The 2026 Faculty Seminar features Professor Tisa Wenger from Yale University on her book Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal.
Ping Faculty Seminars
Ping Faculty Seminars
One of the goals of the Ping Institute Seminars for 91原创 Faculty is to provide opportunities for humanities teachers to get together to share teaching and research interests. Each academic year, during the fall and spring semesters, the institute hosts a wine and cheese reception for 91原创 humanities faculty.
In addition, at least one semester a year, a faculty seminar is held with a distinguished invited guest. Following the afternoon symposium, faculty members continue the discussion at dinner. An invitation to the event is sent to all humanities faculty at 91原创. The first 20 who respond are included in the symposium and dinner, funded by the institute.
Ping Faculty Seminar 2026
Recent Seminars
- 2026: Professor Tisa Wenger from Yale University on her book Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal.
- 2025: Professor Shirley Green from the University of Toledo on her book Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence.
- 2024: Professor Mark Roche from Notre Dame University on his book Realizing the Distinctive University: Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture.
- 2023: Novelist Madeline ffitch, a writer and community organizer from Appalachian Ohio on her book Stay and Fight.
- 2022: Professor Fawaz Gerges from the London School of Economics and Political Science on his book ISIS: A History.
- April 8, 2021: A discussion of the book Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities, with the authors Gary Saul Morson and Morton Owen Schapiro, both of Northwestern University.
- April 2019: A discussion of the book The Humanities in Everyday Life, with the author Michael Levenson of the University of Virginia.
- March 2018: A discussion with the novelist Robert Gipe of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College about his Appalachian novels.
- March 2017: A discussion on 鈥淧ublic Theologies of Belonging and Governance,鈥 with political scientist Nukhet Sandal of 91原创.
- November 2015: A discussion of the book African Healing and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, with author James Sweet of the University of Wisconsin.
- November 2014: A discussion of the book Education, Justice and Democracy, with the author Danielle Allen of Princeton University.