181 Goldwin Smith Hall, Fridays @ 2:30pm

On September 7, 2018, Professor Carl Niekerk (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) kicked off this year’s colloquium series with his paper entitled “Buffon, Blumenbach, Herder, and the Origins of Modern Anthropology.”

In a light-filled classroom in Klarman Hall, the students don’t seem to notice the verdant courtyard just outside the window, so focused are they on exploring the ties between literary criticism and media studies.