The Romantic and Victorian group welcomes Ann Rowland, Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas. Rowland is workshopping a paper titled “Keats: Made in America.” All are welcome to join the conversation.
WSTAR Workshop with Dr. Valentine Moghadam
Valentine M. Moghadam is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Moghadam’s areas of research are globalization, transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship, and gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Events of interest include: Thursday, April 9th Campus lecture: “Explaining Divergent Outcomes …
Applied Humanities Research Group
We will hold a planning meeting for our “applied humanities” research group. The project undertaken by this group will be family history in Cambodia in the wake of the genocide there a generation ago. It’s a tremendously compelling project that will be spearheaded by Dana Bourgerie (of Asian and Near Eastern Languages). Please attend if …
WSTAR Workshop with Dr. Valentine Moghadam
Valentine M. Moghadam is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Moghadam’s areas of research are globalization, transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship, and gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Events of interest include: Thursday, April 9th Campus lecture: “Explaining Divergent Outcomes …
Symposium on Secrecy — The Modern Surveillance State: Two Views from the 18th Century
We invite you to attend a special symposium on the subject of secrecy — an event for which we have partnered with the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. Andrew Franta, associate professor of English at the University of Utah and Russ Castronovo, Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of …
Derrida and the Question of Religion
Derrida and the Question of Religion Research Group will be meeting today, April 3rd. Please contact Nate Kramer for further details.
Colloquium: David Honey
David Honey of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, a prolific scholar of, among other things, sinology, the academic study of China. Always an interesting subject, it’s becoming an increasingly important one given China’s ascending place on the global stage.
Adaptation Studies
For further details about this meeting contact Chip Oscarson.
Colloquium: Michael Call
Michael Call is a professor in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters. His interests are 17th-century French art and literature, the history of the book, theories of authorship, and the cultural history of risk, chance, and determinism. His colloquium will be titled: “How Does a Game Mean?”
African Worlds: Gaurav Desai
Gaurav Desai is Professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. While on campus he will be featured at three events. On Thursday, he will give a lecture considering Mohandas Gandhi’s formative, early career in South Africa, focusing on his conceptions of race in the context of the long cultural exchange …