The 2024-25 colloquium focused on the various exchanges that exist among historically oppressed and marginalized groups. Click here to watch the recorded events.

The use of the word exchanges refers to the connections, ideas, and creative productions shared among these groups. We use circuitous to emphasize that these connections, ideas, and creative productions are not always apparent, do not always travel from one direction to the other, and are often recursive in nature. The programs in this series focused on centering the lived experiences of these groups as they negotiate their outsider status with their host (or inhospitable) insider culture and devise ways to create a cultural identity regardless of their treatment. 

The colloquium was organized by the 2024-25 KHC-NEH Faculty Fellows, Dr. Raquel Corona, Doctoral Lecturer in the English department; Dr. Julia Rothenberg, Associate Professor of Sociology; and Dr. Danny Sexton, Associate Professor of English.