Michelle Levy of Simon Fraser University will join the Romantic and Victorian Research Group on Thursday, May 5th at 4:00 PM in room 4186 JFSB. More details will follow.
Guest Lecture: Tani Barlow — CANCELED
In partnership with Asian Studies, Women’s studies, and Asian & Near Eastern Languages the Humanities Center will sponsor a guest lecture by Tani Barlow. Dr. Barlow is a distinguished scholar of Asian History and founding director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. She will give a public lecture on Monday, April 11th …
Environmental Humanities Research Group Meeting
John Bennion will present his current research with the Environmental Humanities group on Friday, April 8th at 4:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB.
Environmental Humanities Research Group Meeting
George Handley will present his current research to the Environmental Humanities research group on Friday, April 1st at 12:00 PM in room 4188 JFSB. Title: Climate Change, Ethics, and Religion: The Case of Michael Crichton
Colloquium: Brian Roberts
Brian Roberts will be presenting for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, March 24th @ 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing his new co-edited book, “Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture,” (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2017) and his in-progress single-author book, tentatively titled “Archipelagic States of …
Psychoanalysis Guest Speaker: Suzanne Barnard
The Psychoanalysis Reading Group in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy will host Suzanne Barnard from Duquesne University on March 23rd at 3:00 PM in the EIZ Theater (B192 JFSB). Her lecture will be titled “Cinema, Immanence, Archive: Deleuze and Akomfrah on Immemorial Time and Diaspora.” She’ll also be addressing students at 11:00 AM on Thursday …
MARS Guest Speaker: Matt Romaniello
Matt Romaniello from the University of Hawaii at Manoa will join the Medieval and Renaissance Studies research group on Thursday, March 17th at 4:00 PM in room 3002 JFSB. Cookies will be served.
Colloquium: Marc Yamada
Marc Yamada will be presenting at our weekly Colloquium on Thursday, March 17th at 3:00 PM. His presentation is titled: Coming of Age in Japan’s lost decades (1990-2010). This presentation examines cultural responses to Japan’s “lost decades” of the 1990s and 2000s, a period characterized by economic decline, the downgrading of Japan’s international position, the growth …
Annual Lecture: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nicholas Mirzoeff from New York University, will give the Humanities Center’s Annual Lecture on March 11 @ 3:00 PM in the Education in Zion Theater (B192 JFSB). Dr. Mirzoeff will speak to us about his innovative work on the ways art helps us reframe our perception of the life that surrounds us—a principle he puts …
Environmental Humanities Lecture with Fred Pinnegar
Fred Pinnegar will meet with the Environmental Humanities research group on Friday, March 4th at 4:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. His presentation is titled, “Four thousand years of consequences:” Environmental Themes in the Poetry of Arthur Henry King.”