2025 Science and Society Lecture
2025 Interdisciplinary Lecture on Science & Society
Featuring Shermann “Dilla” Thomas
The College of Arts and Sciences presents the 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Lecture on Science & Society, featuring a special keynote by Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, Chicago historian, cultural worker, and viral social media sensation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shermann “Dilla” Thomas—Chicago’s historian—is a viral TikTok sensation, cultural worker, and lifelong South Sider who brings the city’s history to life with humor, heart, and energy. As co-founder of the Chicago Mahogany Foundation and recipient of the prestigious Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, Dilla transforms classrooms, boardrooms, and social media feeds into powerful platforms that celebrate Chicago’s rich history and global impact.
Join us for an engaging evening as Dilla brings his signature energy, humor, and insight to discuss Chicago’s history and global impact.
MORE INFORMATION:
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m. (Reception 6:00–6:30 p.m.; Talk 6:30 p.m.)
Location: Palm Court (4th Floor, Mundelein), Lake Shore Campus
Audience: Event is free and open to the Loyola community
Contact Jason Cummings (jcummings7@luc.edu) with any questions.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”
About Loyola University Chicago
Founded in 1870, Loyola University Chicago is one of the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic universities, with nearly 16,600 students. The University has four campuses: three in the greater Chicago area and one in Rome, Italy, as well as course locations in Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens), and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois. The University features 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. Ranked a leading national university by U.S. News & World Report, Loyola is also among a select group of universities recognized for community service and engagement by prestigious national organizations including AmeriCorps and the Carnegie Foundation. To learn more about Loyola, visit LUC.edu or follow us on X via @LoyolaChicago.
The College of Arts and Sciences presents the 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Lecture on Science & Society, featuring a special keynote by Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, Chicago historian, cultural worker, and viral social media sensation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shermann “Dilla” Thomas—Chicago’s historian—is a viral TikTok sensation, cultural worker, and lifelong South Sider who brings the city’s history to life with humor, heart, and energy. As co-founder of the Chicago Mahogany Foundation and recipient of the prestigious Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, Dilla transforms classrooms, boardrooms, and social media feeds into powerful platforms that celebrate Chicago’s rich history and global impact.
Join us for an engaging evening as Dilla brings his signature energy, humor, and insight to discuss Chicago’s history and global impact.
MORE INFORMATION:
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m. (Reception 6:00–6:30 p.m.; Talk 6:30 p.m.)
Location: Palm Court (4th Floor, Mundelein), Lake Shore Campus
Audience: Event is free and open to the Loyola community
Contact Jason Cummings (jcummings7@luc.edu) with any questions.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”
About Loyola University Chicago
Founded in 1870, Loyola University Chicago is one of the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic universities, with nearly 16,600 students. The University has four campuses: three in the greater Chicago area and one in Rome, Italy, as well as course locations in Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens), and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois. The University features 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. Ranked a leading national university by U.S. News & World Report, Loyola is also among a select group of universities recognized for community service and engagement by prestigious national organizations including AmeriCorps and the Carnegie Foundation. To learn more about Loyola, visit LUC.edu or follow us on X via @LoyolaChicago.