Humanities on the Edge

Humanities on the Edge is a speaker series co-founded by Dr. Marco Abel and Dr. Roland Végső, who now co-ordinate the series together with Dr. Jeannette Jones (Department of History and Institute for Ethnic Studies), Luis Othoniel Rosa (Modern Languages & Literatures and Institute for Ethnic Studies), and Erin Hanas (Curator of Academic Programs at the Sheldon Museum of Art). Founded in 2010, the series is now in its 11th year, and its mission remains the same: to promote cross-disciplinary conversation and theoretical research in the Humanities.

We have reached a historical turning point, and [...] we must assume full responsibility for the direction of our futures.

Humanities on the Edge Manifesto

2021-22 “A World of Migrants: Displacement, Decoloniality, Necrocapitalism”

All events are free of charge and open to the public.

Thursday, September 16 - Sergio Delgado Moya
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University
“The Transduction of Affect: Migrants, Pain and Joy”
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium

Thursday, November 18 - Ramon Grosfoguel
Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California Berkeley
“Modernity, Racism, and Migration: A Journey into the Zone of Being and Zone of Non-Being”
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium

Thursday, March 10 - Thomas Nail
Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium

Thursday, April 21 - Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies & Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
“Plantation Imaginaries: Immigrant Forms and Forms of Enclosure”
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium

Past Seasons

Poster for 2021 season - text same as above

Lecture Videos

Cristina Rivera Garza

“Writing in Communality: An Aesthetics of Disappropriation”
Presented Thursday, March 18, 2021 on Zoom.

Novelist and literary theorist Cristina Rivera Garza, Tamaulipas, México, is a distinguished professor of Hispanic Studies and the director of the Creative Writing in Spanish Program at the University of Houston. In 2020, she received the MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of eight novels, among them, No one will see me cry (2001) and La muerte me da (2009), both of which won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for that year, as well as The Illiac Crest (2010) and, most recently, Autobiografía del algodón (2020).

Sayak Valencia

“From Gore Capitalism to Snuff Politics: The Body as Mass Media”
Presented Thursday, March 5, 2020, 5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium

Sayak Valencia is Professor and Researcher in the Department of Cultural Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.

Claire Colebrook

“What would you do (and who would you kill) in order to save the world?: Post-Apocalyptic Cinema and Extinction”

October 31, 2019
5:30 pm
Sheldon Museum of Art

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