Calendar of Events

Does urbanism include the non-human world? What can street trees tell us about infrastructure and modernity? This talk will consider Soviet urban and industrial greening projects as a way to think about climate systems, non-Western environmentality, non-Democratic participatory politics, and alternatives to the capitalistic view of the environment as a site of resource extraction.

RSVP Required - Limited Seats The workshop focuses a fundamental shift towards active matter, which will be presented as an invitation into a new field of media research. This approach combines critical historical conceptual analysis, experimental practice and designerly projecting for rethinking the relationship between the material and the symbolic. We will focus on the […]

Nikki Hessel, Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018).

Join visiting research scholars for this discussion about Russian propaganda, part of the "Focus on Ukraine" seminar series. RSVP required. Register to attend this event in-person or via Zoom. SPEAKERS: Nastya Melnychenko, Visiting Research Scholar, School of Public and International Affairs Oksana Nesterenko, Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Yana Prymachenko, […]

Today, with the latest biogenetic developments, we are entering a new phase in which it is simply nature itself which melts into air: the main consequence of the scientific breakthroughs in biogenetics is the end of nature. Once we know the rules of its construction, natural organisms are transformed into objects amenable to manipulation. Nature, human and […]

The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies presents a concert from "Sounds of Cyprus" and Lecture titled "The Word & The Note" by Alkinoos Ioannidis. Sounds of Cyprus is a Cypriot orchestra, co-founded by Elena Chris and Music Director Peter Douskalis, which performs the traditional music of Cyprus in varying orchestrations and styles that both consciously […]