Live, interactive webinars connect educators with scholars and experts in humanities fields to discuss compelling topics. Webinars are free of charge but require registration.
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Registration for the 2025–26 webinar season will open August 15, 2025.
2024–25 Season
Spring Semester
The Health Humanities: From the Clinic to the Classroom
January 23, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETMichael Robert Blackie (Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois Chicago)
Subjects: Medicine Humanities Education Studies Health Humanities Medical Humanities Disability Studies Diseases Teaching
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Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age
January 28, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETMichael S. Gorham (NHC Fellow, 2023–24; Professor of Russian, University of Florida)
Subjects: Journalism and Communication Technology Authoritarianism Internet Social Media Disinformation Politics Russian History Vladimir Putin Russia
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To Pimp A Butterfly: Hip-Hop, American Politics, and Cultural Impact
February 6, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETSequoia Maner (NHC Fellow, 2023–24; Assistant Professor, English, Spelman College)
Subjects: Music Literature African American Music United States Politics Cultural Studies African American History Hip-Hop To Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
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Promoting Equitable Teaching During the AI Literacy Crisis
February 13, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETAntonio Byrd (Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Subjects: Education Studies Teaching Digital Pedagogy Artificial Intelligence Information Literacy Digital Literacy Equity
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Who Has the Body? Mapping and Preserving the History of African American Cemeteries
February 20, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETNishani Frazier (Director of Public History, Department of History, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: History Education Studies African American History Local History
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Get Back to the Counter: Seven Lessons for Making a Difference
February 25, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETLoki Mulholland (Founder & Executive Director, The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation)
Subjects: History Education Studies American History American Civil Rights Movement Activism Activists
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(Re)Thinking and (Re)Centering the Celebration of American Women’s History
March 6, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETEmily Krichbaum (Director, Center for Girls' and Young Women's Leadership, Columbus School for Girls)
Subjects: History Education Studies Gender and Sexuality Women's History Women's Studies American History Civic Engagement Primary Sources Teaching
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Bob Dylan Center: Living Artists and Legacy Archives
March 11, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETSteven Jenkins (Director, Bob Dylan Center)
Subjects: Music Archives Bob Dylan
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Playful Genres: Leveraging Games as Opportunities for Inquiry
March 25, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETJosh Call (Professor of English, Grand View University)
Subjects: Education Studies Technology Video Games Genre Education Inquiry
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Country Soul: Music and Race in the American South
April 8, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETCharles L. Hughes (Associate Professor, History/Urban Studies, Rhodes College)
Subjects: Music History American History African American History American South
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Bushido or Bust: Student Perceptions of Samurai and What to do with Them
April 17, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETJ. Elijah Bender (Associate Professor of History, Concordia College)
Subjects: Education Studies Film and Media History Japanese History Media Literacy Popular Culture Samurai Teaching Japan
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The World Becomes What We Teach
April 22, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETZoe Weil (President, Institute for Humane Education, Antioch University New England)
Subjects: Education Studies Teaching Educational Psychology Education Theory
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Eight Strategies for Creating Inclusive Classrooms
May 1, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETLauren S. Cardon (Associate Professor of English, The University of Alabama) and Anne-Marie Womack (Associate Teaching Professor, Activate Engineering Communication Program, Rice University)
Subjects: Education Studies Pedagogy Teaching Students Higher Education Inclusive Education
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Kansas City, An American Crossroads
May 6, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETDiane L. Mutti Burke (Professor of History; Co-Director of Center for Digital and Public Humanities, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Subjects: Education Studies History American Civil War American History American Westward Expansion Racial Inequality Slavery Kansas City, MO
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Fall Semester
Interrogating Sources, Past and Present: Teaching Literacy and Democracy
September 10, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETDaisy Martin (Director, The History & Civics Project; Instructor, Education Department, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Subjects: Education Studies Journalism and Communication History Information Literacy Media Literacy Digital Literacy Civic Engagement Democracy Teaching Primary Sources
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Education and Student Formation: Ethics and the Profession of Teaching
September 19, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETEdward L. Queen, II (Associate Teaching Professor; Director, D. Abbott Turner Program in Ethics and Servant Leadership, Emory University)
Subjects: Education Studies Philosophy Ethics Pedagogy Students Teachers Teaching
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Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms and Equity-Mindsets
September 24, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETLeslie Nicole Clement (Director of the University Honors Program, Johnson C. Smith University)
Subjects: Education Studies Sociology Cultural Identity Diversity Equity Pedagogy Students Culturally Relevant Teaching
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The Power and Science of (Un)Learning
October 3, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETDolly Chugh (Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor, Management and Organizations Department, New York University)
Subjects: History Psychology Education Studies American History Learning Unlearning
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Slow Time: Media, Poetry, and the Pace of Literature
October 8, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETJonathan Sachs (NHC Fellow, 2014–15; 2023–24; Professor of English, Concordia University)
Subjects: Fiction and Poetry Literature Literary Criticism Poetry Romanticism Social Movements Great Britain
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Teaching Asian American History: Going Beyond Representation
October 15, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETFreda Lin (Co-Director, YURI Education Project)
Subjects: Education Studies History Asian Americans Asian American Studies Asian American History Teaching
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History’s Surprising Stories—What Southern Apples Tell Us About the South
October 22, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETDiane Flynt (Founder, Foggy Ridge Cider, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Subjects: History Education Studies American History American South Farming Food Agriculture Archives Primary Sources
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The Earliest Supreme Court
October 29, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETSally E. Hadden (NHC Fellow, 2023–24; Professor of History, Western Michigan University)
Subjects: Political Science History Legal History Political History American History Supreme Court of the United States United States of America
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Poems and Other Word Machines
December 3, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETSeth Perlow (Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University)
Subjects: Fiction and Poetry Technology Artificial Intelligence Literary Criticism Poetry William Carlos Williams
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