Between Politics and Pop Culture: Watershed Takes on Fall 2019
This semester, Watershed members tackled the space between politics and pop culture with critical analysis of our post-truth world....
Will Turner and Luke Folk
- Nov 19, 2019
On the Media and the Crowd
A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate...
Sydney Baty
- Nov 19, 2019
The Art of the Historemix
Photo Credit Listen up let me tell you a story A story that you think you've heard before We know you know our names and our fame and our...
Lexus Root
- Nov 8, 2019
Queer Intimacy, Queer Art: Impressions from James Lowell Brunton's "Opera on TV"
Recently, I have been reading personal accounts of men who sought after HIV from one another, what is often called 'bugchasing' and...
Gretchen Geer
- Nov 6, 2019
HoTE Review: Claire Colebrook's "What Would You Do (And Who Would You Kill) in Order to Sav
This is an exciting year for the Humanities on the Edge speaker series, as it is celebrating its 10th year. The second of this year’s...
Hannah Kanninen
- Oct 29, 2019
Humanities on the Edge Preview: Claire Colebrook
In keeping with the Halloween spirit, the next lecturer in the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, Dr. Claire Colebrook, will focus...
Keshia Mcclantoc
- Oct 22, 2019
Patriarchy, Virginity, and Reclamation in Hocus Pocus
First released in 1993, Disney’s Hocus Pocus was considered a critical failure, losing nearly $16 million and running in theatres only a...
Linda J. Pawlenty
- Oct 22, 2019
Don't Make Me Choose, Please: Labor Exclusive of the Body or the Mind (?)
I need to talk about something said to me recently by someone in the academic world, when they assumed that I had been doing “more...
Jaclyn Swiderski
- Oct 15, 2019
Netflix's Queer Eye and Disability Representation
I want to begin by making something very clear: I love Queer Eye. I think it’s a fun and sometimes inspirational show that encourages...
Luke Folk
- Oct 8, 2019
Tucker Carlson, John Bolton, North Korea, and the Politics of “Killing People”
[T]he ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must...