Mitchell (Latin), Pilar Alvarez-Rubio (Spanish), Rob Burton (English), Eugenio Frongia (Italian)
    • Don Heinz (dean’s office and Religious Studies)
    • Jeff Livingston (History)
    • Cliff Minor (History)
    • Reading groups for Huston Smith and Desmond Tutu
    • Kate Transchel (History)
    • Whither Humanities? (Performance and the Written Word, Interventions from the Corporate World, and The Challenge of the New Theorists)
    • Randy Wonzong (Theatre Arts)