In keeping with the Halloween spirit, the next lecturer in the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, Dr. Claire Colebrook, will focus on the concept of extinction within post-apocalyptic films. Dr. Colebrook is currently an Edwin Erle Sparks professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Colebrook will present her talk, “What would you do (and who would you kill) in order to save the world?: Post-Apocalypti

As we begin the first semester of the 2019/20 school year, we anticipate the resumption of the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, celebrating its 10th year of operating. To help us kick off the school year right, Dr. Annie McClanahan, associate professor of English at UC Irvine, will be presenting a talk titled “Tipwork, Gigwork, and Automation” from 5:30 to 7:00 in the Sheldon Museum of Art on Thursday September 5th. Dr. McClanahan’s research interests include “Contempo

On Thursday, April 18, Dr. Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health and Associate Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology, UC Davis, gave the final Humanities on the Edge lecture of the 2018-2019 academic year to a room filled to capacity at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Dr. Biltekoff began by contextualizing the boom in awareness and interest in natural food through the history of Natural Products Exp

Charlotte Biltekoff, Associate Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, will present her talk “Real Food / Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the U.S. Food and Information Landscape.” You can expect to see her in Lincoln, Nebraska on Thursday, April 18th from 5:30-7:00p at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. In addition to Biltekoff’s engaging talk that evening, she will be offering a work

One could say that the academy hates thinking. Thinking is a messy process of mulling over concepts, entertaining notions, both rejecting and accepting ideas, and still exceeds all these processes. Thinking rarely comes easily to us, but rather comes unexpectedly, and perhaps at inopportune times. Academia prefers when ideas and arguments are presented neatly. Innovative ideas are welcomed into the light of day only after peer review or other side constraints that confirm the