Tadler Center for the Humanities
The Tadler Center for the Humanities was founded in 2018 to support interdisciplinary research, writing, and teaching in the humanities. The Center hosts public lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia by visiting artists, writers, and scholars. It also offers funding for faculty projects, including the annual Tadler fellowship, as well as scholarships for outstanding students of the humanities. The Center's mission is to support engagement with the arts and humanities at the College and in the wider community. By bringing together students, faculty, and visiting scholars, the Center enriches the intellectual life of the college and links humanistic research to the public good.
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Upcoming Events
2023
20 April; Keise Laymon
Speaking about his work, including bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir
4 April; Carolyn Cooke
Speaking about her most recent book, Amor and Psycho, as well as some of her other works
8 February; Phoebe Potts
Speaking about her most recent book, Too Fat for China
February; Alex Marvar and January O’Neill
A discussion of Emmett Till, including Marvar’s recent essay and O’Neill’s poetry about his life
https://gen.medium.com/the-unfinished-story-of-emmett-tills-final-journey-dba0fcd4f358
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Past Events
2022
12 October; Laugh it Out III: Comedy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Bethany Van Delft hosts a comedian showcase about issues of race, queerness, and inclusion
29 September; Fish Tales, by the Gloucester Writers Center
students and professors tell their own personal stories on the theme "Song"
23 September; Fernande Tohme
economics and philosophy
23 September; Julian Aguon and Joanna Kreilick, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists
speaks on the themes of climate change and environmental justice
12 September; Young Vo
discusses new book, The 5 Things I've Learned So Far
11 May; Elizabeth Matelski awarded Tadler Fellowship
21 April; Imani Perry
discusses new book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
12 April; Alex Gino
Part of Endicott’s inaugural PRIDE celebration, reads from new book, Melissa
30 March; Christine Schutt
gives public reading of extracts from Pure Hollywood (2018) and visited Elizabeth Winthrop’s classes
1 March; January Gill O’Neil and Alexandra Marvar
Emmett Till
2021
15 April; Nancy Sherman
speaks on her new book Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
2020
6 October; Kate Bolick
Discusses her new book Spinster
18 February; Christine Schutt
gives public reading of extracts from Pure Hollywood (2018) and visited Elizabeth Winthrop’s classes
2019
15 October; Phil DeLoria
delivered a lecture on "The American Indian in American Popular Culture”
28 February; Jill Lepore
staff writer for The New Yorker and Harvard historian, discussed "The Rise and Fall of the Fact"
2018
8 November; Charlotte Gordon
Tadler Center inaugural event/lecture on Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
9 October; Kate Bolick
discussed Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own
Phoebe Potts
FEBRUARY 8, 2022, 6 PM, VPAC
Too Fat for China follows Phoebe Potts, comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby. After a US adoption goes horribly wrong, Potts finds herself surprised, disgusted and ultimately resigned to the role she plays as a middle class white lady in the business of adopting babies in the US and internationally. Potts’ tragicomic journey is about looking for more, more love, more life and more family and will do anything to get it, including having her morals and values fold in on themselves.
Carolyn Cooke
APRIL 4, 2023
Author of two collections of short fiction and a novel, Carolyn Cooke’s most recent book, Amor and Psycho, was named one of the ten best books of 2013 by Publishers Weekly. Her novel, Daughters of the Revolution, was named one of the ten best books of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle and one of the Reviewers' Favorite novels of that year by The New Yorker Magazine. Her debut collection of fiction, The Bostons (Houghton Mifflin), was a winner of the PEN/ Bingham Award, a finalist for the PEN/L.L. Winship Award, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. She also directs the interdisciplinary MFA Programs at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Kiese Laymon
APRIL 20, 2023, 5PM, ROSE THEATER -- BOOKS FOR SALE AFTERWARDS
Kiese Laymon, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning author of the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and the genre-defying novel Long Division, will be speaking about his work, including his beststelling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir.
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About
The Tadler Center for the Humanities was founded in 2018 to support interdisciplinary research, writing, and teaching in the humanities. The Center hosts public lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia by visiting artists, writers, and scholars. It also offers funding for faculty projects, including the annual Tadler fellowship, as well as scholarships for outstanding students of the humanities. The Center's mission is to support engagement with the arts and humanities at the College and in the wider community. By bringing together students, faculty, and visiting scholars, the Center enriches the intellectual life of the college and links humanistic research to the public good.
Mission Statement
The Tadler Center for the Humanities fosters interdisciplinary research and teaching that is relevant to current concerns at local, national, and international levels. Humanities scholarship plays a vital role in preserving and extending the values of compassion, understanding, creativity, and democracy in the contemporary world and is also a core element of Endicott College’s commitment to applied liberal arts learning and community engagement.
By encouraging dialogue, critical analysis, and rigorous inquiry, the Center supports bold and innovative work by scholars and students in humanities disciplines bridging knowledge, creativity, and action.
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PeopleExecutive Advisory Board:Elizabeth Wintrop, Assistant DirectorRachel Taylor, AdministratorSamuel Alexander, Faculty Department Lead, Associate ProfessorAnna Suranyi, Professor, HistoryElizabeth Matelski, Associate Professor, HistoryMark Herlihy, Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & HumanitiesSemahagn Abebe, Assistant Professor
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Funding
The Tadler Center supports Endicott faculty in all phases of their careers by providing funding for research, creative and interdisciplinary projects, guest speakers, innovative programming and an annual fellowship.
Tadler Fellowship
This annual award provides one full time faculty member with a course release in the fall semester and research funding on a case by case basis. Proposals should reflect the Tadler Center’s core commitment to creativity, excellence, and inclusivity, as well as an active, innovative engagement with the humanities at the college and in the broader community. We are particularly interested in projects that support our core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Applications for Fall 2023 are due February 1, 2023.
Tadler Research & Programming Fund
The Tadler Center is committed to supporting programming and research in the humanities at the college. Faculty and students are invited to apply for funding for speakers, colloquia, research, internships, and travel. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis, based upon the originality and quality of applicants’ research proposals, as well as the availability of funds.
Tadler Student Scholarship
The Tadler Center sponsors scholarships for outstanding students in the humanities. For more info, please contact The Office of Financial Aid.
Contact Us
Charlotte Gordon, PhD
Director, Tadler Center for the Humanities
(978) 771-9694