The School of Humanities is proud to host two prominent speakers for the Fall 2025 speaker series, both of whom study intersections of the humanities, technology, and history.
Dr. Christian Casey (Freie Universität Berlin) will give his talk, “Building Sustainable Digital Humanities Projects,” in Powers Auditorium on Wednesday, September 10, at 3:00 P.M.
Dr. Casey earned his PhD at Brown University and currently works as an Egyptologist at Freie Universität Berlin specializing in the evolution and cultural significance of ancient Egyptian scripts. His research combines traditional Egyptology with digital humanities to explore how writing systems developed over time and reflect the cultures that produced them. He currently leads the “Writing Through Time” project, which investigates script evolution through innovative interdisciplinary methods.
Our second guest speaker, Dr. Nancy MacLean (Duke University), will present on “Why is the Right Laying Siege to Our Institutions? The History that Solves the Mystery” in Powers Auditorium on Wednesday, November 5 at 3:00 P.M.
Dr. MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emeritus at Duke University. A historian of the modern U.S., she is the author of several award-winning books, most recently, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, finalist for the National Book Award. Her other publications include Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan and Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Her scholarship has received more than a dozen major prizes and awards.
We hope to see everyone there!
