2024 Majors’ Colloquium: What’s the Point?

Date
Mar 19, 2024, 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Speakers

  • Jill Dolan
    Dean of the College; Annan Professor of English
  • Rob Nixon
    Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment; Professor of English and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
  • Jeff Nunokawa
    Professor of English
  • Autumn Womack
    Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Details

What's the Point?

What’s the point of an English degree? Of language and literature? Of life itself? With some people catastrophizing that the humanities are in danger and the world itself in a volatile state, it’s not uncommon to feel a bit existential. We know these are difficult, maybe unsolvable questions, but we’d love for the speakers to help us begin to answer them at our upcoming English Majors Colloquium. 

When: 

  • Panel Discussion: 4:30 pm
  • Reception: 6 pm

 Where:

  • Panel Discussion: TBA
  • Reception: 171 Atrium (Weickart Atrium/Atrium Café), Louis Simpson International Building