Central Region Humanities Center Events

Upcoming Events

“False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio”, a book talk with author Ric Sheffield, prof. emeritus of legal studies and sociology at Kenyon College

April 20, 2026 | 4:00 pm | The Southeast Ohio History Center (24 W. State St, Athens, OH)

Refreshments will be provided.

Past & Virtual Events

• The United States Colored Infantry and Appalachian History in the Nineteenth Century, April 1, 2025 | 4:00 pm, 231 Baker Center, Presented by Dr. Alexandra Finley, Member of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
• "Gender and Sexuality in the Midwest," Friday- Saturday, Sept. 6th and 7th r at the Baker Center Theater. View video and schedule.
• "Boys and Oil" Discusses book-banning campaigns, connection to the fossil fuel industry, and the targeting of books by and about Queer and BIPOC people. Copies of his book, Boys and Oil: Growing Up in a Fractured Land, will be available for sale and signing. By Taylor Brorby | Thursday, September 5, 2024
• "Monuments to Midwestern Pioneer Mothers and Native Women" by Cynthia Prescott | Friday, Sept. 6
• "Memorializing Willa Cather in Cold War Nebraska: How the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Navigated Questions of Gender and Sexuality" by Melissa Homestead | Saturday, Sept. 7
• Black Life in the Ohio Valley Conference | Sept. 9-10, 2022
• "Erased but not Forgotten: People and Places of Color in Southeastern Ohio, Prehistory to Present," presentation by Amelia Adams | April 2022
• Two-day conference on Ohio Settlement: First Nations and Beyond, which brought together faculty and staff from multiple departments across the university and drew hundreds of community members to campus in 2020.
• Black History Tour of Athens through mAppAthens traces how early African Americans helped shape the cultural and intellectual landscape of the region.