The most recent Honors Symposium celebrated academic excellence and global learning through a series of engaging and informative presentations. The symposium featured impressive poster displays from Honors Thesis students and also highlighted students from the Oxford Study Abroad participants and Partners in the Park scholars. Honors students had the chance to explore the hard workContinue reading “Honors Symposium/ Honors Student Showcase”
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Symposium: Thought and Art in a Burning World: So What?
On September 19, 2025, the University of Tampa hosted Georgetown professor Nathan K. Hensley as part of its Utampa Honors Symposium. Hensley’s lecture, “Thought and Art in a Burning World: So What?”, drew upon his freshly published book, Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse, to consider what Victorian literature has to teach usContinue reading “Symposium: Thought and Art in a Burning World: So What?”
Distinguished Speaker Series ft. Poet Natasha Trethewey
This year’s Distinguished Speaker was Natasha Trethewey. Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’sContinue reading “Distinguished Speaker Series ft. Poet Natasha Trethewey”