SCU Center for the Arts and Humanities

The SCU Digital Humanities Initiative invites you to its 11th Annual DHI Student Showcase on May 28, Thursday, 1-2.30 pm in California Mission Room in Benson basement, featuring and celebrating student projects from across campus. The Digital Humanities Initiative is engaged with scholarship and creative work in innovative digital forms as well as societal examinations of technology.

Please stop by to support students and check out their work. This Showcase is meant to be interactive! It will be great to have your engagement!

Come out to the Forge Gardens today, Wednesday, May 27th for a mural reveal party! SCU students will present live music, poetry, and art! Free Chipotle and bundt cakes will also be provided. You won't want to miss this joyful event. Please direct any accommodation requests to [email protected].

Brown Bag Series in the Humanities presents:

Tim Myers (English)

Wednesday, May 27 at 11:45-12:50 PM in Learning Commons 129

ChatGPT and Teaching Writing: There's a Way to Handle It!

The sudden explosion of ChatGPT and other gen AI is a crisis for writing teachers, with the very real threat of entire generations of students being "de-skilled" when it comes to writing and critical thinking. And the problem isn't going away--ever. But there's a way to maximize genuine student learning and minimize damaging reliance on robot "writing." It's far from a full solution, but under current circumstances it may be the best we can do. Let me tell you about it.

Please bring your lunch!

Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub at [email protected]

Thank you Cashea Airy for the beautiful article about our CAH Student Fellow Showcase and Ava Garcia's project.

“I wanted to bridge music therapy and healthcare and figure out how something so universal could improve health outcomes, especially for pediatric patients,” Garcia explains. “I kept asking myself: If I were to open my own practice, work in a hospital, or become an advocate one day, what could I do to understand my patients better and actually make a difference?”

You can read the full article here:

https://www.scu.edu/news-and-events/feature-stories/2026/stories/broadening-the-horizons-of-what-arts-and-humanities-work-looks-like.html

Faculty Lunch Time Conversation with Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Teaching Professor (English)

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

12-12:45 p.m.

Join us for the final Faculty Lunch Time Conversation of the academic year with Teaching Professor Robin Tremblay-McGaw (SCU Department of English) for an informal and conversational walk-through of Jonathan Calm’s exhibition To Wherever, Forever.

Professor Tremblay-McGaw’s creative and research interests are currently taking the form of writing and hybrid art that examines whiteness and racism as they intersect with questions of form, aesthetics, and social justice.

This series is co-presented by SCU’s de Saisset Museum and Center for the Arts & Humanities.

Brown Bag Series in the Humanities Presents:

Mohammad Ali Chaichian (Sociology)

Tuesday, May 19th
12:10-1:15 PM
Learning Commons 129

Competing Paradigms for the Management and Design of Maximum‑Security Prisons in the United States and Norway

Drawing on a comparison of punishment- and rehabilitation‑oriented justice models, I examine how these contrasting paradigms shape the management and design of two maximum‑security prisons: ADX Florence in the U.S. and Halden in Norway. Linking social and spatial justice, I argue that equitable prison environments are impossible without humane institutional practices. By comparing each nation’s treatment of high‑risk inmates and the architectural features of their facilities, I show that the U.S. punishment model emphasizes retribution and uses harsh spatial design as an added layer of control, while Norway’s rehabilitation model invests in inmate growth and creates safe, community‑integrated, and aesthetically supportive environments regardless of offense severity.

Please bring your lunch!

Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub at [email protected]

It’s time for Fellow Focus!
Meet our CAH student fellow Ayden Eways '27
Major: Honors Political Science, Music

Learn more about Ayden and her project, “Exiled Voices: A Musical Portrait of Palestinian Displacement” by reading her profile in the link below:
https://bit.ly/fellowsprofiles

Brown Bag Series in the Humanities Presents

Heather Clydesdale (Art and Art History)

Wednesday, May 6th
1:00-2:05 pm
Learning Commons 129

Beyond Beitou: Libraries and the Building of Civic Resilience

The Beitou Branch of the Taipei Library stands apart in Taiwan’s vibrant architectural scene. When it opened in 2006, it broke new ground in sustainable construction and use of aesthetics that embed the building within the local topography and tangled historical legacies. Yet the library's real feat was that it forged an architectural paradigm to strengthen social trust and galvanizes civic values. This talk examines library architecture across Taiwan and suggests that public architecture can constitute what Alexandre Lefebvre calls a “colloquial expression of liberal democracy.” It concludes that library buildings in Taiwan promulgate “common sense” among visitors and strengthen civic values by acting as concrete mediators of a shared reality.

Please bring your lunch!

Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub at [email protected]