Spring 2026 Humanities Institute Events
2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture.
"Resistance, Resilience, and Radical Love"
Dr. Regina Shands Stoltzfus, Professor of Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies at Goshen
College (IN)
Wednesday, February 4 7:00-8:30 PM Room 203/4 Todd Building
Organized by UM's African American Studies
Book Release Celebration
Political Violence in Ancient Greece: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Stasis, 500-301 BCE. CUP, 2026.
March 4, 4 PM, Dell Brown Room
Dr. Scott Arcenas, Professor of History and Classics
Organized by UM Democracy Studies
Piotr Florczyk
1) Thursday, March 12, 7 PM: Poetry Reading, Mansfield Library
2) Friday, March 13, 11 AM - 1 PM: Translation Workshop, History Seminar Room
Organized by the Department of World Languages and Cultures and the Russian Program
Book Release Reading
The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives, and Possible Futures
Milkweed Editions, 2026
Dr Sean Hill
March 25 7pm
Missoula Art Museum
Organized by the English Department
2026 Hampton Memorial Lecture
"How the Real West was Lost: The Frontier Myth and the Erasure of U.S. Western History"
Dr. Megan Kate Nelson
Gallagher Business Building (GBB), 106
Wednesday, April 1st 7-8:30pm
Organized by the History Department
2026 Albert Borgmann Memorial Lecture
“Living Well Together: Connection, Disconnection, and Being in Relation”
Dr. Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College.
April 14th, 7-8 pm, GBB 123
Organized by the Department of Philosophy
