Other Humanities Events on Campus

Oct
15

Odyssey Day

TTU Classics and the Department of Classical and Modern Languages invite you to join the inaugural "Odyssey Day." Join the nationwide celebration of Homer's Odyssey and Christopher Nolan's film--along with the Society for Classical Studies, its members, and the community.

View artifacts, hear speakers, and enjoy readings from The Odyssey. All are welcome.

9am-4pm, Croslin Room, University Library

Oct
15

Sowell Collection Reading Series:
Professor Kristi Osorio (Texas Tech),
The Sound of Burning

Kristi Osorio will read from her new memoir, The Sound of Burning: A Mother, A Daughter, a Murder. A reception and book signing will follow.

Kristi Osorio is the author of The Sound of Burning: A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder. She is the winner of the 2023 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize selected by Camonghne Felix and the Sonora Review “Mercy” Contest in Nonfiction selected by Maggie Nelson. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Teachers & Writers Magazine, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. 

5:30pm, Formby Room Southwest Collection, or on Zoom.

Oct
16

Open Mic Night
with visiting writers Gabriela Weiner and Criseida Santos-Guevara

Mexican author and former TTU Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow Criseida Santos-Guevara is the 2026-2027 CMLL Writer in Residence. She holds her office hours every week on Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:30 in CMLL 250. 

Peruvian author Gabriela Wiener join us on campus to share her work from October 10-18. Gabriela Wiener is a renowned Peruvian writer and journalist based in Madrid. Her publications include Llamada erdida (stories of borders and migrants); the novels Nine Moons (feminist autofiction about maternity) and Huaco retrato (Undiscovered, the translation into English, was a finalist for the Inrockuptibles Prize and the Finestres Literary Prize and named a book of the year in El País and El Mundo); as well as a volume of interviews about her life, Dicen de mí, and the poetry collections Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu and Una pequeña fiesta llamada eternidad. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, French, Norwegian and Italian.

4-6pm, Mano Negra Brewing Company (708 13th Street)

Oct
16

Philosophy Colloquium:
Dr. Ethan Nowak (Stanford University),
"Aesthetic Responsibility in Ordinary Language"

There is a growing philosophical literature that aims to explain the sense in which artists, musicians, filmmakers, and other sorts of creative agents are responsible for the aesthetic virtues of their work. One of the many reasons this project has attracted attention is that a wide range of familiar social practices seem to presuppose that creators are indeed aesthetically responsible in some fairly deep way.

Dr. Nowak's aim in this talk will be to show that an analogous question arises in everyday speech — we take the things our interlocutors say to be funny, poignant, beautiful, and so on, and our assessments of one another in this space deeply shape our social world. He will argue that some of the leading candidates for a solution to the problem of creative conception in the case of capital-A art don’t extend very well to ordinary conversation, and he will sketch a view that is both philosophically satisfactory and psychologically plausible. 

Ethan Nowak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.

Humanities 264, 3pm-5pm, followed by a reception in the Philosophy lounge.

Oct
22

Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Series:
Dr. Krysta Ryzewski (Wayne State University),
"Archaeology under the Volcano: Six Thousand Years of Human History on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat"

Our Fall 2026 AIA Lecture Program continues with Professor Ryzewski’s exploration of six thousand years of human history on Montserrat through the archaeology of this Caribbean island and its volcanic landscape.

The AIA lecture is free and open to the public.

5:30pm, Humanities 001

Oct
22

Sowell Collection Reading Series:
Hannah Hindley

Hannah Hindley is a creative science writer and wilderness guide. Her essays have garnered multiple awards and have appeared in a number of publications, including Bay Nature, Grist, Terrain.org, and The Sun. Winner of the 2024 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Love and Other Fish is her first book. 

6pm on Zoom